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* It uses the DMC channel during the title screen. The DMC channel's counters start out in an unknown state.
This could be fixed, by essentially 'flooring' the values... somehow.
* The DMC channel works by stealing CPU cycles away from the NES, and can also corrupt controller input if the DMC channel steals the bus right when it's reading joystick input.
Is this not emulated properly? Also, that would suggest that there are frames of errant input in this game.
* It uses a RNG which is basically a CPU cycle counter.
This is the least issue, given perfect emulation. The frame tick should be at the same place for both emulation and the real system, and therefore have the same number of CPU cycles.
Also, sorry I hit edit instead of quote, earlier. Doh!
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I am almost positive the code is going to be identical to the SF1/SF2 code.
If you find the turn order counter, (is going to increase by 1 or 2 every turn), then the character order will start 2 bytes from that. The values start at 0 for the hero and increase, or 255 for the first enemy and decrease.
That is the best I can tell you off the top of my head.
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I don't know if pcc still comes here, but...
All Shining Force titles for GG crash back to the title screen when you try and start a new game in DEGA.
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I've got a few minutes to babble on this, so here it goes.
The run needs to be restarted, and I am too burned out on this game to really continue. The manipulation is going to be an extra pain.
Here is what needs to happen - Earlier in the game, Slade needs to get the first power water available in the Holy Sword Shrine. This gives him enough power that he should be able to kill enemies, and still be able to manipulate +2 Att per level. There are 2 more power waters in the game. Slade must be given both these. Finally, on the Slade issue, he must not be promoted until at least level 30. That gives 25 levels of +2, and 3 power potions at +4, for a total of 62 attack points plus the initial 8, and whatever weapon.
However, Slade getting all the power potions means Bowie needs to also get +2 on sufficient early levels so that he can 1 hit Taros. However, Bowie becomes exceedingly useless after the Taros Battle. His MOV sucks, and he can only gain +1 per promoted level. He is also extremely hard to manipulate +2 ATT per level. (Around 10%, as oppose to 50% for Slade). Therefore, I think after the Taros battle he needs to slip in levels, and replace Sarah's job of battle order selector, allowing her to die.
Finally, the craptacular Peter. While he can gain +2 or +3 per level, the +3 is rare, (10%ish), and he can not be augmented with a weapon. However, his death functionality is extremely useful, and shouldn't be overlooked. Especially since bosses, such as Geshp, can't beaten in one hit, even with 100+ attack, double hitting, criticals, etc.
Near the end of the game, you get Lemon the Red Baron, who comes equipped with an auto-kill weapon. He can also die repeatedly, which makes him useful as bait for Zeon and Galam. The end strategy is going to have to be having Peter and Lemon taking hits from Zeon, while a pumped up Slade beats away at the bosses.
I've got a metric ton of Lua scripts that make TASing this game a simple exercise, so much any new TASer could take up the charge. If anyone would like to collaborate from the get-go, let me know. I've become much busier in my life, so I don't know if or when I will get back to this run on my own.
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Somebody who was new voted yes on nineko's movie submission. He knew that everybody would accuse him of having created that account himself only to get his movie published. So because the submission wouldn't have been accepted anyway for that reason, he canceled it in wise foresight. xD
Then he did some other funny stuff and got banned. :D
Let me correct this. A new user posted a positive comment about his movie. Nineko ASSUMED that everyone would accuse him of foul play, when in REALITY, no one would have noticed. (More about this in a moment.) So, he CLAIMED the submission would be rejected for this; and canceled his movie. (note it wouldn't have, a single vote or post changes nothing) He also CLAIMED that he changed his password to random characters, and changed the email so he could never log in again.
Combining this to his string of erratic behaviour with information about his previous history with other sites, the administrators attempted to ban him from the site. Unfortunately, this was during the transfer of site to new administrators, and using a loophole (a forum ban was not equal to site ban), he uncanceled his movie. Note, that this is using the account that he 'locked himself out of.' He lied, he had never locked himself out of the account. The movie was then re-canceled, as Nineko had exploited a glitch in the site to allow him to uncancel the movie. He should have never had that power in the first place; he was a banned user. End of story.
Now, a bit more on his behaviour. If you look at his string of submissions, they tended to be poor game choices, or purposefully sub-optimal decisions. It appeared that his desire was to set-up a 'world vs. nineko' reality, and claim the site was against him; his posting history shows this. That failed when he was actually about to get a video published; the world can no longer be against you if you succeed. Thus, he found a way for it to fail, and blame it on others.
Additionally, there was later evidence found that he was creating accounts before the puzzle movie. It leads me to believe he went on the tangent in the puzzle movie because he was upset his alternate accounts hadn't been discovered.
Finally, the site was plagued with 100 fold increase in intentionally crappy submissions after his banning; it was obvious the site was getting trolled, and hard. New measures were put into place, and submissions could be deleted instead of rejected. Thus, the amount of attention the troll could receive was almost eliminated. The trolling came to a nearly complete stop.
Make your own judgments about the character of someone who behaves in this manner.
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Once again, I will ask "Why worry about a license if it is 100% legally unenforceable?"
You (Warp and Dekaron) have talked about this ad nauseum. Lets agree to a set of standards as a community on how to deal with movies and ownership.
Pretending this will go to an ACTUAL court of law is silly.
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Ugh, I side with mmbossman on this one. Submitting glitchman's movie is a slap in the face to a hard-working TASer.
While nothing prevents us (legal or otherwise) from publishing movies submitted by people other than the original authors, I think this site should be above what are capable of doing. We instead, should focus on what it is right for us to do as a community.
We, as a community, obviously value the effort and work put in by authors of every TAS. This value shows, because authorship of a TAS is included in every publication, and is debated when contribution is questioned. The idea is that the author is appreciated for their efforts, and given the right how to handle the movie file that they put their hard work into. Bisqwit set this forward when he asked administrators to NOT edit submission text, as that is a fundamental part of the authorship of TASes.
All I hear from this thread is what we are capable of, legally. We are a community, and we should have at least some basic set of values that we adhere to. The author and his/her contribution should be valued by allowing only him/her to submit the movie.
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Good intro fight, and it is a good glitched RPG.
The glitch gets a little bit repetitive, but that wasn't enough to take my yes vote away.
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I'm glad my script was finally of use, even though it really isn't the script you used.
I couldn't figure out what was going on with your script for the life of me, but as long as it is help, good! Congrats on your first lua script.
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RPG beaten in 2 minutes? Can there be any question?
Yes vote.
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Oh man, I need to run to the grocery store and get some popcorn. I ran out in the last 14% thread.
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I'd just like to say thanks to all the new staff. The rate of judging and publication is awesome!
Keep kicking arse, team!
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Sticky wrote:
My name as an author.
You win. Thread over.
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This may use TASing, but it really is more off-topic. Topic moved.
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Anyway, I tried to read those articles on BFS vs. DFS, and this thread. And, they still don't make sense. Any chance you could explain them in more common terms?
I don't think I could generally explain it better than Wikipedia with its nice illustrations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadth-first_searchhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth-first_search
In our case, the nodes represent unique states of the level (the position of the players, blocks and turnstiles, as well as filled holes). The lines connecting the nodes represent the player's actions which transition the game from one state to another (for example, moving down onto an empty square creates a new state with a different player vertical coordinate than the "parent" state). The search problem represents trying all move combinations until the game reaches the state where all players have exited the level.
So, a tree that will be 100+ branches deep, does this make any sense? In other words, if it is known that the solution won't happen in the first 99 branches, how is this even possible? You aren't 'checking' the solution for 100 branches, because you need the first 99.
I'm still confused.
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CyberShadow wrote:
This is becoming tiresome.
Don't let Warp get you down.
Anyway, I tried to read those articles on BFS vs. DFS, and this thread. And, they still don't make sense. Any chance you could explain them in more common terms?
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Bisqwit wrote:
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i dont have much patience.
/me laments on the lack of discipline in today's <s>youth</s> people.
"Youth is wasted on the young." - George Bernard Shaw
I think that age still grows patience, Bisqwit.
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I've silently watched most of the WIPs up to this point. Impressive improvement, and I'm happy to see the amount of work that went into it.
I've yet to watch this final movie, and I think I'll wait to submission time, and watch the movie from the start again.
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I'm surprised your first submission didn't start with Mega, and end with a single digit number!
Anyway, impressive glitch demonstration. I always enjoy these short, sweet, glitched up runs, so obvious yes vote from me.
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I have access to an 8-core Xeon w/ 48Gb of RAM. Its my work computer, so I don't know if I'd be able to run any non-work approved software. I can check with the boss, possibly. The computer tends to sit idle on weekends anyway.
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I've tried something similar to this with Shining Force 2. I found the largest difficulty to be the emulation time. Unfortunately, even with Gens.emulateframeinvisible(), I can only cut the time down by maybe 10-20x real-time. Additionally, a full search starts with very, very stupid moves by the algorithm.
I think the only way to brute force the game would be to rewrite the calculation aspect of the game in C - much like you intended to do for Puzzle Quest and did for Asteroids. Unfortunately, the AI routines are extremely cumbersome, and would require far more coding ability than I have.
Perhaps, after you finish this project, you may be interested in another?
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Pocket Bike Racers - The advert-game from Burger King is actually one of my favorite Xbox or Xbox360 games of all time; mainly because it is one glitched piece of crap. There are intentional and unintentional shortcuts through the entire game.
One very funny glitch - On the second track, the Backyard Track, it is possible to end the race in 8th place with the lowest time.
The idea is that you are in 8th place, and you perform a jump large enough to cross the finish line while still airborne. The game only calculates place while you are on the ground, but calculates the race finished by crossing. Thus, you end the race, in last place, while finishing the race first. (In a better execution, you'd see that its possible to be the only one listed.)
If we ever get Xbox TASing, I am going to TAS this game, for the many, many glitches that are exploitable.
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I think this test is farked.
So, a tree that will be 100+ branches deep, does this make any sense? In other words, if it is known that the solution won't happen in the first 99 branches, how is this even possible? You aren't 'checking' the solution for 100 branches, because you need the first 99.
I'm still confused.
The idea is that you are in 8th place, and you perform a jump large enough to cross the finish line while still airborne. The game only calculates place while you are on the ground, but calculates the race finished by crossing. Thus, you end the race, in last place, while finishing the race first. (In a better execution, you'd see that its possible to be the only one listed.)
If we ever get Xbox TASing, I am going to TAS this game, for the many, many glitches that are exploitable.