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Posted: 3/15/2018 5:03 AM
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nymx wrote:
Yes! Top speed makes a good showing. Just curious, were you braking at certain spots due to unavoidable traffic?
There are a couple times where braking is necessary. In the first section of the race there's a 'wall' of 4 cars (one in each row) that requires you to slow down to pass. In a later section (I don't remember exactly which) a very brief (1-2 frame) brake is necessary to manipulate the arrival of red car on the top row to show up a bit earlier than the cars in the three rows below. This allows for a faster passing of this group. If this braking isn't done, the four cars will instead end up as another 'wall'. Hitting the oil slicks makes the same sound as braking, but doesn't slow down the car. These oil slick sounds could be confused as random braking.
Posted: 3/14/2018 3:18 PM
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I also cannot get the sound to work. Even with the newest version of FreeDOS and newest versions of Bochs BIOS.
Posted: 3/13/2018 7:38 PM
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ViGadeomes wrote:
I apologize... Making a TAS without any knowledges and searches :')... I'm a wrong TASer ! (I didn't know how I could find useful addresses) I put you as extra editor on my submission. Thank you and sorry!
Don't feel bad, we all learn at different paces. I'm not an expert either. FYI, RAM values I've found fairly quickly: 0x2F - Player Car's Vertical Position 0x69 - Race Track Position - Race ends when = 255 0x6F - Car Speed (there may be more involved than just this value...vertical movements don't seem to affect it).
Posted: 3/13/2018 7:23 PM
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Looks like it may be interesting. Good luck.
Posted: 3/13/2018 4:30 PM
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I'll see what I can come up with. I have an idea worth testing on speed and movement.
Posted: 3/13/2018 2:45 PM
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ViGadeomes, did you make a RAM watch table for this run?
Posted: 3/11/2018 10:06 PM
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Looks pretty well done. Honestly it's not as entertaining as I'd hoped. Primarily because it seemed like there was as much time spent watching repeated cutscenes as there was watching actual game play....but that's not your fault. As far as voting, I'm borderline between 'meh' and 'yes'; but I'll give it a 'yes' simply because I understand how much of a pain DOS TASing can be (which adds a bit to impressiveness/entertainment in my opinion). Congrats on your first DOS TAS. Side Note: I don't remember the crew of the Enterprise having quite the Arnold physique.
Posted: 3/11/2018 6:12 PM
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sugarfoot wrote:
I'm probably going to TAS all 4 difficulty levels eventually, and assumed default difficulty was OK.
Unless there's significant differences in game content between the difficulty levels, doing all 4 difficulties is probably unnecessary. Also as a generality, the highest difficulty setting is usually preferred unless a lower setting yields a significantly higher entertainment potential.
Posted: 3/11/2018 5:02 PM
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Just a quick comment on Version Choice. I still have been unable to get the CD version of this particular game to work. It may be due to the CD-DA issue, or other settings. I have gotten some degree of success with other CD based games in JPC-rr (see forum post linked in submission text). Thus it is currently still 'impossible' to run the CD version of the game in JPC-rr (but that doesn't mean it will always be). As such, this run's use of the floppy version should not be used as grounds for rejection. Looking forward to watching this...will vote after I do.
Posted: 3/11/2018 4:44 PM
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Is there a reason you chose 1 Player instead of 2 Players? I'm not super familiar with the arcade version, but I'm guessing running 2 players co-op would yield a faster overall run and may offer more opportunity to be entertaining. I'm going to refrain from voting on this run but will agree with Dimon12321's comment; not bad for your first TAS.
Posted: 3/11/2018 4:22 PM
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ViGadeomes wrote:
my new version : http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/45676292775555702 All what I understood : - Press the controller button "B" to accelerate - you lose speed when you move down or up so minimize them - you lose more speed with moves when you are faster so move as soon as possible(do a move in two times if it's possible). - Oils slicks don't decrease your speed and the direction of the sliding is determined by your speed and where you touch it (What pixel). - you lose speed when you touch a bridge.
I've played around with the game on my own and compared to your WIP. I think your run looks pretty good. I can gain 2 frames by the end of the 1st bridge by braking slightly differently before the wall of cars. However, this is just enough to alter RNG to result in me being only 1 frame ahead by the end of the second bridge; by the third bridge, you're back in the lead. The RNG changes of the oil slick directions is where I think i'm losing the time back to you in the latter portions of the run. I think you're good to submit. You need to decide on your goal though.... If you want fastest in-game time, then submit as is (after eliminating empty frames at the end). If you want fastest TAS time, delete everything after the last 'up' movement. The car will coast to the end of the race. You'll have a shorter TAS time even though it'll be a longer in-game time.
Posted: 3/9/2018 9:56 PM
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adelikat wrote:
Re 4: Neither. Regardless of movie length it is still the same movie with the same TAS content. Emulator differences and regional differences are supposed to be factored out when judging a movie's quality over another Re 6) I can help you out if you want
I don't think it's worthwhile trying to convert this from QuickNES to NESHawk Reason: NESHawk core yields one extra lag frame at power-on. This one frame changes RNG. Thus the first play from scrimmage after going out of bounds on the kickoff has a different defensive formation. Essentially this means that all three halves in which a normal play is run would need completely re-TASed. I don't expect this would change the overall length by more than of a handful of frames over the course of the entire run; thus I don't see it being worthwhile to try and convert.
Posted: 3/9/2018 4:35 PM
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Upload a WIP and someone who knows the game better might give you pointers.
Posted: 3/9/2018 4:25 PM
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adelikat wrote:
1) Quicknes is still a good deal more accurate than fceux 2) Quicknes runs allowed for TASVideos publications 3) if anyone argues with 2, I'd like to hear a justification for fceux 4) NEShawk is definitely preferred though, if that's a reasonable thing to convert a movie too. We do prefer accuracy when possible. 5) You can choose your core for a movie, just switch to neshawk then record a movie 6) You can convert a movie to neshawk with some manual editing of the movie file, may or may not sync though 7) quicknes is the default because it is VERY fast, and has good accuracy, a perfect choice for casual play. Default settings are for casual play because it is an emulator, not a TASing tool. It is expected that TASers are more pro users and can pick the settings necessary to make a good TAS
Referencing the above: 4) If I convert to NESHawk and the resulting movie is longer, which run takes priority from a publication standpoint? 6) I don't mind converting and re-syncing if it's a worthwhile endeavor 7) This makes sense. I had my original BizHawk set up for NESHawk before upgrading to 64-bit windows. I just forgot to check this particular setting in this one instance after the fresh install. I've definitely corrected this oversight now.
Posted: 3/9/2018 4:10 PM
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fsvgm777 wrote:
Why did you use the QuickNES core instead of the much more accurate NESHawk core?
I had recently upgraded to a 64-bit version of windows and installed BizHawk 2.2.1. I didn't realize the installation defaulted to QuickNES core and ran the whole TAS in those settings. If this is a reason the run can't be accepted, I guess I can try and convert it over to NESHawk Core. 2 Side Notes: 1) I was unaware that there was that drastic of a difference in accuracy. Why is QuickNES default if it's less accurate? 2) I've unfortunately had to downgrade my laptop back to 32-bit windows. If I do convert this run to NESHawk, it will be a different/older emulator version.
Posted: 3/9/2018 4:01 PM
Post subject: Re: [A2600] Grand Prix
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ViGadeomes wrote:
I was looking for a TAS of this game. Is that game could be cool for the site? What could be the best one since the 4 difficulty levels of this game mean 4 different levels? Do you TAS it as Game 4 or all Game levels in one TAS?
If the changes between difficulty levels don't add any new content but only make the gameplay more difficult, just start with the hardest difficulty setting.
Posted: 3/8/2018 10:49 PM
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Ferret Warlord wrote:
Some schools of thought have the multiplication and division occur simultaneously, resulting in the one on the left. This method makes sense if you consider division to be multiplying by the reciprocal, IE 6*.5*(2+1)
Multiplication and division are equal in value and occur from left to right when separated by corresponding symbols, but the parenthesis directly associates with the 2 (without a symbol) thus separating the entire segment 2(2+1) as the divisor. Edit:...which is why multiplying by reciprocal works for division when symbolically separated. Edit 2: So in this case, multiplying by the reciprocal would yield 6*.166666666666..... which equals 1. EDIT 3: Well crap. I'm mostly wrong. It is apparently no longer the convention to do the parenthesis association with the adjacent number. Though it USED TO BE the convention. Every math teacher I had through all my school used the old convention, not the new one. I don't understand why the new convention is used; you'd never separate the expression 6÷2x to be 6÷2*x
Posted: 3/8/2018 10:33 PM
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PEMDAS Parenthesis then exponents, then multiplication, then division, addition, then subtraction. The right calculator is the correct one. EDIT: Further, the parenthesis is not separated from the 2 by a multiplication symbol thus the parenthetical portion is assumed to be directly associated with the 2 before the 2 is associated with the division symbol.
Posted: 3/8/2018 8:53 PM
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Jerrietheferry wrote:
It would be really awesome if somebody could make a any% TAS of Commander Keen 6 on easy difficulty. I believe the fastest TAS of the game at this point is that of Turska in 3:20.25 on hard difficulty. Since the any% category of this game uses easy difficulty, it would be nice to see how fast a TAS could finish it. Also, I speedrun Commander Keen 6 any% myself and my PB is 3:23.19 (with some major mistakes), and my sum of best is a 3:19 (with manual splitting so not 100% accurate). So a sub 3:20 should definitely be possible for a TAS! I don't have any experience with making a TAS, but perhaps someone here is up for the challenge!
Generally the TAS standard is to use the highest difficulty setting available. Unless there's reason for using a lesser difficulty (different game-content not seen at higher difficulties), it's frowned upon to use an easier setting simply to yield a marginally faster time.
Posted: 3/8/2018 3:55 PM
Post subject: Re: Unable to select game on C64 4-in-1 cart
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petaQ wrote:
...not to mention all that loading time on a TAS would be fugly.
While tapes and disks do lead to long loading times and inflated TAS times, it's understood and isn't likely to impact the judgement of any submission. See this run for an accepted example with a long loading time.
Posted: 3/8/2018 3:51 PM
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petaQ wrote:
C64 4 in 1 game cart doesn't work currently, unpaused Bizhawk auto-starts the first game, failing that you can use Joystick port 2 on frame 4 to select the second. Member J posted "Can confirm this behaviour with up to date developer version of BizHawk. Works fine on Vice and CCS64. Fiendish Freddy's Big Top o' Fun + International Soccer + Flimbo's Quest + Klax (Europe) (C 64 Games System).crt SHA1: 0b35ea869239ed1edbc4b31e6d5da185bf88ea19 With TAStudio, there's one frame (#4) where you can press down on Joy2 to select the second game. But things don't seem to work further than that. Moving around in TAStudio (after adding the Down on frame 4) also breaks things further, need to reboot core every time for it to run expectedly. " I'm hoping to Tas Flimbo's Quest having recently worked out how the rng functions. I'll try tape images meantime, I can't find a different compatible cart file.
I have no suggestion for this problem, but.....IIRC, using multi-game carts is frowned upon unless it's not possible to find the game you're wanting to TAS by itself.
Posted: 3/5/2018 9:02 PM
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feos wrote:
Absolutizing things does no good...Overall, I don't think there's reason to blow things out of proportion here.
It was not my intent to blow things out of proportion. I did not intend for any of these posts to be interpreted that I am upset with the current system. I'm not...unless the example I used (judges completely disregarding the community in preference of their own opinion) is actually happening. Forgive me if my choice of words did not convey this or came across too harshly. ThunderAxe's post that I first referenced can be interpreted as though votes don't matter to judges unless they are explained with an accompanying forum post. I don't believe this is currently happening. I only want to re-enforce the idea that vote totals should matter to judges when determining tier. I recognize that they aren't the only factor considered. I wasn't suggesting, nor am I now, that any of the site's current (or past) judges are guilty of this. I've been quite pleased with how things have been judged since I've been around. If there is a current judging problem, I'm unaware of it. I'm not trying to start (or prolong) a debate here. Yet, I stand by my opinion that judges should not go against the general community opinion simply because they personally disagree with how entertaining a submission is. I'm not saying this is occurring, just that it's something I believe shouldn't be. Side Note:
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Second, millions of flies can be wrong.
I found this statement hilarious, assuming you meant that millions of flies will still swarm around s**t even though it's s**t. Great reference!
Posted: 3/5/2018 4:59 PM
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Memory wrote:
They also use written out opinions in the thread to determine tiers iirc. Keep in mind people have tried to abuse the polls before: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=441898#441898
Point considered (along with some statements in IRC). Is the voting then worthwhile in the first place? Maybe a new policy on determining community entertainment value would be to only use forum posts. We could eliminate the voting mechanism and simply put our yes/no vote in the forum for a given run. While this would unfortunately inflate the length of many topics, it would ideally lessen the abuse. EDIT; I guess the point I was trying to make in my earlier post is that a judge's personal opinion should never be able to override the collective opinion of the community (however that collective opinion is determined).
Posted: 3/5/2018 4:21 PM
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ThunderAxe31 wrote:
Also, submission votes are not the only factor for a judge decision.
If you're saying that submission votes aren't the only factor in whether a submission is accepted for publication or not, I agree with that. However, if you're claiming that votes aren't the only factor on what tier a submission is accepted to, I respectfully disagree with your statement. In my opinion, a judge's personal opinion on whether a TAS is vault or moon quality should not override the community voting. If the voting is borderline, I have no problem with the judge being the determining factor for the resulting tier. If the voting is clear on how entertaining others find a submitted run, yet the judge's opinion is opposite; the judge should not be allowed to override that voting and put the run in the tier of their own personal perspective. This applies in both directions. A judge shouldn't be able to override a low entertainment vote to promote a run to moons, nor should they be able to override higher entertainment vote to relegate a run to vault.
Posted: 3/5/2018 3:32 PM
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c-square wrote:
Are you considering a Warcraft run?
I hadn't been, but I'm open to it. Among my seemingly millions of other projects. If you want to do it, have at it! I'll help as I can.
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