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Posted: 8/19/2008 2:26 AM
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Raiscan
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Phil wrote:
Raiscan wrote:
Dude, just rename your savestates. It's not hard and FCEUX offers more protection this way.
It doesn't work like that. You didn't read what I wrote.
To be fair, it is a bit of a wall of text. I don't read walls of text. And the overly long japanese game examples don't really help my attention either..
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Posted: 8/19/2008 2:23 AM
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Dude, just rename your savestates. It's not hard and FCEUX offers more protection this way.
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Posted: 8/19/2008 12:28 AM
Post subject: Re: Improve Cpadolf's Super Mario All-Stars - Lost Levels run
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Diman wrote:
Ok. I know I post a lot of WIP's at the forum.. You're probably thinking:
1. Who are you 2. Thats the point of the forums
Diman wrote:
"dude! Why doesn't this guy stick with one TAS at the time??
No, I'm thinking "dude! Why are your WIPs slower than the run you're trying to obsolete??" which is kind of a bad thing.
Diman wrote:
Well.. Since I don't get enough feedback, for those WIP's I have post so far, (now days) out here, I have decided to not give up until I get the attention I want.
Let me get this straight. You're making WIPs for attention? I think you have the wrong idea of this whole TAS thing. FWIW, I didn't watch the WIP.
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Posted: 8/18/2008 11:34 PM
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Do you have ffdshow? also, if you do, you may also need the Haali Media Splitter.
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Posted: 8/18/2008 11:17 PM
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zefiris wrote:
mkvmerge accepts cue and txt as a chapter file... so far, easiest way I see is: 
CHAPTER01=00:00:00.000
CHAPTER01NAME=Intro
CHAPTER02=00:00:30.000
CHAPTER02NAME=Level 1
CHAPTER03=00:00:41.300
CHAPTER03NAME=Level 1 BOSS
CHAPTER03=00:00:47.600
CHAPTER03NAME=Level 2
That way looks the easiest, yeah. I'll probably do that from now on. Beats having a horrible mess of XML :) For those interested, Upthorn's Ecco: The Tides of Time mkv uses chapters (though admittedly they are a couple of seconds off, my bad) if anyone is interested in sampling the feature.
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Posted: 8/18/2008 6:43 PM
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I've managed to remove most of the problems that VLC was experiencing by removing sub-chapters. obviously VLC has less support than is immediately apparent. I'm unsure what causes it, but it might be overlapping chapters. I'm unsure how chapter markings should be requested. Currently I've spoken to upthorn directly and requested frame numbers (I've also contacted TheAxeMan for framenumbers and titles in the event that his run is accepted). The problem is that mkv chapters use real times only, not frames, so every single frame number has to be converted to real time before adding a chapter. currently this is time consuming and tedious but I am hoping for a better solution. Ideally, things would be in this format: Level/PointofInterest StartTime EndTime AnotherLevel StartTime EndTime for example: 
Title Screen               00:00        00:10
Green Hill Zone Act 1      00:10        01:32
Green Hill Zone Act 2      01:32        02:53
etc. The current method I use involves XML files, but I have a frontend for it so it isn't so bad.
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Posted: 8/18/2008 5:32 PM
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Cardboard wrote:
Swordless Link wrote:
Not sure what to think. The stuff he mentioned makes me think that it might still be slower than just going with the route Mukki used. What do you guys think?
Test.
Test.
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Posted: 8/18/2008 5:16 PM
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Added The KMPlayer as a tested player. Works the best so far!
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Posted: 8/18/2008 4:47 PM
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It's not 96 percent from an opossum. It's 96 percent likely to be from an opossum.
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Posted: 8/18/2008 4:44 PM
(Edited: 8/18/2008 5:14 PM)
Post subject: MKV and Chapters for Long Runs
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I've recently been experimenting with the Matroska container format (.mkv) for encoding. My reasoning is full support for features such as b-frames (without ugly hacks), Chapters and has much less overhead than AVI (on long runs, this can save up to 10MB from the end filesize). I've already decided that for future runs that are greater than 40minutes I'll be using mkv, but I've also trialled chapters with Upthorn's Ecco 2 run. This allows the viewer to select certain parts of the run based on a chapter name (for example, the names of areas or levels that the viewer might be interested in). I've run into a slight problem though with compatibility. Media Player Classic: Works fine, only uses chapter titles. Windows Media Player: Works fine with Haali Media Splitter, only uses chapter titles. VLC: whenever one chapter changes to another, the audio exhibits a slight pause. Also, selecting a chapter causes video to freeze for 5 seconds on the last frame. I'm unsure why, but I presume it's a bug in the demuxer. Full chapter/sub-chapter support otherwise. mplayer: Works fine, only uses chapter titles. The KMPlayer: Works almost perfectly. Chapter/sub-chapter support, but incorrectly detects chapters after sub-chapters as another sub-chapter, resulting in odd stacking in chapter context menu. Recommended. Now to the point of my post: I'm curious if anyone is interested in chapters in long runs or not. Do you think it would be useful? Edit: I'd just like to point out that all the above support mkv flawlessly. Any problems are to do with chapters.
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Posted: 8/17/2008 3:53 AM
Post subject: Wii number
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I wish the Wii had a better way of adding friends. I've painstakingly added everyone else's numbers (my hand sturdyness is not great), so here's mine: 1128 7375 5161 7705 <3 feitclub
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Posted: 8/17/2008 1:04 AM
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Whatever it was that was going on in this movie, it was fast and action-packed. Yes vote. Well done.
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Posted: 8/16/2008 11:52 PM
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I'd just like to say; tremendously bad luck today for those who have aracniphobia.
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Posted: 8/16/2008 8:27 PM
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What OS are you using? If XP, can you visit your My Documents folder without explorer crashing?
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Posted: 8/16/2008 6:44 PM
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Once this hex edit is done, I will be happy to create an avi/mkv of it. I'm currently unsure where to host it, however.
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Posted: 8/16/2008 3:20 PM
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SSBB: 1461-8376-4876 For my XBL (which I never use, subscriptions booo) and PSN username, work it out. If you can't work it out, you're probably not welcome on my friends list :) (Hint: it isn't 146183764876) I'll add the SSBB ones I see now. EDIT: I have Steam too.
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Posted: 8/15/2008 9:40 PM
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I'm not sure what your point is (if you are indeed trying to make one).
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Posted: 8/15/2008 9:03 PM
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FanoTheNoob wrote:
is it worth to TAS the latest version? or should we not even bother?
I think such a task should be reserved to someone who was on the Sonic 1 Megamix Team. I feel they would be the only one who can show the true depth and uniqueness of this hack to everyone, while still providing a fast run. Also, they probably have the tools made already. Of course, I don't speak for anyone but myself, and I'd understand if they didn't want to.
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Posted: 8/15/2008 5:08 PM
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Paused wrote:
http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_1_Megamix#Downloads The hack has been finished.
No it isn't. It's been released because the Megamix Team is no longer a team.
Paused wrote:
Apparently it was finished early due to internal problems or whatever...
To put it lightly..
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Posted: 8/15/2008 3:00 AM
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I suppose I should be nice and give you a better answer than "yes": Encoding requires 3 things a machine doesn't have: Visual recognition of quality, Aural recognition of quality and prior knowledge of game graphics/audio complexity. While these could likely be implemented with specialist AI, it would take an extremely large amount of time and resources to make, which I find it doubtful that anyone here has. Even then, I doubt it would make up for a human encoder. To some extent, x264 has some visual recognition of quality, but even this requires human input to set its strength. That said, a large amount of the process can be automated with batch files. The encoding process is no secret but it should be noted that there are many challenges with getting a good size:quality ratio. The biggest challenges are solved with time and patience (something I recently have an abundance in).
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Posted: 8/15/2008 2:38 AM
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yes
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Posted: 8/15/2008 2:31 AM
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I love how if you pay attention, the two ninjas attacking Robocop magically turn into hot chicks in the ending shot. Who would have thought he could be that awesome?
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Posted: 8/15/2008 1:17 AM
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Who says I'm not encoding every run, regardless of whether they're being accepted or rejected? ;)
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Posted: 8/14/2008 11:37 PM
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Just watched twice. Graphics are amazing, and the run makes the game just as fast as a Sonic run in some places. Yes vote.
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Posted: 8/14/2008 1:55 PM
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Because, according to Bisqwit, the author used the overdump (CRC check). It still syncs in the good dump though.. Voted yes for unexpected Robocop rampage near the end of level 1.
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