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Posted: 5/3/2009 11:02 AM
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I would like to call attention to http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7687 The first PSX TAS. Notice the following: A. There isn't that much debate on whether or not it should have been accepted. Most of the controversy in the topic stems from whether or not a non-glitched run should be made, or whether a bug was fixed in the US version. B. There is no possible conflict of interest, while the NSMB run has no short amount of controversy over that. C. Very few people claim the run can be improved, while many people, including some who are very familiar claim the NSMB run could be improved easy. The possible improvements don't fall under a newly discovered and/or very obscure trick, either. Some of the mistakes in the run are amateurish as hell, and would be grounds for rejection in other cases. See the saving. D. Few people give the excuse "Well, it's the first run of the system, therefore it should be accepted." As noted earlier, this goes against http://tasvideos.org/Moozooh/MostPopularExcuses.html, specifically 1a. Now, tell me straight to my face that this run should have been accepted. It shouldn't have been, and any attempt otherwise is either lying to yourself, or others. I'm going to state my bias here. I liked the movie. It was very entertaining to me. However, this topic has shown exactly what was wrong with it, and why it should not be accepted. Anything less is frankly a betrayal of this site's very purpose. And once again, I call for a permanent ban of adelikat, or at least a permanent demotion. This should never be tolerated here. I am most likely going to bow out of this debate, as I have little reason to believe I could state my case better(I think in a twisted form of how Yoda talks. Typing up a post like this is incredibly difficult, and tires me out considerably). I will post again if anyone tries to refute my points, however.
Posted: 5/3/2009 9:09 AM
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This is, to be frank, bullshit. It barely had enough Yes vote to go over 50%, Yes votes rarely count for much anyway, and it was published by the person who made it in a direct attempt to get site hits!. That, frankly, should be grounds for an immediate permanent banning of adelikat to prevent it from happening again. Obviously, admonishing phil the last time wasn't enough to prevent it from happening again. This place is supposed to have higher standards than this!
Posted: 4/11/2009 4:03 PM
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Comicalflop wrote:
A 138 Mb .mp3?
Rapidshare should work fine.
Posted: 4/4/2009 7:22 PM
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He's got his terms mixed up. h always stands for hack in Good(insert system name here) romsets. Headers are another matter entirely.
Posted: 3/29/2009 12:43 AM
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It's not. The emulator is plugin based as well(With all the headaches that causes...). Also, something I forgot to reply to last time I posted: A GeForce 6 series card would be enough if it was 6600 and up, I believe. A 6800 and up being enough is all I'm sure of.
Posted: 3/26/2009 7:09 PM
Post subject: There's an error on the site.
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This is on the top of the front page: 
error_handler:
	errstr=Memcache::get() [memcache.get]: Server 127.0.0.1 (tcp 11211) failed with: Connection refused (111)
	errfile=/home/tasvideos/nvsite/inc/dbfun.php
	errline=16
I get the same error when I try to access any movie's page. The movie's listing is replaced by that error.
Posted: 3/21/2009 6:02 AM
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AngerFist wrote:
Might as well post here too. I believe this is the first official PCSX2 release: http://forums.pcsx2.net/thread-4262.html check it out!
Actually, they've had plenty of releases before hand. Also, PCSX2 has had the same name since it was first started. The team that merged with them was working on an unofficial fork of PCSX2.
Posted: 3/21/2009 5:52 AM
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White Label wrote:
Perhaps I'm thinking of the new Kega build that just came out a few months back. Let me revise my earlier post... Suggestion! (low on the priority list, ha) Implement blargg's NTSC filter and give option to allow avi dump after filter. ...pretty please?
You're thinking of Regen, actually. It's had the NTSC filter for a long time.
Posted: 10/12/2008 7:02 PM
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R2 is the lockon button in both games, not a camera control button. >.>
Posted: 10/11/2008 7:05 AM
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nfq wrote:
Bisqwit wrote:
"Time" becomes meaningless. How long should such a punishment be, when time is meaningless? A week is like a hour. 100000 years is like 3 months.
the better we feel the faster time goes (ie. it becomes more meaningless) and the worse we feel the slower it seems to go. so i don't think time is entirely meaningless in "hell", but it seems to go much slower. if time is meaningless in hell, it means that time does not exist, and if time does not exist, nothing can exist.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression Hell as described by the Christian Bible isn't connected to this reality at all. If that is true, wouldn't Time not existing be possible? After all, it's not abiding by the rules of this universe, rather ones made for that "universe". I'm far from the most knowledgeable about this, however, so I could be wrong.
Posted: 10/8/2008 9:07 PM
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Fair bit of sound emulation bugs/inaccuracies at the end there. :( This is a stupid question(Haven't played the game in a long, long time), but wouldn't having the characters attack each other to trigger their Limits work faster?
Posted: 10/8/2008 1:46 AM
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Could someone reupload that MM1+2+3+4+5+6 video that doesn't desync in MM3?
Posted: 10/3/2008 6:50 AM
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There is one at the end of the game(After beating the final boss, to be exact) that I do not believe can be skipped.
Posted: 9/29/2008 9:35 AM
Post subject: Re: Stupid, stupid encoding questions.
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Bisqwit wrote:
The thing about "pixelated" is that when you playback the movie at a larger size than original, your display card hardware "scales" the movie into larger size by a filtering process that specifically avoids pixelation. If you disable hardware acceleration, you will see pixelated video. If you view the video at 1:1 size, i.e. unscaled, you will also see it as it is originally. Each pixel of the video corresponds to one pixel in the game console's screen. If you want the video to be pixelated when scaled to larger size without having to disable hardware acceleration, you will have to prescale it prior to encoding.
I was playing it back at the original res(That's what I've set up my media player to do by default.). >.> Xkeeper, I'll try those settings. Thanks. Edit: Ok, turns out I was semi-wrong. I have the player set to display the video's default res, but it's always encoding at 480x320. Always. I've changed video render method from DD to D3D and tried it at various resolutions(All multiples of 240x160). I'll try updating to 19.4. Not the same version as the one that was used to record these videos, but it might help. Edit: aaaaaaaaaaaand that didn't help. OK, I'm gonna uninstall all video codecs, then install x264, ffdshow, Media Player Classic. And if that doesn't work, I'm going to report it here and go to bed. Edit: Well, now it's encoding at 240x160 no matter the resolution of the emulator. I forgot to mention. Just before I uninstalled the K-Lite codec pack and install X264, ffdshow and MPC separately, I tried running my last encode in WMP to make sure it wasn't MPC screwing up the file. Same problem. I've got to be missing something here. I'll work on this problem later. I'm awful tired, I'm on sleep-inducing meds, and I have trouble thinking when I'm this dammed tired.
Posted: 9/29/2008 9:08 AM
Post subject: Stupid, stupid encoding questions.
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I'm trying to encode a run-through of FF1 GBA for my personal usage. I just want the video to look exactly like the emulator(rerecording 19.3), and I'm not too concerned about file size. I've got the k-lite codec pack installed, and I've noticed the emulator seems to have specific options for XviD. I've messed around with those, but can't get the display to look pixelated(I know, I know, but the GBA didn't have any special filtering either intentional or otherwise, so I don't want any). However, after taking a look at the FAQs on the site, it seems I was wrong about the XviD options, and I'm just more confused than ever. The only reason I'm encoding this run-through is it's a long one, and it's kind of hard to rewind a video when you're not recording it(At least, I haven't found an option to do so, and I've looked all over the program. :(). I also can't turn up the throttle to higher than 125% unless I use frame skipping, but that's probably a problem best suited for another thread... I'm 100% new to this stuff. No idea what I'm doing here. I'm more of a hardware guy...
Posted: 9/29/2008 3:45 AM
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moozooh wrote:
And you know that… how?
Never done a google search on both?
Posted: 9/28/2008 7:07 PM
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moozooh wrote:
"4th generation" is definitely not an option, for an obvious reason. "Sega Megadrive / Genesis / CD / 32x" is somewhat long, but it's the only viable option I see.
Derakon wrote:
more people are familiar with the Genesis
Ahem… what?
Maybe he means more people on the Internet... It's slightly more correct. Ever so slightly.
Posted: 9/25/2008 1:45 PM
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superjupi wrote:
I believe that was in reference to the ROM archives, not the base site itself.
Correct. Sorry for the confusion. I'd name where they came from, but I believe that site is planning on coming back. Might be wrong, though. I don't want to accidentally break the rules...
Posted: 9/24/2008 9:59 PM
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I've been to it before. Most of the archives are direct ripoffs of another rom site's archives, not even bothering to rename them. That is sadly becoming common.
Posted: 9/24/2008 9:57 PM
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Bag of Magic Food wrote:
You can play the first one on the original Game Boy, but it slows down a lot more, at least on VisualBoyAdvance.
o_O That's odd.
Posted: 9/23/2008 2:04 PM
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No. Megaman Zero was the GBA series. Megaman Xtreme is a two game series for the Gameboy Color(Well, I know the sequel is a GBC game, as I own it, but I dunno if the original works with older Gameboys or not) that is basically a remixed version of the first three MMX games, taking levels from each, altering them somewhat, and adding some additional stuff.
Posted: 9/22/2008 3:56 PM
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Ah. Thanks for the info. :)
Posted: 9/22/2008 3:49 PM
Post subject: Downtime?
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I couldn't access the site for two or more hours. What happened?
Posted: 9/21/2008 9:22 PM
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superjupi wrote:
Depends on the game. Some 100% movies would be so long and tedious that the entertainment value would all but disappear, but the 100% runs I've actually watched so far have been quite enjoyable.
Agreed. A 100% run of FF10, for example, would only work as a TAS, and even then it'd be at least 60 hours, most of it grinding...
Posted: 9/18/2008 10:29 AM
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Very entertaining. A yes vote from me.
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