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The Nerd was right. This game is so boring and repetitive, but I expected it to be somewhat interesting in a TAS.
Meh vote. juef, no objections to you. Someone should have beaten this game sooner or later.
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I hate avisynth!
Such a life! I've never figured out how it works.
I used MKV Modern HQ once - for Wolfenstein 3D TAS series to see encodes in 70 FPS.
In some rare cases, when a temp encode is still missing in the submission, I use emulators.
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ParAmbula wrote:
Shame project died. There was a leak of Windows source code which allowed to compile Windows server 2003 and contained nt5src and some thoughts on KernelSourceCode. Can`t it possibly revive the project?
Not likely. We had a discussion about the leaked source code of Xbox OS which could be useful to improve emulation and eventually make TASing possible.
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Regarding recent news about PCem becoming allowed for DOS games via libTAS. Why cannot it be used for Windows 95, for example? Is it unstable, untested? Because I recall userfiles for different DOS ages, but nothing regarding Windows.
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Even though this run will likely to be rejected, it was still spectacular. Too bad that missions are testing polygons and textures are all plain, not even placeholders from legacy material.
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Frankly speaking, I'd prefer the current design instead.
I was staring at the front page for 10 minutes, and I'm like "Is it a modern design era (because I'm working on a project where FE design is even worse than here), or my preferences suck?"
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Yeah, the humor level isn't that high here.
Nevertheless, it still has some potential to have a decent TAS "volume #2", but for this to happen, the game has to be brute-forced for all questions and prescribed answers which would let you come up with hilarious answers
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During the testing I found a shortcut in the 135-degree corner which would save 2-3 secs. The problem is, I cannot repeat it in the actual TAS even if I try to match player's conditions (exact position and angle) and copy-paste the input for my test movie.
Here is the moment from my workaround movie where I found it:
Link to video
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Here is the input file of my testing (skip to frame 9000 to see that moment):
User movie #72971812683375625
RAM Watch file:
User movie #72971573659475520
- X and Y coordinates are square hitbox edges: 3 addresses per each coordinate because 2 edges have 2 identical values, so I omitted one of them.
- X and Y velocity are individual for each map. (M5) at the end means they work only on Map 5.
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UPD: found a better route comparing to RTA's one which partially levels the time difference. Still, this trick will remain as a potential improvement.
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Speaking of planning, why there are no good map editors for Build Engine? When I met Doom Builder, I didn't have to even dig into the net to find out how to open a WAD, how to observe a map and enemy placements on different difficulties.
Mapster32 is a real inhumanity to mere mortals who just want to open and analyze existing maps. It's really complex and it keeps crashing.
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Alright then. Wish you luck!
BTW, I noticed BuildGDX supports Shadow Warrior as well, but tasvideos doesn't say if the engine works fine or not. Would you please try it out on libTAS?
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