I don't want to be the constant looming negativity in this thread but I need to say by watching your TASing technique, and the fact that your latest WIP (which is 30 minutes of gameplay) took you a day to make and only used 1277 re-records, that I call tell you that this TAS is not up to the standards of this website and will most likely not be accepted upon submission, if that is your expectation. Your aiming during the game is constantly jerking around, showing that you are not optimizing your inputs very well, and your pathing angles (which are paramount in any game) are sometimes wide and not thought-out. At 10:52 in your first WIP you even begin to briefly turn to the right to go down a hall but then change your mind and turn left which shows your are not planning ahead and are leaving in mistakes, which TASes are intended to be void of. The overall feel I get of the TAS so far is that of a good playthrough with above average aiming, but not an optimized or well-planned speedrun. I'm not telling you that you should give up on the TAS, but if your goal is to submit to this site you may want to chalk it up as good practice for a more optimized product later.
So are you having problems only with certain games? I literally have the same problem with Super Street Fighter II Turbo, generally desyncs when playback the file but according to my tests and what was already said in the support this may be caused by game choice or by the emulator. In my case as example the problem was the game choice, SSF2X doesn't work fully because some characters desyncs than other, my conclusions was both for emulator and game. But I would suggest what I've already said on Youtube comment and putting the compatibility on the fba.exe to winxp sp3 or win7, seriously this solve some problems with FBA in some games while I was having some troubles trying some certain games to work. *edit: I'd suggest to try running and doing some movie tests on another FBA versions to take more knowledge of what are happening.
Link to video Lars' other video. Do not do the cat racing please.
Nothing about that looked TAS'd but this also has nothing to do with the main gameplay... so let us see what you've got by TASing the story. I would look into the Timesplitters speedrunning community, specifically the forum on Speedrun.com to get advice on all the best strats. "JangBang" seems to be the best current player: http://www.speedrun.com/ts3#Hard_Anypc , perhaps try contacting him and studying his latest runs.
But that means it isn't a speed/entertainment tradeoff. It is the correct choice for aiming for fastest time. What speed/entertainment tradeoffs are there?
I was under the impression that killing the sound saved time, by making the game less laggy.
Neat game. It reminds me of Skitchin', since both games were made by EA and they clearly are cousins of one another. Two quick questions though: 1) Is it possible to get first place in the first race? It seems a shame that the best a TAS can do is second place. 2) In Skitchin', you get a substantial speed boost (~10 units, with 125 being max speed) when you perform a trick off of a ramp. Is that the case here as well? I notice you didn't use ramps much, but in the one instance I caught, your speedometer didn't increase. Still, you'll want to verify that you don't get a speed boost by looking at the RAM.
I'm interested in this project as well. Though I would say that losing music to save a couple frames seems not a worthwhile trade off.
Link to video
Very funny.
