I appreciate the historical meaning of this game and the technical effort put in the movie. However, I find the game itself distasteful and would not appreciate its publication. Voting no.
Steps to reproduce this movie:
1) Uncompress the contents of rampart.zip, rampart2p.zip and ym2413.zip into a folder
2) Compress the contents of the folder (not the folder itself) into rampart2p.zip
3) If successful, the game hashes (click the lower left icon in bizhawk) should look like this:
Hi Nate, I've got a burning question.
In stage 1 (and perhaps in subsequent stages), wouldn't it be better to place the second set of cannons along the shore for cannon balls to have a shorter flight time? (see pic)
Allow me to respond in Spanish since I believe it's going to be better understood.
miolakesanto wrote:
:/ sorry. i never complete nes game. now im searching the shorest game for the NES
Hola Miolakesanto, bienvenido/a a Tasvideos. Es importante que sepas que acá no publicamos todas los TASes que nos mandan; sólo las mejores. Como dijo DJ_Incineration arriba, es posible mejorar bastante la película que nos mandaste así que vas a tener que seguir trabajando en ella antes de que la podamos aceptar. Por suerte hay un montón de material para aprender a optimizar tu TAS al máximo, empezando por esta serie de artículos que te recomiendo leer. Por otro lado, hay mucha gente que te puede guiar cuando tengas alguna duda. Recomiendo el foro en Español o bien que entres al Discord de Tasvideos donde podés presentarte y hacer preguntas (sólo en ingles).
Hi warmCabin,
For the reasons discussed in previous posts, it is evident that this submission does not meet the criteria for acceptability for neither Standard or Alternative. Since your intention was to post this as an April Fool's submission and also you stated you were planning to cancel it anyway, please do so, or otherwise I'll just go ahead and do that for you.
Hey Nymx, seems like I found improvements to your movie
https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638478534762726600
You can end the movie earlier by taking a longer last line. Here I stupidly chose the vertical axis, but if you use the horizontal one, you can finish the movie even faster. I'm not going to do this again because migraine, but yeah. I'd like to take co-authorship if you're ok with that.
Hi KusogeMan,
I was able to run the verification movie and create the save state. However, when I launch the submission movie, the first round against Kobra goes fine (flawless victory) but then the movie desyncs in the second round.
Can you please tell me your Dolphin configuration? Especially those in the Options > Configuration > (General / Advanced / GameCube) tabs.
From the screenshot, it looks like the Ruffle top bar is missing. I tested the movie with the --no-gui command line option and it desynced at the same menu, so using that is probably why it desynced. (Side note: I didn't know removing the top bar was a recently added feature which is why I didn't use it when making the movie. Oops.)
Thank you for your answer, that did the trick!
The top bar can be removed during encoding, but I've added a recommendation to use the --no-gui argument in the future.
Hi Automanager,
Unfortunately I am getting a desync as soon as the game loads.
I am using:
- LibTAS v1.4.4
- ruffle-nightly-2023_12_01
- Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
- md5sum red-remover-4202.swf e4f77b90d5ced81e54a71483c92306ed
I tried many times (to account for the undeterministic ad) and also tried disconnecting from the internet to avoid the ad load. Nothing worked.
Could you please tell me your exact settings in libTAS? Any other clue as to what could be causing the desync?
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Update: I removed the ad and still desyncs in the same place.
They use 3 Shoe Boosts though. The ILs on speedrun.com is all Time Trials and not Single Race. And trust me, I tried doing Wheelie Drifing backwards but when it happens, it tries to turn the player the right way or cancels the boost. Therefore the TAS might be slower than the ILs but it's faster than the All Cups WR. And the difficulty is set to easy because it makes the CPUs faster, it may not look like an issue, but it is. CPUs will rubberband, boost like 70% of the race, and also put more pressure on the RNG because of how the AI works when targeting.
Thanks for clarifying. Yes, this movie is clearly faster than the single race RTA speedrun in speedrun.com and the IL times cannot be used for comparison in this case.
With regards to the difficulty, I still don't see how the CPU boosting would affect you, since you are driving perfectly. It being a problem for TAS would mean that it is impossible for a human to beat the game in harder difficulties. Regarding RNG, I also don't see why this would be an issue for a TAS, but since I am not an expert I am not going to take this as a blocking issue.
The comments on optimality remain as a big issue, however. Especially with regards to Spikestuff's observations. I cannot accept this movie until you at least match Spike's times and possibly do the same to all other races.
Hi TheBlazingmo
I am taking a look at the speedrun.com's individual level record page:
https://www.speedrun.com/ssasr_ds/levels?h=Glitched&x=9d8g537k
It seems that many of these records are faster than the ones in your submission. Looking for example at 'Studio Amigo' (@2:45 in your encode), their time is 1:31.566, while in your movie this is 1:52.41.
Am I missing something here? Am I looking at the wrong speedrun.com page?
So the ASRDS communitty says Big has the best stats but since he wasn't unlocked, I had to finish the cup with Shadow to unlock him a bit quicker since he was the only bike character unlocked at the time.
Hi TheBlazingmo,
Thanks for your answer, but I am still not convinced that character selection is enough to account for the difference in lap times.
First, Spikestuff showed that your movie can be significantly improved without much effort, and brought the solution much closer to the RTA one, even with the difference in character speed.
Second, as pointed out above, your time for 'Studio Amigo' is 22 seconds slower against RTA in this 90 seconds-long race. This is ~25% of the total running time, which implies that Shadow is 25% slower than Big overall. I'm not savvy on this game to tell whether this actually true, but I think some hard evidence towards this should be presented to justify the difference in time. Furthermore, this being a TAS, one would expect that some of the 'character' disadvantage can be offset by the ability to polish every turn much better than an RTA player can.
I also still have concerns about the difficulty selection. I don't think a strong enough point has been made to justify the choice of 'easy' mode against 'hard'. Does rubberbanding slow you down or boosts the CPU players? If the latter, then why is it a problem still?
Bottom line is, although this submission is vastly superior to the previous one, it still falls short to the expectations of a relatively well-polished TAS. I would suggest you to do another optimization pass, and provide a time table showing your times for all races.
Watching the movie and reading the posts above makes it clear to me that the '100%' does not apply, as least given the jurisprudence in the site. One might expect in such category that all (possible) lemmings are saved, which is clearly not this case.
I believe that the category "all levels", or similarly "no skips" apply much better here, since it is clearly the goal stated and accomplished by the authors.
Awesome movie, btw. I vote yes.
Hi TheBlazingmo
I am taking a look at the speedrun.com's individual level record page:
https://www.speedrun.com/ssasr_ds/levels?h=Glitched&x=9d8g537k
It seems that many of these records are faster than the ones in your submission. Looking for example at 'Studio Amigo' (@2:45 in your encode), their time is 1:31.566, while in your movie this is 1:52.41.
Am I missing something here? Am I looking at the wrong speedrun.com page?
Hi Technickle,
Seems like you missed an optimization at the end. If you don't press any buttons, the credits will roll on their own. This means you can finish the last movie much earlier by releasing the gas before the end. Remember in tasvideos.org, we consider the last input as movie end (although exceptions might be considered).
Here is the .bk2 file I produced to show this. I'm pretty sure you can improve it further.
https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638455090636489203
I will not claim co-authorship for this improvement.
Can you please provide the information requested in my previous post?
Thanks
I am using:
- LibTAS v1.4.4
- ruffle-nightly-2023_12_01
- Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
- md5sum red-remover-4202.swf e4f77b90d5ced81e54a71483c92306ed
I tried many times (to account for the undeterministic ad) and also tried disconnecting from the internet to avoid the ad load. Nothing worked.
Could you please tell me your exact settings in libTAS? Any other clue as to what could be causing the desync?
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Update: I removed the ad and still desyncs in the same place.