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I think the epilogue is kinda lame, but I can see the point of having it. I entirely disagree with you Nach when you say you wanted it to be longer, I felt it was pretty much what was needed to leave off on a good note, and a longer epilogue would have pissed me off I guess. I definitely think the aftermath to the Hogwarts battle should have been longer though (as opposed to 5 minutes, like it was in the book). I guess what I'm saying is wrapping things up should have been done in the present day, not the future, imo.
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I thought it was awesome, myself. Don't agree with Lag and Chamale. I'll reread it soon. Probably my favorite of the series. Edit: Also, the "action packed" parts were the most awesome ones imo. Battle of Hogwarts must have been the best chapter of the 7 books.
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I'm pissed you cut out the intro. That's just incomprehensible.
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I don't wanna go on a rant here but America's foreign policy makes about as much sense as Beowolf having sex with Robert Fulton at the first Battle of Antetum. I mean when a neo-conservative defenstrates it's like Raskalnakov filibuster dioxymonohydrostinate AMIRITE Edit: In other news, on the internet, you don't have to steal cars. You can eat those cars, like in a library.
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laughing_gas wrote:
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I'm wondering what laughing_gas thinks antisocial means.
Does argumentative count as antisocial?
No, of course not. What kind of weird and sick question is that?
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would love to read your newsletter Upthorn.
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Sweet beans. Be warned though, it can be quite time consuming :)
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No problem glad to help. Good luck, what are you planning to do? An 11 exit run for fun, or just play around, or what? It can be quite fun. If you want some feedback on things you could improve or if you want any help or whatever, feel free to PM me or find me on IRC. Good luck again.
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laughing_gas wrote:
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The simplest approach is to jump a various frames and see when he gets furthest with a jump, but RAM watch is better.
Would that even work? Doesn't mario's speed oscillate in the air as well and thus it cancels out by the time he reaches the ground? I think memory watch is the only foolproof method.
This reminds me of doing the old 120 exit SDW run (also the first half of the SMW96 run) with JXQ almost 2 years ago. Back then we didn't have memory watching, and yes it was a hellish pain and we often laugh about it now and wonder how the hell we did it. Holy jesus did memory watch make things simpler/possible. Ah, the good old days.
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Hey Moltex here's a step by step, hopefully it's clear enough. You need to be watching two RAM values to get this trick working reliably. 7E007B, which is Mario's speed, and 7E13E4, which is Mario's P-meter. When the P-meter reaches a high enough value, Mario can begin to run at his highest speed, and you need to keep the P-meter's value high enough, otherwise he'll begin to slow down. You watch RAM values by going to the Cheat menu, then "Search for new cheats". Here you find these two values in the huge list, and hit "Watch" for each of them, which should put their value on the screen every frame once you close down the Search for new cheats window. Ok so now you're watching the values so you can check and see if you mess the trick up, which is quite easy to do. Now you need to be using frame advance of course, I'm assuming you know about that and can use it etc. Once Mario's P-meter is high enough (108 showing on the screen, unless your version of snes9x differs from mine), he can start running at top speed. What you want to do is jump, then release -> on the first frame where Mario's speed is 49 (it will oscillate between 49-48-47-48-47-etc every 5 frames). Note that the value you "watch" on the screen lags behind 2 frames, so make sure to let go of -> so the value STOPS at 49, that'll be Mario's speed. Now you could just not press -> again and hop through the level at top speed, if the level layout allowed. Doing 6/5 is quite a bit trickier unfortunately. Basically once you have "regular" hopping at 49 set up, you want to NOT press -> for 6 frames, then press -> for 5 frames, then NOT press it for 6 frames, then press it for 5, etc. You need to hold -> for 5 frames to keep the P-meter from going too low, and pressing it for 5 frames will allow it to recharge while still keeping top speed (49) afterwards. To complicate matters further, you sometimes need to time your jumps differently (higher or lower jumps), because when you land you must be in the "recharge phase" of the trick. I don't think I can explain that well enough, so just experiment away and see when during this cycle you should be landing/jumping without losing speed (remember Mario's speed should be 49-49-49-49-49-49 (when not holding ->) -49-48-47-48-47 (when holding ->) and repeat). I suggest checking out an smv where the 6/5 trick is done and with some practice you should get the idea pretty quickly. Ok this probably wasn't a great explanation. Ask away about the parts you didn't get and I'll try to clarify. You can see 6/5 being done in the 11 exit Super Mario World speedrun in the first room of castle #1, or in the 96 exit SMW run in Valley of Bowser 1, or in the 85 exit small SMW run in like 40 levels, if you need somewhere to study it. Really I think if you get the tools set up properly (memory watch), check out how others have done it, and play around and try stuff for a bit, I think you'll figure it out. It's not exactly rocket science. Good luck.
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"When you post in the existing topic, it'll attract more attention (considering the popularity of that topic)," I'm guessing this is not true. I'm guessing a lot more people read his post now than what would otherwise have been the case.
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jimsfriend wrote:
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Now that I'm home, here's my desktop. Large image/boring/etc
I saw your excel sheet with "bokslut" in it and made me think "birthday cake". I still think you should try green again instead of boring blue.
Am I missing something very obvious when I say I don't see the connection between bokslut and birthday cake? I'm probably not going back to green again for a third time. Having it in my avatar is enough :) I might try to find something else for a background though, we'll see. Not that many sweet 3200x1200 images avaliable I'm guessing.
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Then I wouldn't be able to find what I'm looking for, and chaos would ensue. I like the idea though.
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Now that I'm home, here's my desktop. Large image/boring/etc
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Boco wrote:
Am I the only person who just puts everything on the desktop and only moves it to other folders when there's not enough room left? I mean,w aht else is it for? http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t133/Boco_XLVII/misc/200707042145.jpg
Dear jesus I would just murder myself immediately if my desktop looked like this. And it's not like mine is particularly neat either.
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Just want to go on record saying I don't necessarily think N64 games are more boring to watch than the average NES/SNES/Genesis/etc game. I've seen way too few runs to make any sort of generalization like that. DK is right on track though. We can choose which games to run, how awesome is that?
DK agrees with Fabian
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As someone who can't play tetris to save his life, I really enjoy watching Baxter's videos. I'm seriously very impressed. Good luck with the double red tetris.
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It definitely would have been possible without loosing more time, since there are autoscrollers avaliable. That said, I think not getting 99 lives or 99 gate points or 99 coins is an extremely not-big deal.
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Just want to echo what TNSe said. I knew a fair amount of megadrive games back in the days and I've never heard of Vectorman. Have to assume it's a regional thing (we're both from Scandinavia).
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Xkeeper, You really just made this thread so people could list what type of runs they typically watch? Ok then, fine.
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I watch SMW runs, most sonic runs (Gens ones anyway), most Super Metroid runs, the occasional random submission by JXQ, plus the occasional run of some genesis game I had as a kid. That's pretty much it. I realize this isn't quite what Xkeeper had in mind for this topic, but there's not much left to discuss after Zurreco killed Xkeeper in that first reply.
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AngerFist wrote:
Fabian wrote:
It was discovered just two three weeks ago or so.
Isnt that typical? :) Anyway, I think I remembered you said once in IRC you were working on a new version, is this true? If so, how many seconds all in all do you think you will be able to save?
It's true, I am. Progress is kinda slow though, I'm not sure if I'll ever finish it. Time saved will be quite a bit, though I'm keeping it quiet for now.
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Voted yes. Like others have said, Phil's line of arguing is just plain stupid and makes me angry. I see Bisqwit's line of reasoning though, even though I suspect a lot of it stems from Phil's opinions. Could be wrong etc Anyway, not a lot I or others can do to change the moral views of this site administrator. Good thing the run is on youtube at least, I think. Edit: I should probably clarify I'm not calling you a homophobe idiot, Bisqwit. I didn't mean it like that, I hope you didn't take this too harshly, I don't even know you so what do I know.
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It was discovered just two three weeks ago or so.
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Some people already do post their suggested screenshot when submitting a run, other don't bother. I like to see it too, but I don't really think it should be required. Not much else to say, it comes down to personal preference.
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