Before making a TAS you need to decide what ROMS you are to use. For a lot of games the choise is simple, you use the english version of the ROM, such as Mega Man 4 (U).nes. If the ROM has a [!] in the name, that's just good since that means that it is a "Verified Good Dump".
My question is if it would be a good idea to have a page on this site that gives information on what all the symbols in a ROM-name means and what symbols that are recommened that the ROM you use for a TAS have. For someone who is about to make their first TAS, it sometimes happens that they pick a bad ROM dump.
This new info on all the symbols in ROM-name could be applied to the page
http://tasvideos.org/Rules.html#the_rom_must_be_good_ or perhaps even get a page on its own.
I think that a lot of people that are thinking about making a TAS don't know, for example, what PRG0 in the ROM-name means (I know I don't know what PRG means). Another thing that is quite confusing is whether you should use the 1.0 or 1.1 version of the ROM. Is there a way a way to tell the difference between these ROM-dumps? I think that it would be a good idea to have information about these things on the site, so that people know for sure what ROM that it's recommended that they use (such as PRG-version 1.X - version). What do all of you think about this?
Bisqwit: If you don't think that this thread suits "Off topic" you are free to move it. I thought about where to post this thread and decided to post it here, but perhaps you think it's better to put it somewhere else.
Yeah, it depends on game. In Super Mario Bros for example, some levels
were minorly tweaked. For instance, the death hole (shown in the image)
in the swimming levels above the last pipe was removed, and the stairs
in the beginning of 8-1 were somehow changed as well.
(This animation does not demonstrate the death hole, but the swim of death.)
