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When I hear flurret I think of a flurry of turrets. Which sounds kinda awesome.
But no, you shouldn't change your name. If you do, you'll end up like showtime and virtualalex (i.e. laughed at)
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To clarify what theenglishman said:
If you are asking about an encode for this run/submission, this is indeed the place to ask, however it doesn't seem like one was ever made.
If you want to further discuss the game and additional things not related to this submission, please do so in the appropriate thread in the GBA section (if one doesn't exist, you can create it, however please make sure you suearch thoroughly first!)
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So since this has been uncancelled after such a long time in the grue, would the author like to have the poll reset, since some of the prior votes may be based on watching the prior encode/emulator settings?
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If it's automated, how do we weed out the obvious shitty runs? There are probably 25 SMB runs which should be outright deleted, but would be included into an automatic list.
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Excellent run! There were some parts that were very entertaining, and even though it's been a while since I've seen the previous run, there was a noticeable increase in swiftness throughout. Congrats on getting this project done, and a big yes vote! Now get to work on another 2004 movie! :)
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You've been warned that your next submission of this game would be deleted. You've now submitted two versions, and they've both been dealt with by deletion. If you continue to try to spam the workbench with this game, you will be banned.
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I vote a resouding meh. Having TASed a game with horrible controls and weak gameplay before (32x spiderman), I can appreciate that this is clearly tool-assisted, and definitely does not look like it was produced in real time. However, it was rather repetitive and lacked a lot of things to hold my interest, even though it was relatively short.
For anyone thinking that you need to have TASing experience to know what an entertaining movie is, just shut up. This sites primary goal is to produce entertaining movies for a broad audience, one that consists primarily of people who have very little experience with the process of TASing.
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kolechovski wrote:
While I understand that FCEUX has advantages, the file sizes of the videos still are horrendous. Would there be any way that these latest videos being produced could still be FCMs, or does the FCEUX's advantages simply mandate the upgrade?
10 years ago the file size would be horrendous, nowadays they're a drop in the bucket. And they compress down to a small fraction of the space, so that's always an option.
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See, this is why we have rules about translations: People start asking for ROMs in French or Brazilian or Swahili and that puts the site at risk. And believe it or not, the mods have better things to do than worry about people asking for prohibited material in another language. I'm locking this and will edit out the ROM requests when I get home.
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Kuwaga wrote:
Google translated that converstation quite well for me.
Good for google. I asked because the board rules state that if conversations occur in a language other than English, a translation should be provided in the same post. But since this conversation has about 10 untranslated posts, I was hoping to get caught up with a synopsis instead of a verbatim translation.
Also, start posting translations from here on please.
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Mitjitsu wrote:
mmbossman wrote:
It would solve one of the biggest flaws in DeHackEd's system (the inability to search for a particular file
That makes it useful for secretly sharing WIPs. Unless you wipe your history folder on a regular basis then it should be possible to browse through it and recover lost links. I guess you could create a system where you could register on DeHackEd and track your upload/download for you. That way you can have another cookie :-)
Yeah, like Brushy said, it wouldn't be difficult to have a public and private section of a WIP briefcase to address that type of thing.
As for lost links, I work from on TASes from a couple different computers and locations, so it's hard to keep track. Also, when you know that another player has linked a file in a monster thread (i.e. Super Metroid) but you're not sure where it's at, a personal drop-box would keep the confusion to a minimum and make things a lot easier to find quickly.
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I'm not wanting to get into a semantics argument here, but say the programmers had given the enemies a huge attack boost on super, but had also halved their HP? Would that still be the hardest difficulty? When do you make that cut-off line, and how to you avoid having it be subjective?
Like I said, the game states that it is the hardest difficulty, whether it is or not in practice. That's my major point.
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Given that I haven't found any original documentation to rank the difficulties, I agree with aqfaq that "ouch" was intended to be the hardest level. Whether the programmers actually made it harder is another story, but not one to impact the fate if this submission. No need to redo this Darkkobold.
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My suggestions: watch the movie via emulator and pause when you want to read, or slowing it down to ~25%;
Or
play the game.
Making separate encodes or modified input files to slow things down just isn't worth it.
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Is there any documentation in the instruction booklet regarding perceived level of difficulty? Even if another category has been found to be more difficult since the initial publication, I would trust the manual for determining "hardest difficulty". (I already checked on replacementdocs.com, no dice).
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Excellent post adelikat, it's great to know the path that you are envisioning for the site to take.
One of your points regarded the sharing of progress and tricks, etc. While I agree that there has been a gradual decrease in feedback and sharing in the forums, I believe that it is likely a function of the meteoric rise in accessibility to new platforms and new emulators. Everyone who once said "I would definitely do a TAS if there were an SMS/DS/PSX emulator" now has the opportunity. For a large population, I believe that the viewers have now become the TASers.
Another problem that I believe has cropped up is lack of accessibility for a method to quickly and easily share WIPs. For years, DeHackEd's microstorage was the default for showing off tricks and progress, however as new emulators have cropped up, so have new file formats, some of which aren't supported, and some are supported with limited functionality (i.e. lack of .m64 embedded savestates). One possible way to increase sharing of files and WIPs is to make an official script for use on the site, where a user has X amount of hard drive space to upload files, and they are stored in an accessible manner for others to view. I don't know how much allotted hard drive space comes with the current site hosting contract that we have, but even if it's 20 GB, that allows for nearly 7 MB of space per user to utilize to share their collection of files. Or, limit uploading to those users who have posted within the past year, and the allotted amount would grow greatly.
All in all, I would love to see this implemented. It would solve one of the biggest flaws in DeHackEd's system (the inability to search for a particular file, and risk losing a file forever if the link is lost), as well as make a convenient way to share and collaborate. Thoughts?
