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Posted: 4/25/2010 12:25 PM
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Dada
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The optimized runs we have now are of course brilliant to watch, but I totally agree with Bisqwit here on the idea of making a run that avoids using some glitches. They're entertaining on a different level than our current runs. Let's face it: the runs we have today bear really have nothing to do with what the OGs of TASing like Morimoto and Genisto were doing. There's the issue of which glitches to avoid when making a run like this. Personally I'd just stick with the SDA record's route. For Mega Man 2, for example, that would mean using Easy and not doing any zipping except in Bubble Man's stage.
Posted: 4/23/2010 12:25 PM
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Voted yes. It's not a typical TAS game and has some boring parts but it was a very amusing demonstration none the less.
Posted: 4/16/2010 6:59 PM
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MTGjumper wrote:
Anyway, I have a 100% route (courtesy of the SDA runner, but with some of my own alterations after a few test runs) which I could send you, if you want?
If he doesn't mind, you should post it publicly just in case someone else decides to pick it up in the future.
Posted: 4/16/2010 6:58 PM
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henke37 wrote:
But some games apparently don't do full installs and need to have the installs in the middle of the game.
Such as? I don't think I've ever played a game that had more than one installation sequence.
Posted: 4/15/2010 4:31 PM
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I wish I could watch this. I really do. However, Tomba (or Tombi as it's known here in Europe) is one of my favorite games... but I never finished it and haven't had the time to get back into it. Somehow that seems to prevent me from going ahead and watching it all unfold.
Posted: 4/10/2010 10:59 AM
Post subject: Re: mega man in 1982 ?
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Brushy wrote:
wicked wrote:
*note this song was released in 1982
The video probably wasn't.
*gasp!*
Posted: 4/10/2010 9:58 AM
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Yep, at 1:26, then again at 2:24. First one is Elec Man's stage, after that the boss fight. Man what a terrible song.
Posted: 4/8/2010 10:06 PM
Post subject: Password generators page has JS error + potential fix
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http://tasvideos.org/PasswordGenerators.html There seems to be a syntax error on this page. Firebug tells me it's the same syntax error in three different files (http://tasvideos.org/css/mm2-password.js, http://tasvideos.org/css/mm3-password.js, http://tasvideos.org/css/mm4-password.js), namely the following line at the end of each of those files: 
}for(var i in defs) this[i]=defs[i]
The closing bracket is the end of a variable assignment and it expects there to be either a ; or a , afterwards. I believe that adding a semicolon or a linebreak will solve the error. I don't know why this error didn't come up before, though. The wiki page hasn't been edited since 2007 and the JS files have remained the same since 2004.
Posted: 3/31/2010 10:31 PM
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Thanks for letting me know in advance that the site was going to explode, adelikat. I just made a €50,000 short sale on TASVideos' stock and will soon be departing for a well earned extended vacation. Goodbye everyone!
Posted: 3/23/2010 11:49 AM
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Can't wait to see an encode of this :) I loved this game, and it's always nice to see a new 3D PSX game appear on the site.
Posted: 3/18/2010 5:04 PM
Post subject: Re: Flash Emulator
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sgrunt wrote:
Scepheo wrote:
Considering there's plenty of programs capable of emulating Flash games out there (most of them called browsers), how hard could it be to make a Flash-running program with TASing tools?
Something of the nature you describe would, in my view require a reliable alternative (preferably open-sourced) implementation of Flash to which rerecording tools could be added. Since such an implementation does not to the best of my knowledge exist (as yet, if ever), this sounds like a pipe dream to me.
It would be magnificently difficult to get this to work, I'd bet, even if you used Gnash as base. As said before, "frame advance" is different from the one we know from hardware like the NES in that it steps through a user-defined timeline that doesn't have anything to do with the program logic. It's used almost exclusively for animation. Even if you force the movie's frame rate to be lower than it normally is, you'd run into all kinds of problems (this can be easily done, for example by making an SWF that runs at 1 FPS and then loading the other SWF into it). Flash games usually run parts of their code on a frame update-based event, including animation, meaning you'd most likely introduce visual disparities by messing with it.
Posted: 3/13/2010 10:59 PM
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With these new discoveries I should hope you're able to improve this movie by more than just a few seconds :) this chart has been a bit too shallow lately, it could use a nice big steep drop.
Posted: 3/13/2010 5:32 PM
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Regarding the OS, I'm assuming that the chance of finding a laptop with WinXP is near 0 by now, as is the chance of finding one with a floppy drive.
Depends. Netbooks still come with XP a lot, and you could always find a good laptop on eBay that still has a floppy drive. Whether you can find one that still has a good screen is a different story, though. I've been a Mac user for quite some time now and am very happy about the quality of these things. Lenovo also has a good reputation. Aside from that I have a Compaq (HP in the US) Netbook (Compaq Mini 110c) which runs very well. As for your old one, to me it sounds like the backlight of your LCD panel broke. It might be possible to fix, but only if you're a handy guy.
Posted: 3/6/2010 1:25 PM
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Warp wrote:
How about this: If we ever get movie publication #4999, the next published movie will jump to #50000 and start from there forward. That way the files will sort ok, and we won't be running out of numbers anytime soon. (Yeah, half-kidding here. Maybe. Although the idea is interesting.)
Or jump from 4999 to 0x5000. In other words, jump to #20480 and encode in hexadecimal from there on. Should buy us 4x the current age of the site until we need to switch to 5 digits. (Actually, it won't, since the rate of submissions has increased.) edit: does anyone know how many submissions per, say, week, we get on average these past 3 months?
Posted: 3/5/2010 9:55 AM
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Sorry for attempting to steal your topic, but if we're changing names, can mine be Dada? That's what I use everywhere else now, including on IRC.
Posted: 2/28/2010 11:33 AM
Post subject: Idea: RSS feed for pub movies with torrent enclosures
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Hi there. I've been happily using Miro for some time now, which is an excellent cross-platform program that combines downloading/torrenting based on RSS feeds with VLC's video playback core. Basically it allows you to add RSS feeds containing videos, which are then automatically downloaded. It also manages your files, deletes old videos that you've already seen, and has an online guide with feed links of freely available shows. Wouldn't it be cool to have an RSS feed that allows us to download (and seed!) newly published videos automatically? I've made an example of how this would work: http://bot.thingmajig.org/tasvpub/published.rss this is an RSS feed that's based on the current feed, except it filters out submissions and scrapes information pages for published movies to retrieve the torrent link. edit: sorry, RSS feed isn't working properly right now. I was doing some debugging without the "debug" setting on and promptly got banned for making too many requests. this will be fixed soon... When viewing it in Miro, here's what it looks like: http://wedemandhtml.com/tmp/miro-tasvideos2.png After a movie's been downloaded it also shows a thumbnail from the video itself. I'm sure that making a feed like this is an easy job for whoever's maintaining the site these days (sorry, I'm out of the loop) but if anyone wants it I'll post the source code I'm using. Not that it's very interesting though, as not having access to the database meant I had to do some ugly and slow screen scraping. If anyone else is in favor of this, post here :) EDIT: here's the code in case anyone wants to take a look. It really just grabs the RSS feed (using simplepie), filters out the submissions, then scrapes the link to get the torrent link, then makes a request to find out its size without having to download it. All unnecessary stuff that can be ditched as soon as someone makes a feed on the tasvideos server. http://bot.thingmajig.org/tasvpub/update.phps
Posted: 2/23/2010 12:47 PM
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It's a neat idea, but it's typically something that's done by and for a subculture among speedrunners. This site's published movies are aimed at a larger audience, although there's SOME overlap (the "unofficially endorsed" hacks/demos/etc section). But yeah, the idea itself is pretty cool because, like speedrunning in general, it forces you to think about things differently, to try out strategies that normally would be inefficient and to be creative.
Posted: 2/12/2010 5:16 PM
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I'd love to see PS2 rerecording. :) If only because TASVideos seems to be "stuck" on the older consoles, whereas regular speedruns have no such restrictions. We're falling behind, guys!
Posted: 2/10/2010 7:45 PM
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Warp wrote:
A 10-hour chess game TAS would be boring even for a chess aficionado.
A chess TAS would undoubtedly be the most senseless project ever. If you want to see a chess TAS all you have to do is visit the world chess computer championship site and click through the matches.
Posted: 2/10/2010 10:33 AM
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Amazing :) Congratulations!
Posted: 2/10/2010 10:31 AM
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Cursive characters are so hard to read. It looks kind of like http://kanjidict.stc.cx/4D3D (予)
Posted: 2/6/2010 6:40 PM
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No. I think it's perfectly acceptable to keep old runs around, even if they're potentially improvable by a lot or have sibling runs that are much more impressive. Most of the people that don't visit the forum to a very large degree probably won't be bothered by the knowledge that something is not entirely optimal. Entertainment value doesn't age that quickly. On a side note, I think that using a fake submission to remove such runs is a rather strange way to do it. It's kind of an abuse of the system since the movies themselves aren't really being obsoleted, and Grue is not a real run. That's of less concern, but still.
Bisqwit wrote:
I'd just tag the movie with a note that says something like "we are aware there are improvements to this movie; in case you still want to watch it, go ahead, enjoy" and move on.
I think this is a better idea. In fact, you might even want to consider showing the tag only to users that are logged in. Given that the average viewer has a hard time understanding the concept of tool-assisted speedruns to begin with, I'd imagine a tag like that would not matter all that much in any case. For clarity, to the unregistered users we might just want to say "this is a relatively old run. try looking at this newer, more impressive run of the same game."
Posted: 12/15/2009 9:55 AM
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It seems kind of strange me that a run could potentially have both of these: - Is a demonstration - Single level demonstration Maybe the latter should be renamed to "Plays single level"? Also, maybe "Pacifist" should be renamed to "No unnecessary kills" for clarity. (I know Pacifist itself is an old speedrunning term but it's not really too clear.) Finally, how many "n-in-one" movies do we have? Might be worth combining "two games in one", "three games in one" etc into "Multiple games in one".
Posted: 11/2/2009 6:42 PM
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I might just try playing a single segment Mega Man 2. Bablo and I used to work on a segmented run through the game, but that was before Seth Glass did an absolutely crazy amazing run that made even our segments look disappointing http://speeddemosarchive.com/MegaMan2.html But I did play that game quite a lot and I'm sure if I put in some time I could get within minutes of his time.
Posted: 8/3/2009 8:02 PM
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Warp wrote:
Who would be interested in the contents of your HD?
These days everybody seems to have a file named "PASSWORDS.TXT" on prominent display on the desktop. This contains everything ranging from forum passwords to Paypal credentials and credit card numbers. I honestly doubt anyone on this forum would forget to delete them before sending off their computer to someone, but it's probably for the best to be absolutely sure.
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