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Well, I meant you need to just open it as an archive and remove the Greenzone, no need to unpack and pack again. And yes, you should try loading it to tastudio then.
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Upload the project somewhere.
Or just unzip it and remove the Greenzone file.
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Were you able to open it recently with the same version of bizhawk, or it was a different version?
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Cool riff! Reminds me the atmosphere of Samorost.
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YamiAmarillo wrote:
Now with less Puppy Loves and even faster rounds!
Could you post time per level comparisons?
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fsvgm777 wrote:
On Windows 10, you can't.
^ Proof that it shouldn't be used.
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I can't believe people don't disable them instantly after installing a new system.
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Lex wrote:
Can't you guys see that this all affects ONLY sexuality? Someone being male or female doesn't matter except in sex unless people are fucked up and treat males and females arbitrarily differently. The whole pronoun thing is stupid and I would prefer a language that just doesn't refer to people by their sexes since it doesn't matter, but I'm stuck with English for convenience.
If you (or whoever else in the world) don't currently see a good reason for that, it doesn't mean there's no good reason.
My personal approach is to carefully tune my gender to "sound" best coupled with my sex. It's rare to meet people who succeeded in that, rare to the point that it's considered impossible by some. And no, it's not based to sexual relations, relations ideally should come as a result.
But I'd like to say that barbaric hatred towards someone's transgenderness doesn't prove anything other than that those haters are generally stupid, their opinion is equally stupid and should not be considered. On the other hand, no negative treatment at all isn't good either, since it removes causes to evolve upon oneself (which results in the worst things ever).
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YamiAmarillo wrote:
I can probably have the new easy run done by the end of tonight, if not by Friday. I'll let you guys know by the days end to see where I'm at
You might want to wait until I figure out how to manipulate Puppy Love better (if it's possible, otherwise I'll just post why it's not).
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So far there has been found nothing in difficulty settings that makes gameplay more entertaining (google didn't help!). The opposite, in this case, Hard makes it way less entertaining than it would be. So yeah, using Easy is the best option. If it reduces damage, it's even better, as allows more HP management.
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Will figure out when it's called and what it affects. Normally, it just reads from ROM consecutively, but this one makes it do jumps over code.
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Can't you type RUN?
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Bobo the King wrote:
I know we should be talking about the run (it was okay) but can I instead say that I'm really impressed by the speech playback in this game? I've seen a few NES games attempt it and it's usually a crackly mess. (Skate or Die 2 anyone?) The audio here was pretty clear. Does anyone know if they used any special hardware or techniques to record it, or is this just one of those things where the quality you get out is proportional to the time and effort you put in?
You either use 1-bit DPCM, or 7-bit raw stream, the former has special DMA happening at fixed time intervals several times per frame to provide enough sample rate (don't recall which exactly), the latter's sample rate is decided by the game, and it calls DMA whenever it pleases, at any rate it wants, so you get 128 times as much possible amplitude levels, and endless possibilities for samplerate. And here's how it sounds:
Link to video
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Hm, it looks like the next unit to spawn in Puppy Love is just read from ROM sequentially, and is always the same every time you replay that level? Any insight before I test tomorrow?
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YamiAmarillo wrote:
Easy gives you 3 rounds, normal is 4, and difficult is 5.
feos wrote:
What does the difficulty level affect other than amount of Puppy Love rounds?
YamiAmarillo wrote:
Btw, any chance you could send me the Lua file you have for puppy love? I want to mess around with it.
Once it's done.
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I was debating using a Rom hack a friend made that gets rid of all the puppy loves, but I didn't know if that is allowed
Nah. We need to crack the original. Hold on.
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What does the difficulty level affect other than amount of Puppy Love rounds?
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This is the best TAS I've see in a long while. Its skips are so amazing and obvious that I'd even consider it for NewcomerRec. If not these Puppy Love levels. Damn, if there was only one, it's still be a star, but they had the cheek to put in there THREE of them!
Now what gives me some hope is that it must be very improvable by knowing the exact RNG code, and using it to make him throw the puppets puppies the farthest, stuff like that. Unless you guys already have this all figured out. Have you?
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TehBerral wrote:
Tangent wrote:
I find the math irrationally upsetting.
I wish there was a thumbs up system for quotes like this.
Use you sig!
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Woooohooooooooooo!
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Warp wrote:
I am still of the strong opinion that the Star category ought to be a (relatively small) representative sample of what TASing is all about, not just a blind list of "runs with an entertainment rating of X or higher".
A run might be very appreciated for its entertainment value, but if there are already three runs starred that are very similar to that one, that spot ought to go to something that showcases a different aspect of TASing, even if that something is slightly "less entertaining".
I never intended to suggest changing the Stars logic.
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arandomgameTASer wrote:
That's overly complicated. With your logic there's like 2 Star tiers.
I have to tweak the appearance into this:
TIER1: all any% and 100%
TIER2: all entertaining side goals
TIER3: entertaining rule breakers
TIER4: the most entertaining runs from all of the above
The judging logics has already been fixed accordingly. This way you see that if something isn't an any%/100%, it has to obey the site rules AND be entertaining, to be accepted to Moons, or if it breaks some rules, but is still quite entertaining, it goes to Demo.
The purpose of Vault tier is to accept movies that are still TASes, but not entertaining enough to be Moon tier. Which is how you keep out boring Vault 'entertainment' TASes.
Which we don't want, otherwise we wouldn't have this thread.
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Warp wrote:
Btw, since we want to (and should) be inclusive, if we end up creating a demo category where "everything else" goes, I think that a TAS of a game with no previous TASes should be accepted by default there (if it doesn't fit in any of the other categories) unless there's a good reason not to.
In other words, same principle as with current Vault: An any%/100% TAS of a new game is accepted there by default regardless of feedback, for the simple reason that every game (that's any%/100%-TASable) deserves a TAS, unless there's a good reason why it shouldn't.
This way if you eg. make a TAS of a board game which doesn't fit anywhere else, you can be pretty certain that it will get published, if there's even a modicum of logic in the stated goal of the TAS.
(Of course obsoletion of existing Demo category TASes becomes a more complex question, but that's its own problem.)
If we don't introduce sensible barriers to Demo entry (as you used to request too), we'll end up with an unmanageable flood of worthless movies. Look how by my system, Chessmaster and Othello runs would be accepted based on feedback, and Scrabble wouldn't. Feedback in rule-breaking cases is the only sensible barrier.
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This is the best TAS I've see in a long while. Its skips are so amazing and obvious that I'd even consider it for NewcomerRec. If not these Puppy Love levels. Damn, if there was only one, it's still be a star, but they had the cheek to put in there THREE of them!
Now what gives me some hope is that it must be very improvable by knowing the exact RNG code, and using it to make him throw the 
