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explaining the joke: There is a meme category for "speedrunning" the installation of an operating system (such as Windows 95, etc). The way the title of this game is formatted ("Linux Minit") makes it look a lot like the "Linux Mint" operating system.
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Totally misread the title and thought this was some kind of Meme category of installing Linux Mint.
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NESCardinality just took the WR for this game, and he says that he did at least one level faster than the TAS did. https://www.speedrun.com/bugsbunnycrazycastle
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Any way to get a non-glitched ending?
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Just a reminder that Early 90's VGA graphics for DOS games were usually 70Hz, not 60Hz.
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MrTickles wrote:
Not to be a party pooper, but he's doing soft resets. So its not really a fully playthrough.
You are absolutely correct about that. Still impressive as hell.
Post subject: Platform frame rates? (SNES vs NES dot skipping)
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There is a page on the wiki called "Platform Frame Rates", http://tasvideos.org/PlatformFramerates.html The NES frame rate (60.098813897441) seems to be calculated perfectly:
Master clock =  236.25 * 1,000,000 / 11 (21477272.7272727...)
PPU clock = master clock / 4 (5369318.18181818)
scanlines = 262
dots per scanline = 341
dots per frame = scanlines * dots per scanline (89342)
framerate (no skipping dots) = PPU clock / dots per frame (60.0984775561123)
framerate (skipping 1 dot every other frame) = PPU clock * 2 / (dots per frame * 2 - 1)  (60.0988138974405)
The NES uses dot skipping every other frame to remove one PPU dot, so the frame is one dot faster than otherwise. This is done to make the colors look better. In order for the SNES frame rate to match the NES frame rate, it would need to also use dot skipping. However, I cannot find anything suggesting that the SNES uses dot skipping. This would make the frame rate be the "No Skipping Dots" value (60.0984775561123) rather than the "Overall" value (60.0988138974405). This is a difference of 0.02s per hour.
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What was the production order of the games again?
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Bizhawk can run LibRetro cores, including GBA cores, but that doesn't help with TASing at all.
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Wait, you can take hits in Advance World? I thought that was one hit KOs.
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Geodude vs Mr. Game and Watch.
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Seems like it would just be like the history of routing the games.
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The game looks so janky, and the music engine just sounds so weak. But the main character is very well animated.
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So does this mean a glitchless run is not allowed in Vault?
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Very Nice!
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Is this basically Omnigamer's TAS but with the players switched, and one frame removed?
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The clean rom is named "Aladdin (Unl) (As) (Hummer Team) [!].nes" and is Mapper 90.
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There are multiple versions of the game. Not every version plays the game music correctly, and not every version animates the backgrounds correctly. This is one of the earliest dumped versions of Aladdin, hacked to MMC3, and does not have the music issue, but does not animate the backgrounds at all. The ending graphic is also glitched.
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There was Byuu's two posts about emulators vs FPGAs, worth a read. (Both articles posted yesterday, 2-6-2018) https://byuu.org/articles/fpgas-arent-magic/ https://byuu.org/articles/what-is-emulation/
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TASvideos had a major issue one year where the forum went all Nazi for April Fools.
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I was on the twitch stream when Darbian found that glitch.
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Input is reconfigured, messing up the demos. There's a bug in the game that breaks the Abu bonus level demo. Whenever the demo dies during the bonus level, it proceeds to the next level in the main sequence. You can actually do a sped up version of this glitch by pressing start at each demo to skip it until you end up at the Abu demo again.
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This is not an end game glitch, this is a glitch that screws up the demo sequence to make it advance one stage at a time until it plays back the end credits stage. The thing about this is that you aren't playing. The Demo is.
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I don't think merely getting to the top of the high score list is enough of a goal.
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That is the worst Mr. T face I've ever seen.