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Posted: 9/1/2010 9:56 PM

Post subject: Simpsons!

adelikat

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I think that the recent Simpsons publication should take the Arcade TMNT star. My reasoning was stated here.

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Posted: 8/31/2010 6:26 PM

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partyboy1a wrote:

i have the following from your list: seeding: contraiii-glitched-tas-darkcloud.avi ducktales-tas-aglar.avi supermariobros-walkathonv4-bisqwit.avi megaupload: goonies-tas-randil.avi http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MYTZR475 supermariobros-tas-klmz.avi http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A3EO7CB2 the rest: gradius3-playaround-warp.avi guerillawar-tasv2-randil.avi

Awesome, I got supermariobros-tas-klmz.avi but the goonies-tas-randil.avi one says temporary unvailable.

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Posted: 8/30/2010 1:03 AM

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Nitrogenesis is thinking the same thing as I. While TMNT was a great start worthy game, I think this is even more so. Both are two very big name arcade games but simpsons takes the great things about TMNT and turns it up a notch. More importantly though, this is the first 4-player TAS to actually need all 4 players and thus shows 4 player action better than its predecessors. In NES Nightmare on Elm Street 4 player for instance, most of the time it is obvious that just 2 players would be optimal and the other 2 basically just lag up the game without contributing anything useful. In TMNT, the 4th turtle is often just rolling around since he has nothing to do on screen. In simpsons, all 4 players are utilizes to save time constantly throughout the movie; showing the true power of 4 player teamwork.

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Posted: 8/28/2010 2:53 PM

Post subject: Re: "name" parameter, and movie link

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Bisqwit wrote:

Feature request 2: Make the movie name (or something else) clickable on multi-movie movie listings, and have it lead to the just-that-movie page. Now I have to read the movie id from the mouseover text, and enter it manually in the URL to get e.g. 1000M.html.

This feature has all ready been done with a "View publication" link that is in all movie modules.

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Posted: 8/25/2010 2:34 PM

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Randil wrote:

A minor crash bug: If FCEUX has a deleted movie in the "recent movies" tab and you try to play this movie file, FCEUX crashes. For comparison, if you try to open a deleted memory watch file in the "recent" list in memory watcher, it simply displays a "file not found, remove from list?" message. Perhaps the same error message for the recent movies list could work.

This is already fixed in the 2.1.5 interim version.

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Posted: 8/21/2010 1:20 PM

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I agree snake would be a neat TAS. I remember back in the day beating snake on my cell phone. I beating it I mean I filled the entire screen. One of the biggest achievements in my life. A TAS that aims for fastest time could still be cool, fill up the screen, play on the fastest setting, and manipulate luck to get apples in favorable places.

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Posted: 8/16/2010 3:53 AM

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Baxter wrote:

Note to everyone who plans to encode: I don't want to see Link moving OVER the doors in the dungeons. The encode of the current Swordless TAS has it, and that looks awful. config > videos... > uncheck "allow more than 8 sprites per scanline"

Whomever is encoding FCEUX runs, you should not be using that option anyway! We strive for authenticity in our official encodes, and the NES can't handle more than 8 sprites per scanline.

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Posted: 8/15/2010 11:51 PM

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Posted: 8/14/2010 3:54 PM

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The differences in gameplay are quit striking between this and the NES TAS The NES TAS has 2 players instead of 4 making for a very different experience. But most importantly the NES one has the teleporting glitch which of course makes for a totally different run. If this were a 2 player movie and the NES one didn't have that glitch, then there might be some debate for an obsoletion.

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Posted: 8/14/2010 12:33 PM

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As far as I know TAS INput pluging is always on TOP and cant' be minimized or anything. Yes, its annoying.

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Posted: 8/13/2010 4:16 AM

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The built in bias for "staff" and players is now removed. Everyone's votes are equal Except for rare exceptions like Neofix <_< The built in weight was actually implemented by Bisqwit, but I have no idea when as it was never mentioned or documented. I found out about it after taking over the site. I personally would have never approved such a weight, thanks to grunt for taking the time to remove it from the site code.

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Posted: 8/13/2010 4:14 AM

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The built in bias for "staff" and players is now removed. Everyone's votes are equal Except for rare exceptions like Neofix <_<

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Posted: 8/12/2010 2:10 PM

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I 3rd the nomination of TMNT 4-player. (And wow, we've had a lot of star quality movies lately). We need an Arcade Star, and this is the first movie to deserve one. It is a definitive game for the platform, and has a large "wow" factor being 4 players. We also need a 4-player imo as that is something that is obviously really impressive to first time viewers (and vets like me!). So this movie counts as 2 star slots, that's a no brainer.

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Posted: 8/12/2010 1:21 AM

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DarkKobold wrote:

I'm not sure who split the thread, but I don't think moderators should be dissing forum members in such manner. I changed the topic title to something less offense to slowking. While I 100% disagree with his opinion, I don't think he needs to be disparaged.

I split it and named it. At the time, the last few posts were all related to if slowking's sanity, seemed appropriate. The topic didn't say he was or wasn't, just that the thread was discussing it.

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Posted: 8/10/2010 11:17 PM

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First to vote yes. Only our 2nd 4-player movie ever, but the most epic one so far. Congrats.

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Posted: 8/10/2010 4:17 PM

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Warp wrote:

If the goal is "get to Ganon without using the sword, and only then use it", I'd say anything goes which achieves that goal. It doesn't really matter what you do, as long as that goal is strictly achieved.

However, I don't think that the choice of how to achieve that should be based on how many frames each option takes; which seems to be what Baxter is implying.

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Posted: 8/10/2010 2:51 PM

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That would be awesome to have a dynamic page like that. I would feature it on the main tabs or front page or something. I'd be curious how they are making that page.

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Posted: 8/10/2010 1:02 PM

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I am adelikat and I approve this message. Good job Sonikkustar, hopefully this might grow into a more dynamic streaming situation. However, have we looked into whether or not ustream itself has a similar feature? Some kind of channel where all tas live streams could be grouped?

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Posted: 8/10/2010 12:54 PM

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Since when do we need a special category for a run like this? Glitched Low gltich or Glitched Low glitch If a run is sufficiently glitched, the glitches are definable enough, and a low glitched run is demanded enough, then a low glitch category works and gets accepted on the site. I'd say the two most requested ones that aren't already done are low glitch Megaman, and Sonic 3. Someone doing those is virtually guaranteed strong audience support and publication (given that the technical quality is still on par with the glitched versions). I see no need for additional categories. 'Route intended by programmers' sounds like a most terrible idea. Who's to say what they intended, and more to the point, why do we care what they intended? Route used by SDA? I see what you are getting at with this idea, but it still doesn't work for obvious reasons. Let's just try for some common sense here. If a run gets too broken, it loses that familiarity/nostalgia factor for people. If the main source of that brokenness is one particular glitch, then a run avoiding that glitch could be publication worthy (by having an audience support, being sufficiently different from a glitched run, and having a well defined goal).

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Posted: 8/10/2010 12:42 PM

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I think increasing the star list by 1 is ok in this situation. The number of publications has risen, and stars are supposed to represent 3-5% of the total publications.

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Posted: 8/10/2010 3:19 AM

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If we are talking about the official encode, I must object to the large resolutions! It isn't about filesize it is about the fact that a lot of peoples computers can't even handle the playback. Our torrents strive for accessibility too. I vote 320x240 or _maybe_ 640 Save the monster big ones for the streams. Or include a 2nd torrent for it (in which case I vote for having the smallest and largest of the options).

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Posted: 8/10/2010 1:16 AM

Post subject: GENS11b release

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http://code.google.com/p/gens-rerecording/downloads/list I uploaded GENS11b. It is a small update to GENS but fixes a rather old and nasty bug in Ram Search where the Reset button was not setting the previous search to current. In addition Ram Watch now has a Separator button which adds a separating line into the watch list.

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Posted: 8/9/2010 11:20 PM

Post subject: Interviews at Gamer's Global

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Recently both Lord Tom and I were interviewed by Gamer's Global. He had an interview about his Super Mario Bros 3 TAS, and I had an interview about TASVideos and administrating the site/community. Adelikat Interview English version Lord Tom's interview English version

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Posted: 8/9/2010 11:08 PM

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I don't think OoT needs a star either, nor do I feel that way for any Zelda games. Zelda games are far more entertaining to those who know the game than those who don't and stars should movies that are awesome to the general audience whether they have played the game or not.

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Posted: 8/9/2010 10:01 PM

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Ok, I would say that the awards prize pool idea was a flop. Most authors donated it back to the site anyway, it felt weird trying to deal with the money, and most people in this thread don't seem to inspired by the idea. So this year we won't do it. The icons and the general appreciation from the audience are far more effective motivators anyway.

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