Not too bad a choice of game. I could imagine watching this again the next time I'm semi-bedridden.
It looked like it was riddled with small inefficiencies, so laggy as this game is. I verified only one flaw, though: around frame 8500, you could have saved ~30 frames by finishing off the second goomba-like monster.
I had a positive impression of it overall, so Yes vote.
And an aside: EaTen is probably Japanese for the words "ea" and "ten". Whatever that's supposed to mean.
How about if there were a form on the main page that allows anyone to add TAS ideas? It would have a "ROM name" field and a "Goal description" field. There could a +/- rating system, like with the youtube comments. Maybe a similar function to allow people to "claim" ideas.
The output could be put into a table, like...
Terranigma [E] | 100% run | +2 approval | 0 TASers have claimed this run
Needless to say, there would also have to be a lot of filtering of bad and redundant input.
I only suggest this because it seems like it would be way less work in the long run than manually editing a page on the wiki. Not to mention the fact that the general public would have access to it, rather than just the core members of this forum.
I don't know if it's just me, or if it's cause I'm new at TASing, but after about an hour (sometimes longer) of using the frame advance, when I get off the computer, it feels like everything is going in frame advance speed for about 5 or 10 minutes. It's an odd feeling, but it happens when I've been working on my run for too long. I was wondering if anybody else gets this?
Yeah. It lasts a couple minutes, if I've been playing at a constant speed of, say, 17%. Hard to play normally after that.
As for the "brain framerate" question, this should interest you.
It should be. All you have to do is hex edit the header so that it knows to read two controllers, and double the input bytes.
I think JXQ's input animator does that, though you'd have to google for it, since I don't remember where it is.
If I may ask, has anyone done a Tool Assisted speed run of this game yet? I'm curious to ask because I plan to make a speed run myself and hope to learn helpful strategy's.
According to the search, there aren't even any rejected or half-completed attempts at TASing this game.
Looks like you've got your work cut out for you. ;)
You can bind a button to "turbo start" in page three of snes9x's hotkey configuration dialog. That should get you through the starting screens faster.
You can move to the right while falling at the start of the level.
Other than that, I didn't see anything improvable.
Crummy Kirby's Dream Land 3 97% attempt. Total time? A horrifying 2:10:14! Download Snes9x 1.51 to view this file due to the old version's trouble with the game's transparency.
If it was really that bad, then I guess you won't be too upset when I tell you that your movie desynced around 88,000. :/
All I can suggest if you try again is that audio interpolation should be turned off... based on what I've heard.
I'm about to sit down to watch the new Shining Force submission. Since I don't want to hear the same five seconds of battle theme over and over again, I disable the audio. This causes the movie to desync at certain fanfares.
A "fake mute" feature or some sort of volume control would be nice.
FWIW, I was amazed at how glitched up the game got without crashing. It gets to a point where the whole thing just locks up.
DK64_MASTER wrote:
player - trashcan - player - trashcan - boss - trashcan?
That would be something to see. I think you could do that with Rocco or Moose, since they spawn with trashcan-like weapons in the area. Getting the boss to stand on a totem poll like that for more than half a second would be funny.
The sound is horrible, and the game is too long and repetitive, the quality of the performance notwithstanding. If it could be trimmed down to about 17 minutes, I think I'd vote Yes... so, No vote.
Thread resurrection + finished WIP/TAS = win.
Let's see...
-You might want to shoot at the earliest possible frame. Purely a style thing.
-Is sliding is faster than walking? I'm not sure if anyone ever tested that. It's not much of an issue because the screen is almost always autoscrolling, but it might save some time here and there.
I like what you did with the controller between levels. :D
I'd also like some tips on making a 2 player run, like if there's some way to record P1 for a short bit and then go back and record P2 separately. My keyboard really doesn't like me holding down enough keys simultaneously to do too much recording both at the same time.
IIRC, Adelikat is able to do something like that in FCEU, but there probably isn't a Snes9x equivalent.
There's always the auto-hold feature, though.
There was a lot of boss vulnerability time that I think could have been used to deal damage faster.
There were lots of optimization problems like this. The elevator around frame 4400, you could time the jump better and save some frames.
It's nothing personal.
I play through Quake once every summer. I also enjoy glitching the hell out of Deus Ex.
Sometimes, I like to singlehandedly pick on a team of low level bots in Q3A.
Makes me feel like a big man.
Many people accept that either God or Satan can respectively "speak through" or "possess" an individual. How, then, do we know that the bible wasn't written by someone possessed by Satan?
This accusation can not be supported in any way. The Bible contains several derogatory statements directed at Satan. He would not have had any reason to write this about Himself. The name was, prior to the publication of this work, unknown in Europe. Therefore He could not possibly gain anything from including these statements, such as appealing to a wider audience. The only people who could possibly be interested in including negative statements about themselves while pretending to be someone else would be people who already had a strong negative reputation. This pattern is supported by events occurring today. Some dishonest people will try to lure people out of organizations that are opposed to them by starting false organizations of the same type.
Yeah, it wouldn't make much sense for Satan to do that... judging from what we know of Satan, which we get from the bible.
An epistemological problem, no?
As I alluded to in my reply to Primo, it wouldn't be logical for Satan to have done such a thing, and I accept that the Christian faith isn't quite as abstract as I had thought. But what if Satan simply wasn't acting logically? What if the Flying Spaghetti Monster wrote the bible, posing as God, for his own noodly purposes?
What if anything? There is no limit to the number of non-falsifiable, ad-hoc hypotheses I can come up with as explanations, and the validity of each is equal to that of any holy text, or work of fiction.
The men who wrote these books new Jesus personally,
Huh. I think you've got me there! The bible couldn't likely have been produced for the sake of misleading others if there was the possibility of "peer review" amongst a group of people interested in maintaining consistency with certain, already understood ideas.
There are still plenty of holes/assumptions one could pick at, but you've answered the one I was interested in. Thanks, Primo.
One could give answers like it not being the same. One was directly influenced by the anti-deity, the others (rape, cancer) come from natural causes/choices. One could draw a distinction between that and say that's the reason.
If an anti-deity had done something which made it unable for good souls to go to 'heaven'... the deity would probably do something about it. Cancer and rape don't prevent good souls going to heaven.
I suppose I could counter by pointing out that God allows other religions; Christianity allows Islam to exist and vice-versa. Allowing these "false gods" to exist and mislead millions would be equivalent to letting Satan write the bible, IMO.
But more importantly, your premises depend on the possibility of understanding god's will, which we can only claim to know through the bible (and/or various arguments from personal credulity.)
