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Noxxa
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So, let's break down the intents here. • This movie does not fit in our current ruleset for any class, because all of them are beholden to several global movie rules that this submission blatantly violates, such as emulator reproducibility, dependency on human input, and not all content being included in the submitted file itself (and not even being possible to be submitted as such). Other posts already go in depth about this. • There is demand, including from TASVideos staff and the TASBot group, for TAS showcases such as this one (and previous TASBot entries for GDQs) to be published, regardless of above point. The sheer lack of compatibility with conventional movie rules (which all of our current nearly 5000 published TASes adhere to) means that the site can't even begin to try to change the rules to accomodate this movie. Anything the site would want to do here, would have to be done in complete disregard of our movie rules, because any attempt to tie those together is doomed to fail. So how would TASVideos be able to publish this movie, if it doesn't suit the movie rules for any class? Here's my proposal: Create a new "Showcase" class. Nix every movie rule for this showcase class. The only requirements would be to have something for a movie file (perhaps it doesn't even need to be a movie file; just some sort of publication file, for technical purposes), and a video file it can be published with. The only acceptance criteria is that the product is endorsed by TASVideos or an affiliated organisation (e.g. TASBot). Give Showcase publications the same rights and values as regular publications, and also add some highly promoted page somewhere that lists and details all TASVideos-affiliated showcase movies/publications and write something nice about them. I think that's the sort of attention that submissions like this deserve - and nothing less. We have a site now that we as staff should be able to do anything with. I don't think we need to be stuck thinking inside the box of movie rules. If we want to give this a place on the site, nothing should be stopping us from giving it a place on the site - especially not a set of movie rules that runs on an entirely different scope for what we normally expect out of a tool-assisted movie submission. That's trying to force a square peg into a round hole. There is no reason anymore for us to be doing that.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Ever since I started routing this game in 2010, I was hoping for a full TAS of this game to come about one day. (For myself, it never really came to fruition, after having WIPs with pcsx-rr emulation/audio/desync issues in 2010, writing Lua scripts along with Warepire in 2014 to prepare for us to work on a run that never came to be, and making a handful IL TASes between 2015 and 2017). Now it's finally here, and it really is a treat. In the last couple years, a ton of useful tricks and skips were discovered that make several levels a lot more interesting to watch (if maybe a bit confusing for those less familiar with the game), and routing has been tightened up nicely as well. This game has a ridiculous amount of collectables to take into account for 100% completion (124 Golden Clocks, 333 Golden Carrots, and a minimum of 495 regular carrots throughout the run), and DHA and AleMastroianni did a great job measuring out exactly how to collect all of them. I'm very glad that AleMastroianni finally managed to finish this run. I've seen a handful of WIPs throughout the creation of this run (and the iterations it went through), and it's been great to see it unfold at last. Excellent job :D
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Because of personal circumstances limiting my time and ability to contribute to the site, I am stepping down from Admin Assistant and all other senior roles and responsibilities. (I will keep moderator status). It's been fun contributing as site staff for more than 10 years (and senior staff for 8 years), but I currently can't commit enough time to keep up with everything, so I think it's best if I made sure I would not be holding anything up. My current senior responsibilities (Discord, awards, etc.) will be divided among other senior staff. Big shoutouts to the current site administration and site staff, who are doing a wonderful job pushing the site forward. It's been a great pleasure to work with everyone :)
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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This looks really nice, would love to see a full run of this. Been waiting for one for many years, and it's great to see this game being picked up again.
KusogeMan wrote:
dont wanna be a spoilsport, but have you considered other possibilities like fastest gold medals? im wondering if it has the possibilit of dragging on, like the suicide you just did on the first stage.
I don't think this game is very suited to compromising between score and speed like that. If a run is going to make score a factor, it should just go all out.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Thank you adelikat, for your service as site administrator (and continued service as site owner and developer). You have been a great leader when the site needed it. Congrats to feos and Memory on their promotions. I have full trust that the site direction is in good hands with both of them, and am looking forward to see where it will go.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Cool run. I remember playing this back in the Newgrounds days and really not liking it. Funny to see it's still as broken as I remembered. Does Illusion not do more damage vs Master/Crazy hand than up smash?
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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CoolKirby wrote:
I used FCEUX 2.2.1, but any version should work.
It desyncs on various older and newer builds (as noted above by despoa). It appears that the movie was originally submitted as .fcm in 2008, but replaced with a .fm2 sometime during the re-judging/publishing process in 2012. Presumably FCEUX 2.2.0 was used, as that was the most recent version of FCEUX at the time. The fm2 includes an (unset) NewPPU flag - this option did not exist yet in 2008, so it has to have been converted in a newer version. It's unknown what happened to the original .fcm. It may have been lost to time.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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The formula was already well-established, it is how movie ratings (as they are shown on each publication page) are calculated to begin with. It is not a new invention. If someone for example gave a movie an 1 in entertainment but 10 in tech, then that effectively translated to an overall rating of approximately 4.2 (because of the 13:7 split). What this change did, is make the given overall rating explicit. If parts of the rating were removed without the remaining numbers getting compensated, then numbers would be far more skewed. The 1 entertainment/10 tech example from before would turn an overall rating of 4 into an overall rating of 1. And that would be simply wrong. The rating number you see now is not called "entertainment rating". It does not represent what you filled in as entertainment rating, nor does it claim to. It represents the overall rating you gave to the movie, when you filled in all the applicable numbers.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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The point of removing tech rating was never to make entertainment rating the sole measure of rating TASes. TASes can have merits other than being entertaining, and ratings should be able to reflect that as well. For example, I would rate [4567] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 "game end glitch" by OnehundredthCoin in 00:00.22 low in entertainment rating due to lack of entertaining gameplay, but on the whole, it is a high-quality and notable achievement, so I would give it a higher overall rating. Not doing so would be like giving Citizen Kane a low score on IMDB because it isn't a comedy. So ultimately, having a singular rating system isn't really compatible with either the notions of entertainment or technical rating, so we can't provide compatibility for either. What we did do, was to have compatibility (as much as was possible) with the overall ratings for TASes as they existed previously. It's unfortunate that this ruined your system of entertainment rating, but entertainment ratings themselves technically now also don't exist anymore, so it is what it is.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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The site already used to maintain a 13:7 ratio between entertainment and tech in order to calculate the overall rating for every movie. If every user rating is merged to the same ratio, then it would keep every movie's overall rating (mostly) the same. That should be the way to go, imo.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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MESHUGGAH wrote:
Ok, which rule got changed to let this abomination accepted?
Don't be rude.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Congrats to PracticalTAS, Mario 64 Master, ajp_anton & tauKhan for winning the TAS of 2021 award!
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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It is time to vote for your favorite movie of 2021 to win the TAS of the Year award! Registered members can place their votes for any or all of the 10 candidates here. Voting will close on January 21st 2022, 23:59 UTC.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Nominating EZGames69, CasualPokePlayer, Alyosha, and Natetheman223.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Nominating DyllonStej and PracticalTAS, even though neither are rookies in the typical sense - both have already been accomplished TASers for years, just outside of TASVideos. Nevertheless, they entered this year with some enormously high quality work. Also nominating OnehundredthCoin and Natetheman223.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Nominating EZGames69, Winslinator, Lobsterzelda, KiwiCracker, and nymx.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Nominating eien86 and ikuyo.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Nominating lapogne36, Rolanmen1, and SuPeRbOoMfAn.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Nominating xy2_ and theballaam96.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Nominating PracticalTAS and DyllonStej.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Nominating g0goTBC, Reseren, and UnopenedClosure.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.