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solepussy wrote:
I read moozooh's word with a dictionary,I think the answer of my question is the "turbocontroller",is that the tool who make the shotgun work like that?
Where can I get the tool?
It's called "turbo controller" or "autofire".
Such a tool exists in almost all emulators supported by this site.
Suppose B is shoot. Then the game receives the input as pressing B every second frame. It cannot be done faster as pressing B for two or more straight frames is the same as holding B down.
You can also do this using slowdown or frame advance.
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I suggest isolating two ROMs completely, in different folders. One for TAS, one for playing.
I have tried to use the same ROM for both TAS and playing, and it has messed me up many times (the playing, not the TAS).
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asteron wrote:
I remember the slowness of the alternaroute in Flame Mammoth was a tradeoff for entertainment. But since you are going for frame perfection that is understandable.
I didn't think for once that it would be an intentional tradeoff. Also, I did trade off 3 frames of lag to get the Boomerang Cutter to circle X during the boss explosion. 3 frames is nothing, considering I could have lost 23.
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Sorry. I forgot that something weird happens in the tunnel (if that's what you mean by flooding).
I haven't played there in a long time, and the movie doesn't inform me.
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Bag of Magic Food wrote:
No, Bisqwit said you have to be teleporting to zip in the water room because zipping doesn't happen in the water physics unless you teleport to switch back to the regular physics.
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How's the run going, OgreSlayeR?
I found out today that there is random lag on every boss explosion. When I destroyed Boomer Kuwanger, I lost frames to the published run, but gained 23 frames back by delivering the hit one frame later.
So you should check every boss explosion.
As for my progress, I gained 2 seconds in Flame Mammoth (the normal route is faster). I gained almost 7 seconds so far in Sigma 1, and I'm not even done the stage yet.
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Vatchern wrote:
When zipping though the last "water" filled long hallway in wily 3, does it make it faster if you rapidly press start/select all the time? I find it kind of annoying :).
When Megaman is in faintwarp, the game lags less (no collision checking).
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There's already a thread about general Pokemon R/B. I recommend that you post there:
http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2352
And the link that you posted doesn't work, because it should be forum/ and not forums/.
Otherwise, good luck on your run. Did you get the emulator to work?
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JXQ wrote:
It takes those who are in charge of maintaining the movies to define what it is - not anyone else, including me, the passive-aggressive complainer, or you, the one who is trying to speak in Bisqwit's absence - otherwise circular discussion will (and did) occur.
If you and I and everyone else have no interest in even trying to help solve the problem, then the people up there (Bisqwit and the publishers) certainly don't, which is what is going on now.
So complaining any more won't solve anything. Let's stop complaining.
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JXQ wrote:
nitsuja wrote:
What was wrong with my attempted definition (at the end of page 5)? That seems to be the only obvious pattern followed by the movies that are already in that section.
My point has been that all of us can throw in our perceived definitions, and all it does is clutter things up without getting to the root of the confusion.
You are invited to make a new thread.
If you believe that doesn't help, go and PM Bisqwit with ideas.
Although you have the most complaints about the "concept demo" definition, I have not seen one idea from you which you believe best defines a concept demo.
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The game determines the order of your deck using offsets. The deck itself is always fixed (and in ID order), unless you add or remove cards.
If there is a random value that gives the CPU offsets for a bad hand, but the offsets for your hand don't give what you want, perhaps it is possible to go back and change the cards and get a hand that you want.
I have not yet verified that it works, but give it a try.
http://www.datacrystal.org/wiki/Pokemon_TCG:RAM_map
Ex. If you manipulate the Rock Club Leader to have only two Digletts, but the offset of one of the cards in your hand points to #30 -> Nidoran Female and Nidoran Male is at #32, go back and replace 2 energy with 2 trainer cards, and then #30 becomes Nidoran Male.
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I'd say: continue on! But I'm no expert in chopping ROMs to pieces, like our friend FractalFusion, so you might wanna hear other people's oppinions also.
I chop RAM to pieces much more often than ROM, which most people do. The one ROM I analyzed was NES Monopoly (it was an ASM analysis), and that was after Acmlm (expert ROM hacker) got started on it, and FCEU has a good debugger.
As far as I know, VBA has no debugger (the "Disassemble" option doesn't do anything good).
Edit: The run looks good and I recommend that you continue.
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moozooh wrote:
If "anything" = "a normally long game luckmanipulated into a very short run", then I think it isn't something really new.
The thing is that not all viewers would catch on (and even if they knew, they wouldn't care). Even if the probability of landing the scepter on (11,5) or (11,4) was 1 in 100 million (which it isn't), it wouldn't change anything.
As evidenced from this thread, the reaction is divided into two groups. But that's what Zurreco is saying as well.
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xoinx wrote:
I have a question on the multi track recording... if player 1 inputs were made first and the game emulated those frames based on a player 2 staying still, then wouldn't recording a player 2 input afterwards screw up the way it randomizes the game and also desyncs for player 1?
Not always. I think each player input is done on a small-enough interval to prevent it from happening most often, and reduce the damage if it does.
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Zurreco wrote:
RT-55J wrote:
Why has this movie not been published yet?
Enough people found it non-interesting, which causes enough doubt to hold back encoding. Granted, encoding this would take only 5 minutes, but hey, principles.
Well, it's already accepted. But I think the reason is that the publishing of this run will change the direction of this site drastically, so the publishers are afraid to publish it.
(Encoders have no such fears, unless they are also publishers).
If someone (new) saw the title "Aqfaq's Genesis King's Bounty in 00:10", it might lead that person to think that it's an "anything goes" site, which is not true.
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AOi wrote:
I thought playing with savestates was less exciting to look
cause player was never in trouble.
I can provoke troubles but no fun if they are provoked.
I think the interesting side of this game is adaptation, and schedule all
results no fun. Hard combos are less exciting that adaptation of user.
There isn't slowndown too.
You can post real-time speedruns here:
http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=9
But the submission is for tool-assisted movies only. It is possible that tools (savestates, slowdown) make it more exciting, if it enables one to do something that no one else would think. It depends on the game.
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This movie doesn't have to be a "concept demo".
Regardless, we should make a new category called "Uses warps²".
Either that or label Pom's movie "best ending".
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JXQ, it is OK to pitch ideas of how a concept demo could (or should) be defined, but saying it the way you did will cause Bisqwit to ignore you completely.
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I know this run is that good when I miss a glitch right from the very beginning and have to replay it again.
Yes vote and 10/10.
Call us when you come back to real life. :)
