First to have the honor to vote yes. Beautiful run jlun. A bit surprised you managed to find improvements on klmz's tightly optimized run. Loved how you synches your moves to the music.
I'll probably still do one without it. I think the game has a lot of potential.
You want this ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doX3BmuoXVw
Nice work, looking forward to it. How many frames are saved so far?
My long term plan would be for bizhawk to replace our current rerecording emulators, yes. However, that is a very aggressive long term plan, but that what I am working towards!
needz moar height Edit: It's slower than the normal method ;(
I'm assuming this is a serious question. It is hard to address your point, because I'm not entirely sure what it is. Thus, I can really only address the examples. Is there a legitimate reason for using the (J) ROM for SMW or SM64? I'm pretty sure the SM64 speedrunning community still uses the (U) ROM.
No one is arguing that. You obviously can't use the J input on a U run.
There are many nicovideo TASes that would obsolete our runs, for more than just the text.
Additionally, as I've said before, I believe this to be a special case, because most of the speedrunning community has switched to the (J) ROM. Thus, future improvements are most likely also going to be done on this ROM.
Here is a temporary video of the improvement that I found... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu_Oe4SF7xU This uses a GWK to save a wallkick and ends up saving 15 frames (so far) and as of right now, the final time would be 5:02.22.
Edit: For some reason, it loses a VI in the transition from BitFS to the B2 fight. Here's the new .m64 with a time of 5'02"75.
In my opinion, there should be 5 categories: Low% (debatable whether or not that should be split up), any% no major glitches, any% glitched, MST or All Quests, and 100%. Which ones are done, that's up to the TASers, but those should be the categories.
I think all three modes have the potential to make a great run. There could be runs on this site for Air Ride, Top Ride, and City Trial (all getting 100/120 boxes, since some take too long to be entertaining).
EDIT: OK, so I saved 4 frames in the Prologue, but those frames were eventually lost through loading screens in the beginning of Chapter 1, so I ended up saving 0 frames total. Well, the Prologue looks a little different now, but anyway, this means I can continue working on Chapter 1!
I've been tasked with this encode, and I'm a bit confused about the ending. I got the run to sync and what I see in my emulator matches http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgv2BWJ8oP0 but after the movie ends you're just dropped back at the map screen. Is there no "the end" with credits for this submission? That would match http://tasvideos.org/1479M.html but I just want to be sure before I encode.
Remember all those password screens at the end of every stage? Well, if credits were shown, the input file would have to be extended to exit the password screen at the end. If input were to end earlier, the credits must be skipped. Sorry.
Did you also record with dual-core off and idle skipping off? Those settings can also cause desyncs.