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If I still had a backdoor / admin access to the site, I would make a post in Grue’s name to approve of this submission.
So, instead, imagine that it happened.
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I spotted standing many times in the movie. The movie fails its own rules. “Almost” is not good enough on TASVideos.
EDIT: Especially because the first one is totally avoidable even if you do pick up the mushroom. In a number of ways, I might add.
On a more serious note, I would have liked to see more variety in the run. There are other ways to enter pipes without standing besides ducking, for instance.
In any case, I don’t think this movie is a good idea.
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I would love it if more TASers did that sort of explanation streams, especially of runs that are not obvious to people not in the know.
Watched and liked.
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Warp wrote:
How about using shades of gray instead of colors?
Badly tuned monitors where light shades of gray are indistinguishable from white or dark shades of gray are indistinguishable from black are very common.
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halfcoordinated wrote:
Hi, I know I'm as new as it gets here, but I've been in speedrunning for a long time and have worked in accessibility for games. I'd just like to add my support for this idea, as colorblindness is common.
https://imgur.com/a/CeOQ7
Nice to see you halfcoordinated!
Thank you for your feedback. In fact, colorblindness is exactly the reason why the captcha provides labels showing exactly what kind of colors to look for when it says “red”, “green”, or “blue”. I admit that they could be made still more distinct from each others, and it is an oversight from my part that the labels don’t match the fonts used for each of those colors in the box (yes, each color has a different font in case you can’t see color at all), but providing a baseline to compare against is what I had in mind when designing that captcha.
Completely blind people were not accounted for, though. (But since the nature of the primary content of this site is almost completely visual, it should not matter, despite the April Fools joke I made about it years back.)
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The video claims to be 60 fps… But it does not look like 60 fps. It looks like 30 fps at most. Frame-advancing the video confirms this, the screen advances only once per every two presses of period. I feel cheated, especially as the video is upscaled to 1080p giving an impression of sharp good quality.
Anyway nice job with the improvement!
EDIT: In some parts, the screen advances every frame, and in some, there is tearing as half of the screen updates at a different time than the other half. In the end, the music chops. Yup, I think you used one of the worse methods of capturing emulator footage. The only thing worse would have been to use a camcorder to record your screen.
EDIT 2: I concede it might have been a glitch in the YouTube player. I saw three places where motions that were supposed to alternate each frame, did not (such as blinking), and then I stopped and did the frame-advancing and noticed it only updated every 2nd frame. Then I edited post, and then I watched some more, and then I saw 60fps video somewhere else and after that I have not been able to find another 30fps spot. However, audio chopping at 7:10 onwards is still an issue.
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JXQ wrote:
1UP Mushrooms in X-1 (except 1-1) only appear when we get all the coins in (X-1)-3 ( For example 1UP Mushroom in 4-1 will appear when we get all the coins in 3-3).
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At my first sight of the title of this submission, I had to doublecheck, is it the April Fools day?
The goals of this run seem to be a little too vague. What is "all items"? Right off the bat it collects two coins and leaves the third one untouched. So it seems coins are categorically excluded. Touching vines seems to be excluded.
Some of the detours to kill enemies looked weird. Such as at 6:31 in 3–3 to kill a red turtle. I guess they were because of slack time waiting for the global timer run platforms/turtles in the end… Would have been nice if this was addressed in the submission comments. But in the end (of 3–3), there were no global timer run events. What’s going on? Was it because of the coins? But weren’t coins categorically excluded? Ehh. I’m a third into the movie already and I still don’t know what the goals are.
No… At 7:37, some hanging coins were left untouched. I totally fail the game of “spot the consistency”.
7:42 Now that’s clever. It may also be the first time ever that I see an ejection that is 8-aligned, not 16-aligned in this game.
8:27 Ah no, so I guess making vines appear is exempt… Right? Still playing “guess the rules”.
And at this point I stopped watching. Voting “meh”.
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Warp wrote:
What?
The registration system is tricky. You and I have been around long enough that we've never had to go through it.
Here is my review of the process.
It already begins on this terms and conditions agreement page.
The “spammer bait” link is normally invisible, but in the odd chance that your browser is configured to display hidden elements, you should not click it. It will ban your IP address or worse. Of course, the spammer bait link is the exact same link that the agree-link would be in an unpatched phpBB system. It is effective in catching roboted registrations that do not read the link label.
Before this page, there used to be a COPPA-thing which required the user to confirm whether they are over or under 13 years age, but I removed that because I do not operate in the United States and neither I nor most of the users could care less. I find it curious that the current administration has not reinstated it, considering the site does run from United States nowadays.
In a related note, there should be a privacy policy declaration somewhere which I find curiously absent, but that is beside the point of this study.
On the registration page, there is a captcha. Here are two pictures; first is what I left it as, and the second is what the folks who maintain this site today have changed it to.
The requirement of “first five characters” seems to have been added by someone else, but otherwise the captcha is my handwriting. The arrow is there to indicate the direction of counting (left-to-right), but otherwise it is designed so that the same result is gotten whether you count vertical-horizontally or horizontal-vertically.
For the usability aspect, with color-blind people in mind, all three colors are rendered in different fonts, and samples of the colors are shown in the top left corner of the picture. Although for some reason, the samples do not use these fonts. I’m not sure if that’s an oversight from my part.
Then, after successfully filling the registration form, you get a confirmation e-mail.
Which looks like this:
Or rather, it used to look like that. Later, I changed the password into "(you should know it already)", and the folks who are at helms today have changed it into "******". They also changed the sender and the signature.
This time, the antispam link is not hidden from honest users. You actually have to be careful not to click the wrong link. The wrong link follows the same format that actual activation links do in vanilla phpBB, again, to catch automated systems that already know how the link is supposed to look but only need the activation token. If you do accidentally click the first link, this is what you will see:
Before TASVideos was TASVideos, the e-mail looked like this:
For the record, this is what the captcha used to look at some point…
Beautiful, but ineffective.
(Historical snapshots were acquired by running various copies of the site that I have archived.)
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I totally agree on that it is a game until the moment ACE is achieved, and from there on it’s a demo. So instead of creating art with your gameplay, you are creating art with the whole capabilities of the console and with parts of the gamecart.
The question is not very different from entertainment-oriented non-speedrun playarounds (such as sports runs) after all. The issue bears down to: Did this entertain you or not? And should another movie come later, it bears down to: Did this entertain you or not? Did it entertain you more than the other movie? Or should both be published side by side? Are they even comparable? Is it worth it to have multiple of them published on this site?
These are all the same questions that apply to play-around type TASes.
But there are also more questions that may arise given sufficient volume: Given that once you achieve ACE, it becomes more or less irrelevant which gamecart you used to achieve it. Should all ACE movies be grouped by the console (and possibly extension chips on carts that you might utilize) rather than by the game platform?
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I do recognize the judging issue in demos -- particularly obsoletion and category expansion -- but assuming we are talking about MrWint's Pokémon Yellow here, I would have accepted that run in a heartbeat and worried about consequences and implications later.
They are cute.
EDIT: Especially because the first one is totally avoidable even if you do pick up the mushroom. In a number of ways, I might add.
On a more serious note, I would have liked to see more variety in the run. There are other ways to enter pipes without standing besides ducking, for instance.
In any case, I don’t think this movie is a good idea.
The “spammer bait” link is normally invisible, but in the odd chance that your browser is configured to display hidden elements, you should not click it. It will ban your IP address or worse. Of course, the spammer bait link is the exact same link that the agree-link would be in an unpatched phpBB system. It is effective in catching roboted registrations that do not read the link label.
Before this page, there used to be a COPPA-thing which required the user to confirm whether they are over or under 13 years age, but I removed that because I do not operate in the United States and neither I nor most of the users could care less. I find it curious that the current administration has not reinstated it, considering the site does run from United States nowadays.
In a related note, there should be a privacy policy declaration somewhere which I find curiously absent, but that is beside the point of this study.
On the registration page, there is a captcha. Here are two pictures; first is what I left it as, and the second is what the folks who maintain this site today have changed it to.
The requirement of “first five characters” seems to have been added by someone else, but otherwise the captcha is my handwriting. The arrow is there to indicate the direction of counting (left-to-right), but otherwise it is designed so that the same result is gotten whether you count vertical-horizontally or horizontal-vertically.
For the usability aspect, with color-blind people in mind, all three colors are rendered in different fonts, and samples of the colors are shown in the top left corner of the picture. Although for some reason, the samples do not use these fonts. I’m not sure if that’s an oversight from my part.
Then, after successfully filling the registration form, you get a confirmation e-mail.
Which looks like this:
Or rather, it used to look like that. Later, I changed the password into "(you should know it already)", and the folks who are at helms today have changed it into "******". They also changed the sender and the signature.
This time, the antispam link is not hidden from honest users. You actually have to be careful not to click the wrong link. The wrong link follows the same format that actual activation links do in vanilla phpBB, again, to catch automated systems that already know how the link is supposed to look but only need the activation token. If you do accidentally click the first link, this is what you will see:
Before TASVideos was TASVideos, the e-mail looked like this:
For the record, this is what the captcha used to look at some point…
Beautiful, but ineffective.
(Historical snapshots were acquired by running various copies of the site that I have archived.)
Stretched imagery just looks wrong. Don’t do it.