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There's a little problem with cheats. It's possible to patch some bytes that would affect gameplay in a subtle way, leading to unfair advantages. We all know what corrupted SRAM can do.
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We don't define and ending at 999999. It's just the only place where the game acts like it ended (similarly to as you die). Kill screen or how that stuff is called. And I don't see anyone questioning the validity of this ending before it was published.
"Must be clearly definable as having completed the game", as a rule, may appear to be hard for some Atari games, in such cases we once again can rely on the majority. Some people consider it clear, some don't. If most of them do, I'd agree with them.
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The old movie was there too, but this is probably an improvement on the entertainment side too. The comments here are quite good. Mooning it...
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grassini wrote:
encode?
Anyone?
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Woops.
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Woops.
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Any plans on further improvement tests?
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Ok. So should it be vaulted back, with no branch?
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Mothrayas wrote:
Vault branch names certainly exist, such as "100% completion", a completely vaultable goal, or such as the examples you list below. Contradiction?
And we very definitely have non-vault branch names, such as...just about any run with a branch that has goals that disqualify it for vault.
It's not about branch names, but about what is actually going on. Newgame+ runs are disqualified not by branch name, but by the goal. Then, this run's goal is not maximum score itself, it just appears to reach some kind of an end when the max score is reached (= Bishi Bashi Special), the actual goal still being "fastest game completion". And the branch is put only for the sake of information. Probably it's not needed, but I don't see a problem with having it.
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Mothrayas wrote:
I find it somewhat dubious. The little "copyright" blurb seems more like an easter egg if anything, and the game itself doesn't look like it ends.
"Seems like" isn't an argument. If there's a closer completion point, it must obsolete that run. If not, this one is the fastest, hence vaultable.
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Either way, even if this would be considered a vaultable ending, it's still wrong to publish it with a non-vault branch name. At best, it's misleading about what branches are accepted in Vault and what not.
We don't have a vault branch name, neither do we have a non-vault one, since "fastest possible" is not marked by having no branch. I can't search through the Vault movies, since the page is broken, but there definitely are runs with labels that indicate that the run does something specific, like "first enemy wave", or something of that fashion. Those runs have labels just to tell that it's not a traditional completion that would work for other games. Anyways, "game end/warp glitch" runs are still vaultable, despite of having a branch.
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Vault accepts fastest runs of alternate game modes.
for games with separate, independent level sets (modes, episodes) officially available from start, each level set can have its TAS in Vault.
In BB2, the Slash mode is unlockable from the start.
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If something is otherwise unlockable, the cheat code doesn't simplify the action, or even increases the difficulty, surely that cheat code can be used. Yes, I didn't read the thread.
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What exactly are you saying? I'm saying that some games have a max score goalset that is still vaultable.
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I'm mostly asking the guys who wanted the upper-screen-only additional encode.
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Yeah, only tell us the checksums of the DSP files you are using (Dolphin\Sys\GC).
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For me the second movie desyncs already at 21k frames... He picks the cat and then misses the zombie twice.
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Re: Encoding.
What if I just stick them horizontally, won't it be enough?
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Can I request a continuation of the Jurassic Park TAS by jlun2? PLEASE!
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You mean we should publish this run as is? It'd make sense to wait at least until you finish testing.
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Didn't read the thread, but if considering the hotkey approach, just print a hotkey for each menu item that has/allows it, don't remove the menus, both camps will be happy.
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Should I set the submission to Delayed?
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Doesn't look like that tag would get a clear definition. Because side/arbitrary/special is too subjective. This is the exact reason the Demo tier didn't fly.
http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14776
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