H320 + Rockbox. Plays every sensible sound format, including chiptunes and various types of game music + lets me play Metroid II in color. :)
I need to replace a battery I "accidentally" drained by leaving the player connected to both a charger and my PC for several months in a row, though.
There is also a topic about it, with the exact same name.
I heard using search is good for your health.
[EDIT: Which I merged the thread into. --Bisqwit]
I think the prize for the most underwhelmingly trivial name is forever behind Alien Soldier, an otherwise excellent game from pretty much every standpoint.
Interesting note: at the time of writing my previous post, I was at work, and the sword was clearly visible. Now that I look at the image using my old partially burnt-out LG Flatron 795FT at home, it's pretty much invisible. o_0
Yes. It's been known for a long while thanks to Kej, but it requires that you enter a pause screen once to de-equip the suits, and 6 e-tanks to survive the attack, making it useless in any form of a speedrun.
I think it would make sense for SDA to make it a rule to put the display settings for games at the highest quality, because it's lame not to.
As I said previously, there is little point to that, because no runner would lower the quality settings if their computer allows recording at higher ones, and doing any kind of enforcement would only decrease the amount of runs produced.
I wouldn't care otherwise, but I believe I should make an effort to save him from an impending ban. It's not too late, even though people already are ill-disposed towards him.
My advice would be either disclosing the tricks not yet found by other players, or shutting up about them until you, Saturn, finish a full run with them. That is the only sensible solution for you now.
Saturn, your position is clearly understandable.
It's just that people still don't like it because it's selfish. In case you don't know what is selfish about it, explanation:
1) your primary goal is to surprise people with stuff you found;
2) this goal is attained by showing stuff you found to people.
The only sensible opportunities to do it are: a) immediately, as most people here do, or b) after completing a run, which you've been failing to do for years, just as I have.
The only reason you don't want to show this new stuff immediately is to get credit for it after the run is complete, and show that you were "that awesome already back then". Even if you don't have ill intentions, this behavior passes off as arrogant and immature, which it probably is.
Considering that the surprise value vanishes really quick as people continue finding your tricks, you need either to show them now to let the community as a whole benefit, or finish up your run faster. And the latter doesn't seem to be an option with your busy schedule. I really hope you understand that you're digging a hole under yourself by hoarding the tricks, because instead of the credit you believe you deserve for finding them, all you get is annoyance at withholding them for so long. See?
How about a generic "player controls multiple characters"? Would solve cases when there are several players running the game, and when there's more than one character to control.
He did, as well as making it invisible. A pretty clever strategy for keeping things secret, then waving them in front of everyone after they've been "spoiled".
I don't give a fuck. I want to be entertained. Make an effort to get a computer that can do the graphics of a game justice, because I agree with Warp; some of the SDA runs are so goddamn dark and graphically lifeless, I can't see what the fuck is going on most of the time.
While it is true that SDA as a project was created for entertainment in the first place, and gathering records in the second (in contrast to Twin Galaxies, who only care about the latter), you can't expect every runner, as a content provider, to cater for anyone and everyone — which would be stupid, at least, so this kind of demanding attitude won't get you anywhere. There is already a lot of rules they have to abide by, including certain requirements for recording conditions (guess what for). Forcing mandatory entertainment activities in idle time, or recording with highest quality settings only, won't make more [high quality] content, no; it will simply rob you of some that doesn't suit your needs, considering the needs are very unstable as a whole. Because those runners that are able to do entertaining stuff or record with full settings on, already do so.
IIRC Parodius games offer less artistic freedom for TASers, although they are more artistic by themselves. On the other hand, Deign had a Pop'n TwinBee WIP that had good entertainmnet potential with its bell juggling. Because theoretically, you can juggle them constantly without ever picking them in a TAS, spamming the entire screen with bells. :)
Bother Swordless Link. So far he's doing a great job on putting whatever WIPs people have been producing up to now to shame, but it seems it's pretty low on his priority list.
That was slick. :)
By the way, before you make the awfulest mistake Krocketneo did: continue recording with "sync samples with sound CPU" option. You will notice that the music and sound effects no longer sound like complete shit.
Groobo had a wooden computer at the time of recording the FEAR speedrun, so there was nothing he could do about it. That's also the reason he didn't do a H.264 encode. I hope he'll improve it on his new machine sometime in the future. :P
Four of them, actually. And I'm sure it's possible to herd them from right to left so that Vic Viper could be standing to the left of the intersection point the entire time, able to shoot. I'm also sure using missiles at that point (especially since they were already selected) would help a lot.
