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I've put the final encode on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTaF3-NvKi0
Marco is writing the descriptions to the tricks, but it is a long text. When he's finished I'll update here.
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Thank you for making a TAS that does not aim for fastest completion, but is very publish-worthy.
I know this has been in the works for quite some time, and it shows. It was a good watch. It even caught the atention of a friend of mine who thinks TASes are boring. Not this one.
Yes vote!
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Blublu wrote:
Ah, cool, so it's like a grade challenge mode where you get a grade, but the number of levels left to complete isn't relevant at all? If so, I will be very happy because I can then put this game aside and not play it again ever. (I have gotten kind of sick of it). Though, since there's a different puzzle every time I guess I'll have tp play those 45 more times to feel completely satisfied. Hmmm....
Obssessive compulsion?
Looks like a good game, I'll give it a go.
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I'm not working on it, and it was never submitted. All I did was the testrun.
Of course you're free to do hokuto no ken! It really seems like a more complete game. I'm just much more familiar with black belt, which is why I chose it.
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Tombad wrote:
DarkKobold wrote:
Also, I'm pretty sure it is against the general code of ethics of this website to participate in a contest like this using TAS tools. Even if, for example, Dolphin were able to connect to the Wii servers, it would be totally unethical to have a TAS achieve a world record in Mega Man 9.
Given Nintendo's track record in securing their services I would think that's not entirely impossible.
What if you put a robot holding a controller and program it to beat the game (through either AI or recorded button pushes)?
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pros:
- seeing a rare classic beaten quickly
- instant love cheesy soundtrack
- it has its funny moments
cons:
- repetitive attacks
- doesn't look optimized
Based on that I'll go with a yes hoping for a remake.
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Ferret Warlord wrote:
FODA wrote:
I'm gonna try to watch this using my greatest hits original copy of the game. I'll brb with impressions.
edit: couldn't get it to work. Either using the cd-rom or an ISO generated from it, I keep getting an error after the other: "Please insert disk [1]", 2, 3 and so on, for every frame.
I got the same thing after I corrupted the header in a movie of mine; have you tried re-downloading the movie?
Nope, it worked after I put an external 1001 bios.
Thanks alternative sephiroth!
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Ok, I think I wasn't using the corret bios, now it all worked.
Damn, this movie is really complicated. At first I thought the run was sloppy, then it was confusing. I had to come here look for answers (and I found them, thanks for the submission text). I think it is a good run, and if it is published it will need some serious subtitles, especially on the first half of the movie.
yes vote.
ps.: the emulator paused when the movie ended and I couldn't find the hotkey to unpause it, so I didn't watch the ending :( Will watch on youtube now.
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I'm gonna try to watch this using my greatest hits original copy of the game. I'll brb with impressions.
edit: couldn't get it to work. Either using the cd-rom or an ISO generated from it, I keep getting an error after the other: "Please insert disk [1]", 2, 3 and so on, for every frame.
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The run was very good indeed. I enjoyed watching it. There were many creative, surprising solutions.
I only have two complaints that I think are only aesthetic:
1 - not getting rid of every block on the big boo fight
2 - too much wobbling
I know they were artistic choices from the author, but I like the idea of the published movie having the best solutions for every section, artistically and speed-wise, for every movie on this site. What I mean is that if this is published and then a movie with exact same length but that gets rid of all blocks on the big boo fight I'd vote it to obsolete this one. Removing all blocks isn't automatically better than what was done in this movie, it's subjective, but in my opinion it is better.
Other things that crossed my mind when watching it (not much a complaint, but more like ideas):
- Could have spelled something with the blocks on the big boo fight?
- Could have made some music on the bowser fight with the mushrooms.
Still a yes vote.
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minglw wrote:
I never expected that a minesweeper TAS would be fun to watch.
This TAS is fun. It's funny to see how slow the CPU does the update.
Voting yes!
I believe it is an imposed delay for each removed block, to give an animation effect. I say this because the cursor can still be moved quickly, so it isn't lag.
I also didn't think this would be any good, but the comments made me watch it. Yes vote!
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NrgSpoon wrote:
You guys are arguing terminology, when it already exists as AND, OR, NOT, and XOR.
That makes no sense at all. Who wrote that? Someone with a 3 letters limit. Doesn't matter, what we need is an emulator with the functions implemented.
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Lex wrote:
Warp wrote:
Speaking of multi-tracking, how about having a "piano roll" view of the keypresses, similar to what eg. midi sequencers or movie editing software use? That way you would not only be able to easily scroll through the entire movie and see which keys are being pressed at which point, but you could also easily edit key presses (add, remove) with the mouse, if so desired.
Great idea! It could continually show the input during playback like, for example, Reason or Fruity Loops does.
In a well-written emulator with proper rewinding and seeking like QuickNES, you could browse through this "piano roll" type viewport and seek to a specific spot in the movie (to skip a long section of no input, for example).
This idea has been brought up several times throughout tasvideos history, but noone has made it yet.
