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mz wrote:
FODA wrote:
I don't have that game, but you can try changing the CPU options, like using "Enable Interpreter CPU" or some of the other fixes. Sometimes they work, most times they do not. :P
That did the trick! *hug*
About the only other issue at this point is that my input seems to get stuck quite often; I'll change plugins and see what that does.
Edit[/b]: Hm, nevermind. Duddie's didn't even seem to work. :/ (must be that mouse driver thing)
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Alright, things are set up...
Why must Jumping Flash crash whenever it gets to the game? The menus work fine. :( There's also no music; will I need a CD for that or something?
For the record, I have it set up mostly based on defaults.
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I suppose I'll put this here.
Back in 2006, frame advancing was the norm, and memory watching was quickly becoming the big thing. In that same year, my brother submitted one of my GI Joe runs. A run that I didn't want submitted; a run that didn't use tools outside of savestates and 12% speed; a run I knew was obsolete because I had already started another version that was 12 seconds ahead into the third mission before I became too frustrated with it.
It still got accepted. Granted it was beaten better than what I would have pulled off, but it was still accepted.
Sure, that was 2006, so maybe things have changed. To that end, I put forth Drill Dozer, which almost got accepted until Comicalflop and Pekopon came along and pointed out why it was subpar.
jimsfriend wrote:
[N]obody but Alden cares about Backwater Game #7...
"I care." -Luke Skywalker
Indeed, I've tried TASing several of these "backwater" titles, but apparently my will is weak as I gave up on many of them. -_-
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You wanna know why it sucks? Read the last line in the opening paragraph.
IGN's Top 100 list wrote:
The IGN Readers' Choice Top 100 Games of All Time!
Emphasis added. Leave it up to public brainlessness and of course you'll end up with the overhyped Ocarina of Time in the #1 position.
List discounted.
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Bag of Magic Food wrote:
Hey Shinryuu, you should add some frames to your avatar by flipping and reversing what you already have so that Dr. Wily comes back out through the revolving door again. Then it would be continuous, and Dr. Wily would be forever spinning!
Edit[/b]: Animation updated to fix some things and add some more frames to better reflect the source material. Sorry, Whelkman, it's bigger now.
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nineko wrote:
Because of the low quality of the RF connection, when you play with a Genesis on a real television, the image tends to blend horizontally consecutive pixels. This supposed weakness has instead been used for several kinds of cool effects, from smoother gradients to fake transparency.
This post by ICEknight, on the Sonic Retro forums, shows many of those effects, which can be emulated in the Kega Fusion emulator. Gens doesn't have that kind of filter, though you can press F9 to enable the quick blur -- it's not the same thing at all, but it will blend pixels together.
Using a connection's low quality to bring about something of higher quality. Fascinating. I thought it was something along those lines, but I didn't think the effect would be so pronounced, which is what had me confused.
Thank you. I'm fascinated by things like this.
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(nice pick of screenshot)
Quick question for any Genesis hardware experts out there. When playing on an emulator, the title looks kinda rough. Most prominent is a ton of vertical dithering - empty spaces between solid vertical lines. Quite ugly.
However, when I play it on the original hardware hooked up to a CRT TV, this dithering is gone. Where it should be is smooth coloring. When it comes to character animations, it comes across as a transparency effect. As a result, it looks much cleaner and prettier.
This is obviously some kind of hardware trick similar to abusing LCD's afterimaging by using 30 Hz flickering on GBx titles to get a transparent effect and push more colors from the hardware. What are the mechanics behind this? I find it interesting.
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Okay, is it normal for the timer to go all screwy when watching an MKV with VLC? It seems with every MKV I've watched the timer was jumpy within a five second range. Doesn't affect the video any, however.
Not a bad movie. Thankfully it was more glitchy than simply using zipping tricks everywhere.
Edit: Also, the encode seems to screw up a bit right after the first Bubbleman fight.
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Well, that was a fun little watch. What sealed the deal was level 2, going straight from He-man to Daniel Laruso.
This is one bad movie. If I had a stamp of approval, I'd give this it.
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Whenever I see the front page right now, I end up with "Friend Like Me" getting stuck in my head. Every single time. Disney songs don't seem to be that catchy anymore. Or at least entertainingly catchy.
Watching this run made me feel like Elizabeth Swan learning that the secret to getting off a desert island is to wait for a booze trafficking ship to come along. How many times have you played a game and come across some random, secret doodad that seemed to have absolutely no way to be reached, but was minor enough for you not to obsess about it? You just think, "Oh, I'll probably figure it out on a later playthrough." And when you get back to that item, but hit the same brick wall, and think the same thing when you can't get it. As the years go by, you always think to yourself, "You know, I never could figure out how to reach that platform."
Then, years later, you watch someone else play it. Then they get that doodad using some tactic that somehow you never though of. The reaction is nearly exactly the same as Ms. Swan's.
Seriously. Bouncing on thrown swords? That's all it took? Good grief!
That being said, bravo to Capcom for the placement of those red gems. It seemed that many of them took some actual creative thinking to reach as opposed to taking brief survey of your surroundings and instantly knowing what to do, like push a block or plant an explosive, or simply obscuring the solution in the form of a Magical Hidden Button that doesn't require as much thinking as it does dumb luck and/or foreknowledge to get right. Such design seems to be missing nowadays.
Also, there's just something I absolutely love about that period's Super Nintendo music. I just can't get over how happy the way it sounds makes me happy.
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I have this much to say at this time.
I have gotten used to the layout, like I said I would.
Thank you all, and merry Christmas.
hooray for pointless posts!
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How 'bout something even screwier?
e^(2pi*i) = 1
ln(e^(2pi*i)) = ln(1)
Since ln(e^a) = a...
...and ln(1)=0...
2pi*i = 0
???
(yes, order of operations and all that, but it's still fun to do this kind of stuff!)
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This topic briefly becomes a confusing mass of random posts due to trying to cram all the nomination topics together. Tricky to read through.
I'm probably breaching etiquette, like Warp was pointing out earlier, but I'd like to nominate my Metroid 2 run for the glitched category. It demonstrates a game that's been gltiched to no end, but does so without jumping to the end like most glitched runs do. Condenses the action instead of skipping it.
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Sqrxz goes to Silent Hill. Nice.
I admit I didn't find it *that* hard. Difficulty was pretty spot on. Only thing is that gem collection in level 7 is going to be quite tedious. >_<
Edit[/b]: Alright, got'em!
...Is there no way to get a good ending? :(
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As far as video games are concerned, my brother got me a hard copy of Desert Demolition. The inspiration behind that one has me kind of weirded out. (still, thank you!)
I also managed to land The Complete Calvin & Hobbes, plus Santa gave me the last two volumes of the Peach Fuzz trilogy.
Strangest gift this year? My other brother bought me a titanium spork. Yeah.
Oh, I also got my brother's old car! Still no driver's license. :(
Another round of Christmas hugs! ^o^
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I just noticed that the mouth on Nightmare's mask is sewn shut. The crying of green goo is enough nightmare* fuel as it is!
Not too bad. I'm convinced that much of the map was poorly designed, but it did make for an intense 20 minutes of gathering power bombs right at the end.
*Pun half intended
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Edit[/b]: Animation updated to fix some things and add some more frames to better reflect the source material. Sorry, Whelkman, it's bigger now.
