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Posted: 7/22/2015 11:55 PM

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I really liked watching the addresses slowly get flooded with stairs glitch values. You could really see exactly how and when the ACE happened. Thanks for that overlay encode.

Zzyzzyxx wrote:

Say what you want about TAS that involve arbitrary codes. Seeing the ending screen popping up from nowhere is always hilarious

This.

Posted: 7/22/2015 11:50 PM

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I love it! Fantastic new glitches and strategies, and no mistakes. Unless those theoretical skips get found, I'd say this is the definitive TTYD TAS. Also enjoyed your commentary and the one with Almo on his stream, as always. Big yes vote!

Posted: 7/22/2015 8:00 AM

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Awesome! Welcome back!

Posted: 7/21/2015 6:43 PM

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My palms are mirrored (creases and all), but otherwise identical.

Posted: 7/21/2015 6:38 PM

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The new route skips a sock in Downtown, but you can replace it with the sock on the other side of the Lighthouse, assuming there isn't a faster sock you can get. You can get it by walking around the walkway ring, then walking back and entering the Lighthouse; should take 10-15 seconds.

Posted: 7/21/2015 6:12 PM

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Really_Tall wrote:

That TAS isn't entirely optimal, which is probably why it hasn't been submitted.

You're right, and in fact, you reminded me that the author shared similar comments about the run in this upload:

re-records 46576 There are many improvable points in this run. For example, in Bianco Episode 5, the movement of the enemy is not fastest. I think 1:08:30 is possible.

Posted: 7/21/2015 12:10 AM

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I'm not feeling well enough to help, but I want to say I really appreciate both your 1:05 TAS and the work you're doing to optimize the route and these spatulas. It'll make it a lot easier to make an awesome, optimized TAS sometime in the future. Some of these times, like Lasers Are Fun And Good For You, can be improved by re-enabling kill planes/the hand. I suppose routing that will be the next thing to start testing.

Posted: 7/20/2015 11:37 PM

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MUGG wrote:

Since I'm not familiar with anything playstation-related at all, I want to ask what's the current best PS2 emulator? Can games be run full fps?

PCSX2. It's kind of like Dolphin with regard to system requirements; whether you get full FPS or not will depend on your machine.

MUGG wrote:

Is there PS2 TASing yet? I saw PS2 TASes from nicovideo - how are they made?

With PCSX2-rr. It's an old build of PCSX2 that desyncs a lot and as Warepire pointed out, is generally unfit for TASing unless you have "inhuman patience". You'll probably want to use the latest version of the regular PCSX2 if you're just testing things.

Posted: 7/20/2015 11:00 PM

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Looking good so far!

Posted: 7/20/2015 10:38 PM

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Short enough to not get boring, and the entertainment sections helped with that. Good work, fsvgm777. Voting Yes!

Posted: 7/20/2015 7:32 AM

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Nice to see even more progress on this. I like those boomerang punches!

Posted: 7/20/2015 7:14 AM

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Glad this is still alive! You've saved a lot of frames so far, I wonder what the final time will be.

Posted: 7/20/2015 6:53 AM

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That's a good start, but also try to search for an increased value when you start moving, because otherwise your search will probably contain a bunch of addresses that change value randomly (like 255, 13, 53, etc.). This gets even easier if your character (in this case Mario) visibly starts at a slower speed. Search increased value after you know it's more than 0, then search again when he starts full-on sprinting. Do the same thing with decreased value, and try running in different directions too.

Posted: 7/20/2015 6:43 AM

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tomiy wrote:

They actually are the same developers :) They made Frogger 2

It shows! This game looks just as fun, lots of similar mechanics, and a few of the same tricks (other jump, clipping, and "moving platforms", which is a common Frogger exploit). Yes vote!

Posted: 7/19/2015 6:23 AM

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Cstrakm's improvement to the published run has been marked private/removed, but luckily someone made a comparison video between the two before it went down. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30iZWoq6c3o Nicovideo: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6462920

Posted: 7/18/2015 7:25 PM

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The wait for the submission text update was worth it! Very funny and clever, I enjoyed reading it alongside watching each stage. The run was actually entertaining for the most part thanks to your antics (I also enjoy syncing movements to the music). The only boring parts were the second girl's dance and the Pumpking fight, and I don't feel they take away from the run that much. Voting Yes, and looking forward to your future runs (and author's comments).

Posted: 7/18/2015 6:27 PM

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Very funny and entertaining, once again. I enjoyed watching you destroy the CPU at every game too, especially the dice one. Yes vote!

Posted: 7/18/2015 10:23 AM

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I second Pokota's suggestion. Also, there should be at least a few articles out there talking about the site's purpose, like the Ars Technica and ExtremeTech articles about Masterjun's famous SMW ACE run. The Wiki: SiteHistory page also mentions the site being featured in magazines and "Slashdot", whatever that is. You can use these to help you get started.

Posted: 7/18/2015 9:39 AM
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The Autofire hotkey autoholds instead of autofiring, even though it shows up as "Held: Auto-B1" on screen. The Autofire Controls in Controllers do work, but are harder to use when TASing. The hotkey works correctly on BizHawk 1.9.1, but not 1.9.4, 1.10.0, or 1.11.0. Tested with SMS Ys: The Vanished Omens (U) and SG1000 Bank Panic (J).

Posted: 7/17/2015 6:36 PM

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He means that he posted a mirror link earlier:

zeromus wrote:

2. google is your friend http://en.osdn.jp/projects/sfnet_bizhawk/downloads/BizHawk/BizHawk-1.11.0.zip/

Posted: 7/17/2015 5:54 PM

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Yeah, that could just be a minor emulation problem then. How off-sync is the audio track?

Posted: 7/17/2015 5:22 PM

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Awesome! Love the new camera angles and faster Blast Away the Wall strat.

Posted: 7/17/2015 5:08 PM

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Which codec are you using to encode with? A good one to dump from Dolphin with is Lagarith; it dumps losslessly but to a much smaller file compared to Uncompressed. It might solve your black screen issue. The audio desync may have to be fixed manually by trimming off the beginning of the audio track or something similar.

Posted: 7/17/2015 5:02 PM

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For anyone who wasn't able to see the movie yet, an encode has been added to the submission text. Note that there might be an audio desync later in the video.

Posted: 7/17/2015 7:44 AM

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d-feather wrote:

also, sorry for tripleposting

Don't worry, I don't think it's a big deal since all the posts contain meaningful content and were posted fairly far apart. But I'll break the chain anyway to give you a Game Select entry for your WIPs. You can organize them under it if you'd like.