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I enjoyed this movie, but it reminded me a great amount of the SNES version that we had published recently. What are the major differences between this movie and that one, other than the fact that you can skip two bosses in the SNES version? And if there aren't many differences, why should this movie be published also?
I also noticed that you seem to have missed at least a couple of coins on the mine ride. Not that it matters much, but it was noticeable.
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Comicalflop wrote:
However, the lack of speedy options to get past the grunts slowed down the pace a bit, making a potentially sonic-lite run hit some molasses.
Thankfully, there weren't too many places where I actually had to come to a dead stop, once in the snow level near the last section of caves (where the ceiling is too low to jump over him, initially), and once in the sewer level where the bastard is just blocking my way down to the next set of pipes. Jumping over the others does slow things down a bit, too, but not nearly as bad as having to stop.
moozooh wrote:
Please do the SNES version.
Wow, I just looked at this game and it's entirely different. Good call, I may pick this one up later.
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Derakon wrote:
Unfortunately, I can't myself watch the movie; a pity, because it sounds like the kind of thing I've been asking for -- a demonstration tournament video that shows what each player in the game can do when controlled by a TASer. The extent to which that description is achieved appears to be up for debate, though...
He linked a youtube encode in the submission text, ya know.
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Pasky13 wrote:
I've been converting all your FCM's for fceux 2.02 and it's been working perfectly for me. Just FYI buddy.
Love the run so far, can't wait to see the final product on this game, I've been waiting a while for someone familiar with this game to TAS it. I had it when I was little but could never beat it or get very far, haha.
Pasky13, would you be able to upload one of the final .fm2s you converted and post the link here, so that the information that pixelgoround/symbolicX/portalofrain contributed isn't lost due to his childish behavior?
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pixel-go-round wrote:
Okay, my run has been optimized. I stopped at 1'10:51.05 which seemed to be an improvement of 13 minutes and 19 seconds.
I wanted to submit this under a new screen name! I begged! I asked as nice as I could! I even promised that I won't ask for another name change for a while! But things got out of hand between myself and at least one other administrator that was too lazy and didn't seem to do his job promptly. For that, it has came to my decision to not submit this to Workbench, remove all my WIP download links in this thread, step back for a while, and NOT ever come back under this exact same account again. I already gave the admin my notice to be completely deleted. I already asked nicely, now I demand.
Thanks to all my viewers and other fellow regulars for sharing opinions, watching movies, trying out games, and being part of this great site. I'll return, but within the next few months or so, this isn't the time. Game over, I'm gone.
Wow, I just stumbled upon this, and can't believe the immaturity of your actions. You ask for a name change, get it, then ask for another one, and when you're not immediately given it, you create a new account and delete anything of substance from your prior posts from your other account? I hope that Bisqwit revives all the data that you so selfishly deleted and gives you a good, long ban for your childish and ridiculous actions. How pathetic.
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I was going to avoid posting in this thread to let the conversation play out, but when my character is attacked, I feel I need to defend myself.
OmegaWatcher wrote:
There's a lot of rage about Saturn, and most of these people are not unbiased enough to judge. Even the very judge that rejected this submission showed bias here.
OmegaWatcher, you really have no idea what you're talking about. I addressed this particular complaint here:
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Xkeeper wrote:
I'm just going to come right out and suggest that this TAS's rejection is due to the author.
While I doubt that there is any way that I will convince you that I judged this objectively, I tried to provide rationale for my reasoning. My dislike of Saturn is obvious, but I assure you that I did not base my decision on who he is, or how he has carried himself in the past. Everyone deserves a fair chance to have their submissions impartially judged, and I provided very clear reasons for why I thought this movie should be rejected. My dislike of the author did not factor into my decision.
I personally don't care if you believe that I'm biased. There is likely no way for me to change your mind about that. I can say that I take my judging responsibilities very seriously, and that I will never let my decision to accept or reject a movie be based on who the author of that movie is. If/when Saturn submits a run for SM Redesign, I will gladly accept it. And you can quote me on that. But don't assume that I have any other reasons for rejection than those listed in the thread already.
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Due to recent topics, adelikat and I have discussed the idea of "unrejecting" a few movies, and returning them to the workbench to essentially get a second chance at publication. This will hopefully end some of the discussion regarding the supposed lack of attention that we as judges pay to the rest of the viewing audience. There are a few rules/stipulations/whatever:
1) You must submit the name of the movie and the associated submission number in this thread, with a reason why you think it should receive a second chance.
2) We will choose several movies to "unreject", based on how much support it receives in this thread. The number of movies that will be revived will probably be between 10-15.
3) A message will be posted in each submission thread after it is returned to the workbench. We will only pay attention to responses after this message, and won't pay attention to the votes, so if you want a movie accepted, make sure to state why in the thread!
4) This thread will remain open until the last day of May, 2009. On the last day of May, adelikat and I will decide which movies will be returned to the submission queue.
5) Soon afterwards, hopefully on June 1, the selected 10-15 submissions will be returned to the workbench, where they will remain until the last day of June. From there, you have one month to post your approval or disapproval of publication or rejection. Again: WE WON'T TAKE THE VOTING POLL INTO ACCOUNT, ONLY RESPONSES.
But oh no! Those "bad publications" each got over 75% yes votes! We can't go against the majority! [/obvious sarcasm]
You can please some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but never all the people all the time. I'll just return to rejecting good movies and accepting bad ones now......
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Well I'd like to watch this, but it desyncs with 0.0.8, and the friggin' emulator just crashes when I try to open the .iso with 0.0.7. If there are some special instructions to make this emulator actually work, please spell them out for me step by step, because I haven't had any luck with it.
EDIT: For clarification, configuration settings, CD ROM settings, links to any plugins I may need, etc. would be very much appreciated.
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AndyD wrote:
I think voting should be removed, not because of what Warp said. But votes by themselves are useless, if anyone likes or dislikes a movie, they can say so in a post. And the judges can read them.
This suggestion came about the last time the voting system changed, and I disagreed with it then, because voting makes it a little easier to figure out the general spread of opinion in those famous 10 page flame wars, not to mention the threads with 2 or 3 responses. However, since no one seems to like the voting anyway, and it does seem to be pretty worthless, even when using it to quickly gauge general feelings toward a movie, I really wouldn't be heartbroken if it just up and died. I doubt that removing it will lead to less arguments, but hell, maybe they'd at least be different arguments.
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Thanks for the apology Warp, it is certainly appreciated.
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However, I still feel that the "rules" of the site are quite vague, which sometimes can lead to inconsistent behavior. I think it would be much clearer if eg. when a submission is rejected, the reason could be stated like "it does not fully comply to rule #x", rather than "I found this boring".
As Bisqwit mentioned in that other mess of a thread, we have some hard and fast rules, but we also have the guidelines for what makes a good TAS. When the rules are broken, I will very clearly list in the rejection message which rules were violated, and where to find them (via link). When the guidelines are not met, I will almost always convey why I think the particular run does not meet them (i.e. not very entertaining, not a good game choice, etc.). Yes, these can be somewhat ambiguous, but if you've been around enough, you start to see some patterns emerge, such as fighting games only being good as playarounds, and racing games only being entertaining if they're extremely glitched. If the process was more rules based, we'd lose a lot of the flexibility in judging, which I do believe is a bad thing. You may disagree, but if you need some more clarification, I can expand when I'm not hurrying off to work. Again, thanks for being more level-headed about it all.
