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Another choice would be a new playaround TAS, as our current SMAS SMB3 playaround TAS probably got old...
By the way, is it possible to do ACE with this version?
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I like this run. It's even more entertaining than the NES version in many ways. Voting yes.
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Two 100% runs in a year, amazing. Thank you for your hard work. :D
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Wonderful work. Glad to see SMB3 improved further. Will make a comparison video as soon as RAT926's question is answered.
Edit: Here's the comparison video (to learn more about the specific improvements).
Link to video
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Upload a movie to userfiles - Use this for work-in-progress movies, or movie files that are not intended to be published to the movies page.
OK, now I know.
But as I understand it, any movie can fit into the description (work-in-progress movies, or movie files that are not intended to be published). Movies submitted there don't even get a decent title, and very few people seem to take those movies seriously. I randomly clicked several latest movies submitted there, and they all have zero comment. No one really cares.
I said from the beginning, that this is not for publication, because I don't want to give any judge any pressure to reject this, not because I was fooling around or didn't want this movie to be taken seriously. Of course I wouldn't submit anything that's crap and waste everyone's time!
For all I know, it still could be the first decentfull-length speedrun done entirely by a bot. May not be interesting to you, but all I said is that it might be interesting or even an inspiration to some. Does that mean anything?
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So much negativity here. This may not be much, but still the best a bot can do to TAS a popular game. This submission, I said, is not for publication, but still is a serious submission, as it might be an interesting experiment for some.
As for the other movies people posted, some of them is not exactly a speedrun as it doesn't complete the game but only goes loop-like for hours, and some of them is not done entirely by a bot. This is a bot that actually completes SMB. So if you're to convince people that this is not anything new, you probably need better examples.
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EZGames69 wrote:
It is for WIPs as well as Lua scripts, and experimental tases like this one.
Forgive me for not knowing this. I truly don't know if this can be an interesting submission for some people, because though I've seen TASes done partially by a bot before, this might be the first full-length TAS done entirely by a bot, so it might mean something, or not, I don't know.
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Masterjun wrote:
Do you want me to judge this as if "SMBbot" was an actual newbie? Just confirming here.
Judge it however you want. I thought it wouldn't hurt to have a sense of humor.
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EZGames69 wrote:
Definitely not intended for publication
Correct, so it shouldn’t be submitted here, it should go to Userfiles.
I thought that's for "Newest WIPs" as the title says. This experiment is not an WIP but already a full speedrun. It won't bring anyone any pressure to reject this, anyway.
Masterjun wrote:
Happy April Fools Day everyone, right?
No, this is a serious TAS made by a bot. The bot's new here, so please don't break its heart.
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I agree with Masterjun on the goal being arbitrary. But a Linux VVVVVV TAS is always interesting to see. I wonder if libTAS can be more precise than Hourglass...
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Thought I could compile an FCEUX myself. Unfortunately I really don't know what went wrong... Failed to compile no matter what I try...
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During recording a movie, savestates load much slower, probably because it checks if there's a mismatch between savestate's movie and current movie every time.
It gets increasingly slower as the length of the movie gets larger.
Right now I'm working on a script that requires lots of savestates and runs during movie recording. Time is a key factor so I certainly don't like it to run increasingly slower as the movie gets longer.
The older version FCEU probably doesn't have such problem, but unfortunately my script is not compatible with FCEU for some reasons.
Can we add an option in the Movie Options, something like "Check savestate & movie mismatch every time", so we can manually not let it check mismatch every time to speed it up? Or if there are other ways to speed up loading savestates, especially as the movie gets longer? Thanks.
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HappyLee wrote:
I have no idea whether France or Belgium would be in the final, but I predict the one that got in the final would beat Croatia and win the World Cup.
It turns out to be another right prediction, but I really feel Croatia has played extremely well in this World Cup. That penalty is really devastating for Croatia. They almost controlled the game before that.
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HappyLee wrote:
I think Brazil (though it's my favorite team) will be beaten by a European team like France. Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi will both cry.
Unfortunately, two of my predictions have come true. I really hoped Brazil would have the chance to meet France. Brazil played very beautifully and showed top-of-the-world strength, and I think would beat Sweden and England very easily. Too bad it met another strong team Belgium and stopped so soon.
I have no idea whether France or Belgium would be in the final, but I predict the one that got in the final would beat Croatia and win the World Cup.
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Amaraticando wrote:
Colombia 2 x 2 England (England wins in the penalties)
Close enough!
Also feeling sad for Japan and Colombia.
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BrunoVisnadi wrote:
So I rather not knowing about any possible improvements, and thus, not sharing the file (neither a video of the whole run so far). Makes it much more likely that this run will be completed and submitted one day.
That's perfectly understandable. SMW TASing (especially the 96-exit TAS) is so complicated that very few people in the world can truly understand what you're dealing with. Best wishes to you and your project.
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Amaraticando wrote:
But it's time for Neymar to stop the overreactions.
Maybe he was truly in great pain, who knows, so I don't care whether it's exaggerated performance or not.
This Brazilian team is truly the best I‘ve seen in many years, and certainly has potentials. But it‘s going to meet Belgium and maybe France, which are also very strong teams. The other side with Russia, Columbia, England, Sweden and Switzerland looks weaker to me. Maybe Croatia has the most potential to go into the final.
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BrunoVisnadi wrote:
Thankfully for me, this new trick won't improve Gnarly.
Amen to that, so you don't have to go through the redo process again.
BrunoVisnadi wrote:
Also I want to say I initially intended to publish at least one WIP of this run, but I realized doing so would very likely result in someone finding some improvement early on, and I know I would want to go back and fix it, which would make this run to never be finished. So I rather not knowing about possible improvements until I'm done :)
So that's why. I finally get it. I guess it's what happened to ISM back when he was making the 96-exit TAS. Maybe it's better to keep in discussion with people who are capable of finding improvements once a stage is done, so you'll have more confidence with no improvement being left?
Looking forwards to your masterpiece!
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I believe some human beings are capable of taking polls entirely (or almost) objectively. Others can be subjective to some extent, and that should be OK as long as it doesn't violate the rules and guidelines.
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Warp wrote:
Being polite and diplomatic doesn't require energy.
It does to me under such intensity, since I have to suppress my feelings in an intense situation like this, and my character is that I like to say what I want to say.
Warp wrote:
It merely requires a more neutral tone.
It's extremely hard to stay perfectly neutral when our work is under attack and suffers from unprecedented criticisms which it never earned. Also, mostly what I did in this thread was merely defending our work.
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Warp wrote:
I'm not demanding you to shut up. I'm advising against writing in such a confrontational and insulting tone, because it doesn't do you any favors, and only causes antipathy and resentment for no good reason. You should approach whatever grievances you might have with more diplomacy.
As a non-diplomatist, non-native-English-speaker, frankly I don't have the time and energy to be extremely polite and cautious with words all the time (it's hard for me to type so many words already), especially when me and our work are clearly the victims here. I think we should care about facts more than tones. I just want to present my opinions straightforwardly, and again, if I ever were insulting or unfair to anyone (which I never meant to), I apologize for that.
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The users of this site collectively are known to come down extremely hard on people who step out of line (however that occurs); that has happened a countless number of times in the past. I recommend not to get on the wrong side of anyone on TASVideos, no matter how they act.
I think it's just wrong to group attack or push away people with different opinions, especially when I haven't violated any forum rules or voting guidelines. I always want to do the right things, so it's hard to see why I'm on the wrong side of anyone or anything according to you. Also, if anyone has an opinion of me or thinks I'm wrong, just point it out whenever I behave poorly or say anything wrong (and we can talk about that), but it's never right to place personal vengeance on our work. Also you know what happens when TASVideos starts to do things like this as a group? Talented people may leave or eventually shut up just to hide their opinions.
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Right now I won't be surprised if Mexico and Russia make it to top 8. They both did really well on their first match.
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Memory wrote:
Encoders put a lot of hard work into their job, and that is to be respected, regardless of any other problems you may have with them.
That's true. Normally I wouldn't mind, but the same logic applies to TAS work. We have put a lot of hard work into our run, but our work wasn't respected by many people in the first place, and still hasn't been now. What's even more disappointing is that few people cares like I do, and many people are still blaming me over this and demanding me to shut up.
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Spikestuff wrote:
Do I know the reason why? No. Since everything else I've published in the past is fine.
Do you know the issue? No.
Have you followed our Encoder Guidelines to check your encode? No.
Do you apologize for or even admit being personal with your movie rating? I guess not.
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fsvgm777 wrote:
As for the encodes being broken, they have been fixed (in fact, the compatibility encode was never broken to begin with, as both feos and I confirmed it was fine).
I already said that the compatibility encode has issues of dropping frames in many places. It's very noticeable to me since I'm an SMB TASer. If you don't believe me, check out for 1-1 after the second pipe frame by frame, and you'll see what I mean.
Spikestuff wrote:
I ain't correcting the 512kb (mp4) as there's an issue on your end not mine.
10bit444 was already corrected. I let a slip go by (fun fact there was 2 errors in the 10bit besides the one you ended up seeing which I corrected beforehand, so I actually do give a damn about downloadables).
If you really give a damn, how about watching some parts of the encoded videos to make sure they're fine before making them official?
Spikestuff wrote:
Let me point out how my I transition my Votes into Ratings.
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I can make my rating lower if you want. I was being generous.
So you're saying that your exactly same rating as mine for MrWint's run is just an coincidence? Other than your personal "revenge" or anything?
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