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I am proud to present the first Windows TAS! It is for Warp Game, an awesome freeware Game Maker platformer that was recently ported to flash. Many TAS glitches are used to shorten time.
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  • Used hourglass-r11, should sync with the most recent revision.
  • Manipulates luck.
  • Abuses programming errors in the game.

Tricks

  • If you are a pixel away from an enemy and you jump, you will kill the enemy instead of dying like you regularly will. Used alot throughout the run.
  • Jumping makes you lose a few frames, so I avoid doing it whenever I can.
  • Hitting the ceiling during a jump is not good, as you freeze momentarily.
  • I hit ledges while falling to fall faster.

Possible Improvements

  • This TAS is maybe improvable if you can get RAM watch working for this game in Hourglass to monitor speed better or something.
  • In level 4 it is faster to warp from the left to get in the pit, but all enemies in this game are set on timers and it causes a spike guy (the unkillable dudes) in level 28 to spawn in a dumb place. If anyone wants to try improving this, try finding the RNG address and manipulating that better.

Enjoy the first Windows TAS! I may have a go at this game some other time, but I'm proud with my effort here. I don't think the rerecord count is right, because I spliced some input via hex editor into a blank wtf file.
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adelikat: The MovieRules say: Movies of games that are not emulated well (have graphical or functional glitches that do not exist on the real console) should not be submitted.
Like Grunt said here, this isn't exactly an emulator. However Hourglass doesn't not currently fully support this game. For now I am rejecting this submission. However, people are indicating that should Hourglass eventually support sound for this game that the movie would still sync? If so I would be willing to unreject this submission should if/when this happens.
This run should not be considered until proper sound support is added. Perhaps it should be delayed until then?

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Posted: 6/25/2011 8:08 PM
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #3193: NitroGenesis's Windows Warp in 04:54.68
Posted: 6/25/2011 8:39 PM
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An encode (without sound, Hourglass' AVI recorder can't record this game's sound so we'll have to use an external device) can be found in the submission text.
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Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
Posted: 6/25/2011 8:55 PM
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This technically isn't the first PC TAS as DOS TASes are still PC TASes. This would be the first Windows TAS. That said, I enjoyed watching the movie, so yes vote.
Posted: 6/25/2011 9:01 PM
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This game was made with Mark Overmars' / YoYo Games' Game Maker? I've been having trouble using Hourglass with Game Maker games. What OS are you running it on?
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Posted: 6/25/2011 9:02 PM
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I made this TAS on my Windows XP computer, instead of my main vista one.
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Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
Posted: 6/25/2011 9:05 PM
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NitroGenesis wrote:
I made this TAS on my Windows XP computer, instead of my main vista one.
Were you having issues running it on Vista?
All the best, Brandon Evans
Posted: 6/25/2011 9:08 PM
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No, I just did it on there because I had all the files ready.
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Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
Posted: 6/25/2011 9:37 PM
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Why did it run without any music? Does it have music? .... voted Meh mainly because of this and because the game is .. predictable, even when you can jump on the enemies without any room .. +D
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Posted: 6/25/2011 9:37 PM
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It has music, but Hourglass' dumper is borked and stuff and it can't dump the music in this game. I hope it will be fixed soon. The game plays fine in emulator.
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Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
Posted: 6/25/2011 9:53 PM
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While I am glad to see that we finally have Windows game TASing accepted I didn't feel that this game have much to offer as far as entertainment goes. Though the enemy kill trick was pretty cool. Voted meh.
Posted: 6/25/2011 10:02 PM
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NitroGenesis, your description is a lie.
I am proud to present the first PC TAS!
No it isn't. We already have 13 PC TASs published: http://tasvideos.org/Movies-DOS.html ShadowWraith is correct, but further, I have to kill you now.
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Posted: 6/25/2011 10:36 PM
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HOLY SHIT! It's really happening! Can someone pinch me please? ... Anyway, I've watched the movie, and I'm not impressed. I think this game is boring to watch. It doesn't look like a good game to TAS, IMO. I'm voting Meh, because of your nice effort. Mass Effect 1&2 TAS, make it happen, anyone!
Posted: 6/25/2011 11:33 PM
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I removed the soundless encode because it is affecting some peoples votes.
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Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
Posted: 6/26/2011 1:22 AM
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I'm currently working on the official encodes. I'll do anything to make sure it has sound in it. Sorry, but I give up.
Posted: 6/26/2011 1:36 AM
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Why is this not La Mulana Serious post: I will watch when there's a nice encode, thanks Mister Epic.
Posted: 6/26/2011 2:09 AM
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Couldn't this have waited a bit longer for submission until Hourglass fully supported this game? There's a reason it isn't listed as being compatible yet. (I'm working on it...) As for the run... I don't know. It's not a game I find really exciting, but then again the run isn't that bad, it's under 5 minutes, and it got more interesting as it went along and buffs started appearing.
Posted: 6/26/2011 2:33 AM
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The rules say:
Movie Rules wrote:
Movies of games that are not emulated well (have graphical or functional glitches that do not exist on the real console) should not be submitted.
This isn't an emulator, per se, but the lack of sound support is definitely an absence of functionality. This run should not be considered until proper sound support is added. Perhaps it should be delayed until then?
Posted: 6/26/2011 4:06 AM
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I can't get this to work. Is there a chance someone could make an encode, even if there's no sound?
Posted: 6/26/2011 4:15 AM
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If you play it back with Hourglass, you can hear the sound just fine. At least, I can on Vista64. I voted yes for the same reasons as I posted in the "Warp Game" thread. Also, like nitsuja said, it gets more interesting when more buffs start appearing and it starts looking much more impressive.
Posted: 6/27/2011 4:25 AM
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Windows~~~!!!! I want to play it too~~~~~. This is a warp game! I'd like to have a try.
Do the work.
Posted: 6/27/2011 7:38 AM
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X2poet, I just wanted to let you know that just about every time you post in a thread, it makes me incredibly happy. I can't really explain exactly why. It just seems like your heart is always in the right place :)
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Posted: 6/27/2011 11:43 AM
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Nice little game, nice music, fast-paced. Yes vote. I captured the audio of this game. It was recorded using Windows "Stereo Mix" with Audacity. ReplayGain recommends +12,37db so the volume might be bit low. It may contain some small artifacts. You will most likely have to edit it a bit to sync it to your encode. Get it here.
Posted: 6/27/2011 11:45 AM
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Ideally, nitsuja will implement compatibility with this game's audio subsystem and such a recording won't be necessary.
Posted: 6/27/2011 11:46 AM
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Why are people avoiding having this published? This would be great to see published! I also really want to see it. :)
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Posted: 6/27/2011 11:55 AM
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If you have Windows, you can see it easily. It's a freeware game. Simply get Hourglass from here, get the game from here, get the TAS from the submission, open Hourglass, browse for both files (the .exe and the .wtf), and click the button that says "Run and Play Existing Movie".
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