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Posted: 8/12/2007 6:32 PM
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DeHackEd
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FCEU isn't actually checking for the 'reset hardware' command. Microstorage checks, but didn't find it, so it's confused, resulting in the message shown. The submission script checks and didn't find it, so it's rejecting your submission. Here ya go. I fixed it for you. But I think I might have done something wrong -- it doesn't finish properly, so the ending might need to be redone. But this FCM will be accepted by the submission script.
Posted: 8/12/2007 1:36 AM
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DeHackEd
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You'd find them if you searched "List all submissions" or the forum history.
Posted: 8/11/2007 6:32 PM
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Badly designed databases may slow down over time as a site gets larger. Calculating the number of pages isn't cheap without a good index. Searches get slower over time as more data to index arrives. Good databases and smart programming can make the lag extremely slow -- somethingawful has some huge stuff and it's immensely popular, yet it keeps going.
Posted: 8/11/2007 6:04 PM
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It says "reset, type unknown" which suggests it's corrupted a bit. I checked the actual FCM, and this movie does not begin from reset. It was rejected because it plays from a savestate.
Posted: 8/11/2007 4:02 AM
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Okay, I checked youtube and found a total of 3 copies of this video up. One by me (see page 2 of this thread), one by AKA and one by swordlesslink. And that doesn't count the ones that were erased. Seriously...
Posted: 8/10/2007 4:04 AM
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For those of you who can't wait for an AVI, here's something on youtube. It omits the ending credits so it'll fit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8cjscUMERU It'll probably be deleted once it's published (with a few days notice). Said publication AVI is in progress.
Posted: 8/10/2007 2:18 AM
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Put the FCM on microstorage? If Microstorage says anything bad about the start point, the site won't accept it either. I might be able to repair it though.
Posted: 8/10/2007 12:54 AM
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Two things to say come to mind. 1) The only thing preventing a 1-star run was a way into dire dire docks without MIPS. And you succeeded. Bravo. 2) "The race for quality has no finish line". It's a times like this that I actually start to believe it. 3) I'm going off the board and saying "Wow" at bowser in the dark world. Oh, and I also voted.
Posted: 8/6/2007 7:54 PM
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You're making me jealous. You know that.
Posted: 8/5/2007 5:44 PM
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Well I couldn't find a direct download URL, and I don't have any media player plugins installed (and have no desire to). Besides, plugin detection is usually screwy.
Posted: 8/5/2007 11:24 AM
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Well that site's a turn off. Besides being a javascript freak (why can't people write <embed> anymore?), it won't let me play the video. Youtube might not be much better in the JS department, but at least the media works.
Posted: 8/3/2007 3:03 PM
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I think it's directx based. I don't have hardware acceleration and windows BSOD'd. Game over. :( Aw well, thanks for trying. I'll try it with wine later.
Posted: 8/3/2007 2:52 AM
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On a related note, I've been looking to get a copy of that game because it's about as close to TGM2 as I'll ever be able to find. But all the stuff is in japanese and that's a serious show stopper for me. Where can I find that game and how do I make it run? :/
Posted: 8/2/2007 4:24 PM
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I could do it, no problem. An AVI producer I mean. You're subject to my rules for subtitles, and my ROM collection is quite small, but I could make it work. Not uploading to youtube though, for the same reasons guybrush suggested, plus I don't have a tool to do easy automated uploading.
Posted: 7/31/2007 8:47 PM
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I think he's talking about this.
Posted: 7/27/2007 7:10 PM
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Email usually has a 10 megabyte limit, which works out to around 7 megabytes of actual AVI. That wouldn't work. Some movies have a direct download via archive.org which you may be able to use. Not all of them, but some of the big ones do. Install BitTornado, then just start clicking on "download via BitTorrent" links on the movie section. Let good things happen. Only one mouse button needed.
Posted: 7/22/2007 1:15 AM
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Velgauder Sigma (final form) is immune to the hadoken. It bounces off him like Chill Penguin when sliding. Everything else can be trashed in one hit, but Rangda Bangda and Sting Chameleon are difficulty (but not impossible) and require luck manipulation to do quickly. I have a few ideas that require testing, but I'm thinking an optimal route would be: Chill Penguin, get the dash Boomer Kuwanger, get everything Storm eagle, get everything Flame Mammoth, get everything Spark Mandrill, get everything Armored Armadillo, get everything except the Hadoken (duh) Launch Octopus, get everything * Chill Penguin again for the heart tank Sting Chameleon, get everything Bad side: two bosses are fought with the X-Buster rather than their intended weapon. Chill Penguin doesn't count because you're forced to. Good side: I think getting the Z-Buster upgrade early is worth it. You can do some massive damage against minibosses, especially in Launch Octopus' stage. You should be able to nuke all the minibosses much quicker with an overcharged Storm Tornado. The snakes will go down damned fast (see my dual run for an example), the submarines take some serious damage from it and you should be able to knock the torpedo boat down from under it rather than climbing onto it. If Sting Chameleon's heart tank can indeed be picked up before defeating Launch Octopus, then move him to just before Storm Eagle.
Posted: 7/11/2007 2:03 AM
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mplayer -dumpfile output.mp3 -dumpaudio input.avi Runs in all of about 5 seconds, depending on the size of the AVI and the speed of your hard drive. Needs mplayer. :)
Posted: 7/7/2007 11:09 AM
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Actually, mencoder's AVI support does allow exceeding the 4 GB limit. As I understand it, AVI is a chunked file format where each chunk is unable to exceed 4 GB. Mencoder starts new chunks every <1 GB so it can just keep going. 40 GB AVIs are possible. Apparently mupen64 does not support this feature and simply produces 1 chunk. If it exceeds the size limit, it's broken. That said, for anything but really long mupen64 movies, I have mencoder skip straight to the final AVI and not bother with a multi-gigabyte intermediate. The OpenGL plugins perform screen captures by basically pressing PrintScreen and then cropping the resulting image. Thus the video must be always on top, and that's a big waste of screen space. I'd rather do it once and still be able to use my computer during the heavy work. Snes9x, FCEU, Gens, etc. don't have this restriction. Must be 3d acceleration related.
Posted: 7/3/2007 8:21 PM
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H264 updates are applied every once in a while. If your pack is really old (2 years, roughly) then some movies will give you trouble. Update your codec pack.
Posted: 6/19/2007 5:59 PM
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Although there are a lot of people who do reseed frequently and maybe they deserve credit, the encoders/publishers have a lot of bias towards themselves since they get more than a full AVI credit for everything they've published. I don't seed a lot anymore, but I do publish movies, and often very big ones. :)
Posted: 6/18/2007 12:18 PM
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They've been programmed to do so since their creation. The TASvideos site was not. The default tracker really doesn't give two s**ts who you are, only if you're present. Oh, and there's no way to identify users except by IP address right now, so even if Bisqwit had copies of the logs (I wouldn't) it wouldn't do you much good.
Posted: 6/16/2007 1:18 PM
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I modified snes9x to accept "DLLs" (under Linux they're call .so files) to load and run. I used it to do things like FF6's encounter counter, and help Nitrodon/Halamantariel with their Earthbound run. I think some kind of scripting/programming language will be needed to do what you seek. I used C++.
Posted: 6/14/2007 1:09 PM
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Submissions don't have screen shots. Publications do. You want the screen shot visible if the run was published?
Posted: 6/14/2007 12:50 PM
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CD-ROM is misleading. Set up a CD-ROM plugin that reads ISOs. Though this is unsupported*, because I've been using a real CD-ROM locally for all my testing. *Under the classic software definition of unsupported.
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