Posted: 3/26/2013 12:57 AM
Post subject: Super Mario Spacetime Instrument (illucia, soundplane, lua)
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paperkettle
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Link to video Some people on the IRC channel thought this might be a good place to post - feel free to ask questions if my description doesn't make sense! More info on the vimeo page.. but basically.. illucia is a physical patchbay I made that lets me connect computer programs with real wires. It accesses deeper parts of games and software than usual, so all sorts of new possibilities open up. With illucia, I can make games control things like audio synthesizers, video editors, or even other games. In the case of this video though, I'm using the illucia patchbay with an emulator to control savestate recording/playback, and also memory manipulation. I map some of this onto the wooden touch controller as well (a Soundplane made by madrona labs) and the result is a really strange video game instrument. I haven't seen a whole lot of stuff like this out there, but I figure the TAS community would get it right away. Are there any other communities where people do stuff like this? Trying to figure out if this sort of thing has a home already.
Posted: 3/26/2013 1:46 AM
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Patashu
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Wow, all I can say is - this is really cool! I was half expecting it to turn into a full-blown SMB-samples-only looping soundtrack about half way through, but what we got instead was great. You should try this with SMB3 or Super Mario World :)
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Posted: 3/26/2013 6:16 AM
Post subject: Live TASing and memory manipulation as art
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Personman
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I just saw this video, and it got me all excited about the possibilities for TAS tools and techniques in a more aesthetics-focused context that we're used to around here. Would love to hear other people's reactions, links to anything else similar, or thoughts about what tools and experience the existing TAS community might be able to bring to bear on future projects like this. ---- Mod edit: Merged topic from Tool-assisted laboratory forum.
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Posted: 4/19/2013 6:32 PM
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feos
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NES TAS of 2011
The only thing that comes to my mind after this is some XKeeper's SMB lua scripts. Link to video Link to video
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Posted: 3/30/2014 5:33 AM
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yep2yel
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That was freaking awesome. I love the idea of using this and all of the TASing techniques to produce art. Sadly, I couldn't do anything like this, so I'll just continue my normal TASing lol
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Posted: 3/31/2014 2:21 AM
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Thanks for the bump, I had missed this! Great stuff.
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