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Posted: 11/26/2020 2:13 PM
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I would suggest using the FFMPEG dumper for bizhawk, yes. Among the other reasons you'll be given, I have been having issues with the VFW dumper causing Bizhawk to crash outright as of late, and as I can't get it to crash with a dump I can't tell if it's my system, the VFW module, or Bizhawk.
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Posted: 11/20/2020 9:37 PM
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There's a reason that section is labelled 4/1 (but I've updated the section label anyway so that it's less ambiguous) "Worst Possible Score" being absolute fastest is only possible for golf games with both a Give Up condition (which CPB does not have) and a hard O.B. bounding box (which CPB does have) - you'd spend too much time waiting for strokes to die without the latter, and you still have to hole out without the former. As for Speed/Score tradeoffs, it would depend on how unruly the RNG is. I strongly suspect that Fastest Time would be synonymous with Best Score just due to how long each separate stroke can take. Definitely need to get the time measurements on that one though.
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Posted: 11/19/2020 10:06 PM
(Edited: 11/20/2020 9:52 PM)
Post subject: Bandai Golf - Challenge Pebble Beach
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  • Serious Attempt notes
    • Wind updates once per blink and is biased per course
    • shot direction is granular 15° (so not particularly granular)
    • Will need RNG manipulation to fine-tune shots - don't spend too much time on manip unless can get HIO/Albatross out of it
    • Slice range varies by club - further fine-tune shots by slicing?
  • April Fools' "Maximum" Score notes
    • Score per hole capped at 2x Par (so Par 4 takes 12 strokes for +8)
    • Will still need to complete each hole, as there is no automatic "give up" at stroke cap. (I vaguely remember this being A Thing from when baby me would play with aunts/uncles)
    • O.B. penalty +2 strokes
  • To Do
    • Addresses for swing power, current angle, wind speed, wind direction, slope
    • RNG stuff
    • Simple TAS (always max swing power unless chip-in, always perfect hit)
    • Measure how many frames per blink
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Posted: 11/8/2020 1:19 PM
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also for N64 games be mindful of which games you're playing. Not all of them had a display rate of 60 to begin with (cough Zelda cough)
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Posted: 10/28/2020 11:25 PM
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...is this seriously the first non-qualified thread we've had for Doom 1993? Everything I've found by searching has either been for a console port or the pacifist thread.
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Posted: 10/21/2020 1:19 PM
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The dump is getting split by fceux due to filesize limitations. Using the Lagarith codec for the initial dump is suggested as it compresses better (or at least, lags was suggested when I started getting into temp encoding). Here's a 720p60 temp encode. (Temp Encode removed due to accepted for publication)
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Posted: 10/4/2020 2:04 AM
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User Files didn't stop being a thing or anything, by the way.
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Posted: 10/4/2020 2:02 AM
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You can cancel the submission if you were coerced into putting it on the workbench, especially if you're working on improving it. For non-submission movies, we have User Files. There's no need to put your submission permissions at risk just to share a done-for-fun one.
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Posted: 9/30/2020 12:39 PM
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creaothceann's script will work for Game Boy and Game Boy Color, yes.
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Posted: 9/21/2020 6:31 PM
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I suppose my question is "why does it need to be PCSX2 specifically?"
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Posted: 9/14/2020 10:34 AM
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Myself? No (I don't have the patience to TAS something to completion), but I could use the All Missions route for my personal game (replacing "luck maniplulation" with "spending realtime time" where appropriate - I don't need to recruit a Viera Assassin if I'm taking the time to get enough AP to make one from scratch) to make sure I manage the quest items correctly. I've screwed so many casual runs out of 100% by not correctly managing quests. I'm mostly asking since I don't want to have to do all the required pre-planning on my own if someone else has a better plan already.
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Posted: 9/11/2020 9:47 PM
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(Time to necrobump) I'm starting research for my own personal run, trying to clear all 300 missions (for the first time ever). Anybody got (a link to) the plan for All Missions? I may as well use that as a general guide for my personal game. On the old subject of combos: Combos would be far more practical for All Missions, since you have more AP (and theoretically more levels) to work with, but without running random encounters I believe you're still limited to the Trade Goods mythril sword.
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Posted: 9/4/2020 11:03 PM
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So the "Context Menu" key.
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Posted: 8/29/2020 9:22 PM
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Why not use a code to make everything act like hammer brothers or 8-4 Bowser?
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Posted: 8/24/2020 10:31 AM
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I'm going to echo what I said in the other submission's thread. I know what's going on and why, so I'm entertained as hell by the otherwise-inexplicable lack of enemies. I can see why there's not a lot of push for this one, though.
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Posted: 8/19/2020 10:48 PM
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To be clear: this isn't loading two emulators in parallel like what's done for Super Game Boy stuff, but rather an emulator emulating another emulator (such as a TAS of Donkey Kong 64 that in turn TASes Jetpac)
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Posted: 8/18/2020 10:56 AM
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1) Is Level 3 Charge needed to progress at any point, or is it simply something that makes boss fights faster? 2) If Level 3 Charges are not needed to progress, could this be used to reduce how many items you need to change around when changing items? It looked like NCS was able to switch swords without losing the glitched All Orbs state (which from what I'm reading, switching swords should end the glitched state since you're entering a menu?)
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Posted: 8/17/2020 9:30 PM
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How does the game behave when the currently equipped orb is replaced with its bracelet? I was watching NintendoCapriSun's Let's Play and this happened to him with the Orb of Water/Bracelet of Blizzard, and it appeared to act as though all orbs were equipped.
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Posted: 8/10/2020 11:20 PM
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Now, on the actual movie. On the surface, this wouldn't be a very entertaining movie - a lot of the enemies are missing, and Simon or Christopher or Juste or whoever doesn't move very fast. But taking this movie at face value misses a very important point - the enemies are missing because of liberal use of Pause Delay, taking a notoriously difficult game and trivializing it in a new and interesting way. Since I more or less know what's happening and why, I'm willing to vote Yes. Mazzin: As Nach mentioned, the submission notes are... not especially descriptive. Aside from Pause Delay, do you have a breakdown of how this differs from previous submissions for the GB version?
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Posted: 8/10/2020 10:55 PM
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Talk with input files.
"...research existing runs to avoid rather obvious mistakes..." isn't that an input file already?? i was actually refering to my submission file with this.
Meaning "upload a userfile demonstrating what you're talking about." Words mislead, actions don't, and you yourself were impressed by optimizations made in the demo movie that sound like they would benefit the submitted run.
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Posted: 6/26/2020 11:15 AM
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I keep hearing "Qualified Immunity," so I asked a friend of mine who was in the police academy what it was. Essentially: It's protection from civil suits for police officers who acted in good faith on bad information - the person you get to sue in civil court is the person that gave bad information in the first place. In the case of Breonna Taylor, the persons you sue are the persons who gave her place of residence as the service point of the warrant (the judge, most likely) as well as the officer and/or dispatcher who confirmed "yes, this is the correct address." It stops when you get to the root of the problem - the officers who killed Floyd would not be protected by it at all since it was under their judgment call that he was killed, for example. With that said - have fun suing corrupt judges. Also, it is important to note that this only covers civil suits, not criminal charges. If the cop breaks the law in his attempt to enforce it, Qualified Immunity isn't supposed to apply in the first place.
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Posted: 6/19/2020 12:54 PM
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There are many things you could be doing wrong. What are you doing, generally?
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Posted: 6/8/2020 10:56 PM
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Are you making your pizza crusts from scratch or from a kit? I've not tried making a crust from scratch yet (cauliflower crust sounds like a good way to avoid having to deal with yeast)
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Posted: 5/21/2020 9:17 PM
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You'd need to be more worried about patent rights, anyway
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Posted: 5/8/2020 11:36 AM
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wake me up when it comes with built-in memory viewing and lua support so that I don't have to use cheat engine just to watch three memory addresses.
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