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I dunno, it's an excessive addition when all the rest on the publication page are also files, but we don't add "file" to each of them (since it's silly). They are all files -> input file doesn't need that addition, but without it it's just odd, let alone inaccurate and ambiguous.
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Yeah, there are cases where this thing can be used throughout all the run, that is otherwise completely normal. But once you have absolute control over a game, it doesn't matter what you do with it, it's kinda out of serious competition:
#4252: Masterjun's SNES Super Mario World "11 exits" in 08:07.53
See the judgment note there.
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And then URMOM
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It already has a whole bunch of exceptions, whenever the game isn't suitable, though those exceptions have also been fine tuned by staff. Yet another one won't probably make things harder.
On one hand, it would have only one run if it's what it deserves in terms of entertainment (there's no chance any Mario game is doomed like that). On the other hand, we still accept both any% and full completion, "no completion at all whatsoever" is not what one would be looking for when he comes to a speedrun site.
I can put it another way. There's a difference between zero and null. Zero is a valid number, null is absence of any valid entity. So, regarding completion, we have any% (fastest completion), 100% (full completion), 0% (lowest completion), but do we want to have null% (completion is for pussies) competing with those?
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They will be.After the next fceux release.
The quick answer that comes to mind first is usually "Whenever a game affords more entertaining branches, they will be in moons". But in this particular case, I'm not sure it's gonna work best, because, as it was already said quite a few times, there's no way a 2 second run with no gameplay beats the fastest gameplay-based run in any other aspect than pure time. It's faster, but it's not better. Should I repeat my Demo tier mumbling again? :D
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Before I read the new posts, I'd like to say that I agree with that statement.
Re: broader audience.
The point of gaining popularity is not (ideally) about how many morons you please, but about how sane your methods are, since those are what you use to create art. Methods are related to the rules, when it comes to letting some form of art grow. For example, common sense tells us to preserve pieces of art, and, if needed, to classify and showcase them, so that more people could potentially enjoy it. Regarding TASing, this is what our policies are for: they classify, they showcase the records (since it's kinda cyber sport too), they help more people get educated and involved, they help to keep us motivated to achieve better results, the list might be quite large.
If that system is working well, the community naturally grows, because the rules are finely tuned, and they can handle big amounts of content without quality loss.
The reason this thread exists, is not the fact that someone is just paranoid and scared, but because the recent trend opens insane possibilities, and if we fail to handle the situation, the world changing before our eyes might kill some of the fun we've been having here for years.
This is the last thing I want, so a few years ago I insisted on making the unobsoletion system work: we don't want to lose content just because it was unlucky to get beaten time-wise before Moons appeared. So runs that have been beaten that way got a chance to provide enjoyment again.
Similarly, we handled the situation when all the branch names were changed retroactively before proper discussion; that lead to a serious mess, but we made it work in the end, developing the principles (or improving the existing ones) of how it should be organized and marked.
The two above examples show how it can all collapse if we're not wise enough. But if we can handle it properly, it will function for years. And they show how important policies and classification are for a form of art (that is also a cyber sport) to evolve and to survive in the changing world.
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I wonder how it would sound if the site label changes.
FCEUX movie - sounds fine.
FCEUX input - doesn't work without the word "file". Do we really want to sentence ourselves to using a bigger construct, that isn't perfectly accurate either?
FCEUX replay - well, it replays input, producing gameplay replay, it replays subtitles, and it includes whatever it needs to make that replay guaranteed, as sync settings, and then probably other overhead that's not required but is nice to have.
Despite of more people liking "input", it's inaccurate and complicated, overall just as badly as the word "movie". "Replay", conversely, solves most of the problems in my eyes.
Agreed.
It's a video encode, so it's arguably still a movie, unlike the emulator file.
@moozooh: you forgot the torrents :) But yeah, all in all it is called a publication module, so whatever it contains is a part of it. But the link still relies on the word "movie", and I don't think it should change.
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Both have emulators linked on that page.
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FUCKING FUCK I forgot about 30fps again
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Sorry, there's no way to use tastudio for a fighting game. It can only work for all the rest game genres.
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Well, I watched them, and I can say that since I still can't watch either of them entirely due to complete boredom, I'm not opposed to obsoletion anymore. Their gameplay is indeed quite similar, and 1p is done with a faster overall pace and better precision.
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Fixed both. Seeking is canceled by Esc. Reuploaded.
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Are you also trying fresh unzip?
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You should stop sample generation on extra scanlines (overclocking is done by adding dummy scanlines like in dendy), and cancel overclocking for 7-bit samples. That way sound won't speed up. 1-bit sample DMA is also disabled during dummy scanlines. Dendy has sound entirely enabled, that's why its frame lasts longer. We can only disable sound and force the regular framerate in emulation, so it's basically a hack. And some games want extra scanlines be to added to vblank instead of post-render.
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It's not related to tastudio in fact. Try this order in RAM Search:
- Set region
- Set 2 byte size
- Set "Specific value"
- Paste your value
- Click Search
Works for me. If the order is wrong, it resets the target value and you need to click New to reset the search too.
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I didn't say input recording is bad for tastudio, I just haven't gotten around to implementing it, since controller logics is barely known to me. But I'll take a look.
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No they are not. Clean unzip with no config changes makes proper screenshots for me.
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What is that supposed to mean?
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Are you always just recording in real time? Tastudio is not for that, it's for optimizing your input, which means you edit every tiny bit of it until it's perfect. And for that, everybody uses input drawing: http://rgho.st/8Ygrmdpvp
If you're just recording in real time, you don't need tastudio. Record a regular movie and use savestates at necessary points to go back.
link_7777, what commit did you add recording to (the current form of) tastudio at?
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I didn't say they should co-exist, I said they should if they deserve that.
As for technical superiority, see my judgment of Super Metroid:
- "glitched" run was proposed to obsolete "in-game"due to the latter being suboptimal by the today's standards
- back when the "in-game" run was submitted, the community decided it should co-exist with the main branch, however
- when a new run of the main branch is submitted, the decision must be made again, since those are the 2 branches with the most content overlap
We should not mess with obsoletion chains for the sake of keeping the most up-to-date run visible alone, we should figure out solid reasons to keep branches separated or to merge them, basing on their content overlap and how entertaining it is.
See, technical value is not the main factor. It only is, when comparing similar branches. And it is their similarity that we must figure out. Anyway, I'm saying all that before actually having looked deeply into both.
This is what I call messing around with obsoletion chains. Even if the 2p run is improved, that won't change its gameplay much, so its entertainment value is going to remain the same as it is now (mostly). So we already can make decisions considering these predictions.
Note: I don't mean we must blindly obsolete whichever is less entertaining by the statistics, but carefully compare content itself and how unique it is. Come on, it's Moons already for both of them, you don't have to obsolete (unless they're really similar)!
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I already posted the question that decides that: Are they different enough entertainment wise? In most cases, 2p action is more entertaining by default, just because there's more of it. And 1p action is entertaining because it has to showcase a different approach in strats: implementing them alone one must tighten the amount of overall actions, that might lead to unobvious solutions, resulting in unique entertainment as well.
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