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Has anyone grabbed all the memory addresses yet? I realize this is a competition, but it could be a friendly one :)
I'm interested in competing, but I hate finding memory addresses.
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how many peeps have signed up? Is this contest still going on?
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Bisqwit wrote:
What I mean is that if they present you with that kind of assignment, they must have already taught you the concepts necessary to complete the assignments.
If that is not true, one of these holds:
-- They did not teach. Bad school.
-- They taught but you did not listen. Not our problem.
-- They taught, but you fail to understand how to apply the lessons. In that case, you should present us with your attempt and explain what it is precisely that you have trouble figuring out.
The core question here is: How do they expect you to be able to solve the assignment?
Welcome to college. Jeez, this happens all the time. He came asking for help, not a debate on the merits of his education. Regardless of the stupidity of the assignment, he has to do it.
Sorry I can't help.
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I got frustrated by the difficulty in manipulation as well as the lack of massive sequence breaks.
I've found that the Achilles sword can be gotten early, but I doubt it will help all that much, and the battles required to get it may take more time than less, given lower levels.
If it were possible to get the kraken battle earlier, a bunch of battles could be skipped...
It's too bad the walk over squares is impossible to do outside of battle.
I may get back to this project after LUA for gens is complete. Part of that is reliant on me getting the GM2 format done. :(
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Warp wrote:
This amount-of-rerecords issue raises an interesting question: Should the rerecords made by a program be counted in the same way as rerecords made by a human author?
IMO they shouldn't. The number of rerecords (when created normally by a human author) can be thought as a rough number which gives a notion of how much work was put into making the run. However, a program could easily create millions of rerecords, and that would tell very little about how "hard" it really was to create the run. (In fact, I would say it might be the opposite: The larger the rerecord count, the "sloppier" and less optimized the bot program was.)
I wouldn't be surprised that something like this is the reason why Bisqwit never includes bot rerecord counts into the total rerecords of a movie. Including them would only serve to make the number meaningless.
You can, and it has, been changed before. It has ALWAYS been meaningless.
The quality of work by an author is the quality of the TAS.
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I got bored watching it. I have the attention span of a.... hey wanna get ice cream?
Just kidding, that was awesome, I give it a
( > ) Rank
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This is Why!
Most people who planned to watch have watched the first. Those that hadn't may be waiting to see if you put out another one.
Bad news, using the WorkBench as a WIP.
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Bob A wrote:
the point of this thread is elusive. perhaps it should be locked.
Emu service?
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Actually, my run has just been upgraded to "TRA COOL. "
Duh.
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Atma wrote:
lots....
I've noticed the only time I get desyncs are when I save during loading screens. It is probably an extremely difficult task to get the current state of loading saved, and then emulate in playback.
That is most likely why the point in which the first loading process completes continually moves. I think PSX tases will have to not count initial loading periods for optimization, since this may be a likely candidate for desyncs.
Also, lag frames are autoskipped in MZ's PCSX. Most likely a ton of lag when reading from a memory card. Even pause doesn't work in lag frames.
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I know someone talked about how to encode videos, but I can't seem to find it. At least, people have been encoding videos quite a bit...
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What is going to be the tipping point to allow them?
Also, will microstorage soon support the format?
Just wondering...
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DaTeL237 wrote:
e.g. One can't rely on a 'try a few random goes' approach with two runs
So wait... no neural network bots?
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antd wrote:
DarkKobold wrote:
maybe it would be good to maximize this with memory watching.
It's maximised with memory watching.
Wow, I'm glad that my advice from the future was able to help you... in the past.
lol.
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This was great. I think I saw a wizard dude right before the game ended. Not sure.
8/10
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Uh, maybe not even case statements.
Make the code 'blockable', so DK_Player = memread(player_byte)
Force everyone's variables to start with a letter code, like DK for me, ALD for alden, etc. Then, copy paste them to a file, and have them 'duke it out'
Also, I'd rather see bomberman start from a savestate at the beginning of a couple levels.
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antd wrote:
Final Fantasy VII Save 1:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSBBypMya4U
Stuttering walk = walk-trick
Menu = glitch method
Used to avoid random encounters.
Walk trick is the best way, as you virtually don't lose any time. Glitch method is a much slower way. It costs about 90 frames.
The walk trick cannot avoid every encounter, so that's why I use the glitch method.
(out of save menu time)antd TAS: 5 minutes 55 seconds
GarlandG 'near perfect': 6 minutes 11 seconds
GarlandG Speed run (PS2?): 6 minutes 50 seconds
Farringa (SDA/PC version): >6 minutes 18 seconds
I presume GarlandG used PSX NTSC U version. I don't remember if he used PS2 for his speed run. PS2 has an advantage.
PC version is different (timer, load/save, battle things etc).
...take note that the PC version is faster than the PS
version, so you can never compare your times... - GarlandG
Have you found any memory values for the stutter walk? It looked sorta random, and since it is a 95/5 percent thing, maybe it would be good to maximize this with memory watching.
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I'd say use it all the time. FF7 is gonna be one long TAS to start with. Make it short as possible.
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I'd say any% mostly because they aim to be massive glitchfests. I think I only truly enjoy watching a TAS if it is massive amounts of glitches that break a game in half, like Ferret's recent GB Metroid game.
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z0MG wrote:
Flip wrote:
OK, looks like I wasnt paying too much attention here, took me quite a while to realise that there were 2 submissions. With the cross of improvements between the two movies, does this mean that there are still improvement to be made?
Nope, they didn't do anything better than us.
SwordlessLink sez:
"Butthurt"
I'd never heard that word, but now it is my favorite. So descriptive of the current situation too.
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I like the idea of a hidden vote 'till publishing. I think authors and such would still appreciate seeing # of votes cast.
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From an ambivalent position:
A reason to not obsolete Guano's run -
It has different goals than this run. Guano's aimed to complete the game the fastest, and did so using *all of the tricks known at the time.
(*debatable ad nauseum, at least attempted to catch all of them)
A reason to obsolete Guano's run -
The Current submission has more similarity to Guano's than any fastest completion run will contain (using all currently known tricks). A fastest possible completion will not attempt a **single level which is present in Guano's run.
(**as far as I understand, from watching fastest runs)
In short: Different goals, same spirit. Up to the judge to decide which is a factor for obsolescence.
Hopefully this is impartial enough to help make the judging decision.
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Quick question - Why is this the most popular MMX on PSX?
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