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Pokota wrote:
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The real question here is, why would anyone want to TAS an emulated game (by virtual console, an emulator with many game-specific compatibility hacks) inside another emulator (Dolphin) when they could just TAS the game directly in a superior emulator?
The best answer to this is Ocarina of time, which have a glitch in VC thzt is impossible on a real N64. And I think it's not the only game in this case
Would that then be a Wii TAS or an N64 one? I'm fairly certain the revision of OOT used in Wii VC is the revision we already have pubs on. [the rest of this post was excised due to questionable proposals]
The glitch only works due to inaccuracies in the emulation layer provided by Nintendo in the GC and Wii versions. Even if the same glitch can be performed in mupen/bizhawk it would be invalid as that tries to be an N64 instead of a GC/Wii.
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Ok I fixed it, turns out gambatte was turning on the screen in the initial conditions, so writes to VRAM were getting blocked. Now just a little more cleanup and I should be able to add this as a capability to BizHawk.
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What I did was having the DMG bootstrapper in an array, and then choosing based on register 50 which array to read when accessing the ROM region of the memory map. Basically, that should have worked.
EDIT: If you can share your code, I could maybe have a look?
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I have seen many stances be thrown around on IRC. Most leaning towards the negative. I have not seen any exact rules stated, though I could have missed them or forgotten about it.
However, why don't you TAS a VC title in Dolphin and submit? It could serve an example for ruling. Even if it's rejected, it would still be available as a submission, and possibly on YouTube and gruefood delight, so it will never really be lost.
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Alyosha wrote:
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Adding GB(C) BIOS support should be easy, I've done it with an emulator I wrote. I can hold the hand of anyone that wants to add the support to BizHawk. (I don't have the time to configure the environment etc)
I'll probably look into doing this in the near future. It looks pretty easy (just have the BIOS loaded and start from $00 instead of $100.) If I need help I'll be sure to ask.
Yeah, that's pretty much it. Take note of the undocumented 50th CPU register (at least on Monochrome GB, GBC should be similar). It's a sort of "BIOS done" flag.
EDIT: Need to remember numbers properly.
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Adding GB(C) BIOS support should be easy, I've done it with an emulator I wrote. I can hold the hand of anyone that wants to add the support to BizHawk. (I don't have the time to configure the environment etc)
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p4wn3r wrote:
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For the README, the repo can't be cloned without git-svn? That's incredibly weird...
That's because you need to create a source file that contains the revision number and gets compiled in the about box. If you don't clone with git svn, the generation of this file will fail, and some DLL's will complain about that number missing.
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Sounds like a design problem in Mono, did you report a bug? As feos said, take it to stack overflow as well.
For the README, the repo can't be cloned without git-svn? That's incredibly weird... Also, you may gain from linking to the libraries git repos if you need to build from source. I am pretty used to have to find things but a lot of newer Linux users aren't.
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natt wrote:
There were larger memory cards than 128KB? I did not know this. Perhaps they could be emulated then.
There were 3rd party ones, they were usually "paged" (I assume games validated the size?). I would not recommend adding support for these... They were rather complex (page switching button combinations) and shitty quality, at least the ones I could find back in the day.
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Can't figure out what version of the emulator I need, nor the settings... Or maybe I have the wrong ROM? I can't make it sync.
EDIT: Got help on IRC, syncs now.
EDIT 2: Looking good as far as I can tell. Sadly I can't offer you any advice on upgrades.
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Ooo, a game I have been looking forward to being TASed.
If you have any addresses for the RNG, I might be able to help you make a Lua script for it. PM me if you're interested in that.
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Thanks to YaLTeR, it's theoretically possible to run Shovel Knight in Hourglass-Resurrection on XP. But there's no way to record the inputs into a movie file, and nothing has been done to check if the current clock-simulation is sync-stable (it most likely isn't).
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Well done and really entertaining. I also enjoyed the script progressions through the level encodes.
Voted yes.
One question though, isn't the corner bug, wall bug and dive bug the same glitch? (Objects reset you on top of them if you enter them)
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Team 1s (my teams) Lua script was posted in the DTC6 thread by Fog, linking to that post here for archiving: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=451958#451958
It may contain something useful. Extract what you need (if anything) as you please.
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This really is a Zelda rip-off.
I liked this, it seems to have required a lot of planning, looks well made and the result was quite entertaining.
Well done, yes vote.
Publishers: Can the images in the submission be archived somewhere so they won't get lost once this TAS is published?
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You will still need to battle that RNG may turn out differently from load-time differences. The rest of the console does not stall as data is being loaded from the disc.
So even if you figure out how to wait for the disc to load, the run will still most likely desync on you.
