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It seems like the consensus is to remove the "glitched" branch from a TAS which is the fastest/only movie (which I agree with). I will remove those labels now.
Edit: Couldn't figure out a good branch name for http://tasvideos.org/950M.html , so I just called it "less glitched" for now.
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maul91 wrote:
"all you have to do is make a savestate where you leave off. Then when you wake up in the morning and open up VBA and the game, just press Shift+8 (or whatever combination you set), load your savestate, and resume working."
I've done this - but it does not start recording when this happens it says (no movie).
After opening VBA and the game, go to Tools -> Movie -> Play Movie... and select the VBM that you have recorded from the previous session. You must do this or else it will not record.
After you have done this, then you can press Shift+8 so it says "Read+Write" (if it says "Read-Only", press Shift+8 again) and then load the savestate and resume working.
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I know I have to record with fraps for example
Please don't use fraps. VBA and most other emulators have built-in tools to dump AVI, and it doesn't skip frames.
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Mega Kick and Mega Punch for power, Pound to clean up weak Pokemon, Water Pulse for Rock and Ghost types, and maybe one other strong non-Normal-typed attack (Fire Blast, Blizzard) or Metronome.
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This TAS is funny, even if the game is rather simplistic. The voices progressively go crazy as the TAS speeds through the courses. This game is also weird.
That, and because of Japanese interests, is probably why this video has 175K views on Nicovideo. (The average uploaded encode of a completed TAS of a game, I think, gets about 15K views on Nicovideo.)
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racing game with a ball
No, it is a racing game with a rod. (Even though it might as well be a ball from looking at the gameplay.)
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I don't find this run particularly entertaining.
The autoscroller that is almost 5 minutes long (8:10-13:00) breaks the pace of this TAS. I found myself thinking that it would eventually end, but it would keep on going.
The rest of the game doesn't really stand out or anything, unfortunately. The Genesis version I feel is most entertaining; this one is more on par with the NES version.
I also think that the temp encode is very low-quality even for a temp encode, and it should have been encoded at a higher rate.
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If it still desyncs, you should check that the firmware settings (Config → Firmware Settings) are the same as the one used in the movie file (open it in a text editor) and try again. The emulator will not set the firmware settings automatically; you have to do it yourself.
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WST wrote:
LOL, didn’t know that the tier depends on the voter opinions (always lazy to read all those guidelines, sorry).
To be more specific, the poll may be used to judge whether a run is entertaining enough to be a Moon or Star publication, or if it is not (in which case it is either a Vault publication, or rejected).
- There are no hard rules or mathematical formulas on poll stats determining whether it is "entertaining" or "not entertaining" for the purpose of tier.
- The poll options "Yes", "No" and "Meh" answer the question "Did you find this movie entertaining?". They are not intended to answer any other question whatsoever. It is not intended behavior to vote yes in the poll and claim it was "directed for vault", or vote no in the poll and say it means "keep this off TASVideos". In practice, there is no way to police how users vote, so some interpretation may be necessary. But as far as the poll is concerned, there is nothing more to the poll than what it literally asks.
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I'm not much of an anime watcher, but here's the list of anime that I've watched (as an internet stream viewer) so far, mostly in this order (though the order might be mixed up because I don't have an impeccable memory):
-Nyan Koi!
-Magic Knight Rayearth
-School Rumble (all)
-Azumanga Daioh
-CLANNAD (all)
-Love Hina
-Seitokai no Ichizon (all)
-Seitokai Yakuindomo
I also randomly watched various episodes or parts thereof of the following anime (usually not seriously):
- Precure (any)
- School Days
- To Love-Ru
- Sketchbook
I'm pretty much a sucker for comedy but I enjoy some CLANNAD scenery or old-school Magic Knight Rayearth once in a while.
Oh, and I did watch worldwide-TV-broadcast anime as a child, though it is mostly stuff that everybody watched when they were a child: Sailor Moon, Pokemon, and Digimon. Nothing too special about them.
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Watched this on Nicovideo. I'd say this is pretty interesting in its own right, even if this game is a remake of Super Mario Bros. 2 (U). The use of resets gives a different route through the game.
The funny voice acting gives it additional charm points as well.
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Hm. adelikat suggests the antithesis of retroactively removing a movie from obsoleted status. That is, retroactively placing a movie in obsoleted status.
I'm not sure that the system needs to be fixed by retroactively obsoleting movies. However, my opinion is that it is all right to reassign movies between Vault and Moon after publication, not as a tier policy, but to balance Vault and Moon out. There are, as of this post, 723 Moon publications and 497 Vault publications. Since the beginning of August, 2013, there have been 32 Moon publications (excluding those that are now in Stars) and 11 Vault publications. After the last Gruefood-to-Vault movement, there have been consistently more Moon publications than Vault publications and that will cause the gap to grow wider.
Anyway, regarding DW3 and Takeshi no Chousenjou, if there are no problems, I will reassign them to Moon tier now because they are not the fastest speed record. Their status can be changed later if there are any further decisions.
Edit: I found a few more Vault pairs which are in question:
[1621] NES EarthBound Beginnings (Japan) "warp glitch" by pirohiko in 23:09.56[1302] NES EarthBound Beginnings (Prototype) by Nitrodon in 47:56.08[980] NES Snow Bros. "2 players" by Randil in 13:56.85[2267] NES Snow Bros. "1 player" by asdfgary in 13:12.61
EarthBound Zero is arguable, since the two different versions can be considered two different games. Snow Bros. not so much.
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rasengan0 wrote:
I want to make a 100% TAS of pokemon ultra violet. It is a hack that has all 386 pokemon of gen 1-3. some require heavy grinding (such as dragonite, etc) and other pokemon have been modified to evolve differently (umbreon is simply a moonstone, trade evolutions have changed to just levelup).
Would this be something worth making?
I would not do a Pokemon hack for the sake of catching all 386 Pokemon in one game.
I watched some of Pokemon Ultra Violet just now and I noticed that it is pretty much FRLG with a few things changed just so you can catch all 386 Pokemon. That, to me, is not a hack worth doing.
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jlun2 wrote:
Given the number of people who rated and the ratings themselves make both the movies invalid for moon tier,
It is possible for movies to be placed in moon tier regardless of ratings.
Anyway, Vault tier is supposed to be for fastest speed records, by any means (short of "cheating", whatever that means). So, if a movie is not a fastest speed record, then there is no choice but to make it a moon, by those rules.
I also noted Thread #14566: Confusion regarding what's in the Vault. Tell us if there are any more such movies.
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There are a few options left:
- Reassign the savestate/loadstate keys so that you can never press them on reflex/by accident, including disabling them.
- Reassign the savestate/loadstate keys so that the keypress for savestate can never be mistaken as the keypress for loadstate.
- Find the save RAM file. After saving to RAM, immediately backup the file.
Edit: Another option, don't know if it helps though:
- Find the savestate files. After saving to RAM, delete all your savestate files.
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I watched Rockman no Constancy, this TAS, and Rockman 4 Minus Infinity just now.
In my opinion, this game doesn't have the charm that Rockman no Constancy or Rockman 4 Minus Infinity have. From watching, Rockman 3 Burst Chaser appears to be merely a standard level hack with some speed/timing values changed. The game moves a bit too fast. Not only that, but it extends to cutscenes as well, something that doesn't sit well with me. Some of the backgrounds are real eyesores too.
I don't know the state of Mega Man 3 ROM hacking, but the existence of R4MI sets a high expectation for NES Mega Man game ROM hacks, regardless of whether such expectation is deserved or not. It is unfortunate that this game comes now, and not, say, five years ago, when it might have been better appreciated.
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I think it would be better to make a savestate after you save to SRAM, and only use that savestate if you need to go back (I assume you aren't going back further than that). That savestate also provides backup protection if you load a savestate further back by accident.
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neonbolt777 wrote:
for the compression quality 1/100 what would I put that it or does that not matter? cause its going at the same speed for all the choices you said, I must be doing something wrong.
The speed at which the emulator encodes is irrelevant. The goal of the encode is to produce an AVI file. An AVI file is something that you can watch later at full speed in a media player (Windows Media Player/VLC/Media Player Classic/etc.).
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If your system runs Dolphin slowly, then pressing the turbo/fast-forward/speedup button doesn't make Dolphin go faster.
You can try to dump AVI with Dolphin, so you have an encode that you can play back at normal speed. I don't know how to do that though so you are on your own.
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VBA's Lua savestating is messed up, unfortunately. Don't use it.
- savestate.create() only works in VBA when there is nothing in the brackets (e.g. savestate.create(1) doesn't work).
- Savestates created by Lua in VBA may cause desyncs.
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Patashu wrote:
For the case of Blades of Steel, a super determined human who wanted the best possible real time world record would reset until uninitialized RAM gave him the perfect RNG for his route.
By the way, Blades of Steel is a sports game. The point still stands though.
