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Posted: 1/1/2023 2:05 AM
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[4605] DS The Legend of Kage 2 by ninespaces in 29:25.63 [4569] DS Tetris Party Deluxe "Sprint" by Mars608 in 00:43.76 [4647] DS New Super Mario Bros. "warps" by clockwatcher & Hartmann in 20:18.62 [4786] DS Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors "all endings" by yep2yel in 9:24:03.02 [4951] DS Spider-Man: Web of Shadows by Cakemaphoneige in 21:28.99
Posted: 12/11/2022 12:32 PM
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feos wrote:
  • A video game is visual. It displays its content on some kind of a video screen.
This is probably the only one I potentially have a critique of - I'm unsure exactly what the definition of video screen is here. Does this just mean "the game appears on a computer monitor", or is the requirement here that the game itself display moving visual objects? If the latter, I'd have concerns about text adventures (as well as the few sound-based games out there designed for blind players).
Posted: 11/27/2022 1:13 AM
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I had to confront questions of triviality myself when considering my recent first submission to the site. The Friend Connection TAS is, to a viewer who hasn't read the submission text, two players just pressing buttons when the game asks them to and nothing more. The RNG manipulation of variable loading times is what convinced me a TAS of Friend Connection alone was able to be read as "non-trivial" to a judge, and even then, I was incredibly worried in the lead-up to submission about whether that would actually be considered enough. I'm still not 100% sure what the outcome of that will be, honestly, but I see this discussion as an encouraging sign, and thought I might add my two cents that gamemodes that appear to be trivial can be non-trivial to optimise in practice.
Posted: 11/25/2022 11:55 AM
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I can confirm that I will absolutely be watching this TAS in its full length when it gets published. Not in one sitting, though.
Posted: 7/26/2022 12:07 AM
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CasualPokePlayer wrote:
No SaveRAM support, save data created by dolphin is wiped on core boot (if you really want to preserve save data, use savestates)
This aspect concerns me a bit in relation to TASes that rely on content being unlocked. Does a half-hour TAS really need to include the 5 hours of input required to unlock the game mode inside the same movie file? What does this do to entertainment and acceptability (especially if that same 5 hours can be found in another already published TAS))?
Posted: 7/10/2022 3:32 PM
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I finally got round to playing with the Dolphin Core build today. Unfortunately, there seem to be a number of issues regarding settings in the SYSCONF not working properly for Wii games. - Wii games will ignore language settings and instead only use the default for their respective region. (English for NTSC-U and PAL, Japanese for NTSC-J, etc.) - Wii games don't properly respond to the widescreen setting. Although the window will shift to 4:3 if widescreen is turned off, the video output is simply a squished widescreen rather than the proper non-widescreen behaviour. - (From what I can tell) Wii PAL games ignore the PAL60 setting and will only ever run with PAL60 turned on. For what it's worth, the second and third bugs are also present in regular Dolphin, but only when recording input (just running the game normally works as expected). The first bug is slightly different to regular Dolphin, in that modifying language settings will force the game to English regardless of the region if a localisation is available (again, only when recording input) - however, the base problem of not being able to change language options is the same.
Posted: 5/2/2022 7:58 AM
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SmashManiac wrote:
...aren't you contradicting yourself here?
I don't think language selection in TASes should be judged the same way as a movie's goal choice.
Posted: 1/5/2022 5:11 PM
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[4488] GBA Pokémon: LeafGreen Version "Round 2" by UnopenedClosure in 2:45:55.36 [4505] GC Super Smash Bros. Melee "Target Test" by PracticalTAS, Mario 64 Master, ajp_anton & tauKhan in 06:55.73 [4539] Linux Undertale "Neutral ending" by OceanBagel in 48:51.95 [4547] NES Tetris 2 by nymx in 37:35.82 [4514] Wii Super Smash Bros. Brawl "The Subspace Emissary, 1 Player" by DyllonStej in 1:03:43.98
Posted: 1/5/2022 4:30 PM
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[4490] N64 Super Mario 64 "1 key" by Tyler Kehne, mkdasher, sonicpacker, snark, SilentSlayers, ToT, Plush, Dabs, Gaehne D, Eru, sm64expert, dar gos, Superdavo0001 & IsaacA in 04:18.98 [4513] N64 Donkey Kong 64 "no levels early" by theballaam96 in 1:37:18.52 [4444] NES Super Mario Bros. "minimum jumps" by HappyLee, Kriller37, DaSmileKat, Kosmic & periwinkle in 10:24.39 [4470] GBA Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga by Potato, Migu & Snodeca in 59:19.35 [4460] GB Pokémon: Red Version "Gotta Catch 'Em All!" by luckytyphlosion & CasualPokePlayer in 11:18.97 [4567] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 "game end glitch" by OnehundredthCoin in 00:00.22 [4514] Wii Super Smash Bros. Brawl "The Subspace Emissary, 1 Player" by DyllonStej in 1:03:43.98
Posted: 1/5/2022 3:28 PM
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[4373] Wii Super Smash Bros. Brawl "The Subspace Emissary, 1 player" by DyllonStej in 1:10:05.60 [4406] N64 Star Wars Episode I: Racer by Zinfidel in 31:36.75 [4449] C64 Astro-Panic! by nymx in 00:44.65 [4497] GBA Astro Boy: Omega Factor by Drakodan in 22:57.54 [4482] GC Spider-Man 2 by Natetheman223 in 48:44.37 [4568] Linux Iconoclasts "no airswim" by ikuyo & Serena in 1:02:10.27 [4559] NES Lode Runner by adelikat in 17:41.29
Posted: 1/5/2022 2:55 PM
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[4397] Arcade J. J. Squawkers by xy2_ in 07:29.75 [4449] C64 Astro-Panic! by nymx in 00:44.65 [4432] A2600 Seaquest by Lobsterzelda in 17:01.97 [4566] A2600 Adventure "Skill Level 1" by Katistrofic2 in 00:27.70 [4550] C64 Boulder Dash by nymx in 11:56.00 [4560] Vboy Virtual Boy Wario Land "best ending" by EZGames69, Bloopiero & Cyorter in 20:23.61
Posted: 1/5/2022 11:31 AM
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[4407] Linux Flywrench by keylie in 19:42.23 [4526] Linux Super Win the Game by letcreate123 in 06:43.65 [4568] Linux Iconoclasts "no airswim" by ikuyo & Serena in 1:02:10.27
Posted: 1/5/2022 6:03 AM
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[4406] N64 Star Wars Episode I: Racer by Zinfidel in 31:36.75 [4490] N64 Super Mario 64 "1 key" by Tyler Kehne, mkdasher, sonicpacker, snark, SilentSlayers, ToT, Plush, Dabs, Gaehne D, Eru, sm64expert, dar gos, Superdavo0001 & IsaacA in 04:18.98 [4513] N64 Donkey Kong 64 "no levels early" by theballaam96 in 1:37:18.52
Posted: 1/4/2022 1:50 PM
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[4522] GC Spider-Man 2 by Natetheman223 in 46:07.08 [4505] GC Super Smash Bros. Melee "Target Test" by PracticalTAS, Mario 64 Master, ajp_anton & tauKhan in 06:55.73 [4514] Wii Super Smash Bros. Brawl "The Subspace Emissary, 1 Player" by DyllonStej in 1:03:43.98 [4545] GC Super Monkey Ball 2 "Story Mode, all levels" by Gonquai, Silverbawxer, Blendra & Taru in 25:02.72
Posted: 1/4/2022 11:46 AM
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[4419] GBA Shaman King: Master of Spirits by xy2_ in 1:04:26.02 [4470] GBA Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga by Potato, Migu & Snodeca in 59:19.35 [4497] GBA Astro Boy: Omega Factor by Drakodan in 22:57.54 [4488] GBA Pokémon: LeafGreen Version "Round 2" by UnopenedClosure in 2:45:55.36 [4528] GBA Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge by g0goTBC in 12:15.17 [4530] GBA Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced "101%" by Gibran in 58:57.87 [4552] GBA Metroid Fusion "100%" by Reseren in 1:34:43.23
Posted: 1/3/2022 6:09 AM
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[4446] GBC Mega Man Xtreme 2 "Extreme mode" by Noxxa & Alyosha in 27:30.36 [4507] GB Batman: The Animated Series by Exonym in 16:36.16 [4498] GBC Pokémon: Gold Version by CasualPokePlayer in 2:52:21.83
Posted: 1/2/2022 10:05 AM
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[4381] SNES Daze Before Christmas by brunovalads in 20:48.21 [4403] SNES Plok "all levels" by Memory & fsvgm777 in 41:21.83 [4457] SNES Donkey Kong Country "game end glitch" by Doomsday31415 in 01:03.70 [4517] SNES Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure by LeHulk in 10:15.82 [4565] SNES Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame by Challenger in 07:59.84
Posted: 1/2/2022 9:18 AM
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[4410] NES Mega Man 2 by Shinryuu in 23:38.98 [4386] NES Batman by DreamYao in 09:13.90 [4455] NES Little Nemo: The Dream Master by J.Y in 21:20.37 [4438] NES Kiwi Kraze: A Bird-Brained Adventure! by J.Y in 02:10.93 [4484] NES Action 52: The Cheetahmen "warps" by EZGames69 & Samsara in 03:11.30 [4559] NES Lode Runner by adelikat in 17:41.29 [4555] NES Super C "2 players" by zyr2288 & aiqiyou in 11:18.72
Posted: 1/1/2022 4:22 AM
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[4453] PSX Valkyrie Profile "best ending" by lapogne36 in 2:24:12.48 [4436] PSX Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain by lapogne36 in 14:18.42 [4558] PSX 2xtreme by mxlenny94 in 38:19.76 [4506] PSX Mega Man X6 "X and Zero, all stages" by Rolanmen1 in 45:26.47
Posted: 1/1/2022 12:30 AM
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[4400] Genesis Knuckles in Sonic the Hedgehog "no zips" by DarkShamilKhan, ParadaxeTH, WST & marzojr in 15:04.28 [4511] Genesis Normy's Beach Babe-o-Rama by Jules in 10:02.71 [4473] Genesis X-Men 2: Clone Wars by Truncated & Sonikkustar in 15:58.98 [4549] Saturn Castlevania: Symphony of the Night "Maria mode" by EZGames69 in 07:08.22
Posted: 12/31/2021 1:44 PM
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Arc wrote:
Fortunately, technology exists that allows people to write in their native language and translate to English with fairly high accuracy.
Machine translation tools are infamous for being problematic and inaccurate for translating stuff, especially if it's of the technical sort that detailed submission texts inevitably would be. Can you name one that isn't going to suffer from this issue?
Posted: 12/20/2021 11:56 PM
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staging.tasvideos/org/Subs-List seems to have a pretty severe problem at the moment where a bunch of random nonsense submissions from 4 days ago can be found below the regular list (primarily being atttributed to MESHUGGAH?).
Posted: 11/3/2021 4:38 AM
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Radiant wrote:
That's a fair point for games on fifth-generation consoles like the PlayStation, but what about SNES / GB / DOS titles? Surely they can have a lower-resolution encode (assuming that doing so saves the encoder work, of course).
I can't remember the exact movie this affected in question, but I was watching an older SNES TAS that only had a 1080p60 encode on YouTube some months ago. It had a rapid brightness flickering effect in results screens that affected the whole screen, and the compression that got applied as a result was obvious enough to distract me from the video. Not even 1080p60 is enough for older systems.
Posted: 9/23/2021 12:08 AM
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Some issues I've noticed with the movie pages just now: - There's no option for filters in the UI. This means that if you want to look at the movies via a particular category or order, you have to go to the old site, check what the URL for what you want is there, and then enter the equivalent of that URL on the new site. Apart from being very inconvenient, this system immediately stops working when the old site goes offline. - A lot of movie page URLs that previously worked just end up redirecting you to the general Movies page (in particular, ones where you aren't limiting the results by platform or year). This is problematic in certain use cases (for example, wanting to look at all movies sorted by length rather than just the first 100), and also breaks a lot of the links under "Special Categories". - I presume this is already known, but there seem to be missing modules under "Movies by category" and "Search" on the general Movies page.
Posted: 9/19/2021 2:03 PM
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Just as an idea of how you could potentially set things out: Maybe try to limit it to 1 TAS per year, unless the improvements found are substantial enough to shave off more than 2% of the published run's time.
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