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^ Ah, should have read the submission text first, thanks :) Now I recall that this was the case: either the magical "only one U or D before tap and hold L+R" or L+R, L+R, L+R type running start.
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^ Alyosha: On the 1st level of #5093: feos, Alyosha & Samsara's NES Battletoads "warpless, 1 player" in 21:38.38, the stick can be picked up 1 frame earlier. Since it wasn't any revolutionary and pretty sure it would desync the movie, I didn't reported it until now. I only had fun with the first level so I don't know about other possible improvements. Also, if this project finishes, Wiki: MoviesToObsoleteFrom2005 will have the ending message revealed. If you want the spoiler, check out this page: Wiki: MoviesToObsoleteFrom2004.
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I nominate Alyosha for best developer of 2018.
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Tried it but doesn't works, the right side frame which would have the twitch chat, tries to load "https://www.twitch.tv/chatthemmo/chat" but fails (Chrome: www.twitch.tv refused to connect.). I see that the mentioned link works in new page, redirecting to "https://www.twitch.tv/popout/chatthemmo/chat". Also I don't really understand why it requires/based on top of Twitch chat (yes I see there are buffs and others and "ability to play while watching streams" which would also apply if this wouldn't based on the chat itself... ?!).
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Hmm... the gamefaq guide didn't talked about this. This means the Japanese one is harder and should be used instead... ?
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I have an old WIP that's some frames faster for the first two bosses and stopped before a hard to manipulate part with a skeleton shit. Give me some time to find that movie. Will post it here. Movie: User movie #52196178845186531 My old lua script
local p = { 0,memory.readbyteunsigned(0x720),
			0,memory.readbyteunsigned(0x740)}
			
local c = { 0,memory.readwordunsigned(0x84,0x85),
			0,memory.readwordunsigned(0x86,0x87)}

local function Stuff()

	p[1] = memory.readbyteunsigned(0x720)
	c[1] = memory.readwordunsigned(0x84,0x85)
	p[3] = memory.readbyteunsigned(0x740)
	c[3] = memory.readwordunsigned(0x86,0x87)

	gui.text(2,35,string.format("CX %.2f (%.2f)\nCY %.2f (%.2f)\nX %.2f (%.2f)\nY %.3f (%.2f)",c[1],c[1]-c[2],c[3],c[3]-c[4],p[1],p[1]-p[2],p[3],p[3]-p[4]),"#ffffff","#00000060")
	
	gui.text(p[1],p[3],c[1]-c[2]+p[1]-p[2])
	
p[2] = p[1] - p[2]
p[4] = p[3] - p[4]

c[2] = c[1] - c[2]
c[4] = c[3] - c[4]

p[2] = p[1]
p[4] = p[3]

c[2] = c[1]
c[4] = c[3]


	
end

emu.registerafter(Stuff)
Old watch file
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00000	0720	b	u	0	X pos
00001	023B	b	u	0	hitbox x right
00002	0066	b	u	0	
00003	0084	b	u	0	
00004	047E	b	u	0	boss 1 hp
00005	0480	b	s	0	boss timer 1
00006	047F	b	s	0	boss timer 2 
edit: There's also a japanese release called Tom Sawyer no Bouken. The only difference is the order of the stages North American level order 1-2-3-4-5-6 Japan level order 2-3-4-5-1-6
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Relevant rejected TAS (not pacifist): #2789: some_pickles's NES Super Mario Bros. "no coins" in 05:11.52 Relevant usermovie (not pacifist): User movie #49264598218034495
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To the post above me: - bootgod disagrees you, using Adventures in the Magic Kingdom, Disney's http://bootgod.dyndns.org:7777/profile.php?id=118 - the official manual also, constantly using (at least 4 times) "Adventures in the Magic Kingdom" (edited in "the" to the last sentence) final edit sheet: On a relevant note for other disney game: - TAS: [2441] NES DuckTales by Aglar & MESHUGGAH in 07:04.73 (no space betwee Duck and Tales) - Youtube encode of the tas: [TAS] NES Duck Tales by Aglar & MESHUGGAH in 07:04.73 (space between Duck and Tales) - Official manual: DUCKTALES - bootgod: DuckTales, Disney's http://bootgod.dyndns.org:7777/profile.php?id=1985
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Not a bug just missing feature: Colecovision has no PAL mode (NTSC has 12 seconds BIOS intro, PAL has 6 4 seconds) edit: "The only difference between American and European Colecovision is a single byte in BIOS telling the frame rate.", reportedly it's @ 0x0069 where American has 0x3C (60), European has 0x32 (50) edit2: The programmers manual (don't link it) only mentions this difference for the "AMERICA" byte @ section X (chapter 10) part 1.1
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Reformatted to google spreadsheet, will include new tests to this one. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18bdevTW15YHFHZJhNM5BmnL__wR9vgJNBz8wGqbgeRs/edit?usp=sharing
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I assume it's TASable. Note that this game and the Ubisoft one are two completely differently developed games. Similar levels but totally different engine and playthrough.
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I'm currently trying to make tests on different PCs to check performance. The suggested hardware factors also written down. (retested, updated numbers) Work 1 https://imgur.com/1JCga26 CPU 3.33 GHz (2 cores, i5 661, 133 MHz stock bus speed, 3200.1 MHz rated bus speed) https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-661+%40+3.33GHz&id=769 no SSD (7200 RPM SATA) https://www.hdsentinel.com/storageinfo_details.php?lang=en&model=SEAGATE%20ST3500418AS RAM DDR3 8GB, 666.7 MHz, 9-9-9-24 timing (unknown cache sizes) Note: default config for both BizHawk and TAStudio, only cores have been selected to use publishable settings. BizHawk 2.3 without TAStudio but turbo button held down: NesHawk Donald_Land_Japan.nes 100 BSNES Prince of Persia (Europe).sfc 120~125 A7800Hawk Water Ski (1988) (Froggo).a78 170 Virtual Boyee Teleroboxer (JU) [!].vb 200 ColecoHawk BC's Quest for Tires (1983) (Sierravision) [!].rom 240 BizHawk 2.3 + TAStudio + turbo + 1 button inputting + visible frame range 390~424: NesHawk Donald_Land_Japan.nes 37~45 A7800Hawk Water Ski (1988) (Froggo).a78 40~50 ColecoHawk BC's Quest for Tires (1983) (Sierravision) [!].rom 30~40 Old laptop https://imgur.com/aY88P69 (used this for all of my TASes) CPU 2.00GHz (4 cores, i7 2630QM, 100 MHz stock bus speed) no SSD (5400 RPM SATA) RAM DDR3 4GB 665.1 MHz, 9-9-9-24 timing (unknown cache sizes) Note: tests were done at 80% max performance. BizHawk 2.3 without TAStudio but turbo button held down: NesHawk Donald_Land_Japan.nes 50 BSNES Prince of Persia (Europe).sfc 60~70 BizHawk 2.3 + TAStudio + turbo + 1 button inputting + visible frame range 390~424: NesHawk Donald_Land_Japan.nes 16~22 BSNES Prince of Persia (Europe).sfc 14~22
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Ahh, thanks for the quick dirty encode :)
Spikestuff wrote:
I'm displeased that this TAS isn't started from the ground up
To be fair, the game is hard to optimize because of - incorporating air dashing optimally, - the weird rules for zipping (Y = 23 but not always works), - optimizing the ammount of lag frames. My probably last up to date post in the currently published movie's submission thread with correct informations: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=393619#393619
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Is this movie faster than my old WIP? http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/18951804747011284
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PokΓ©mon ACE guides, elaborated and with videos: https://glitchcity.info/wiki/Arbitrary_code_execution You should also watch some videos about how ACE done on various TASes, for example SMB3: Link to video
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That's what I wanted to know. The question rised from not knowing this (emulator was sped up). Thought it's mistakenly running at higher speed.
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(Saw encode is too fast, a youtube comment also asked, so I ask here) The original TAS: [1103] NES Mega Man by Deign in 15:29.27 Ending starts: your encode at 9:12, original encode 16:00 The other videos also run at a different tempo/framerate. Not sure if this is a mistake or done on purpose?
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This would be a good suggestion if it wouldn't be shortened. The premise here is that many emulators with rerecording features got the name (for the fork of the project) -RR: MAME-RR, FinalBurnAlpha-RR, JPC-RR, Mupen64-rr, Mednafen-rr. Somewhat feel that extra E a bit unuseful/unnecessary.
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Dimon12321: Not a judge, but that password usage would be a beneficial cheat code, therefore it shouldn't be allowed. See Mothrayas' earlier post here. edit: I'm not sure I linked to the correct post, but here is a TAS that rejected for something else but does very similar stuff: #5175: paosidufygth's PSX Rockman X3 in 13:36.56
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Forgot to post this, here's my views on current situation of "piracy". TL;DR: this post doesn't answers to anything just tries to get an overall view of this topic. I think there's a bit of misunderstanding around piracy... 1 - Usually pirate sites are hosting (or linking what they have uploaded themselves) files to be downloaded for free that otherwise costs money. 2 - The pirates tries to take their hands on these products and manipulate the files (cracking it to make it playable without buying it in the first place). 3 - "Supporters of piracy" will visit those pirate sites to generate revenue to the pirates, financially damaging the original party. So let's take ROMs and TASVideos: 1 - TASVideos does not hosts nor upload copyrighted ROMs. 2 - TASVideos does not requires manipulation of these file(s) (Note: for the sake of explanation, let's discard C64 and other hacked games with a TAS) 3 - TASVideos never suggested anything piracy related. It's not even TASVideos' domain to control the individual's actions. TASVideos does helps users to avoid getting in trouble by encoding videos of TASes as well as every information required to be able to replay the movie file. Now ROMs and TASer: 1 - The TASer requires the game in order to TAS it. Games usually costs money but might be free. 2 - The game (speaking about carts, disks, etc) is in a different form than what's needed. Need to dump it to get the .ROM file which the emulator waits for. There is no manipulation of files required, like we don't remove the game's antipiracy measures. (Note: again, let's exclude .nes headers and alikes) 3 - Most dumps per games are likely to be the same (because of only 1 version being released) so redumping is just wasting time.
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Watched and thumbed up. Would like to see a playback of a TAS with severe graphic glitches (for example [2868] FDS The Legend of Zelda "2nd quest, game end glitch" by TASeditor, Masterjun & sockfolder in 03:06.46)
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Whatever you are flabbergasting, here's the information you probably wanted. Before you post another thing about this in this thread: no, he probably didn't "using an external program that allows him to enable/disable vsync with the press of a button?" Regarding switching between enabled and disabled vsync with the press of a button, he probably could do it by playing in not fullscreen.
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Warp wrote:
keylie wrote:
Vsync is turned off using an external program I think.
If that's true, my response is "WTF?" I hope it's not any sort of official speedrun record.
https://www.speedrun.com/smb#Any_Major_Glitches 1st place The author says
disabling vsync and putting the game in fullscreen mode makes the animations fasterο»Ώ
So you can say "WTF?".
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grassini wrote:
i like the innovation, i'm kinda turning away from speedrunning because there are very few novelties for someone that has seen many tricks in years of lurking speedrun forums, i can't really tell how long i'll keep my interest in this hobby
If you are serious, you should definitely check out my http://tasvideos.org/MESHUGGAH/ForbiddenTechniques.html for old innovations you probably didnt saw already.
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