Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
I very much agree with this post.
Forget party hats, Christmas tree hats all the way man.
but we are playing the original, unedited game. There is no invincibility, no editing of hit boxes (making them unable to be hit, for example)
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
The reason for condoned consoles, as stated above, is to verifiy that a player indeed only used tools that did not affect the game whatsoever (and also to have an exact framecount, which is rather difficult to do on youtube).
It's rather ironic that in the regular speedrunning community it's a rule that the speedrun must be made in a real console because if it was made in an emulator there's no way to verify if cheating was done, while in the TAS community it's the exact opposite: TASes must be made with an emulator rather than with a console because it's the only way to make sure that no cheating was done.
I'm surprised that the OP found his way to the forums and had enough interest to sign up before making it to these four pages: http://tasvideos.org/About.html http://tasvideos.org/FAQ.html http://tasvideos.org/WhyAndHow.html http://tasvideos.org/Rules.html That last one is most germane to this thread.
I think the challenge is gone when anyone is allowed to use cheats. There'd be no limit to it. It might produce some amusing video's, but the point (especially the object of the game) would be completely gone.
