It's a very complex problem that requires extensive spatial reasoning, which is an area where AI / expert systems have yet to come close to catching up with human abilities. There are computer programs that try to solve these kinds of problems (c.f. Folding@Home) but from what I understand they're mostly "try each possible configuration until a working one is found", which, given the complex nature of the molecules in question, takes a very long time.
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I don't think this is a failure on anybody's part. This just purely shows the power of distributed computing, via Folding@Home and other similar services.
Not exactly. Most distributed computing doesn't require any user input beyond signing your computer up as a node in the network. This is more demonstrating the power of teamwork. If your problem makes for an interesting puzzle (or you can make it into one), then there are large numbers of people out there who might be interested in taking a crack at it; give them access, and help them work together, and they can get a lot done.
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Quoting from the Gordo 106 submission:adelikat wrote:
This marks the first submission for Atari Lynx. The motivation of this project was to complete my All Platforms Challenge. I went through the complete set of Atari Lynx games including homebrew games. This game represents what I thought was the most entertaining and publish worthy of the set. Thus it is my best attempt at completing the challenge!
So I wouldn't be too optimistic...
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Never thought I'd see Barbie doing the ninja run. Also, now we see what Barbie does with her math books -- she stands on them.
Ehhh...technically well done as this may be, I have to say it wasn't really entertaining beyond the mirror room, and that wasn't enough to save it. Meh vote; bad game choice IMO.
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For survival gear, I guess I'd go with a multitool (ideally including flint and magnesium) and an axe.
For getting off the island, a satellite phone and a generator.
For silliness, a spaceship and a Green Lantern ring.
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You're still trading one fight's worth of grinding D. Machines with Life abuse vs. many fights of grinding Cecil without access to high-value targets or ways to quickly kill entire encounters (since presumably the twins are KO'd to get Cecil more experience). D. Machines give 41500 experience, and it all goes to Rosa. You need multiple D. Machine kills to get Rosa to a sufficient level to learn Wall. That's a lot of Ordeals fights.
I don't have a good feel for the numbers involved here. Presumably you can save some time on the intervening boss fights thanks to having higher-leveled characters, but how much? I bet even one Ordeals fight takes long enough to easily wipe out the gains from one boss fight going faster.
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I think the simplest explanation is also the most likely here: SM64 not only displays at 30FPS; it also only receives input at 30FPS. The extra polling the console does is ignored.
Of course this should be tested, but it just strikes me as extremely unlikely that this hasn't already been considered.
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since the subject has been resurected : has anyone tried the run while leveling up in mount ordeals (when Cecil becomes a paladin)? His white magic affinity skyrockets higher than anyone in the game, making it easy to damage undeads (don't forget his sword). A lamia (weak to fire) - 2 skeletons combo gives over 800 exp for a party of 4
I have trouble believing that grinding for Cecil would be advantageous. The existing run is basically a low-level run except that it raises Rosa's level high enough to get Wall so Zeromus can be killed with reflected Nukes (and it does that grinding in a single fight!). The other boss fights don't seem to suffer for having underleveled characters, in part thanks to guest party members (c.f. Tellah, FuSoYa), but mostly because all-out offensives are much more viable when luck-manipulation means you don't have to worry about healing.
For normal games, I'm given to understand that Cecil can level very effectively on Mount Ordeals if you want to, but I've personally never really felt the need.
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SM64 doesn't run at 60FPS (I think it's 30 or 20FPS instead), even if the console is polling for input that often. I'm not familiar with the systems involved, but it's not inconceivable that the movie format would include a specifier for target framerate, so that it wouldn't have to include input for frames the game doesn't care about. If so, you should be able to stretch the input file to cover more time.
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There are still some unused blocks left in the end, but it would probably be quite hard to use the blocks even more efficient.
Especially since all that's required to max out the score is to make 3 32+ combos; extra blocks don't really contribute meaningfully unless they could somehow cut that down to only 2 combos, which seems improbable.
Nice work, zvsp!
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To my knowledge basically all TAS-oriented emulators have Windows-specific code in them. I compiled FCEU for OSX once, and it wasn't difficult, but all of the UI and Lua stuff was Windows-only. Annoying, but it's difficult to complain when the devs are donating their time.
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Clearly it's some intersection between the software and the hardware that can be handled properly in software, since SNES9x and VBA work. A random stab in the dark -- possibly it's a vsync issue? If the emulator isn't getting the appropriate signal, then it might never update the visuals. Try fiddling with the display settings in FCEUx.
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Presumably the guards have a list of behaviors they can choose from randomly, based on the RNG value. E.g. 0-10: crouch and shoot; 11-20: stand and shoot; 21-30: run to the side; 31-40: gun jams; 41-50: throw grenade, etc. So you have to get the RNG to the right value at the time the guard is choosing his behavior (obviously he's not choosing a new behavior every frame) if you want him to throw a grenade.
Probably the best way to figure this out is to manually set the RNG value and observe how the guards behave. For example, if you fix the RNG to 0, then the guards should always do the same action, assuming that the random number is the only input on their behavior. Actually behavior probably depends also on the guard's position with respect to the player (for example, IIRC guards never shoot unless they're on the same horizontal plane as the player), but at least for a given RNG value and situation the guard should always do the same thing. Anyway, once you've determined the values you need you can go about figuring how to achieve them without cheating.
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In general, I regret regretting. It's a good impetus to learn from my mistakes, but it's all too easy to wallow in past failures instead of building on them constructively.
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Not to mention that the default Genesis controller doesn't have enough buttons to handle all inputs correctly; you need six buttons plus the D pad. I doubt most people had the extended controller.
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I assume he's talking about the loading that occurs while you're waiting for a door to open, which certainly would include the timer. If normally you spend 7-8 seconds waiting for doors, but Dolphin loads instantly, then that's 7-8 seconds saved.
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As an American, I remember once getting marked down in school for using a British spelling in a vocabulary test. I'd learned the word (outside of school) with its British spelling and didn't see any need to re-learn a different spelling when I already knew one correct one. My teacher evidently felt differently.
I always thought the "two spaces after a period" thing was rather silly, too.
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That's pretty limited, since the only copyable abilities are the neutral B moves; all of Kirby's other moves remain the same. It wouldn't inject all that much variety, I'm afraid.
Pyrel - an open-source rewrite of the Angband roguelike game in Python.
