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lumice wrote:
Do you find real life unfulfilling?
Do you have a tendecy to avoid problems?
Do you look for ways of escaping from stressful situations?
(...)
I'm currently doing a paper on video games and would like to gather from data.
Even if someone is unhappy, avoids problems and prefers to escape stressful situations... it's not really likely that they would tell you here :P
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That's because Quake movie files work in a different manner. The way I understand it, they don't really contain input, but rather the output (in object coordinates) of the engine.
Or (under your description) you could use an altered version of the game that has a teleport function, and the original game would play back the resulting movie just fine (it doesn't 'emulate' the teleport, it's just told that it happened)?
either way that hould be a no-go :)
ps. I'd love to do runs on UT99... but it's not open source, making it harder to achieve TAS functionality
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Scepheo wrote:
As far as I understood from a Half-Life TASing thread (same idea as here, basically) on SDA a while ago, that game contains either coordinates or coordinate displacements per frame, both of which would allow you to complete any level with an "exit point" point in exactly 2 frames: a start frame, and one to "warp" you to it.
hmm same thing as Quake then? In the end it would up to the audience to determine whether the movie should be considered genuine? (e.g. dp we all believe that the modified game works withing original rules/physics/etc?)
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The last few days I've been playing Parallel Worlds a lot and I like it :D so yeah a TAS may be interesting after all :D Also, I've watched tompa's 1.0 present-world speedrun (semi-tas?) and noticed I wasn't the only one that figured out to use bombs in the Guardhouse :D
hmm I just received the 2nd sword without ever having the 1st sword :P
With the levitation glitch (or probably with a bomb) you can make it to ganon on the first climb of the parallel tower... then it may be possible to beat him with the no-need-for-silver-arrows trick?
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Angerfist: Yeah, I know. I'm just lazy basically =P.
Any chance of letting others try? :P (not as co-author, just to allow you to continue)
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ah heh if you skip the 1st sword you'll still be able to temper it...
then you can collect the 1st sword and meet with zelda a second time (I didn't check whether this is caused by the sword collection).
Next, you can leave the guardhouse (don't go through church) and go watch dreagor cast his spell on a 2nd Zelda and now I'm in the parallel world with sword #1 and zelda following me :P (Going to church doesn't do anything)
Legend of Zelda Parallel Worlds hack 1.1 Snes9x 1.51+ v6 (interim)
http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/1569148908/LoZ%20PW%20-%20Double%20Zelda.smv
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I've only just started playing PW... but I noticed there's a lot of backtracking in the first 'dungeon' (where you get zelda)
if it stays that way it may not be as appropriate for a TAS? (says the guy with a Young Merlin tas :D)
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Henrik I saw your TAS on Train A, looks awesome :)
i was wondering if you considered using the the glitch that allows multiple weapons... I believe you end up with 2x ZMG with watch-laser on Bond (without anything in between) which means you could equip watch-laser and a ZMG simultaneously. In turn, that may allow a faster floor?
theories theories theories :)
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hmm that also makes me wonder whether some acronyms are considered to rhyme...
for instance FPS and RTS
Ef-Pea-Ess and Are-Tea-Ess do rhyme
by Shooter and Strategy do not :P
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FODA wrote:
If games are important in this discussion, then you could say that the average beauty of games in platform X is better than the average beauty of games in platform Y. It would still be your opinion.
Even if anyone would come to any conclusion as to what system 'has better graphics', then what is the point in having this information?
creaothceann wrote:
SoM2 is a game that uses the hardware quite well, so it's a real-world example (instead of a tech demo) that shows what difference a larger palette can make.
I think that's only an argument that SoM2 has better graphics than most SNES games... so SoM2 might serve (by example) as an upper-bound on the SNES graphics. Still, to me that does not defend the statement that "SNES has better graphics" because you didn't say anything about the MasterDrive?
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SNES has better graphics (see Seiken Densetsu 3 aka Secret of Mana 2 for a good example)
There is no Gens version of SoM2 so how can you compare the two platforms by mentioning SoM2?
Anyway... afaik there's no point in trying to compare the two platforms in general because you'll need to make a decision per game (i believe examples exists where game X has better gfx on SNES than on Gens, yet game Y has better gfx on Gens than on SNES)
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arflech wrote:
so...is it just n=m=r=ceil(N^(1/3))?
No.... as in in that case you'd be packing N=3 into a a box where 2x2x2=8 fit
I'm pretty sure there's no single formula you can fill it to get the answer.... which is why this is in the programming topic and not the math topic
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arflech wrote:
More generally, you need to find three integers n, m, and r with the properties that N=nmr, r<=m<=n, and the three integers are in some sense as close as possible;
well, you need to find N<n*m*r... because empty space is allowed, it just also counts as outer size (did that make sense? :P e.g. for N=7 you'd have n=m=r=2)
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I kind of liked this one when someone presented it to me
In mobile phone transport, these devices are mass-packed into a large without their retail packing. In our case, we have only (equal) phones of size DxWxH cm (given D<=W<=H). In the larger box, the phones are all aligned equally. Inbetween two phones and between a phone and the 'wall' needs to be 2cm of polystyrene foam in all directions.
Find an algorithm that efficiently determines the 'best' size for the surrounding box, given an amount N>0 of phones. The 'best' size is the one that has the least external volume. (unfilled space in the box is disregarded)
The solution should also work for unrealistically large N
(assume all phones to be box-shaped, so no space can be gained by interleaving them)
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Well, having a look at the version of mupen that i can find... i don't know if there really is something like a 'anti-ds' mupen?
Here's a summary of the 4 files I have now.... it seems someone had rr-v2 and simply renamed it to anti-ds?
Of an equal amount of bytes doesn't mean it's the same thing... but it makes it much more likely (and if the anti-ds would only be a tine change (e.g. change a number from 0 to 1) then why wouldn't all versions have it)
ps. Filenames also don't necessarily indicate the right version... all these 4 files display 'v8' in the bottom of the ROM-selection screen
edit: Nope... all versions I have are terrible from a desynch POV, I did manage to improve the first test by about a second though.... had to estimate because I didn't finish the run (it desynched way before), but I cleared the 3rd ring with a speed of 130-140 :) (instead of 115ish in the first run)
Also, Rice (1964) indeed works better, but the landing targets don't have any red in them from close up :/
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Heh that's sick height :)
I finally managed to encode the discontinued WIP (haven't tried rr v8 though... :P) and uploaded it to youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81HwrEdy_PY
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Many addresses are level-specific.. for instance bond's location, rotation, etc
Not sure if this is the case with head-shots
Also... mupen tends to load into RAM starting at 0x00900000. However, this is not fixed. For instance if yo boot your OS, then load some resources (one of these might take 0x00900000) then Mupen will later be forced to use a different address. Hence, you should use relative addresses (mupen base executable + offset). In the case of nfq's address, I'm assuming it was base + 0x00066984
Then there's also differences in versions of Mupen :/ like nfq mentioned... as each was coded slightly different, the respective memory addresses will differ (and therefor be version-specific, unless you can figure out a failsafe way to determine some points of equality)
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Derakon wrote:
I seem to recall reading that TASing Blast Corps would involve doing everything from as far-out a view as possible anyway, right? Since more zoom == more lag. Same idea as looking down all the time in Goldeneye.
Almost... you'd want to have as little as possible on the screen (in terms of objects/polygons)... usually (maybe always?) this would be achieved by using the carrier-view, which is essentially a top-down view of the carrier without regard of the player... i.e. boring to watch (you wouldn't see any building being destroyed)
still I'd be interesting in watching a TAs that doesn't regard lag :P
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when plotted with 'arbitrarily' chosen bins....
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if you plot it with bins of width 1 its a bit useless to look at...
edit: ps I assumed roll(0,0) = 0
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Wyster wrote:
Interresting findings, i'm gonna attempt to wrap it up and see if i got it right:
Bonds sideways speed is always constant, only forward movement can be improved after 180 frames. I.e, building up speed by running only forwards is just as effective as sideways+forward buildup?
2.4 can build up forwards movement in cinema but not 2.3 or any other setting(???)
I'm pretty this has been known to some degree before, even used it myself to some degree. Guess i always figured it worked with 2.3 as well as 2.4(think fullstrafe is held in beginning cinema of each level in current run).
Nono, sideway movement should always be used in addition to forward movement... but after 180 frames, the forward part increases (thus also changing the resulting direction of motion)
2.3 has the forward motion on controller 1.... so it cannot build the forward-counter in cinemas because controller 1 is blocked
2.2 and 2.4 have forward motion on controller 2... so they can start increasing the counter (I suggested 2.4 because it still allows shooting during cinemas.. which 2.2 does not)
So, in 2.3 it doesn't matter if you hold fullstrafe during cinemas... because the sideway speed is going to be 1/-1 either case, and the forward counter starts after cinema
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Very cool DLTK frigate run :) Really shows how slow guards are :P
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I didn't understand everything you said in your post because I'm not so good with that technical stuff, but how much time do you think these improvements could save from the total time?
up to 25 frames per level if you're ok with watching an extra bit (~80frames) of cinema
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if you plot it with bins of width 1 its a bit useless to look at...
edit: ps I assumed roll(0,0) = 0