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Monsters have different strength on daytime and nighttime.
Also, Simon gets levelups (which refill his HP), although I didn't think levelups affect the strength of the bottles.
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Highness wrote:
One small question though. When you travel on that raft with the woman which you shows the crystal. Would it save time to stand closer to the screen ending in order to get the the new screen faster? Or even jump into the new screen and re-spawn on the raft? We're only talking frames here so it's nothing big. I was just wondering.
WalkerBoh intentionally wastes time there - it decreases the time he has to spend in the next town waiting for morning. It's a "here or there" situation.
Also, jumping would drown Simon. The boat will not appear on the next screen unless Simon is standing on it.
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I thought this forum is all about FCEU problems. Next time, try to think of a better message title (example: "FCEU sound problem at non-100% speeds").
(As for the message content, I can't help.)
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Start a slide just before entering the room and jump just as the slide ends.
Disclaimer: I haven't tried it. This is what I guess from seeing the movie...
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feitclub wrote:
What is the difference, if any, between http://tasvideos.org/forum/ and http://nesvideos.stc.cx/? I am automatically logged in on one page but not the other, but both forums seem to contain the same information.
Webserverwise, both point to the same forum (they reside on the same machine), but the longer address has been configured as the forum's real location, and navigating at http://nesvideos.stc.cx/ will lead there as well.
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submitter wrote:
I bought the Red Potion and Shiny Stone at the beginning of the game because I planned on getting the two treasure chests that would have 350 Gold each instead of the item. One in Phillips Castle and one in Gold Cave. But as you can see I wound up not getting either one, or buying anything, or using the Shiny Stone. So that's a half second I can save in v2.
I also made a mistake in the desert and allowed myself to go into the lava cave with low health. The second long pauses are to regenerate health. That's about 3 seconds that can be saved. Plus another 2-4 for the path through the lava cave the first time. I can save perhaps 3 by not switching to the three way fireball. And another 3 by not switching to the fireball, because I don't need it. Though for the lava cave I'll probably need the wind cutter. But if I can find a way around that it's another 3 seconds or so.
So in a tool-assisted movie over 1 hour you admit you could have saved 15 seconds by better planning?
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Ok, thanks to pilif, the problem is now fixed.
It seems that PCRE implements look-ahead/look-behind assertions in greedy matches using depth-first recursion, and input long enough will simply cause a stack overflow.
Fortunately, switching to ungreedy matching helped in this case.
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pilif wrote:
Is it possible that the apache-process handling the page exits with a SIGSEGV or such?
Well, that's exactly what happens...
This is from error log. But it isn't really helpful.
[Sat Jan 22 14:43:11 2005] [notice] child pid 21557 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
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It's a mystery I haven't been able to resolve yet...
When the page is attempted to be loaded, the connection just simply terminates and no trace will appear in the logs...
It has happened with some other pages too - notably the WhyAndHow page where a certain edit from Warp is still unadded for this reason.
