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You can edit the animations I made into your movie if you want, but there being an animation or not shouldn't be a factor to consider on obsoletion.
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This is distributed computing yes, not only computers compute. People compute too.
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See, if you write the word "novamente" correctly the translator will be able to translate it. Make some effort please, the forum is used for communication.
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I think the point is that he lives in the same planet as the people who like it, so, yeah, if you don't like something and a lot of people do, your world will be worse. Sure, the world can't be perfect, but we can wish for a better world for ourselves, right?
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Traditional masculinity is getting old. Which is weird. I watched the first 2 minutes and it felt like a waste of time. Give me some dragon ball z, that is a good cartoon. Haters gonna hate.
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If you write in proper portuguese you will give the translator an easier time to generate a text that makes sense. Se você escrever em português correto vai ser mais fácil pro tradutor gerar algum texto inteligível.
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I did this run in two days :) Eager to see the improvements when it's done!
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Very interesting. It reminds me of the interface I envisioned for the tas tool a long time ago, except for the analog stick representation (I imagined the tool for genesis). That tool would also show a stream of button presses moving in real time. I guess an idea really isn't worth anything, you gotta do it :) The idea was that it would also allow editing, not only visualization.
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I've "played" kinect and it is really bad. 1 - lag 2 - imperfect reading of gestures At least the wiimote lag is really small. Anyway, buttons are better for gaming... There are only a few games that work well with motion controls. I'd like to know what about uncharted looks like shit.
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May I ask why you don't wanna hear about uncharted?
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Some hotkeys are bound to load and save a specific slot, while you have the hotkey to load or save the currently selected slot. They are two methods and the community is divided, some prefer a method, some prefer the other.
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Uncharted 1 and 2 (and now 3 in november). Seriously, these games are top. Generally I don't like modern games focused on story telling, cut scenes, etc. But uncharted does it for me. I like the dialogue, the acting, the action, the shooting, the fighting, the platforming. Top ps3 games by far. I'm sure you will find other exclusives along the way. Ico and shadow of the colossus remakes have just been released, if you haven't played the ps2 versions they are must-have.
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I think the goal of a TAS of this game can be just what is being done. Ok, that's not a tool assisted speedrun, it's a tool assisted research to find exactly how the game ends. TAR. Here is the promissed screenshot of the maximum score in galaga. Let's call it "hero bird". "hero toucan". It might be possible to do 999.990, I don't know the way the scoring works.
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I don't get it, who said games are made for children?
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Ok, I let the script run for 2 days at 6400% speed. Tonight it resulted in a (partial) conclusion: 1 - There are infinite levels (999 looped infinitely). 2 - There is a maximum score. The high score stopped at 999.980 Hero something. I'll post the screenshot later. I don't know what exactly is the max score because I don't know what million this graphic represents. I could look in the game's graphic table and count or write a script to count the score correctly, but that would require running the whole thing again. Anyway, this could possibly be one of the longest games from its time. I think it emulated 300 hours before reaching the maximum score.
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Thank you very much! I will let it running during the night. edit: Nice code, I'll adjust it as needed. Thanks! edit#2: It works nicely. Let's wait for the results.
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Dwedit wrote:
Are you sure? Galaga doesn't have a Z in the pattern table.
Yeah, some of the letters were actually some other garbage graphic. But it kept going in the correct alphabet order, so I assume the developers used the unused letters to store other types of graphics.
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I did some testing in this game to see how far it went. I created a game genie code to have infinite double ship: ZAPAAX PAYEPA Then I created a 10 hour long movie consisting of left, right, turbo shooting in loop. And I kept replaying it "from now". I think I did about 30 hours of emulation. The results: - after level 200 the game gets rid of the badge system and just displays "stage 201". - after 1 million points the score resets and a little ship is added under your score. this adds up to 6 ships. - after 7 million points the ships are gone and the words "Hero 7" are shown. - After "Hero 9" it becomes "Hero A". It keeps going on past "Hero Z" and it starts displaying several graphics. I think it's just going on the game's graphics table indefinitely. - After the level 999 it shows level 000. - The farthest I got to was level 5000+ I could have gotten farther if I knew some LUA to let it play indefinitely. Dealing with 48 mb movie files was very slow. [img width=256 height=224]http://i.imgur.com/jhdOA.png[/img]
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I regret being behaving childishly in the past. Sometimes I think everyone is against me. No, FODA, you are not the center of the universe, grow up. I remember reacting emotionally when bisqwit said my castle of illusion TAS was sloppy (back in 2004 perhaps), when the super mario land 2 dream team contest run was discovered to be invalid due to an emulator bug, when someone worked on a NES batman TAS while I was also doing that, and when my 120 stars run was being obsoleted shortly after I concluded it after 1 year of work. There must have been countless other moments, I apologize for all.
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It is very hard to debate on this without talking about religion. Basically because the way the brain works is not completely understood. We don't know how a "thought" is formed in the head of a living being. So, comparing particle determinism to "free will", the point of the topic, seems innacurate to me. Not everything is matter.
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I would enjoy using macros to unlock all the character trials in the game, because they are impossible. It would be a "TAS" with a purpose other than entertainment.
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What is the point of this question? There is only one life and one timeline that we can observe, so how do we know if what we do could have been done some other way? It never does, the only thing that happens is what happens, so, in practice, it is a determined path. There are no ramifications. You do what you want with your life, but you can only move in one path, not two. My point is that it can't be checked, there's no way to know if we could have chosen another action.
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Wow... This is the type of game I wanna be the guy watching a TAS of, not the guy trying to finish it. Thanks for the video.
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