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mklip2001 wrote:
it is only marginally longer
Not really. Cut off the second of "The End" at the beginning, and the movies are almost the exact same length.
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When I was younger, every laundromat, video store, pizza shop, and others up and down the commercial street around the corner from where I lived had some Street Fighter II game out front. I spent a small fortune in quarters playing Street Fighter II, Championship Edition, and Turbo. I'd walk extra in whichever direction to find that version of the game I was interested in.
One day, I noticed some video store a bit distant from me got a Street Fighter II out front. I went to go play it and it turned out to be this one right here. Now the cabinet it was stored in said Championship Edition on it, and the play was just too weird to seem intentional. I thought the game was a bit fried, I never knew it was a hack. I only played it twice, as the game was just too weird for my tastes. This run on the other hand is nice, yes vote.
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Xepher wrote:
Yes. This was more entertaining than the normal run. Also, Yay for keeping Tetris Tetrominoes on 2-3!
He did more than keep. If I'm not mistaken he showed more than the others.
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This is getting a very strong yes vote from me. If I could vote yes on it more than once (without TASing the site), I would.
Way more entertaining than the standard run. The way you move with the extra enemies makes it seem like Mario is some kind of Bulldozer Tank with a one track mind. If only all runs looked this good.
1-2 enemy stomp was great, 4000 points! Your antics in 2-3 were your best yet. 4-3 was great too antics-wise, killing 3 enemies simultaneously like that, amazing. This is what TASing is all about.
All in all, one of the best runs I've seen in a long time.
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The site is now able to integrate with the Subversion Version Control System. This allows our wiki pages to have up to date information on active TASing. Documentation here.
A couple of users use Subversion over at Google Code in order to coordinate the creation of TASs between multiple users, and in general for backup and sharing of TASs being worked on.
Here's an example of the new Subversion integration in action. Currently more than a dozen TASers use Subversion to manage their TASs. It is recommended that more of you do so. If you'd like to use the Subversion integration, you can already begin to do so, however contact adelikat or myself to add your SVN username to our database in order to facilitate your TASVideos username appearing in logs.
Other enhancements to almost live TASing coming soon.
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Warp wrote:
This raises the interesting question of whether one should vote purely with regards to one's personal feelings about the game/run, regardless of whatever possible overwhelming popularity the game/run otherwise has, or whether the rating should reflect how much the voter thinks the average person would enjoy the movie.
We have stars to reflect how the average person would feel. I myself even pushed for stars for some runs that I personally didn't care for.
Warp wrote:
There are many runs which I personally don't find extremely entertaining, but which I understand very well how the average gamer would find quite interesting. This poses a dilemma when rating: Should I rate it according to my feelings, or should I rate it according to what I know about the sentiments the average gamers and TASers have towards the game/run?
Of course the dilemma is even harder in the opposite case: In other words, when I personally like a run a lot, but I know that it's not very popular in average.
As for the rest, that's why there's multiple voters. If you were supposed to vote how others feel, we might as well just removing ranking altogether. To make sure voting reflects how you feel, go to your personal favorites page (click rated movies), and make sure everything is sorted as you want it.
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rhebus wrote:
There's also a glitch where you press one of the F-keys (this site suggests F8) which glitches the world map into random sprites, which changes the world map's appearance AND behaviour. You could go pretty much anywhere on the map, enter a level, and when you return to the map it's unglitched again but with keen in a totally different place. You could even get into the space outside mars with this.
I'm pretty sure that's Commander Keen 4-6's debugging mode (and there's more to it than just F8). That debugging mode is not present in 1-3. Apogee's site lists all available game cheat codes and debugging options.
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Warepire wrote:
I was wondering why I kept getting all those Internal Server Error and Connection Refused earlier today...
We're still not actually sure what happened earlier. But in the process of fixing things, I made some upgrades and tweaked a bunch of settings. So perhaps whatever went wrong earlier was a blessing in disguise as it forced me to review some settings.
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Some changes went through on the server shortly before I made this post. I want to know how the site feels for our beloved users.
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marzojr wrote:
Indeed, going by Kyman's reply above, Nach voted 0.1 for entertainment in the S3&K run, and probably voted the same way for FuzZerd's Sonic run. I seriously doubt that he finds that little entertainment value in Genesis Sonic runs...
I didn't vote THAT low.
Raiscan wrote:
People are (should be) allowed to vote how they choose. Limits should not be placed.
Indeed. The rating system is up to each person's personal opinion. No two people agree on what they like, and we should let everyone vote how they want. I think it absurd that we have a few users who go around rating all the amazing Metroid movies <4 in entertainment, but they're still entitled to their opinion.
If the rating system only allowed "Good" or "Very Good", it wouldn't be much of a rating system, and wouldn't truly cover our diverse demographic of users.
If a handful of users are skewing the rating on a particular movie, that either means not enough people rated (more people need to rate moves!), or that the movie in question is actually quite bad (we actually did publish some rather bad movies in the past that deserve their sub 4.0 rating).
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Xarthok wrote:
One more question is about a bug/cheat (feature?) that allows walking through levels on the map thus skipping even those that are supposed to be in the way when holding Shift and Tab. It's listed as a cheat code in most places so should it be not allowed? I avoided it in my non-TAS runs.
I'm pretty sure that one was in the manual.
Edit:
Yes it is, it is a "customer cheat".
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Sonikkustar wrote:
Nach hasnt mentioned this uet, but theres now USTREAM support! Horray!
There's now support for ~15 different sites and a slew of other things. Youtube playlists in video tags for example is now supported.
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Bag of Magic Food wrote:
Nach wrote:
Derakon wrote:
Because sometimes it causes undesirable flicker. It happens that in LoZ it was used to fake Z-occlusion, so it's desirable here.
Uh, I'm pretty certain Baxter pointed out that the hack is not desirable here. It makes Link look like he's jumping over walls instead of walking through passageways.
I think Derakon meant that the sprite limit was desirable, not the hack to remove it.
If he meant that, then he didn't answer my question. Why did someone make a hack to disable RTO?
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Derakon wrote:
Because sometimes it causes undesirable flicker. It happens that in LoZ it was used to fake Z-occlusion, so it's desirable here.
Uh, I'm pretty certain Baxter pointed out that the hack is not desirable here. It makes Link look like he's jumping over walls instead of walking through passageways.
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Baxter wrote:
Note to everyone who plans to encode: I don't want to see Link moving OVER the doors in the dungeons. The encode of the current Swordless TAS has it, and that looks awful. config > videos... > uncheck "allow more than 8 sprites per scanline"
Ugh, someone put a hack in the emulator to disregard range-time over? Why???
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I agree with what is said above. Although I also think that if Turtles in Time 4 players is made, and turns outs to be at least just as impressive as this one, that should take its place.
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Aktan: Thanks for the encode. Yes, I actually downloaded and watched it.
Now why are they looking for the Technodrome in the Technodrome? Those Teenage Mutant Pizza Turtles sure are strange.
DarkKobold: Fantastic job, kept me entertained throughout.
Going to do Turtles in Time? That'd be even more amazing.
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Done. Along with several other sites.
Although not syncing the main site code base just yet, due to other changes made recently.
Your video should appear whenever we do sync it.
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Zeupar: I find every run of a Sonic game utterly boring, with the exception of Sonic Advance 2. Hence I will give low ratings in entertainment for Sonic runs, especially the Genesis ones.
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Mister Epic wrote:
Nach wrote:
antd: Thanks for the encode.
No offense, but I was the one who encoded that. antd uploaded the YouTube processed file.
No offense taken!
In actuality, if I wanted what YouTube had, I'd download the MP4 from them myself. What he did though is make it easier for others that don't know how to do that.
I myself have not even watched this run yet
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antd: Thanks for the encode.
It was such a deliciously artful run!
Krang killed over boiled olives like dad used to make, I love it! Much thanks to my ninja TASer DarkKobold for making this run, you rock! Excellent entertainment, pure awesomeness!
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Flygon wrote:
No longer shall I mess around with [url] tags!
Flygon, you no longer need to use a hack like [ur[b][/b]l], just use the new [noparse] tag.
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Sonikkustar wrote:
Nach, You are now considered a not-evil admin. How do you feel?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I am EVIL, you hear me? Evil!DarkKobold wrote:
OOoooh, how about for submissions [obsoletes]
which tells the frame difference in frames and time, and links to the old movie!
As long as we are doing awesomeness...
I think you mean movies. I like that idea, but I'll need to work in more DB hooks for that. I'll look into it after I make it autogenerate names for movie titles, submissions, topic and post, when you don't specify your own.
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Also by adding Tetris, instead of replacing it, we'll increase the amount of Puzzle games we recommend.
The action/platform genre is represented well, let's get some others in there as well.
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