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Posted: 4/30/2017 11:55 AM

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marzojr wrote:

To be fair, I myself have come to consider the "no horizontal underflow" goal choice a bit arbitrary, even in the context of the old 100% Sonic run. Were I to do the run today, I would instead require that Super or Hyper transformation should happen in every stage where it is possible (i.e., there are enough rings).

So in practice, is it possible to get that instead of the bonus levels in more levels than in existing Sonic 100% and Knuckles 100% runs?

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Posted: 4/30/2017 10:07 AM

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Ti_ says oam-decay-test isn't actually passed, and it isn't in any other emulator, because it's impossible to emulate, only to simulate. http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10499#p127049 https://yadi.sk/d/x6fXc5pY3GMJ68 http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=96 https://yadi.sk/d/cSdOhqNs3HVNLc I asked him to elaborate or to post here, but he doesn't want :/

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Posted: 4/30/2017 9:19 AM

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I'm watching all the 4 runs side by side now: Sonic 100%, Knuckles 100% old, this run, and Knuckles any% WIP. What I'm noticing is, in this submission and in Knuckles any%, Knuckles is disappearing in some places, making the camera scroll to catch up (I only watched up to Hydrocity, it happened twice so far). How is that effect called and what exactly happens there? I know that in any% it's the underflow thing, but what is it here? And what amount of it is used in any%? EDIT: Nevermind, they all seem to have that glitch. It probably consists of several glitches: outrunning the camera, moving behind the BG and moving entirely outside the level border. Anyways, that's what I dislike about these 100% runs. They avoid the setup that makes it look completely trivial (and incomprehensible without the camhack), but they still use the ones that looks like that banned setup. But it's the bonus levels that make me vote No on this run: they completely kill the pace. And as was pointed out in the Sonic 100% submission thread, if you can't enjoy it without the cutsceneless encode, they you can't vote Yes. But still, such an encode for this run would make perfect sense.

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Posted: 4/29/2017 10:26 AM

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What part of the judgment note explains why max points is indeed full completion for this game?

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Posted: 4/29/2017 9:55 AM

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I also wonder how "max points" relates to fastest completion here, as it wasn't mentioned, yet the branch is that, like they aren't equal here.

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Posted: 4/29/2017 7:52 AM

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Once I uploaded my photo to tinypic. After some months it got replaced by a random black girl's selfie. The funny part is that I used that pic in the userphoto thread at tasvideos. So yeah, you can expect any silly bullshit from that shitty site (that was fine once).

boct1584 wrote:

Not that I don't like Windows XP, but it hasn't been supported in years. Why not upgrade to 7?

pls

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Posted: 4/29/2017 7:40 AM

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CtrlAltDestroy wrote:

Knuckles "Knuckles" & Knuckles. Voting Knuckles. Very fun glitches and graphics corruptions the entire way.

And Knuckles!

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Posted: 4/29/2017 7:22 AM

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So speed-entertainment trade-offs are okay for Vault? I'd guess so, but then we need to reword these: http://tasvideos.org/JudgeGuidelines.html#TiersAndGoals http://tasvideos.org/Guidelines.html#Tiers

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Posted: 4/29/2017 6:32 AM

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Can't work on it right now. I'm on XP, and I'm currently encoding the 007 submission, which will take a dozen days. And Bizhawk doesn't compile on XP anymore. So I'll get there when I can switch to 7.

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Posted: 4/28/2017 9:49 PM

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andypanther wrote:

When I load a ROM, open TAStudio and load a .tasproj, everything works normally. But when I load the same .tasproj from the "play movie" dialogue and then open TAStudio, it throws an exception. Is this a bug or am I just doing something wrong? 1.11.9 on Windows 10, if you're wondering.

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The always up-to-date interim build (automatic build against the latest commit) is always located here: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/zeromus/bizhawk-udexo/build/artifacts Before reporting a bug, download the interim build and check to see if it's still there.

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Posted: 4/26/2017 4:07 PM

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I cut off the beginning (before the S fade out begins) and this run looks slower than the current unassisted world record (also done on SNES):

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Posted: 4/25/2017 7:59 PM

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Yeah I mean how do they compare if we consider the possible timing difference? TASes count from power on, real-time runs use to count from gaining control on the... car in this case?

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Posted: 4/25/2017 7:45 PM

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How many stages does this run beat? And how is its time compare to the unassisted record?

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Posted: 4/25/2017 2:44 PM

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Fester's Quest was misjudged. It has speed/entertainment trade-offs and forgoes some glitches in order to make it more entertaining, and fails at that. So it should have been rejected until a run without trade offs is made. EarthBound Beginnings was automatically moved to Vault when the latter was created, due to its rating, but it has an unvaultable goal, so this should be fixed by mooning it (since we can't unpublish).

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Posted: 4/24/2017 8:27 PM

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It's not a preferred emulator, so it obviously can't be added there. It's a test thing that people are supposed to use at their own risk (not so risky honestly).

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Posted: 4/23/2017 4:22 PM

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Techokami wrote:

Anyone got an encode for this? I want to watch it but I have no idea how to get this fork of MAME set up... or even where to get it in the first place.

Link to binary.

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Posted: 4/23/2017 10:16 AM

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MESHUGGAH wrote:

I'm looking for list of hotkeys that's already present in TAS Editor. * double pressing (left shift) to seek to actual frame in the piano roll (the center of the piano roll is now the selected actual frame) - the "workaround" is pressing the follow cursor twice with the mouse.

There's the Toggle follow cursor hotkey. Bind it to a single button and you will show the emulated frame when you double click it. Otherwise, I don't think bizhawk even allows special treatment of double-clicked hotkeys.

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* selecting multiple columns to remove a specific button serie from the input by clicking on the input within the piano roll (deletes from the start of selection until the frame where the button is (ex: 0184 --> B <--)) - you need to exactly select the range and press the header of the column of that button which inverse it (in TAS Editor, it will first fills and then removes all input in that column)

Do you want it to act like drawing and always set all the cells for the button to the opposite of the first selected frame? Taseditor is inconsistent with drawing here and if there are empty cells, it fills them all first, and only then clears. Drawing will take the state of the first cell and apply to all the cells you draw through.

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Posted: 4/22/2017 9:11 PM

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FLIP: The World's Strangest Research Lab - Perspectives on Ocean Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_FLIP Link to video

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Posted: 4/22/2017 7:03 PM

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Pulseman got misnamed as well. Regarding CV3, the run was considered unique enough to warrant a new branch, and it has a warp glitch that skips a significant part of the game, so it made sense to call it what it's called. We don't have a strict definition of the term "major" in that regard, because it simply keeps its original meaning. When we came up with the term "major skip glitch" originally, we meant things that SDA addresses when it calls its runs "no major skips". But no one can consider all existing and potential problems beforehand. If you have suggestions on how to improve this all, go ahead.

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Posted: 4/22/2017 6:16 PM

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The any% run of Little Samson does not cut away most of the time of its predecessor (I typed that before I saw you've edited your post, but whatever). And it hasn't been considered different enough to warrant a new branch. So it's just heavy glitch abuse, like in [1686] NES Mega Man by Shinryuu & finalfighter in 12:23.34. The Wizards & Warriors situation is probably branch misnaming.

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Posted: 4/22/2017 5:54 PM

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"GO warp" is used in several levels. If you make a full use of it, your time will be ~3 minutes. If you completely avoid it, your time will be ~13 minutes. If you only use it in the final level, you're being sub-optimal, as each glitch and trick should be used to its full speedrun potential, unless throttling that potential is considered entertaining enough for a yet another branch, or a more entertaining application within the same branch. You can have speed-entertainment trade offs slowing you down within the same branch, or you can use the same setup to skip less than possible within a separate branch. One way to resolve your confusion might be to rename the Contra 3 glitch to Game Over glitch, since just skips to the level end each time, and not the the game end strictly speaking. Or we might call it a warp glitch because of that, not sure which would be the best.

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Posted: 4/22/2017 5:29 PM

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klmz wrote:

as the numbers indicate, the "game end glitch" itself resulted from the "GO warp" in Contra 3 saves only ~3 minutes in the last stage

This is what I don't get.

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Posted: 4/22/2017 4:43 PM

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I don't understand what you're trying to ask, but the only thing that matters when comparing runs completion time (in order to figure out whether most of the time got cut away or not) is the difference between the final overall times. Fastest Contra 3 run without the major skip glitch is 13 minutes long. The major skip glitch run of it is 3 minutes long. The major skip glitch cuts away most of the time of the former.

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Posted: 4/22/2017 4:17 PM

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klmz wrote:

How much time (absolute or relative) is considered "major" enough?

feos wrote:

By definition, it's a major skip setup/trick, because it cuts away most of the time of the fastest run without it.

klmz wrote:

I don't think this glitch is less "major" than the "GO warp" used in the last stage in [1299] SNES Contra III: The Alien Wars "game end glitch" by Cpadolf in 03:20.38 that saves only about 3 minutes compared to [787] SNES Contra III: The Alien Wars "2 players" by hero of the day in 13:03.32

A 3 minute run is 3 minutes shorter than the 13 minutes run?

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Posted: 4/22/2017 2:30 PM

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A glitch that skips to the ending, but is not a major skip glitch, does not need to have its branch called out, because it makes it effectively a simple any% run with heavy glitch abuse.

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