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Post subject: Proposal: New recording modes (multi-tracking)
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The concept of "multi-tracking" has great potential for improving TASes (especially multiplayer movies). It is an idea that has been attempted throughout the years in several ways. In some cases with emulator features such as the experimental FCEUX .16 multitracking branch by miau, or in GENS rerecording. With the infiltration of Lua scripting into emulators we even have nice attempts using lua scripts However, I think the idea could be more easily implemented into any emulator by using new recording modes instead of the usual 2. Here is what I am proposing is 2 new modes in addition to the 2 we typically already have:
    Read-only - in this mode user input does not affect the movie. Read+write - overwrites any existing input with user input Append - any user input is ADDED to the existing input. Invert - any existing input is inverted if the user input is identical.
The key to Append mode is that input is not erased from the movie, only added to it. "Append" might be a misleading term because it might imply adding input to the end of a movie file. However, I think "Add" isn't descriptive enough. Let's say you have a movie that is 1000 frames. You go back to frame 900 in append mode. The emulator will be in playback mode like it would for read-only. However, any user input will be added too. For instance, if you held Right for 100 frames, but pressed A. The A would be added to the movie file. If you pressed Right, nothing would happen because right is already in the movie file. Invert would be a natural addition to having an append mode. If any input from the user matches the input from the movie, the input is removed. Another possible name for this could be "Scrub" mode (a term borrowed from audio recording) In the previous example, everything would be the same for pressing A. However, if you pressed right, then right would be removed from the movie file.
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For anyone who happens to read this now. This issue was fixed with the FCEUX 2.1.2 release.
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LodeRunner wrote:
2. FCEUX has horrible fullscreen support. Every time I press alt+enter to go fullscren(with no menus or toolbars), I can't get out until I press ctrl+alt+delete. Usually you just press alt+enter again, but at least with my version of FCEUX, it doesn't let you get out.
Are you sure you are using the latest version? I fixed that bug some time ago. Perhaps I didn't fix it in all cases, oh well. In general though, FCEUX is not the emulator for full screen. It is an emulator for pro users more so that casual play. If you need full screen, try another emulator (probably nestopia). Ideally I'd like FCEUX to handle fullscreen, but there is no dev who cares enough to do it.
edit: Also, I'm running it on XP, so it's not because it's and older OS that it's slower. FCEUX just seems to be more of a resource hog in general.
Go to help > help... > FAQs/Guides > Troubleshooting You will see several ways to reduce to make it less of a hog. (In the next release, there will be a few more)
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My plan was to get the mini-mushroom in 5-3 instead of getting it to move to 5-G. That would possibly allow less map movement, and mini-mario might be useful there. (I never got far enough to do extensive tests on this idea)
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sgrunt wrote:
I don't believe it's set out anywhere in the rules; the precedent seems to be the SMS Wonderboy run (specifically note adelikat's acceptance in the submission text).
I did indeed set that precedent. However, since then we have added a lot of new platforms, including those which will have a lot of games in common (such as PSX & Saturn). I hope we expand to even more soon (such as GameCube). As such, I think it might necessary to revise such a precedent. I have discussed this with other admin sometime during the platform explosion this year. Atm, we are basically taking it on a case by case basis. However, I want to be more open to having both the original and remake versions of things, than I was in the past.
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Easy yes vote. Now if only we could TAS the PS2 GTA games :(
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I'm glad my movie was finally improved :) However, I think the use of luigi is not as good as mario :P. Trivial things aside, I give this a yes vote.
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I'd love to have this conversation in a submission thread ^^
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I haven't watched it yet (I will watch this for sure though). It sounds like it beats the crap out of my crappy publication. I say submit!
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In this specific case (the Tetris DS movie) one could argue that it was our right to do handle it the moment it was linked on our site. If not, I would think it would be in our right to have some kind of disclaimer along those lines.
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Ferret Warlord wrote:
Actually, this was not the case. I knew the movie could be improved but didn't want it submitted, but my brother went ahead and did so anyway; I just wasn't around to object. As it turned out, though, people liked it and it got accepted. Why wasn't this a big deal back then?
Woah, that's news to us. I think everyone assumed it was with your consent back then.
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Post subject: Re: a terribly-named thread
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Xkeeper wrote:
adelikat is a good adminstrator of tasvideos.
FALSE.
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mmbossman wrote:
Say we publish a movie which the author is unaware of. He becomes aware, and asks for it to be removed. We have a strict policy against unpublication. Which policy do we adhere to?
I would unpublish. Such a case would be a worthy reason to do so. With that in mind though, a submission is far easier to remove than a publication. So if there is a chance of getting the author's permission it should be attempted pre-publication.
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Bestiajerules wrote:
Sorry dudes for the lack of information, this was my first submission and I had no idea what to put, is it possible to edit to add stuff?
Yes, log in and go to http://tasvideos.org/2463S.html You should see an edit button. Please at least put how much it improves the published movie. (Preferrably the number of frames).
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Xkeeper wrote:
I personally think that it should primarily allow submission of other people's TASes provided that the run is properly attributed to who made it. If the user ends up not liking this, they can request its removal, and no more movies from that user should be accepted without their consent. However, forbidding them all blindly until they get consent opens up problems where someone might be unreachable or otherwise vanish, which could rob tasvideos of a decent movie. This would also help in instances where someone cannot understand the tasvideos site due to language barriers.
I agree with this completely.
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You are not the first to report the inability to login. And you aren't even the first to not be able to submit because of it. However, I am unable to recreate this error. Can anybody help with this?
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moozooh wrote:
Anyway, I would like to expressly request the discussion to be civil, and pertain to the movie in question and not the circumstances of its submission. If you're willing to continue bashing each other, do it in PM, or I will lock this thread for 24 hours after each such post. Hear me?
Upthorn is shouting, but nobody is bashing each other. I'd say it is quite civil (though heated). In any event, I don't agree with this decision. The movie is entertaining and publishable and all that but the circumstance surrounding its submission is far more interesting & relevant to me. I hope to see it played out.
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FractalFusion wrote:
And I don't think I'm the first one to do something like this.
You have to go pretty far back, but you can find an a precedent for this. It is called the creation of this site. Bisqwit found morimoto's TAS movies and decided to make a site that hosts them. I don't see anywhere in the history where it mentions Bisqwit contacting morimoto and asking permission. (This post is not an attempt to take a side one way or the other, I just felt the need to supply information)
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moozooh wrote:
IIRC, adelikat's reason for placing PSX on top was to minorly promote the fact that we're so cool to have rerecording on such advanced systems. :) So I thought we might go a bit further with that, considering NDS, Wii and PS2 are still "current" systems.
Yes I it should be newest to oldest. Old farts like us already know there is our old fart NES rerecording available. This USED to be nesvideos. But our demographic isn't NEScentric anymore.
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Post subject: Movie editors, Judges, & Publishers, read this!
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This was the result of a bug I introduced. Fortunately, one that is not hard to repair if I know which movies were edited. This bug would happen if anyone movie editor, judge, or publisher edited ANY header attribute. If any of these roles edited one of the header fields on a movie during the dates of November 17-20, then a field in that movie database has been lost. Please inform me of any movies you edited! Unfortunately header info is not logged in the movie maintenance log. Header editing ability has been removed until I clean up this bug.
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Warp wrote:
I think that the category is already subjective because, as said, basically all TASes "manipulate luck" in one way or another.
Games manipulate luck when they manipulate an RNG which not all games have. Examples: Circus charlie, Super Mario Bros 2 (U). As a publisher I always tried to decide for myself if a movie deserved that category. When in doubt, however, I did just take the author's word for it.
by being too liberal in granting , it has become basically nondescriptive
I guess I don't disagree with that.
That's what judges are for, aren't they? To make decisions even if some visitors disagree with those decisions. :)
Actually no. Judges don't decide movie categories. Publishers decide it at the time of publication. Then any number of admin/halfadmin/publishers/judges/movie editors have the ability to change them.
The major problem here is going through all the existing publications and removing the category from the ones which don't really deserve it. That's a big undertaking.
Once I am done changing these categories, it will require this big undertaking no matter what. I hope to recruit some help ^^
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Warp wrote:
Dare I, once again, suggest a stricter interpretation of the "manipulates luck" category & "abuses programming errors"
I don't disagree with this. However, the current way has the advantage of not being subjective. Making manipulates luck only count for heavy luck manipulation means more things that we can argue about until the end of time. In theory though, yes perhaps they should be used for more meaningful situations. I think that the categories have not been used well in general for awhile. The main goal needs to be for ease of the users to view movies that meet their preferences. Also, I think we should change minimalist & full completion or whatever they are to simply 100% and low% as they are listed in the movie categories. Btw, So what genre is arkanoid?
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Good stuff moozooh. Yes, regardless of which ones stay or change, there is also the fact that many of these are misused. Once we have the categories cleaned up, we need to do a massive project of combing through all the movies and cleaning up their usage. In addition, we need a page that documents the correct use of each category.
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Flygon wrote:
Keep Teddy survives, it's amusing enough to warrant its survival.
IF I were to keep it, it would be come my life's work to find another game that could fit this category! Any games with a hero named teddy?
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