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Posted: 7/23/2007 12:34 AM
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Well, if you assume you should always press right+B, and start, select, and up are unnecessary (you would need to start from a state, just after pressing start), then you have 8 possibilities per frame. That's a total of 8^17996 possibilities. Or, 2^53988. The number of possibilities is about 1 followed by 1,6500. Checkers has 500 quintillion, which is a 5 followed by 20 zeroes. Way less possibilities. Anyway, I suspect Mario would be improved by mere frames anyway. I'd rather see a bot of RCR's final boss. However, that's more than a little complex too. For each player, up, right, left, down, A, and B are necessary. That's 4096 possibilities/turn. 4096^1381 possibilities. Or, 2^16572. That's way less than Mario, but it's still a lot. 1, followed by 5000 zeroes. Maybe something really short, like NES monopoly. 256 possibilities, assuming all buttons affect luck-manipulation, or 2^3600. That number of possibilities is a 1 followed by 1080 zeroes. This all goes to show how complex a TAS is. The simplest thing has over a google google google google google google google google google google possibilities. EDIT: Now that I think about it, all improvements would probably come from the last part, thanks to the 21-frame rule. So, maybe, 6 improvable seconds. However, that's still like 1 followed by 300 zeroes. We'll have to wait years before we can bot anything, IMO.
Posted: 7/22/2007 11:59 PM
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It's possible to go all the way to the edge of the map, and fall forever. In normal mode, it takes lots of luck, but in hidden mode it's easy. Hidden mode: Hit a piece of fence between the two far right posts.
Posted: 7/22/2007 10:41 PM
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I know, I HATE downloading segmented runs from SDA.
Posted: 7/22/2007 6:26 PM
Post subject: Truck and Stair Dismount
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Two good time-waster games. The premise of Stair Dismount: Kick a ragdoll man down a staircase, causing as much damage as possible. Truck dismount: Set a truck moving, causing as much damage to a stickman as possible. Both games can be found here
Posted: 7/22/2007 5:15 PM
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Well, that star is already collected, so we need a yet faster star. I agree with bkDJ, it's best to get the coins while BLJing. EDIT: Here's the actual video
Posted: 7/22/2007 2:14 AM
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I think someone should make a run of the first Bowser stage, from start to the pipe, without getting red coins, and compare it to a run where the red coins are acquired, and looking at the time it takes to get the star "Hot-foot-it into the Volcano". With the very fast stars we do now, and knowing that you can BLJ on those moving platforms in bowser 1, it might be faster to just not get the red-coin star in bowser 1.
Posted: 7/21/2007 1:37 PM
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Turns out Canada has no specific law on video games. Our Prime Minister, Stephen "Immediately" Harper (2-year-old election promise. Long story) still hasn't passed the new bill into law. However, the new bill would still make tasvideos perfectly legal, as giving out movies made from ROMs is fine, and only a court order can order the removal of a specific video, not "We want all these videos taken down". Maybe Bisqwit should move to Canada :)
Posted: 7/21/2007 11:06 AM
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I believe fractal's point was simply manipulation scope. About HP DV: HP's "DV" is a function of all the other DVs. So if you roll really bad DVs overall for the Bulbasaur, it will have low DVs. I wonder, with DVs of all 0, would HP be 18 at first?
Posted: 7/20/2007 7:24 PM
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I'm betting this is the last one. This is the life cycle of a TAS: 1. Half-assed, unoptimized submission* (Submission 1131) 2. Publication-worthy run (Movie 801) 3. Finding errors, big improvement* (Movie 893) 4. New route, more improvement* (this) 5. Frame war** (not yet) *Not always ** Rare for RPGs
Posted: 7/20/2007 7:14 PM
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With the 1 1/2 hour+ Pokémon Red runs, every single one manipulates whenever necessary. At some points, it is necessary to manipulate things with a 1/256 chance, sometimes repeatedly. Luck-manipulation should be very tight. By the way, no. This would be more like a test run than anything.
Posted: 7/20/2007 7:10 PM
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In Canada, as long as something is on an obsolete system, it's fine. With current systems (GBA is the only one that counts), as long as it does not "negatively impact" someone's decision to purchase the games, it's fine. Hell, I've bought GBA games just because of runs I've seen of them!
Posted: 7/20/2007 2:42 AM
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:) My Jurassic Park 3 run took around a week to do, and I believe it is perfectly frame-optimal, but that didn't help. The game was too boring. Pick an exciting game next time, or maybe try to obsolete a decent published run.
Posted: 7/20/2007 2:39 AM
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Well, it seems this game is overTASed, but that's not true. This is the 3rd published Sapphire video, and though there is only 1 published run of Gold, Red/Blue have 3 videos and Primo is working on a 4th. Personally, I don't think Firered or Leafgreen are unique enough to merit a run for themselves. And, IMO, the run for Gold couldn't be improved by this much, so the Pokémon game which most deserves a run is Blue, which is in the pipes for a 25%+ improvement.
Posted: 7/20/2007 2:34 AM
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This explains why progress is so slow on the Pokémon run. jk Good improvement (though not nearly as much as Baxter's to that other Tetris video), yes vote.
Posted: 7/20/2007 2:32 AM
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WOW! That is a very, very good improvement. VERY well done, Bax.
Posted: 7/20/2007 2:31 AM
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I preferred the video that that page had a link to: Hackers mess with news broadcast
Posted: 7/20/2007 2:22 AM
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Flame_Gamer had suggested this run previously, but I didn't see too big a difference between this and the SNES game. What differences are there?
Posted: 7/19/2007 3:35 AM
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I was looking for a Pokemon Red speedrun, thinking my 5-hour time was some kind of record, when I found Primo's second TAS. You can still read my n00by comments at the bottom of this page Or, you can read them here: Chamale 31-Jul-2006 Mark as Spam Wow... I did a 5 hour speed run once and thought that that was a record... Chamale 31-Jul-2006 Mark as Spam Wait... I'm a weeeeeeeee bit suspicious at the fact that the opponen't attacks miss every single time... Chamale 31-Jul-2006 Mark as Spam And his never seeing a wild pokemon is a bit off... And his use of the no-battles hack... Chamale 31-Jul-2006 Mark as Spam Oh, wait, my mistake... It was a "catch all pokemon" hack... Chamale 31-Jul-2006 Mark as Spam I must admit, I used a "catch all pokemon hack" to get Mew...
Posted: 7/18/2007 5:45 PM
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Aren't those his own albums?
Posted: 7/18/2007 3:22 PM
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=A0R5_6nTdSY&mode=related&search= Very weird clips from The Simpsons as they go to China. Funny.
Posted: 7/18/2007 1:48 AM
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YES! A 2-second improvement to this great movie is like improving a 1-hour movie 5 minutes. But then, that's not accounting for the % of time in this run spent on menus. Still, STUNNING improvement.
Posted: 7/18/2007 12:33 AM
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Cards don't matter. You don't have any on turn 1, and you win on turn 2. Here's the fairly-close-to-optimal (as far as menus and LM goes) WIP. 2 minutes. My plan from here is to conquer all Africa and South America, then from Yakutsk go Kamchatka>Japan>Mongolia. Then from Yakutsk conquer all Asia and Europe. The game will be won on turn 2, after little action (hopefully) in the 3 enemy territories left.
Posted: 7/17/2007 11:07 PM
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FODA wrote:
I'm a 3D artist and I'm perplexed at this video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nice6NYb_WA&mode=related&search=
DAMN! Where can you get that program?
Posted: 7/17/2007 10:47 PM
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Whoa, I gotta check that out soon. Anyway, it turns out that the game's RNG is much stiffer than I had hoped, every roll is set at the start of a battle. However, I already luck-manipulated the toughest battle (7, in Siam) so this should be pretty smooth from now on. First-turn domination is impossible, you have 3 troops too few if you have only 1 soldier on every map square. On a philosophical note, should this run be called "Chamale's Risk, Battleship, and Clue in [time]", or "Chamale's Risk in [time]"? Personally, I prefer the second, but idk what I should do exactly. EDIT: I didn't realize this game has cards. I hope this doesn't mean backtracking. ENCORE: No, it won't
Posted: 7/17/2007 1:26 PM
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Well, at least I could download and watch the .smv. I found it a rather interesting movie, but seeing as Clue is my favourite "true" board game (many consider Chess not a board game), it would be more interesting to me. It would win if there were a competition for "shortest AVI" on TASvideos. And by the way, don't call me Chalame.
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