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Klmz

About this page[1]

Due to the page system restrictments, my nickname "klmz"[2][3] has been spelled with a heading capital "K". However, I only approve of spelling it without capitals, while I only approve of spelling "Emeter" the other nickname of mine with just a heading capital "E".

Special thanks to moozooh for his example of nicely organized and fully informational homepage as well as his constructive comments. :)

I have biases. Unlike most of others, I am not biased against games that I dislike or never played, with only several particular exceptions that haven't emerged. On the other hand, I am sometimes biased towards games that I like, but not necessarily played. Most of the time, I try to judge the movie, not the game.

I am unlikely to give very low ratings. I do not lower some movies' ratings to "promote" some others. Low technique ratings are very rare because our judges are doing their jobs fairly well. Movies that receive very low entertainment ratings from me are mostly "morally wrong", "politically incorrect" or just "very boring" in common sense.

I have not any plan to rush to acheive the "100% Movies Rated" rank, especially before I have watched all published movies for twice at least.

And I admit that everyone's rubric allows exceptions.

Useful to myself.

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About klmz (aka. Emeter)[1][2][3][4][5]

This section is still under construction.

Comments on some emulators[1]

General comments

  • These comments are all on emulators for 32-bit Windows platform.
  • Currently most of the rerecording emulators work very well, while a few of them have some problems.
    • Many of them, such as FCEUX, Mednafen and DeSmuME don't recognize paths with non-ASCII characters at all.
    • Even if some emulators are set to pause automatically in background, they will always fail to do this if they are minimized using left-clicked Taskbar-Minimization Buttons. This happens to FCEU, FCEUX, Gens and SNES 9x.
    • The displayed on-screen messages often disappear too soon when fast-forward is being used.

NES emulators

  • FCE Ultra
    • mz has fixed the Read-Only Toggle bug which used to annoy NES TASers, and added a few desired features as well.
    • The emulation problem since FCE Ultra 0.98.16 which prevented some games like Banana Prince from working has been (almost) fixed in current versions. Action 52 (U) still doesn't work.
    • This emulator has the bug that it fails to pause running if the user minimized the window by left-clicking on the Taskbar-Minimization Button, even if the Enable Run in Background menu option is unchecked. It is unlikely to be fixed soon.

  • FCEUX
    • The fail-to-pause-in-background bug from FCEU hasn't been fixed. It is unlikely to be fixed soon, either.

GBA emulators

  • VisualBoyAdvance
    • At least one game Metal Slug Advance (U) cannot be emulated correctly with any current VBA 1.72 Rerecording versions.
    • "VBA Link Rerecording" would be a great idea.
    • Maybe "VBAM + Rerecording" is a better idea?
    • Unfortunately, the VBAR source files are full of MFC things which has been annoying me.
    • And now I cannot build from the SVN source at all due to some linkage problems.

SMS/GG emulators

  • Dega
    • It doesn't work under Windows 9x at all! Well, not so big a problem.

TODO[1]

Anyone may do these, while I am supposed to do them myself as well.

  • Clean up this page.
  • Fix typo, spelling and grammar issues. Other editors are welcome to do these.
  • Comment on the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man and recall doing that properly in the future.[6]
  • Promote either trimmed mean or winsorized mean to be used in evaluations of movie ratings.
  • Get rid of this section in future.

Feedback

Comments are welcome.

moozooh: First off, in regards to your non-submitted movies.

I'm not sure how exactly did you determine that an improvement of 10 seconds to Jackal would be rejected. Does it look so significantly boring in comparison? Otherwise I see no problems for it to get published as an improvement to the current movie. In the worst case, it can still have a mention in the published movie description like some other movies have/had.

Then, how much of an improvement your Krion Conquest movie actually is? Even if it's not significant time-wise, you might still have noticeably better stylistic choices. After your JtS movie, many of us have been convinced in your exceptional sense of style. :) The same applies to your R&F 100CD improvement. EOF

klmz: I guess single-player movies are supposed to be inferior to multi-player movies in entertainment.

moozooh: Well, I'd leave that to the audience to decide. Mind you, the published Kage, TMNT2, and other movies of similar games all use 1-p because it's faster than 2-p. If anything, I would at least try.

klmz: I should have metioned that "Cancelled Movies/Projects" weren't necessarily "TAS-like" or even "Completed" to avoid misleading. Those semi-test runs don't look so nice (at least according to my standard).

Comments are welcome.

Footnotes[1]

[1] This section is still under construction and its contents may be incomplete.

[2] The old .avi of Super Mario Bros. (JPN/USA PRG0) "warped run" in 04:58:53 with my name misspelled as "kmlz" had been downloaded over 810 times before it got replaced with the corrected one. Nowadays, there may still be some people recognizing me wrongly as "kmlz".

[3] Fortunately, My Super Mario Bros. (JPN/USA PRG0) "warped run" in 04:58:18 which obsoleted the old Super Mario Bros. (JPN/USA PRG0) "warped run" in 04:58:53 got published with my name "klmz" spelled correctly in the subtitle(s) of the .avi. Hopefully the new movie makes people recognize me as "klmz" correctly.

[4] My current avatar is actually a cat.

[5] It seems that I am too lazy to edit this although I've become an editor.

[6] Becoming an editor has helped a lot. However, it can be difficult to recall having made that comment properly.

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