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"ElectroSpecter wrote:
Weird, when I looked at it last night I thought it was real but couldn't figure out what you had made it out of. Now that I know it's CG I can tell, but it actually had me fooled.
Same here. It's really good even for CG though.
jlun2 wrote:
It looks like Mega Man in some of the game endings, but creepy, so it's unsettling that it's walking toward you. Haven't played the game, but it's odd that it resembles Obama so closely.
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Can't you just climb the steps and ride the poles?
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I agree with mklip2011 that this is a lot better than the original run. There's a lot more entertaining action happening on the screen with two players. This game doesn't look so horrible now. Good run, Marx.
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Cooljay, is that a real model or a 3D (CG) model? Either way, it's pretty impressive.
Cardboard wrote:
(yeah, no, I can't really draw)
That looks pretty good actually. Don't worry, I'm OK with their suggestions. If I were to continue the hack, I would probably use pirate_sephiroth's suggestion to improve the Kirby sprite. One thing that would be cool to make on the SNES would be Kirby's "big sad eyes" face from Melee/Kirby Air Ride/Brawl/Kirby Wii. I wonder how it would look.
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Torn338 wrote:
Afterall even if some GC TAS's are possible, dolphin is very desyncable as an emulator
Don't accuse an emulator of being unstable based on how it handles one game out of hundreds. This is one of very few games that still desyncs in Dolphin; almost all other GC games are completely desync-proof. The emulator is very reliable, and I wish people would understand that there's nothing stopping long GC game runs from being submitted except for the large amount of time it takes to make and optimize them (the run of Majora's Mask took over a year to come out too, but that doesn't mean Mupen was the problem).
Post subject: False lag frames bug
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A while ago, I was working on a TAS of JezzballDS, and I noticed that making and loading a savestate closer to a single lag frame would create more false lag frames and delay the earliest frame input can be read by the game. I posted about this problem in the DeSmuME emulator development thread, but no one has fixed it in almost 11 months. This problem is also present in 0.9.8, as VanillaCoke and ALAKTORN have also experienced this false lag frame problem. So can I count on this being fixed soon? VanillaCoke and I were going to work on KMA in a few months, and the game is hard enough to TAS without the emulator creating false lag frames.
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Yeah, I had false lag frames when loading savestates when I started working on JezzballDS. It's discouraging when you're trying to make a speedrun, and I don't understand why a rerecording emulator would throw false lag frames in like this. I posted the problem in the "DeSmuME emulator development" thread, adelikat asked me one question about it, and then no one did anything to fix it. So I gave up. EDIT: I just made a thread for this emulation bug.
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feos wrote:
I already uploaded it to youtube in highest resolution. Or what do you mean?
He wants FractalFusion to either tell him how to make an encode or post a video of him setting up the emulator to record and encoding it.
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A minor bug: This post looks normal in the thread I posted it in, but the hyperlink does not end on the search page for posts by CoolKirby. This might cause other links in a post to lose their link locations, at least on the search page. The HTML of the search page just moves the </a> at the end of "HxD" to the end of the post. It seems like it should be easy to fix.
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Oh, well I just meant it's a much higher framerate than the YouTube encode of the last submission (which I assume was forced down to 30 fps) and I appreciate seeing every frame of the run.
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Thank you for providing a 60 fps encode! It was easier to figure out what was happening just from that without the 20% speed encode (which I watched anyway). I still like how fast this run completes the game. It's entertaining because it's short and crazy fast; there's a lot happening in less than 20 seconds. Still a Yes vote.
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YoungJ1997lol wrote:
But is it possible to change teh Topic name?
Of course. Just edit your original post.
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Good run, nitrogenesis. It's fast and entertaining, and I enjoyed watching you dominate all the bosses, especially the final boss. Yes vote!
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Wow, you destroyed this game! Yes vote. I liked the really fast pace this run has, but I would also like to see a half-speed encode to have a clue as to what's going on. Also, way to figure out this confusing emulator.
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Great run, MUGG. I like that OoB glitch. It's nice to see an improvement on VBA24-M too. Yes vote, of course.
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How far are you? I haven't done the penguin level yet.
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Oh, thanks for the advice. I'll do that in the future.
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I always wrap my controller cords around my controllers to save space, so my cords aren't exactly straight. These are approximate measurements from the end of the controller to the start of the plug: NES: 7' 5.5" SNES: 7' 6.75" N64: 6' 2" GameCube: 6' 4" (unofficial third-party controller)
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YoungJ1997lol wrote:
Olympics are over, i suggest we lock this topic?
There's no reason to. Someone might want to post something about the 2012 Olympics later if they start thinking about it again, and this thread would be the perfect place for that. There are lots of threads that haven't had posts in years, especially in game subforums, and they stay open so someone can make a useful post there if they have a good reason.
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gamerfreak5665 wrote:
ok, so i tried combining them, but the part where you select characters does not match up because a character is already selected in the first movie file, and there is no character selected in the second one. This forces me to add a button input which messes it up. any suggestions?
Since the run is done with a higher emphasis on entertainment than speed, I would suggest adding blank frames before continuing with part 2 until it syncs. When it does sync, you can do the same to parts 3 and 4 after removing the character select.
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It has to be one movie file to be an acceptable submission. Are you sure you can't combine them now that the TAS is complete? If you want to try combining them, you will need a hex editor (like HxD). Then you will need to let Dolphin record for a while after your first movie ends. Then, in HxD, you would copy and paste-over the input from your other three dtms into the blank frames at the end of the first movie file, and you will have one movie file which hopefully will sync. If you don't want to do it yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.
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Great TAS, Soig, and nice improvement. The hack is great as well. Yes vote.
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hero of the day wrote:
I'll stick to using Snes9x, since Lsnes is horribly difficult to use.
If you're planning on using snes9x at all, I recommend the latest version, 1.52, which I would assume is the most accurate revision.
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Thank you, rog. This information will help me when I start my future TASes.
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I would assume they used the rerecording environment Hourglass.