Is it so strange to say that? On average, a human is capable of recognizing only 5 objects as being 5 objects. Even though 6 is only 1 more, by far most people will recognize it as two groups of 3 objects.
So what happens when they are looking at a prime number of objects? Such as 7, only 1 more than 6. It cannot be split into smaller group, are they incapable of recognising it as 7 objects? I think not.
Current TAS:
[SNES] Jelly Boy
[NES] Street Fighter 2010
even a googol is too big to truly understand in any meaningful sense. We cannot play some trick to relate it to our day to day lives, like saying, "It's such-and-such amount of water." You need to take the logarithm of it twice before the average person can comprehend it on some level.
The first logarithm of googol is 100. I'd say the average person can comprehend 100 quite well. It's also perfectly easy to say how much water it is to weigh googol kilograms. Quite simply, it's a 100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x
100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100x100 meter 50-hypercube full of water.
Current TAS:
[SNES] Jelly Boy
[NES] Street Fighter 2010
In Star Road, If we can glitch our way to the top of the tower and enter the pipe and do a death warp, we can skip two Bowser courses to beat the game a lot quicker.
For romhacks, you want to show off the romhack, not show glitches that are essentially the same as an already published run.
Current TAS:
[SNES] Jelly Boy
[NES] Street Fighter 2010
Presses down and A on the same frame to select "Start" without moving the cursor.
Stage 1-1 - 64 frames saved
Stands on 1 moving platform instead of two - moving platforms reset speed to 0.
Jumps over enemy instead of killing it - fighting enemies slow you down greatly.
Collects 1 bottle instead of 2 - saves time in the end of level countdown.
Stage 1-2 - 0 frames saved
I wasn't able to save any time here.
Stage 1-3 - 96 frames saved
Uses jump attack to get past first enemy without stopping.
Gets past rope balloon faster.
Uses jump attack to get past second enemy without stopping.
Grabs wall higher.
Uses jump attack to get past third enemy without stopping.
Jumps from "fast ground" to keep speed >= 3 pixels/frame.
Just a note that the cloning of data from a despawning enemy glitch does work on the second balloon from the end, but with the current enemy fighting I'd have to wait 140 frames to get the data cloning to work on the last balloon, so that would lose time. I tried skipping the second from last but not the last as well, but that ended up about 50 frames slower than what's done in this WIP.
Picture Level 1 - 0 frames saved
There's no way to speed this up - there's an even timer between all of the shots. Yes, you can press B on the first frame and A on the second frame to make the first shot faster, but you lose that time by having to wait longer for the second shot. I'm not sure why you have to wait longer, but you do.
Stage 2-1 - 84 frames saved
Better positioning to get past the rolling log.
Uses jump attack to get past the enemy on the floating log faster.
Takes top route to avoid landing on the moving platform.
Jumps over the enemy before the waterfall without stopping.
Stage 2-2 - 21 frames saved
Uses jump attack to get the enemies out of the way faster.
Stage 2-3 - 32 frames saved
Uses jump attack to get past the first enemy without stopping.
Climbs up ladder instead of turning around to jump through the gap.
Positioning means I have to get 2 less hits on the boss.
Rope Level 1 - 0 frames saved
It's an autoscroller, enough said. Collects all of the bottles as they don't count down and I need health.
Picture Level 2 - 0 frames saved.
Same as picture level 1, the second shot means we can't use the trick at the beginning to save time.
Overall time saved: 289 Frames.
Comments/suggestions are very much appreciated.
Current TAS:
[SNES] Jelly Boy
[NES] Street Fighter 2010
Are people interesting in having it sooner or later?
Meaning, are you guys burned out from DTC5, want to try to work on other stuff, school is busy right now, etc?
DTC5 was actually a huge motivation boost for me to work on other projects. The only burnout I'm suffering is on Metal Force itself, so I'd be interested in having it sooner rather than later.
Agreed. Having it fairly soon would be good.
Current TAS:
[SNES] Jelly Boy
[NES] Street Fighter 2010
There are no minimum specs. Likely the only thing that won't be working "properly" is the speed, but that doesn't really matter when TASing (besides when playing movies back)
Current TAS:
[SNES] Jelly Boy
[NES] Street Fighter 2010
If you were using TASeditor, then it's likely you were using FCEUX, which is still accepted on the site, and not deprecated in any way. You can get that from http://www.fceux.com/web/home.html but if you want to get a different emulator to before, have a look at http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources.html and if you can't find anything, try google. Bizhawk is starting to develop a TASeditor style tool called TAStudio, but it's really still definitely a developing thing for Bizhawk.
Current TAS:
[SNES] Jelly Boy
[NES] Street Fighter 2010
It wouldn't be ACE if it wasn't. The point of ACE is to be able to put any code you want, hence arbitrary, so it would definitely be possible to speed up the speed of Mario.
I'm assuming that the speed limit isn't stored as a constant in ROM... I don't see why it should be though.
Reguarding starting near the exit, that would make it more boring. (Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t07xYlAc9Uw)
Current TAS:
[SNES] Jelly Boy
[NES] Street Fighter 2010
