Posted: 9/12/2010 12:20 AM
Post subject: Supplemental files in submissions and publications
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BigBoct
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Editor, Former player
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I was reading the submission thread for marzojr's S3&K NG+ run, and saw a post by mklip2001 about linking to the anchor savestates marzojr had used for the run in the publication, and there was a TODO note about providing a more permanent solution than Mediafire links to the savestates. My question is, how hard would it be to update the submission uploader and/or the movie publisher to allow for multiple files to be uploaded, preferably to a single ZIP file? If that were possible, mirrors for savestates or SRAM for movies anchored from one of them would be unnecessary. This would also be handy for LUA subtitles and the like.
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Posted: 9/12/2010 12:23 AM
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DeHackEd
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Lua's a relatively new thing and hardly necessary for runs. As for savestates, it's strongly discouraged but most emulators (a few notwithstanding) will include the starting savestate in the video file itself. In most situations, it just isn't necessary. Only recently has it become an issue. Also, once upon a time some idiot submitted a dumb mario romhack (sprite modification only) and included the ROM in the ZIP. Since then the upload code has been pretty strict about what it will accept. Now we want to lift that?
Posted: 9/12/2010 1:32 AM
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BigBoct
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Honestly, I had forgotten that most emulator movie files support embedding the requisite SRAM or savestate; I just got my computer back yesterday (after 5 months) so I'm a bit rusty.
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