Suppose a game has multiple sets of skippable levels. Some are unlocked from the start, whereas some are only unlocked when you 100% the rest of the game (which includes optional goals in the nonskippable levels). In a non-full-completion category, what would be preferred, completing only the minimum number of levels, or completing as many levels as possible while keeping to a fastest completion of each level that's actually done (thus skipping the initially locked levels)? The former seems less arbitrary, but the latter shows more content.
[16:36:31] <Mothrayas> I have to say this argument about robot drug usage is a lot more fun than whatever else we have been doing in the past two+ hours
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
1. Obsoleting published movie without improvement: 1.a - Resubmitting vault movies without improvement but different (entertainment based) input? From Wiki: Vault: Opportunities to entertain the audience where it does not affect time is not a requirement. However, it is encouraged and can be used as a tie-breaker for two equally fast movies. --> I think there should be more preconditions or something. I mean there's for example NES Trojan with constant bunnyhopping, so very little efforts can be done to make it more entertaining, so the resulting submitted movie would be near identical in it's whole. Just want to know more informations before attempting to spam reworked published movies for this goal of bad games.
1.b - What about "vault to moon" attempts? From Wiki: Vault: "It is possible for a faster movie to be published in this category while a slower but "more entertaining" movie is published in another tier." ---> So all I need to is find enough speed/entertainment tradeoffs and be entertaining enough for good comments/views/judge opinion, right?
2. No adult only games allowed Wiki: MovieRules.html#AdultOnlyGamesAreNotAllowed - According to ESRB, there's 27 currently rated as AO, amongst them PC Manhunt 2, so I guess it's on the rejected list? - What about PS3 God Of War 3 (nudity + sex minigame) or other games with strong sexual contents? In this case, not all nudity can be skipped.
2 -> Still don't know because of contradictions. 1st sentence: [...] are not allowed in any circumstance. "No!" 2nd sentence: uncensored and censored versions [...], either version is allowed as long as no uncensored-only content is accessed or visible. "Okay." 3rd sentence: "For example, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is allowed as long as no Hot Coffee content is seen in it. Not allowed!
1.a -> Masterjun had a good point on IRC, that this is about tie-breakers for submitted movies, not for obsoleting a published movie with a newly submitte movie with same time. I guess this case is not allowed, right?
1.b -> Oh, that extra requirement (Need to be a different branch) should be added to the rules in my opinion.
I don't see any contradiction.
Video games rated adult-only, or unrated adult video games with strong sexual content and/or extreme violence to AO-rating standards, are not allowed in any circumstance. --> Thought it means that strong sexual content and/or extreme violence is not allowed in any circumstance.
For games with uncensored adult-only versions and censored versions that are rated less than AO, a movie of either version is allowed as long as no uncensored-only content is accessed or visible. --> So it's allowed to use an uncensored adult-only version as long as there's no extra sexual or extreme violence content? What?
well the answer is "In-game settings and environment parameters that have arbitrary nature and don't belong to point 1 should be left at default values", my question is still: why these numbers? what's based off?
+fsvgm777 never censoring anything.
The last PSX BIOS revision that was put on actual PSone consoles was revision 4.6 - in the PS3's firmware, there is a PSX BIOS revision that is labelled 5.0. Is this BIOS revision allowed or forbidden?
Any official PSX BIOS version is accepted, provided it matches the region of the game played.
+fsvgm777 never censoring anything.
The movie must be good In particular: A speed-oriented movie must beat all existing records If your movie is going to beat something, be sure it beats it. If your tool-assisted movie is not faster than the non-tool-assisted world record for the same game, aiming for the same goals, your movie will be rejected. Do your research to avoid this. Look for the existing unassisted speedrun records. Look for previous TAS movies in the submission queue or on the forums. Check places such as YouTube or NicoVideo for speedruns, tool-assisted or otherwise. Failure to beat existing movies will result in rejection.
