Nach: could you address the very possibility to get an Othello run published (if there is one, and why)?
From what I understand: yes, that results in a sub-optimal jump
I had a (somewhat depressing) conversation on IRC in #tasvideos where everyone seemed to be of the opinion that, because this is a board game, it is somehow ineligible to be published regardless of the tier.
To not publish this run on the basis of prejudiced rules that pre-date the creation of the Vault tier strikes me as wrong at every level.
# The first jump out of the sand to the platform looks suboptimal. - charging up would be as laggy as just going underneath him as far as i tested and i also have to spent time for killing him -> so i left him out / i´ll look into this again to see if there is a way to get a better outcome!
Difficulty doesn't really increase
The game doesn't actually end where the TAS video ends. The goal of the game is to achieve the rank of champion. Every 3 fights, you get a symbol on the lower right, every 5 symbols you move on to the next set. After 45 symbols (or 145 fights), you reach the rank of champion.
It's also surprising that the SNES TAS is currently in 2nd to last place.
Is this the first time that everyone won?
You can argue all day long, but "superplay" is a backronym. The term "TAS" existed and was proposed to be used here before anybody came up with that interpretation.
That's more of a backronym than anything else. The 'S' has always stood for "speedrun" since the days of Doom tool-assisted speedrunning.
After people complained that not every movie is about time, we switched to the name TAS, specifically to denote that all our movies are superplays.
Original TAS logo:
TAS term elsewhere may have been about speedrunning, but it's original use here was to denote superplays, and we used this logo on movies that were fast as well as for those that entertained in other ways, as it's a term applicable to both.
Edit:
I found the original edit of when TAS was added to the glossary: http://tasvideos.org/diff.exe?page=Glossary&rev=17&prev=16
TAS:Abbreviation for tool-assisted run.
Shortly thereafter a fight ensued regarding the acronym elsewhere and here.. The fight is in a thread somewhere here which I'm sure someone can dig up. We've accepted TAS meant speedrun elsewhere, and is the usual meaning of it, but it wasn't the original meaning here, and was purposely selected for the ambiguity, unlike time attack.
Edit 2:
I would also like to direct your attention to our logo in the upper left corner of our forum.
Alright, so then are there some games in which upon replay desync is either inevitable or there are RNG elements that cannot be manipulated?
Oh I see, I think I have misunderstood the procedure a little bit. So you are saying that the frames that make up the final TAS video are recorded as the run is created, not in a replay of the game where the input sequence is fed into the game in real-time after the fact?
Also, if that is the case, is console verification even considered important then?