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Acmlm @ ircchannel wrote:
AEXLOGPA and ATEZIUOZ.
The first one replaces LDA #$01 with LDA #$00 somewhere when there’s autoscrolling, to disable it.
The other changes LDA to RTS to skip the “ship autoscrolling” start sequence from the level header.
I also found codes that just disable the autoscrolling objects, by changing CMP to LDA: OXOUKEOK and OXULUEOK.
I find cheats like ↑this↑ much more interesting than cheats like “invulnerability” or “infinite health”.
Ps: Cheat codes are still not allowed here. It did not change.
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Neofix wrote:
If Bisqwit publish one workbench by day, we whait more than one year to publish all submitions (over than 500)...
There are 61 pending submissions, not 500.
> it hardly does any good if the people doing the actual encoding are going to ignore his approvals and continue publishing the same few movies they feel like publishing.
I am not ignoring his approvals. However, I have a “let's see what's in the queue” day only so often, which means that I'm generally much more likely to encode a “hot topic of day” movie than “Sega movie from last autumn that has been accepted”.
> Anyway... I want to ask, why Bisqwit only?
I am not the only one. Also, fast internet connection is not a necessary component.
To be honest I’m quite satisfied with the current pace we’re publishing movies.
I did some database analysis.
* There have been 303 days in total where a movie has been published.
* A total of 491 movies has been published (currently, 293 of them are not obsoleted).
* The biggest amount of movies published in a single day so far is 7 (at 2004-06-25).
* The first movie was published in 2004-02-09 (movies before that are not in database), and the latest was 2006-03-14.
* This range covers a 764 days.
* By average, we have a release day every 2.5 days. When we have a release day, we publish 1-7 movies at the same, with average in 1.6.
* By average, we publish a movie every 1.5 days.
My intention, with the maintainment of this site, has been to keep the pace between releaseless days in 1-3 days max. Although there have been individual pauses of about a week in length, by average we have succeeded excellently.
With these numbers, we can choose which movies we publish and when, and thus we do.
> And a suggestion: There should be a topic for --> Submission which should be publish (where people can point out the sumissions)
I am against this idea. Such a board/topic would not serve additional purpose, considering that publication-related discussion can already be conducted in the threads of the particular submissions in Workbench. At worst, it’d just be a spam board for people like Neofix with “please publish my movie!” pleads.
[Edit: Added "max"]
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[Moderator act: I merged the three additional threads (“Attack of the Killer Tomatoes beaten with cheats”, “Last Action Hero beat with cheats” and “Swamp Thing beaten using cheats”) into this thread.]
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On this site we don't allow cheats.
Some reasons are listed at http://tasvideos.org/Rules.html#2 (cheats fall under the same rule as hacks; hacks are actually just hard-coded cheats, or cheats are just temporary hacks).
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J-Rauwd wrote:
all other videos i've been watching that are not tool-assisted were actually performed in real time, correct? because ive got a bunch of those type of videos and i just wanna make sure.
Well I don't know what videos you have, but all the videos from this website are tool-assisted
-- as is indicated on the respective movie pages, and in the movie AVI file.
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As far as I know, glitch-use aside, Mew could only be acquired by downloading it from a machine that was occassionally set up at Pokémon events organized by Nintendo offices in different countries. But Mewtwo is another story.
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FractalFusion wrote:
I think I saw somewhere that Bisqwit doesn't want anyone to register multiple accounts.
If you like, you can ask Bisqwit to change your username, like I did before. :)
Exactly. I deleted the newly created account and reassociated the post Primo just posted to his previous account. (Thanks for the tip FractalFusion.)
Edit: Btw, the "somewhere" is here: http://tasvideos.org/ForumRules.html
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To the author:
Your nickname contains a special character, #, which has a special meaning in HTTP URLs. I will recommend that you choose another nickname, at least substituting the special character with a text representation, because your nickname causes problems in URLs should this movie be published. (We include the nickname in the filenames.)
1. You must stand further to the right.
You can even have half of Rockman outside the wall if you like.
2. Hold Right to prevent Rockman moving horizontally. Press Up (it will make Rockman stop climbing, because there's nothing to climb), then release Up and press Up again to grab the ladder from screen bottom.
Possibly, when you release Up, you must also press A, but I don't remember if this is the case.
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I just don't like to welcome the atmosphere where your hard work of making a entertaining 10-minute movie will be forgotten because someone else made a movie that's 0.3 seconds faster than yours.
It depresses authors easily, especially for newbie authors, who are not confident about "frames" and perfect timing. Knowing that someone can easily beat your work by just making it a frame or two faster (which is always a possibility as long as there are uncertainty sources, such as the precise speed the characters walk and jump), why make a movie at all?
This is certainly not a new topic, and my take on these situations is to intentionally delay the offending submission to give the previous author a chance to recover. This is especially amplified in long movies; less so in short movies like Monopoly.
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Xkeeper wrote:
Brute-forcing is far, far harder than this. To the point it's virtually impossible for a long time, unless you want to wait a century (or more) waiting for today's computers to spit out a working, fast-as-possible solution to, say, TLOZ.
Yeah, bruteforcing all possible inputs to play a 30-second movie (1800 frames)
means testing (2^8)^1800 different sequences (****), which is precisely
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different sequences. Assuming that a thousand million different sequences are
tested each second and you have a quantum computer(*) which reduces the number
of options to be tested to the squareroot of their actual amount, it will still take about
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years to test all options, leap years accommodated (**).
If you can somehow drag Earth into extreme near vicinity of the event horizon
of a supermassive black hole and perform the calculations somehow elsewhere
in the universe, and then return back and pull Earth safe from falling into the event horizon,
you could, from the perspective of Earth, reduce the calculation into a few million years.
This of course requires that the distance of Earth from the event horizon is in the order
of several millimeters... (***) Oops. Maybe I went too far ;)
*) Which doesn't yet exist, but is likely reinvented a couple of thousand times while the original program is running.
**) sqrt((2^8)^1800) / (10^9 * 86400*(365+1/4-1/100+1/400))
***) Which would cause tidal and centrifugial forces strong enough that by the time you return, Earth has been rendered into a ring circling the event horizon, assuming that the universe still exists and the black hole hasn't evaporated due to quantum mechanical effects.
****) Of course, you could eliminate combinations which don't seem to affect the game in the long run at all. This would reduce the amount required by the calculations by some (big) factor, but still not far enough to be practical.
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Vatchern wrote:
wow...I see hardly any difference from Phils..
Indeed. I intend to hold this submission until some previous author, such as Phil or Sleepz, at least attempts to beat this record (*).
I don't like allowing people to take honor from others with mere few-frames improvements on a movie that has so much effort invested in like SMB2u.
*) But not indefinitely.
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Acmlm wrote:
I spent the last 1-2 days figuring out the game's randomness completely (different variations and frame timings) by looking at the code and memory viewer, and made a program that simulates it.
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I have played Karateka on a pirate multigame cart. Long time I last saw that game.
But, I have no idea of the structure of that game. I tested it quickly with an emulator now and I was able to reach inside and see a girl there, but then I got bored and closed the emulator.
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parrot14gree wrote:
in the movie,I'm in the ceiling,and I know how to move.
but why can I go to the next screen?
You need to face to the right exactly at the moment you hit the screen right edge. This will enable the screen to scroll. Otherwise, you move to the next screen without the screen following you.
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http://bisqwit.iki.fi/jutut/jp-mm2/m4c4r.avi <-- Although this particular video does not demonstrate some mentionable success, it illustrates what Finalfighter just explained. By the wobbling motion, you can maybe make the screen scroll the necessary amount in order to scroll down.
