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Posted: 1/29/2010 10:18 PM
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AniMeowzerz
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Heh, just tried using the avisplit, it crashed just as it was splitting it into another segment. Hmm... this is becoming a major pain :[
Posted: 1/29/2010 9:03 PM
(Edited: 1/29/2010 9:19 PM)
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AniMeowzerz
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RadioKJ wrote:
Yup. 18 minutes, 39 seconds, CRASH. Now it won't even give me a proper error.
Wow, it stopped working for me at that exact same time too. 18:39. :/ What the hell. Am I gonna have to use an older version of mupen? Edit: I came up with a theoretical solution, although that means that encoding is gonna take a massively long time. Theory is that it always freezes after 18:39 of recorded video. So I'll just write down the frame that it's frozen on, replay the emu movie with the pause set at the recorded frame by -1/1/+1 (depending on where the video stops and/or on which frame the movie starts recording) , and make another video. splice them together afterwards. Think it'd work?
Posted: 1/29/2010 6:34 PM
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AniMeowzerz
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I'm getting a video encode of it right now, but it's going to take a good while. Mupen's running at 1/3rd of the speed. Luckily though, the video doesn't record how slow it is :P Anyways as for how well known the improvements are, that's my bad: I found those tricks out about 2 months ago for my speedrun. I had only posted about them on the SDA topic and didn't think any about TASvideos (I didn't even know a tas was being made D: ) Other than those improvements and maybe like Mitjitsu said about the maneuvering to save frames, this TAS is top-notch. I'm hoping to have this recorded and uploaded by tomorrow :) Edit: goddamnit, it crashed on me. :/
Posted: 1/27/2010 12:57 AM
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AniMeowzerz
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Alright, I'm editing this as I go, so bare with me. I'm no TAS guy, so these aren't going to be perfect times The text cancel I mentioned above with benkei saves roughly 4 seconds the Shogun battle is an error on my part, it didn't save time. I'd have to say "My bad" =[ The folkypoke village timesaver's gonna be a really rough estimate, just because I'm gonna try to account for lag as much as I can (timing all of this form Mupen). without lag, I'd say from when Koryuta walks away to grabbing the fire ryo and leaves folkypoke into Tosa is about 2:50 in total from the TAS. Entering and exiting folkypoke before ascending up the stairs takes roughly 6-7 seconds additional. Getting the Fire Ryo and exiting out of the text is about 1:27, so 1:33-34 up til now. From starting to switch to Yae til the first instance it takes to start moving after warping with the dragon, it's about 37 seconds. So that comes with a total of 2:10, which is 40 seconds savings. As I said, that's a really rough estimate so it could be more or less. But, it does save a fair amount of time.
Posted: 1/26/2010 5:57 AM
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AniMeowzerz
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I'd like to display another improvement that could be made in the beginning of the TAS. When you first talk to Benkei, you don't have to go through all of his text, you can just cancel it with B. As long as you have triggered meeting with Benkei, you can go and collect the fish (for confirmation) Displayed just after 8:32 in this video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnXxp-jIMIA Don't mean to be a bother about it, just thought it should be mentioned Sorry for this being my first post too :[ Anyways, I'm still watching the TAS and highly enjoying it :] Edit: Now this is about the Shogun on the back of the dragon- if you wait a very tiny bit on dealing damage to him, he'll only flash 2-3 times instead of the 5 when you first hit him. Though I don't know if it's 'faster' :S Edit2: Okay, I've found yet another spot that can save potential time. Immediately after the dragon and getting the flute, if you enter and exit folkypoke village THEN go get the fire ryo, using the Dragon with Yae will warp you to the door closest to the second exit in Folkypoke out to Tosa. Displayed on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yDy5ziikNs after 9:24 and continued into this video up until 1:44 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97KXHdly5uA Edit3: I just got done watching the rest of it, and I was not disappointed :-) I liked the use of the slope jumping, very handy that. Good, good stuff.