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What i've wanted, and has been partially done, is play as different characters on other games, like ruy hayabusa on contra levels. You can see something like that on MUGEN. Look for MUGEN NES on youtube and you'll find various oddities.
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try the wireframe render on the graphics plugin. sometimes it gets garbled (inside levels) and sometimes it's clean and nice (in the castle). maybe in DDD it looks nice.
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Hopefully the camera work will evolve and mature with each new run. As for how FODA did it so well in his very first N64 TAS, I guess spending something like a year making it had something to do with it.
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comicalflop wrote:
laughing_gas wrote:
I've noticed that people who complain are people who've never done N64 tasing.
I've done plenty of N64 TASing and I've greatly stressed the importance of camera angles, in any game but especially for this one where the camera can be controlled.
I didn't complain about it on this run because the camera influences lag, and it's hard to control the camera + finding the fastest frames, which is an issue on a any% run. But for the 100% run, the player should focus some on entertainment too... I'd say something like this (my opinion):
what the player should focus:
any% run = 99%speed 1%entertainment
100% run = 80%speed 20%entertainment
I don't mean that the run should be 80% of possible fastest time, giving room to speed/entertainment trade-offs, I mean that the player shouldn't focus so much on frame count, because that detracts his attention of what could be more entertaining for the viewer at especific oportunities.
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I don't like it because I'm a purist. By replacing the textures you're not only substituting the resolution quality (which increases, which is a good thing), but you're also forcedly changing the art of the game. Unless the new texture is made by the manufacturer of the game, or really well studied and developed by an experienced artist, I find it to be just a novelty and should never replace the original ones on a final AVI.
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nice WIP, I especially liked how mario looked at bob-omb king, how you did the owl cage star in WF, and the KTQ race was very funny (one of the best stars in this movie, IMO).
I have only one complaint: when you grab a star, try to do it at the lowest height possible (touch it barely with the top of the head), so you reach the floor sooner.
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- this site is for as perfect as possible movies only, and that's hard to do unassisted
- no nestopia movies allowed on this site currently
maybe you should submit it to www.speeddemosarchive.com (although they don't normally take emulator movies)
ok, so this is a real TAS, and you just made a comment about unassisted style runs inside your submission form. try to make those comments on the off-topic or general forums, and use the submission description to describe the making of the movie instead.
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laughing_gas wrote:
I could just record a tas and then play it back, while recording myself with a webcam as I pretend to play the game.
what tub said
Vatchern wrote:
just hook up the computer to a tv and record it to a vhs.
what chamale said
basically, i could send a TAS on vhs if i wanted, and it wouldn't look like a tas, and it would look like the real thing running[
and i can easily prove that it's not a TAS by shooting this scene: showing the controler, my eyes closed and the TV all in a single shot, and me pressing the buttons 1 by 1 many times showing that it is the real thing, and then, without cutting, start the game. well, this is more proof than many things they accept there.
I could shoot it using my digital camera, but they don't accept bad quality video.
I bet I'm not the only one that gives a damn about it, if they wanted better gameplay they'd get bad quality AVIs too, but that doesn't seem to be what they want.
ANYWAY, here's another one:
Double Dragon trilogy (NES)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMuQIX6sGeY
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If you actively make it a 2 players TAS, using player 2 to screw up the competition while player 1 races, that'd be fun and would hide the fact that L+R was even used.
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I don't give SDA that much importance for me to waste money for that? They could just accept a video of me playing on the emulator, and I CAN give proof that it's not a TAS.
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I think it does.
but I have installed the game on about 7 different pcs and had no problems at all. besides, the game is uninstallable.
besides, starforce is offering a prize for anyone who proves that their system can damage computers and nobody came to grab the prize yet.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25niA5IfMOU
That's a video of me playing the game on the ESWC 02-04 track, and then on 3 tracks I've designed myself. The time is 4 seconds slower than the current WR, but the competition is really high in this game, and I've started playing 5 months ago.
The game is free, in case somebody doesn't know. http://www.trackmanianations.com/indexUk.php
download extra tracks here (eswc tracks aren't shipped with the default game setup) http://nations.tm-exchange.com/
