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As I said in the other thread the guy who made that TAS is a known cheater. He's made "glitched" TASes of games like Link's Awakening that simply involve him editing the video to make it look like he's pausing the game and suddenly warping to the ending. He also refuses to release input files.
I saw the glitched Fester's Quest TAS when it was uploaded, and it involved him pausing the game repeatedly and suddenly ending up inside a wall. Doesn't seem legit to me.
MUGG and Swordless touch on guy's TASes a bit here: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=282570#282570
YoungJ1997lol wrote:
Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
Not always. The judges tend to be pretty reasonable about missing fixes that cannot be easily edited into the movie file. For example, if you fix one second's worth of work in the first few minutes of the movie, but that throws off the randomness for the rest of the game, then you can't change that early work without effectively redoing the whole movie. Usually, if the improvements are small, judges can forgive that. (See the recent Kid Dracula movie, for instance.)
And sometimes, they'll accept things even when they're demonstrably majorly suboptimal as long as the topic doesn't get enough attention. At this point though, we're past that mark.
? Examples?
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The currently published run used 2 as well for the same reason.
Luke's submission text wrote:
There are 4 difficulty settings. However they only affect enemy HP and don't change the run at all, other than making boss fights a little longer. So I elected to use the default difficulty of 2, as the Famtasia run did.
Should be fine (as well as easier to compare).
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Derakon wrote:
Modifying the "This movie has been published!" post by TASVideoAgent to have a link to the ratings page could be helpful, so that people who have watched it prior to publishing have an easy (or easier) way to remember to rate it.
It's had that for a while now.
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Aqfaq wrote:
Thank you for the nice idea, arandomgameTASer. As I've said before, I will rate every movie after the rating system requires 1 click instead of 10 clicks. I like rating stuff. I rate albums at allmusic.com, movies at imdb.com and books at goodreads.com, all of which require 1 click only. Rating can be done easily right after finishing the thing and it takes only a second. By the time I've rated 10 TASes at TASVideos I've rated 100 things elsewhere. That's why I don't bother rating TASes.
I would be inclined to agree if TASes were rated on a simple scale of 0 to 5. But they aren't. So I don't see a way to make this easy.
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It's facetious. I don't really think there should be only ONE bad DS homebrew on the site. If we limited our bad game TASes to just one per system, the site would lose a lot of runs.
Burn the Rope just seemed like the best comparison, because that TAS is recieved insanely poorly and it's a homebrew too. (At least that one seems finished...)
I would still object to publishing this TAS under the notability guideline.
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I voted no. Ugly and unsatisfying game, and I don't think runs of such cheap homebrew games should be encouraged. We already have the horrible Burn the Rope TAS filling our "DS shit" quota. I would object to this being published in the vault, because this game isn't notable at all.
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Ok, makes sense. I still disagree with the comparison of WarioWare and this game, and, well, there is no luck manipulation in Florian's run according to his comments.
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Sorry, I'm not familiar with WarioWare. There is no luck manipulation in that run, probably why it was rejected. (I also don't see any that aren't fixed length but I only watched around 5 minutes.)
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Tangent wrote:
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I'd disagree with calling them very simplistic if you can save over ten seconds from them.
The suboptimality of the first attempt means that the first attempt was suboptimal. That's all. The amount of improvement possible is not an indication of the complexity of the game.
This run of far more minigames was improved by nearly half an hour and still deemed not complex enough for the vault.
The improvement in that movie is trivial (resetting to skip cutscenes) and each minigame is fixed length. I wouldn't compare them to this game.
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Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
