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What about me, I was just TASing the games of my childhood (excepting Duke Nukem 3D). Some projects were difficult for me (Rambo 3, Columns 3, Tom and Jerry - Frantic Antics), some projects I didn't manage to finish (Mortal Kombat 5).
ars4326 wrote:
This one was admittedly tough, due to my own personal stake in this. However, after seeing who the frontrunners were in this one, I gave my vote to Dimon12321.
Simply put, in terms of individual effort, I thought Dimon did the most to earn the award. There were obviously more experienced authors on the ticket, but I took into account that Dimon didn't have the advantage of teaming up with someone, as well as being able to work on a game that people are very familiar with.
Either way, congratulations to whoever ends up winning! This was already a very close race, this year!
In my opinion, you on the contrary are the most hardworking SEGA TASer. Though all your TASes are not entertaining, I think strategies are the most difficult type of games for TASing.
I don't think my topics were about boring games, people just didn't want to cooperate with me, so I TASed the games myself.
You don't have to vote for me. I wasn't trying to win there though my TASes are in different genres for every taste! My chances to win the reward are the same as MJ's Moonwalker to become the SEGA TAS :-)
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You made so difficult choice for a newcomer: you want to start your TASing hobby with a 3D shooter game. Every shooter for N64 should be a tool-assisted speedrun, i.e. aims for the fastest time. Project 64 is not accepted on TASVideos, so you should download Bizhawk emulator! Unfortunately, there is no so much emulators for different suggestions, Mupen 64 has bad emulation and very few TAS tools.
To start with, you should read everything in Movie Making spoiler there to know the basic knowledge about TAS making. Remember, only high-quality movie have chance to get published on TASVideos.org. Every movie must be done frame-by-frame which takes much time, not some days fastly in slow motion!
I didn't find Battle Tanx entertaining for TASing. I had a movie with a short WIP, but deleted.
Good luck!
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ars4326 wrote:
Moonwalker gets my vote, this year!
Thanks for the nomination, Kelly :)
And I think, s-s-someone he reminds me of! His grey hat and coat and his blue shirt... And I just found out! It's Blue birds in Spy coat from Angry Birds Epic!! They are really similar!
P.S: sorry for deviation from the topic!
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Warp wrote:
If Doom is ever fully TASed inside a DOS emulator, it ought to definitely be the original Doom, not any of the newer wad-compatible engines. (In a sense those could be categorized as mods, not the original game.)
Did the original Doom even support the mouse? I can't remember. Even if it did, it was something that not many people even used back then. (Of course using the mouse would do wonders to a TAS because of almost infinite turn speed, while keyboard turning would feel extremely sluggish in comparison.)
I have found a thread (not TASVideos), where some people discussed the mouse support for Doom. According to them, the original Doom never had mouse support, but it's possible to play it with mouse if mouse drivers are installed. We need to check it.
DOS Doom link 1DOS Doom link 2
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Warp wrote:
Btw, given that other DOS/Windows games have been TASed, what exactly was the problem with Doom being TASed via emulation? I don't remember anymore.
What about Windows: no mouse support. I'm sure it will be possible to TAS it when Hourglass-Resurrection will be released. Also, i don't know where to get the original game and does it work on Win7, Doom has lots of engines. So, you open any engine (PrBoom, GZDoom, Zandronum, Chocolate Doom etc.) with Hourglass, which automatically opens Doom.wad (or Doom2.wad). I don't know will it work without desyncs, not talking about work stability!
What about DOS: also difficult to emulate mouse! You have to read Wolfenstein 3D thread where dwangoAC was writing about the mouse emulation beside the walkthrough. I don't understand what are the details of the problem, but I'm sure it has smth to do with TASing mouse-required games. The problem seems to be difficult as he TASed only 1 map and suddenly stopped. In short, you have to find out.
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Pokota wrote:
Has anyone set DooM up in JPC-rr? That'd probably be better for TASing it as far as our community is concerned since that way you get the tools we generally look for.
We can't even TAS Wolfenstein 3D (dwangoAC TASed only 1st map and then stopped). JPC-rr is difficult in work with mouse. On the page of bad game choices (there) the reason of not TASing Doom 32X is "Inferior port. TAS movies already exist for the PC version."
Where is the publication of this PC version? Give me the link :-)
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WebNations just downloads the movies from TASVideosChannel which he finds entertaining. His also has lots of TASes from speedruns.net and now they are good memories about this site (looks like it's closed or at least not popular anymore). BTW, he copies the link and uses YouTube download services to download movies... and then upload them again in worth quality =)
Mirrors archive.org in published movie are SO difficult for him!
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I'm in love with Doom too, but, like you, I can't find commands =)
The best rerecording emulator programme for Doom is PrBoom+ (using GlBoom+ for avaliable cheats like WallHack), but I got the problem with rerecording/continuing the runs.
As we know, it's possible to do a savestate, but impossible to load it while recording the movie. I was trying to contact with other Doom runners to discover which commands do they use to continue the recording if they do a mistake, but no-one explained. Someone was talking about the command "recordfromto", but it just continues the recording from the last frame in the movie.
Here is the... general topic about PrBoom+. Good luck!
P.S: here are my first tries of making Doom TASes. Each map was started like new game (pistol only) and done in single segment (I decided to TAS the one of my favourite WADS - Freedoom.wad)
Map 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_NURwhg-Q
Map 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsIKvtL7SsA
Map 3 (failed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c3JkWmyS5w
Map 3 (segmented, used Sony Vegas): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af8FPEJYuKIAqfaq wrote:
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Dimon12321 wrote:
How to convert a memory card from real Gamecube to Dolphin memory card (.gci to .raw)?
gci to raw = You use Dolphin's memory card manager to edit a raw file. Delete every gci in it if necessary, then import your gci.
raw to gci = You use Dolphin's memory card manager, select a savegame and click "export gci"
Thanks! It works!
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How to convert a memory card from real Gamecube to Dolphin memory card (.gci to .raw)? I hadn't found any good converter so far! Dolphin can easily do the opposite operation and no-one seems to want to get a .raw memcard from his .gci :-)
This converter is also crappy!
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Thank you for nominating me though I wasn't even trying to win any reward on this site! I have lots of explanations about me, my games and other players, but, according to Nach's warning, I shouldn't discuss anything there.
Nominating WST, Archanfel and Kiske for great game choices and entertaining runs (excepting Pinocchio).
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Derakon wrote:
Ehh, the special stages really didn't feel tool-assisted. I mean, I know there's limited opportunities to show stuff off in what is effectively an autoscroller, but the degree of precision shown is definitely not superhuman.
The other stages were okay, I guess, and it's nice to see the unusual attributes of the vs. mode (e.g. the monitors that switch the two players when activated).
Agreed. +1
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Graviton wrote:
Also my lua script does not work on any versions after 1.8.1, and all it does is display the memory address directly. I am certain there is no mistake in the script because it works just fine with all the other versions.
Pardon my appearance, but I didn't find any defects in your script! Using Bizhawk 1.9.1
Screenshot is your PM!
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Здарова народ! Возникло несколько вопросов по поводу Nintendo 64 в Bizhawk (спрашивал в разделе, все походу мимолетные там!):
Как делать neutral reset-ы? Что значят кнопки Bind! и Unbind! в Nintendo 64 Controller configuration - Analog controls и как оно влияет на мувик, если сделать такое посреди спидрана?
Собираюсь переделывать ТАС по Doom 64, уже команда для этого набралась, но с поиском RAM-адресов что-то не так (не монятны адреса и их значения): я даже не могу найти адрес угла куда я смотрю! Какой размер не выбиру: методом отбора остаются только адреса, которые просто реагируют на повороты. По идее как значение может быть от 0 до 360 (или 359), но найти адрес который бы адекватно менялся при поворотах просто нереально! СОС!
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Hello everybody! I have some questions about Nintendo 64:
How to do neutral reset? What does Bind! and Unbind! buttons in Nintendo 64 Controller configuration - Analog controls? Does it affect the TASing?
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(Sorry for a late feedback! I was too busy with other work!)
Thanks for a test run, but I've found better improve for the 2nd stage. Now I'm using the 1994 version, so there are also improves with start menu and massages.
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