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Posted: 9/27/2009 11:10 PM
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Agent248
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Location: Quebec, Canada
I've watched it and to me it was very good, but only one question, why use mode "A" ? Isn't there a rule on the site that says always use the hardest difficulty level ? To me it's more difficult on mode "B" since you can hurt yourself. But I also know that it won't be as fast...
Posted: 9/4/2009 2:58 PM
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Agent248
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Location: Quebec, Canada
I was searching on the net for some technical information on the way the real NES controller is working and I found a PDF file that contain some useful stuff. If that could be of some help to anyone. Here's the link : http://www.parallax.com/dl/docs/prod/prop/Hydra-Ch6All-v1.0.pdf
Posted: 9/3/2009 3:51 PM
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Agent248
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Wow, thanks for the fast reply :) I must admit that I'm maybe not familiar enough with either the emulator nor the real hardware. But when you start up the console, is there any check done by the console to see if there is at least one controller connected or something, maybe it will be possible to use that to signal that it is time to start the output of keypress. But it will be a bigger problem to actually sync the key press within the frame. I was pretty sure you could only do a key press in the frame and whenever you did it had actually no importance. It's good to know, I will know one more thing when I will go to bed this night :)
Posted: 9/3/2009 3:34 PM
Post subject: TAS on a real NES
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Agent248
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Hello everyone, I've been a long time follower of tasvideos but first time poster. You guys have done some incredible works and I want to thanks you for that ! But I've been asking myself a question for a long time and even when searching on the forum I didn't see anything related to that. Do you guys think it is possible to output some movie (I said NES in the title, but could also be SNES, Genesis/Megadrive, etc) via the computer serial port to the controller port of a real console. It will probably difficult to do since it will need some custom cable, program to output the key sequence. Beside, i'm not even sure that the emulator are close enought to the real hardware to be able to do that without desync. Anybody ever tried to do that ?