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This movie is 85 frames faster than my previous one due to Cheep-cheep glitch in -2, and to better wallpassing in -3. It's also an improvement to the 1-frame-improvement submission of klmz.

One New Trick

I had got the idea since I was making SMB_Warpless run, I thought it was impossible at the first time, but then I proved me wrong when I tested -2 stage again.
It was a fish, actually, it was a "Cheep-cheep" who helped me. I've found lots of strange tricks before, but never that strange. It's almost the largest range a flying-fish can get.
I tried lots of circumstances to get that exceptional randomness, few of them worked. Some of the fishes seemed work, but I was not able to use them. It's hard to explain.
But somehow I made it. I had to give up little entertainment to get the right circumstance. This randomness might be improvable, but it could hardly save time, it's quite impossible to get the fish goes 20 frames faster.

Credit

Thanks to GAP(a Chinese player) for helping me a lot on this new trick.
Also, thanks to klmz for his 1-frame-improvement in -3 stage. I'd like to team up with klmz this time, but for some reasons, it's not going to happen this time. It's a pity.
Oh, and SMB_Warpless run will be improved with this Cheep-cheep glitch by me :)

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Posted: 10/24/2009 11:08 AM
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Great... Mario games have no limits, it seems
Posted: 10/24/2009 4:19 PM
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I achieved a thing the same by 2-3, and it challenged and it was not able to be achieved. You are　 great！
Posted: 2/18/2010 10:16 AM
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1080p YouTube 1080p MKV
Posted: 2/18/2010 1:39 PM
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HappyLee
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1080p, oh, my...
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Posted: 2/19/2010 9:40 AM
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Flygon
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I'd go for 2160p but I don't think I'll find many movie cinemas willing to lend me a screen to show this run. Unless I can get one of those 100in TVs.
Posted: 2/19/2010 11:52 AM
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Flygon wrote:
I'd go for 2160p but I don't think I'll find many movie cinemas willing to lend me a screen to show this run. Unless I can get one of those 100in TVs.
Play some Super Smash TV, you'll be fine.
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Posted: 2/19/2010 2:29 PM
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Thank you flygon! After viewing this in 1080p, I feel like the movie was alive! Like I was actually there! The 8-bit technology blew my miiiiind in 1080p! WOWZERS!
adelikat wrote:
I very much agree with this post.
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Posted: 2/19/2010 2:36 PM
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Unless you encode it with NTSC artifacts*, I cannot consider this a valid HD encoding. *) Or even better, PAL artifacts, considering where I come from. Also, then you get actual justification for using a higher resolution. Here's what I'm talking about.
Posted: 2/19/2010 2:38 PM
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Bisqwit wrote:
Also, then you get actual justification for using a higher resolution.
He already is justified for using a higher resolution. Using native resolution, one loses color precision in the RGB->YUV colorspace conversion. Compare his Donkey Kong Jr. regular vs. HD encodes.
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Posted: 2/19/2010 2:41 PM
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Nach wrote:
He already is justified for using a higher resolution.
Only up until exactly 2x of the original. Not for "1080p". And it's not the RGB->YUV that does it; it's the chroma supersampling. Making the pixels larger [than the 2x necessary to overcome supersampling] won't help keeping the color detail, unless you use dithering, which I don't think happens here. Also keep in mind that the NES produces YUV (or some variant thereof) too, which means that it's the RGB rendering that actually loses color information, not the YUV one.
Posted: 2/19/2010 2:46 PM
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Bisqwit wrote:
Making the pixels larger [than the 2x necessary to overcome supersampling] won't help keeping the color detail, unless you use dithering, which I don't think happens here.
Actually, it does. It just depends how you sample it. If you sample it using point, all (2*n)x larger would all keep the color.
Bisqwit wrote:
Also keep in mind that the NES produces YUV (or some variant thereof) too, which means that it's the RGB rendering that actually loses color information, not the YUV one.
While this may be true, the emu still has all the color. Also if the colorspace is in 4:4:4 YUV, then there is no color loss.
Posted: 2/19/2010 2:52 PM
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Bisqwit wrote:
Nach wrote:
He already is justified for using a higher resolution.
Only up until exactly 2x of the original. Not for "1080p".
Actually I think it's 4x time (2x2). Of course he's not justified for that huge monstrosity. Except he does raise a good point that YouTube loses quality in their encode on top of ours, so providing them with an even better source gives them less of an opportunity to screw it up.
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Posted: 2/19/2010 2:52 PM
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Aktan wrote:
Bisqwit wrote:
Making the pixels larger [than the 2x necessary to overcome supersampling] won't help keeping the color detail, unless you use dithering, which I don't think happens here.
Actually, it does. It just depends how you sample it. If you sample it using point, all (2*n)x larger would all keep the color.
If you sample it using point, only n=1 is required
Posted: 2/19/2010 2:53 PM
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In any case, I'd like to see NTSC'd encodings.
Posted: 2/19/2010 2:58 PM
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Bisqwit wrote:
If you sample it using point, only n=1 is required
Yep, the minimum needed is n=1, but all positive integers for n would also work. That's my point.
Posted: 2/19/2010 2:59 PM
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Nach wrote:
Actually I think it's 4x time (2x2).
What I and Bisqwit (I think) meant is the amount needed in each plane, aka 2x x, and 2x y.
Posted: 2/20/2010 7:42 PM
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Aktan wrote:
Nach wrote:
Actually I think it's 4x time (2x2).
What I and Bisqwit (I think) meant is the amount needed in each plane, aka 2x x, and 2x y.
Then we agree.
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Posted: 2/20/2010 8:22 PM
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I understand that having artifacts looks cool, but the crisp pixels look sumptuous - specially on DK. I think I would maybe also prefer most games with artifacts but either way, these are pretty. Most CRT TVs take time for the image to fade out though - making a massive difference when fast scrolling occurs or in Gradius. That didn't seem to occur in the example you posted, so either way it's not entirely authentic.
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Posted: 2/20/2010 9:49 PM
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Some games make use of the blurring effects of the TV to fake transparency. I remember seeing some example of glass tubes in one of the Genesis Sonic games; it looked way better with the TV artifacts on than off.
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The publication links to the wrong video. It should link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGWUgw--Xco The video it currently links to has the same name so that's probably why this happened. The current video is an unofficial encode, it uses the Twin Famicom BIOS instead of the original, and the audio is scratchy.
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That old encode doesn't do aspect ratio correction, so they're both wrong, and the best thing to do would be to reencode it altogether. Not sure I should repalce a video that sounds wrong with one that looks wrong.
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I've removed the video from the publication. Thanks for pointing it out.
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