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eddie82 wrote:
Most people use .cue+.bin anyway (without the .sbi subchannel data)
Hawk requires the SBI files for the games that require it. Otherwise the game crashes. Recent submission example.
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Now in what way are backlogs considered as "errors"? You know, for example. Earlier this week where videos uploaded on a certain day would be stuck on 360p for a couple amount of days before becoming whatever desired resolution you wanted it to begin with. Partially thanks to YouTube being down for 2 hours as Google was removing Google+ and the site wasn't fully functional for that day on the upload end.
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FitterSpace wrote:
But I feel like it would be a pretty big boost in entertainment for those with 120+Hz monitors.
I feel like I need to stress a point out. This is only going to be possible if those viewers download the downloadables (hires versions) since YouTube maxes out at 16k60fps. They would have to go to the site in order to see it playback for those higher refresh rates.
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creaothceann wrote:
Why would compression alter the emulation?
See Dolphin. Compressed Wii to wbfs and Compressed GameCube links to desyncs from what I've screwed around with in the past.
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Migu wrote:
Although the restriction is a tad arbitrary and it's not perfectly optimized.
Curious on where the suboptimal gameplay is, than that of what the author has listed in the submission text.
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Let's just use a published example: [2397] Windows Braid by keylie in 22:15.28
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Yeah, I know both of them and you literally just explained 'em. They're both compression rather than raw. Personally. Rather not have to deal with having to compress a bin/cue in order to sync/encode a TAS if it's submitted in this format. .pbp is a format for PS1 games on PSP as a side note and some PS1 emulators accept it (like the dodgy ePSXe).
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2 Things not mentioned in the submission text. Firmeware Settings has been changed. Just the Nickname field: Adeal Advanced Bus-Level Timing has been disabled. Both indicated by the movie file, not the author. Edit: Author has since updated the submission text to mention those 2 bits.
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EZGames69 wrote:
Spike made a mistake
Spikestuff didn't make a mistake, since Spikestuff cannot provide the movie with Stars at his rank for a reason to begin with. This is normal and has happened in the past with all Star publications that cannot be Stared by literally almost everyone except feos since feos is a Starman. (I'm ignoring probably a few others that have star privileges but feos is usually my goto for this.)
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Doomsday31415 wrote:
Out of curiosity, why was this TAS never submitted?
Looks at YouTube Description like a sane person should. >Suboptimal.
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Heh, the hack gets a 100% before the Vanilla. >When your backup doesn't want want to be publisher to this movie. Oh... I guess this is mine... Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Edit: Correction, they thought it wasn't a different more Dolphin-y TAS. I'll vote when the YouTube encode comes through based on the assumption it's a single video compared to the bilibili one.
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Memory wrote:
arandomgameTASer wrote:
http://tasvideos.org/802M.html The Biker Mice From Mars TAS, as I've already stated, uses an in-game code that 'allows me to start at the last (sixth) round of at the Championship mode with Vinnie, at difficulty level 'Super Hard'. It also gives me fully upgraded 'Engine'-parts and 'Shot'-parts.'
That TAS should have never been accepted imo. We may make some mistakes in the past that lead to movies being published that shouldn't have. These movies do not qualify as precedents.
I'm pretty sure the last time Bike Mice from Mars was used as a point of argument it was used cause it was against the ideas that it skipped a large portion of the game, and upgraded the bike to max stats and a more vanilla approach would be much needed. If that Biker TAS was submitted under today's standards it would be rejected even though it is entertaining. You can use this Top Gear as a point of reference on that one (Besides the fact it was subopitmal at points).
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Is it April Fools 2019? Oh wait no, we're in October 2018.
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ThunderAxe31 wrote:
Then why not encoding all movies at 32K resolution, since some day 32K monitors will be commercialized?
Sure, why the hell no-- oh wait, we're currently limited to 16k on YouTube for that. (even though it displays 8k as a setting cause the feature isn't implemented correctly cough) But hang on what's this behind your ear. Downloadables!? Gasp This was the point I was facing toward cause noshitsherlock YouTube only supports 60fps like everyone knows, but what does Downloadables support? Whatever fps and Whatever Res. The only thing that'll bottleneck is the amount of memory that encoder/publisher has for PC downloadables. My point's still valid under the case of downloadables (especially when I mentioned selectable video source which you blatantly ignored).
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ThunderAxe31 wrote:
Since there are no PC monitors able to display beyond 240 fps
Hang on, you're missing a few words. "...for the time being." After all, 240hz monitors only just hit the market if I'm not mistaken last year. Otherwise your sentence would've said 144hz/fps if that wasn't introduced. For a future proof case scenario why not just go balls to the walls and go maximum possible at all cases and provide secondary and tertiary as a selectable video source? We have the resources to do this for PC games.
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I'm pointing out those that haven't been obsoleted by RTA but methods have also just improved over the TAS on Single Stages for example. By extension, methods found that haven't been implemented (which hasn't been obsoleted by RTA) is included here. Game's Broken. (Person working on it stalled/disappeared.) [808] N64 Gex 64: Enter the Gecko by Mukki in 49:59.93 [1237] N64 Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko by Mukki in 54:16.25 New Methods. [2051] PSX Croc: Legend of the Gobbos "100%" by RingRush in 1:18:35.43 (Duping is banned for TASing from what the author chose in what's best in entertainment.) [1523] PSX Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! "14 talismans" by lapogne36 in 28:11.70 (Proxies. Requires time to work on and a lot of routing and management.) [1862] PSX Spyro The Dragon by lapogne36 in 41:38.30 (Person working on it disappeared. Hidden Proxies. Requires time to work on and a lot of routing and management.) [3072] PSX Bubsy 3D by solarplex in 22:50.32 [1462] GBC The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX by SwordlessLink in 1:00:02.68 [2628] GBC The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX "warp glitch" by Bobmario511 in 05:39.06 A submission showed it was suboptimal, which was rejected due to bios. [1876] PSX Resident Evil "Jill" by arukAdo & Uroboros in 57:42.62 Framerules [1715] NES Super Mario Bros. "warps" by HappyLee in 04:57.31 Clean up on isle input. [1498] DS Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars "save glitch" by jlun2 in 03:42.93 (Cleaner Driving Lines. Luck manipulation to get rid of cars. jlun2 tried initially, but splicing input on DS isn't fun.) [2076] GB The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening by Bobmario511 in 03:48.55 [2709] PSX Samurai Shodown II by NhatNM in 17:10.02 (Sloppy) [2540] PSX Guilty Gear by Cooljay & NhatNM in 07:11.58 (Sloppy, Incomplete) --- I know that some of the NES Mega Man games have hidden improvements that have been dabbled on, just not touched/implemented for the latest TASes, first one that comes to mind that has this is Mega Man 2.
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You don't, since Hawk doesn't support that function for Saturnus yet. Go check the core the emulator is based on; mednafen to see if it has mouse support.
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Just for the sake of it. I'd like the reverse guide of that. Also if you weren't accustomed to the original (TASEditor) then boy you're in for a treat if you dove head first.
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YouTube's going to compress it in the long run but the encoders use qp 5/7/10 depending on the encoder (lower the number the higher the filesize). If you don't want to tamper with that just use the default crf 15.
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I probably posted these two in the past. Link to video Link to video
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HappyLee wrote:
This submission, I said, is not for publication, but still is a serious submission
Just to double down with Masterjun.
Movie Rules: Movie Must Be Good wrote:
A speed-oriented movie must beat all existing records If your movie is going to beat something, be sure it beats it. If your tool-assisted movie is not faster than the non-tool-assisted world record for the same game, aiming for the same goals, your movie will be rejected. The movie's technical quality must be acceptable Don't be lazy. We will try and beat your movie. We should hopefully not succeed. See the Guidelines on how to make a movie that meets the site's standards.
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Please ensure your movie is good. Do not waste the judges' time with movies that have obvious mistakes ― read the guidelines!
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xnamkcor wrote:
Do you know who does NDS encodes? Still one of the few systems capable of high res emulation that we don't have high res encodes for.
Yeah, that's banned cause the HiRes is complete garbage since it can't get certain effects working. TL;DR: feos placed it in 3 publications (2015) ,adelikat caught wind of it. Not allowed. (Same reason for the PSXjin version of this, which is even worse since it does incorrect transparency.) Encoders Corner is a great place to check if you're going to ask questions like that. Special case here since a new topic was made recently which was then pointed to the post that said it became banned.
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mtvf1 wrote:
This is not first AI(maybe not AI) movie submitted. l remember this #4955: wcgbg's NES Pac-Man (Namco) in 5:08:39.15
Yeah and that one is one of the worst bots in existence (in my biased opinion) compared to others that have been pointed out already.
EgixBacon wrote:
Looks like someone just flunked CS class.
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pirate_sephiroth wrote:
perhaps there should be a category only for bot players, with bot judges
Well in that case if it was done by an actual decent bot this TAS would be rejected straight up. Especially since this one is generational learning instead of brute force.
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Masterjun wrote:
Happy April Fools Day everyone, right?
Look at the calendar It's April somewhere in the world I guess? Hmm, maybe Universe might make sense since then if a day like April Fools exists somewhere in the Universe then maybe, just maybe...
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