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I made one level for wysters discontinued TAS. Pelagic II in 1:39: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysUmJ8PIKE
It's 18 seconds faster than WR. I let the guards put on the alarm so that they might open some doors for me. Normally it would be too risky on PA, but in TAS it's no problem. I had a slightly different scientist strategy at 0:32. It saves some time to just open the door and let him see me so that I can take him later. I like the laptop gun, it's one of the few guns in PD that is made of metal instead of plastic. The guards are pretty insane on this level/difficulty, one CMP150 burst can pretty much kill you. The exact time is about 1:39.2, I think.
Next up is Deep Sea. If someone is interested in doing that, here's the m64 and save state: http://www.mediafire.com/?uu8c4hvvs7ooerw (it's the same that wyster uploaded, but his link had expired)
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yeah, just like in games, we are not the character that we control on the screen, even though we might sometimes think so when we say things like "I died" in a game. so too in reality, our body is just a character that the soul controls outside of this 'reality'. if reality is fiction, TASing could be possible...
at least this many frames: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKR4atl8h-I
i think reality seems to run slower than 2D projected things like games or movies on a screen. maybe because reality is 3D, although the third dimension is just a perception.
i've used save states in dreams sometimes. if precognition was possible, you might be able to use saves states (sort of) like in this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435705/
i've also heard that some drugs can make your brain speed up so that everything goes in slow motion, but why not then use this kind of drugs in sports where you could take advantage of slow motion?
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There seems to be a simple time limit like usual. I split the tas into two parts, so it got accepted now. The first part is almost 4 hours: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Om_cVQxr8
The audio is off sync for some reason, even though it wasn't in the original file.
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crap... i tried to upload my 6.5h TAS but it got rejected for being too long :/. why can't youtube write how long videos we can upload now? we just waste their bandwidth by having to test it. but you can at least have 1 hour long videos, because i saw someone who had uploaded one.
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game: ghostbusters
system: genesis
Link to video
just an old wip i decided to upload now that youtube allows longer videos. highness has a much more optimized run that he's working on (last level). topic
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could also be that they haven't had time to uncap everyone yet. when youtube changed into the newer worse channels, it took some time before all channels were changed.
well, i have one TAS that is 6.5h, lol.
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cool, i got this too. maybe that's why it had been so slow recently, because they've been messing around with this. but how much longer than 15 min can the videos be?
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Another thing i and many others have noticed about youtube, is that it's often very slow nowadays. I thought that maybe google is running out of bandwidth... or maybe they give more bandwidth to VEVO channels and such. Youtube also keeps adding bad features for some reason, like the recent "load more" button that appears on channels with lots of videos, so you have to keep clicking that button several times to load all of the videos.
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nah, i haven't hex-edited movies from this game... actually i have no idea how to hex-edit, but i can edit movies with the tas movie editor program (that's what i meant by 'hex-editing'). it's intuitive to use.
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you mention the input copying here: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=106903&highlight=#106903
i wish you had copied a bit more of my TAS though, like those swimming parts, because they were faster in my run, due to tapping c-up instead of just holding it down.
copying input can save a lot of time for TASers, so i think it's a good thing. there's not really any reason to waste time on doing a new input if there's already a good one out there. but N64 is one of those strange consoles which makes it impossible to copy input because many games have variable/random framerate.
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It could also be that he thought it's interesting to see how people will react if they don't know how it's done. People who haven't heard about TASing would be amazed and write "wtf, how did you do that" in the comments... but when there's a disclaimer that says it's tool-assisted with a link that explains it all, it can spoil it for some people and they will go "ah, it's just a hax/cheat video, how boring".
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i downloaded my old gmv, and gens says it's 23 minutes och 35 seconds. there was some guy who had a faster one i think, on the previous page. feel free to hexedit the end of my run in yours if you have trouble finishing it.
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lol, i should have got copyright for some tricks i found in turok 1, then nobody could have beat my run.
i'm sort of working on wysters Perfect Dark TAS, but you can download the m64 and finish it for me :P
that can happen in popular games, if you don't TAS them fast enough.
rofl
i guess a TAS could be called intellectual property.
btw, i wonder if abeshi would be ok with someone (like webnations) uploading his TAS to youtube, so that more people would notice it.
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In mmbossman's Turok TAS he used a few seconds of my input without my permission. I prefer to say that he used it instead of stole, because I don't think 'stealing' input is a big deal... actually, I'm honored if someone uses my input. But yeah, everyone's different.
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Looks funny when you say things like that when you have that happy smiley face avatar xD
It saves a lot of time to use someone elses perfected input too, instead of making a new one for no reason, so I don't think it should be a problem if he used MrGrunz's input, unless MrGrunz has something against it. abeshi should mention which parts are made by MrGrunz though (and if published it could say "abeshi's and MrGrunz's Majora's Mask TAS"). TASes are often done by using several peoples input, for example the recent 0-star SM64 TAS had input from 5 people.
What would be the point of that though if he's not even planning to submit it here?
Maybe he thought it was annoying.
I also think the run is good enough to get published, for the same reason the OoT run was: Because it's like one Hour faster than the current best published movie. Grunz will probably not be finished with his run in several months so it could be published in the mean time. If this was submitted, it would get published if democracy is the deciding factor. It could be annoying for Grunz though if this was published, so I dunno.