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The statistics engine indeed does not consider the FPS. The movie lengths on this site are indicates in seconds, not in frames, so statistics can only count "rerecord / second" (or minutes, or hours).
Which it does. I don't see there such thing as "rerecords / frame" being indicated. Am I mistaken?
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You could also add some topic keywords for the channels, to aid in surfing :)
Mine are (currently): Video games, Finnish programmes translated to English, and Politics.
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Zurreco wrote:
Saturn wrote:
Damn, yet another spoiler...
I knew about this jump long time ago already...
STOP DOING THIS. This is the price you pay for keeping things to yourself. Quit trying to steal people's thunder.
Clarification to Saturn: There is nothing wrong with knowing things.
Just stop the bragging (even if you don't mean to brag) or one-upping others, more than one person has expressed that it is annoying! This is a warning.
(Now, please continue with the on-topic discussion and ignore this incident.)
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Out of NES Mega Man games, probably the most graphically impressive one. With fluent scrolling and climbing.
The actions in this movie are also very fluent, and the action does not ever stall in this movie, despite the challenges thrown at the player. My vote is obviously a "yes".
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BobbaCar wrote:
I Realy Wont Make a TAS
Oh, that's too bad.
Anyway, have a look at these resources:
― http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6534
― http://tasvideos.org/FAQ.html
In any case, your question is not related to Mario 64 (this is a Mario 64 thread), so I suggest it is not continued in this particular thread (that you are reading right now).
Also, if English is problematic for you, you can try asking some fellow Norwegian for tips. For example, TNSe is from Norway.
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IMPblackbelt wrote:
There are a few things here and there with the video conversion. Not sure if that's a Youtube player thing, or if it was in the video. A couple of the fights here and there leave an outline or shadow of the defeated enemies during the first fight with Yang and during the fight at Yang's castle, for example.
That is because it was encoded at such low bitrate, to generate less traffic (and consequently, to be able to serve more clients).
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That game is a horrible waste of perfectly good pixel graphics. And decibels.
I would tolerate 4..8 minutes of this at maximum, but 18 minutes is too much. Sorry, but I'm voting "no".
It would make a good screensaver though.
EDIT: Also, although it may be pointless, some things I thought that might improve the movie...
- The game seems to run faster when there are more objects on the screen. Perhaps you could abuse this to make the run faster by manipulating more enemies to the screen?
- at 15:28 and 17:04, there are three-step stairs, where you jump forward, and get repelled by the wall. It seems to cost you some very noticeable frames. Did you try if it can be done more optimally, avoiding the repelling effect, perhaps jumping from further back?
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I commend you on your effort, but man, this game is bad.
The music is bad.
The AI is bad.
The character walks slowly and does not conform to regular VG character shapes. (Much like Barbie.) And unlike in Dragon's Lair, it's not animated well either.
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Ferret Warlord wrote:
I remember when I first arrived movies were organized not only by system but also by "type". By that, I mean the things off to the side of each movie. I think it helped me get into the site more because I could more easily find movies that showcased various aspects of tool assistance. Things like "One player controls two characters".
So people asking for organization be classification: we've already been there, and it probably needs a resurrection of some kind.
That's where the Tour page would help.
"New to TAS? Take a [tour]!"
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AKA wrote:
Instead of grouping everything by console why not group everything by genre.
Genres are somewhat ambiguous. What is action, for example? Don't all movies have action? (These were a rhetoric questions.)
I think genres are not really useful.
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AQwertyZ wrote:
Also, I do think that it is ridiculous that all the movies for a given system are all on the same page. It makes the page difficult to navigate and probably wastes bandwidth resources (The SNES page and all its images add up to over a megabyte.) Perhaps there could be a page for each letter of the alphabet or something similar.
I agree. One of my plans for improving the site (as I have explained to some) involves reducing the movie listings into brief summaries about the movie (game name, player, maybe something else), where the focus is on finding information, not providing it all at once, and then dedicating each movie a full page that looks more like a wikipedia article than a table entry.
I just haven't got really far in implementing it yet…
By the way, as for finding TASes of a particular game, this page may be quite helpful ― http://tasvideos.org/ListAllMovies.html ― although it was designed for another purpose.
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For some reason, Shakespeare had a Player entry despite the fact that he had absolutely nothing published, not even obsolete movies. (I do commend him for perseverange though! Please try harder :) )
This caused the problem.
I have now removed the rogue player entry, and it fixed the problem.
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Warp wrote:
(I have told Bisqwit more than once that he should implement a priority system to the search: Movies first, then wiki pages, then submissions, but he has never done so.
I now changed it to prioritize movies in search results regardless of text match relevance measure.
Is it now better?
