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Posted: 8/9/2014 7:28 PM

Post subject: Allowed SM Romhacks?

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kusoman

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What Super Metroid Romhacks are allowed because I want to TAS Super Metroid Grand Prix I want to know that if its allowed.

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Posted: 8/9/2014 11:25 PM

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It's based on whether the TAS of it would be different than what the published movies already showcase, so it's rather hard at times to find out unless you make a rough TAS of it first.

LLCoolDave wrote:

This seems to be competing for the "Worst looking TAS of 2011" Award.

Posted: 8/10/2014 4:08 AM

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ok but I made a TAS if grand prix but is it possible that I can submit it in a .wmv file format?

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Posted: 8/10/2014 4:09 AM

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kusoman wrote:

ok but I made a TAS if grand prix but is it possible that I can submit it in a .wmv file format?

No? Submit the input file.

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Posted: 8/10/2014 6:35 AM

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Why the hell are you using a wmv container?

Posted: 8/10/2014 6:54 AM

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to put together segments

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Posted: 8/10/2014 7:00 AM

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Movie maker =/= making a TAS. What on earth are you doing?

Posted: 8/10/2014 7:12 AM

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kusoman

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first making the TAS the input files are in segments convert the segments to avi put the avis in correct order in Movie Maker thensaving to wmv now the file is single segment

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Posted: 8/10/2014 7:16 AM

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kusoman

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also doing this for my Metroid Prime TAS which isn't finished

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Posted: 8/10/2014 7:20 AM

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kusoman wrote:

first making the TAS the input files are in segments convert the segments to avi put the avis in correct order in Movie Maker thensaving to wmv now the file is single segment

You don't have to do this. A TAS can have hard and softresets (even disc swaps on PS1) and still be one contiguous file. Whatever you're doing to segment the TAS is unnecessary, it should all be one file.

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Posted: 8/10/2014 7:25 AM

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kusoman

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but how do I do that?

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Posted: 8/10/2014 9:25 AM

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You can continue creating a TAS by playing the movie on an emulator in Read+Write mode (IE not Read-only), then loading a savestate. That will resume recording from that point, and you may continue. If you don't have a savestate during this movie which you'd like to continue from, then of course you first need to create one. Play the movie in Read only mode, so all you're doing is viewing it. Loading a state in this mode will simply jump the movie and start viewing at that point, rather than editing from that point. Use the existing savestates, or Pause+Frame Advance tools to get to the exact section you want, then create a savestate. Now load the movie in Read+write, and loading from this new savestate will enable you to continue working from that exact point as requested. Do that any time you have to stop working on your TAS, and continue it another time. The final product of a TAS needs to be just 1 long movie file, rather than independent sections.