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Twice, when you go through a screen with a south exit and a west exit with a wide open space in the middle, you hug the south wall and then the west wall rather than cutting through the center of the screen, why this behavior?
If you would like, I can give that viper a shot and see what happens. No promises though.
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"In this version of Mario, when you're jumping while sliding on a wall, you jump backwards and upwards away from it. That's what the AI did twice to get out of the hole."
Feature usage, not bug exploit. :)
I thought that too at first actually.
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There's a one frame window where both the following condition exists:
1) Mario is still on the previous section of floor, which is slightly lower
2) Mario can grab the ladder.
Because Mario is lower than the ground under the ladder, the ground fails to stop Mario, and then he just climbs down until he reaches the ground.
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http://tasvideos.org/FAQ.html
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Long answer, it depends, generally when I TAS play frame by frame with my keyboard. I don't really use computer because I'm counterproductively lazy.
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moozooh wrote:
OmnipotentEntity wrote:
Depends, have you put any of your personal information on it that can be used to steal your identity?
I think Warp's question was more along the lines of "who would bother checking if you had?" Using data forensics tools when you don't know what you're looking for (how do you know a string of characters you've found is a social security number?) sounds infeasible at best. I mean, looking through gigabytes of data to locate a several-byte-long number? You must definitely have some bad enemies in that case.
grep '[0-9]\{3\}-[0-9]\{2\}-[0-9]\{4\}' /dev/hdb1
oh look, I just searched your entire hard drive for a social security number.
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ccfreak2k wrote:
A full "zero fill" of zeros then ones renders all but the absolute best forensics tools unable to recover data. DoD specs specify at least 17 passes IIRC.
Also, Derakon is talking about how a 0 might actually be 0.3 if it was previously a 1 and 0.0 if it was always a 0.
DoD is 7 passes for Secret and up, 3 passes for Sensitive and down.
But a simple 0 fill should make the data unrecoverable to anyone who wouldn't just go and kidnap you to get the information you hid.
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The reason why I chose derivative share alike is because I kinda think of TAS movie files in the same terms as I think of free software. You release the file, and anyone who cares to is free to edit to make it better. Closed source TASing would be when people release avis only. Isn't that shady?
Plus, it guarantees that later on there isn't going to be a giant piss fit if someone else "stole" his or her work. And it makes things like the Sonic 3 movie explicitly ok.
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Actually, the purpose of this site is to entertain, not to collect best possible times on every game.
I'll leave that challenge up to a website on finite state machines.
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Warp wrote:
My point is that it might be difficult to enforce any license you choose (because licenses are always based on copyright, and it's not clear whether emulator movie files fall into copyright protection, especially since they are based on copyrighted material).
Erm... no. If I was to make a parody of a song that song is still protected under copyright. IANAL but, an input file seems like it would be, at the very least, a derivative work under copyright law, which makes it copyrightable.
Therefore, I propose that we explicitly release all content on this site under CC non-commercial, Attrib, Derivative share alike. If we can get in touch with the authors to approve that. If nothing else, we can do so moving forward for all new submissions and publications if we have consensus.
Thanks to OP for bringing this up. This is important.
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Oh hi thar, it's been a month since the last post. I'm working on a publishable quality avi for this game.
I have a lossless avi with logo and TAS disclaimers here for reuploading to various intertubes.
http://engelsish.org/avi/firenice-tas-randil-lossless.avi
Be kind, this is my personal webserver, and it's a 231 MB file. Only download if you're going to reup to youtube or something, a reasonably sized file should be along shortly.
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Now come to think about it, not only it was for exp. adjustment but also to ensure Willow was strong enough for a more decent battle against Muzh because of 42 available HP.
But your defense was unchanged from the beginning to the end of that. (28)
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All five vowels appear at least once, in the correct order:
$ grep '.*a.*e.*i.*o.*u' /usr/share/dict/words
abstemious
adventitious
facetious
facetiously
facetiousness
facetiousness's
sacrilegious
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A couple of things:
You're using autofire to scroll through text. You're losing on average half a frame on each prompt. (total of about a second thus far on the run. They add up.) If you can find a button other than B which makes the text go autofire one on even frames, the other on odd frames.
The fight with the first boss *looks* improvable, but I haven't actually tried.
There are some paths that you take which don't make sense to me (but it could be my being slightly unfamiliar with the game.)
You shouldn't *need* to swing your sword for randomness, worst comes to worst to a little jig in place (ie, down down down down+left down+right down down down) so you only lose a frame or so and vary where the jig is, preferably you can go back as far as you need until you come to a long diagonal that you can choose several equally speedy paths, and luck manipulate there.
Why did you need to kill that bat in the cave?
And can you explain your rationale for killing two sets of those ghosts?
The Muzh battle looks good though. Very slick :)
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As far as I'm aware, no length/size limit imposed.
EDIT: I'm currently uploading Erokky's FF6 video, as it's the largest thing we have.
EDIT2: Failed twice, blank error screen.
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