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Truncated wrote:
About this rule:
"Currently I plan to have all submitted movies be converted to the most accurate emulator (NESHawk). If there is avoidable lag during gameplay on the more accurate emulator but not the less accurate, this will not be fixed during the conversion so beware. I am willing to consider changing this rule however to a flat comparison of times without conversions if enough people express a desire otherwise."
Is this an issue in this game? Have you tried just recording a movie through it and checked if it syncs on the other emulator?
Our team is trying to decide on an emulator, due to some hardware limitations, and it would be nice to know we won't get screwed over if we use FCEUX.
I actually don't know currently, I can try to check real quick. I'm willing to change the rule, even after the contest has started, if enough people want.
[16:36:31] <Mothrayas> I have to say this argument about robot drug usage is a lot more fun than whatever else we have been doing in the past two+ hours
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
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A new glitch has been found that allows shifting values in RAM 4 bytes to the left. The RTA time is currently 1 and a half hours using this glitch and it can likely go down further. This reddit post by veo has further details.
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Burb wrote:
I just did some testing to check where the save corruption happens, and it happens when you spawn in the glitched town.
I reached that town, then went to the bottom floor and died in the water until I got a game over. Selected the bottom option (save & quit) and all save slots were corrupted.
Then I made the eye death boost be a game over and save & quit before the game spawned me in town. And it did not corrupt the saves.
Seems as if, as long as we appear in the glitched white town, the saves will corrupt.
Sounds to me this has nothing to do with game completion then and the ending itself actually plays out completely normally.
There are no rules against bricking carts. For all we know some games may in fact brick themselves automatically through normal play and banning them would be silly.
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[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
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dwangoAC wrote:
InfamousKnight wrote:
Now if there’s absolutely no other way of getting it besides some rare lucky find on eBay or amazon....
Then officially it can't be submitted or verified in accordance with the site's rules. Please don't push the site into a corner here, we absolutely must be above reproach on the piracy issue at all times. The reality is as I pointed out above that access to some content is always a challenge in many other industries and niches from everything from sewing patterns to industrial control systems to you name it. In order to remain an ongoing concern it is necessary for the site to phrase things the way we do.
...Except this is basically listed in the rules already.
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Mittenz wrote:
Can confirm 8bit, tj, and myself
please have them post in the thread
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Masterjun wrote:
I'll make a new team with TASVideoAgent and Memory!
🖥️: Confirmed.
💾: Confirmed.
I don't remember agreeing to this but I guess I did!
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FitterSpace wrote:
I'm not aware of any TASes that require piracy to sync it up on an emulator or console
The rules state "Exceptions may be made for bad or cracked ROM images only if no good ROM images exist, or are not obtainable." This mainly applies to Commodore 64 which uses cracked ROMs for a good number of its movies. It may be that these movies are impossible to sync on emulator with an unmodified ROM instead.
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[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
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pirate_sephiroth wrote:
Why do people even make logos?
Fun
EDIT:
IRC wrote:
[16:43:34] <Masterjun> "You cannot be placed in more than one team" does that mean that I can be placed multiple times in one team?
[16:44:10] <Masterjun> in other words, a team consisting of Masterjun, Masterjun and Masterjun?
Clarification you can not sign up multiple times for the same team either.
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tapioca wrote:
Touching that enemy can be avoided, and I do build up some speed on the wall.
I'm going to have to redo basically the entire tas anyway to incorporate doing the clips without facing the wall (there are a few places where this should be faster), so I'll go ahead and include your improvement while I'm there.
This sounds like it might be worth resubmitting instead of updating the file but I'm not sure. Want me to reject/cancel this while you implement these improvements? Note you can cancel yourself if you prefer.
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Tompa wrote:
Brunovalads will team up with me and Mugg!
Can Brunovalads please post confirmation as well?
EDIT: Adding clarification that you cannot be a part of more than one team.
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thelegendarymudkip wrote:
Truncated, Negative Seven and I are forming a team again for our 3rd (ish) DTC. If anyone wants to join us, get in contact.
Please have Truncated and Negative Seven post confirmation.
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scrimpeh wrote:
I would prefer not inventing a term that we have to explain to people first. Translation Layer (unabbreviated) or API Wrapper sound fine to me.
This is a fairly good point. We should be focusing on what is most clear to the reader first and easily abbreviated second. Good abbreviations are nice but I think trying to force an abbreviation might come off unnatural compared to say emu.
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Application-launcher, appler for short?
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The pronunciation of "trans slayer" can be rather unfortunate and is probably worth avoiding the term altogether for. Something to do with API is probably better all around.
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I'm totally down for replacing MSX's star with MS3.
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mtvf1 wrote:
You don't need to explain anything. As the feos said, I'm only use my useless infinite accusations to fire the Judges.
I don't remember feos saying this. Are you stating this is actually your goal?
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Personally I voted no because I felt the game was fairly repetitive and lacked much depth. The Stitch stages are probably the best part, the Lilo stages feel fairly bland and the autoscrollers and the ship segment didn't really interest me either. Despite being the best part I didn't feel much danger or anything particularly impressive in the Stitch stages.
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Not a rule but please explicitly indicate if you are simply interested in joining a team or are signing up as an individual to be assigned.
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Nice work! Loved the bits where you rode the enemies.
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Bad webcam is bad
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What about my other improvement where I found out you can move an enemy out of the way by shooting them? Any potential other applications?
EDIT: Around frame 4040 you elect to stand in place rather than build up speed against the wall. Any reason for this?
Additionally you appear to have gotten caught on an enemy at around frame 8090, is there a way to avoid that?
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Alyosha wrote:
No, the inputs are unique, I still had to find them. Otherwise it would work the same in both cases.
But my point is that the uniqueness is not due to me being somehow better. The emulator was better.
If time is gained from using a more accurate emulator, but game-play hasn't been improved, such a movie will be rejected.
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Alyosha wrote:
No. It’s the same glitch it both movies. The setup is only different due to emulation differences.
So you resynced somebody else's run and claimed authorship on it, am I understanding correctly?
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Warepire wrote:
Warepire wrote:
ViGadeomes wrote:
Warepire wrote:
I'm in.
Will mainly work with technical stuff (glitch research, Lua), and not so much input production. Looking for appropriate team.
We could also make a team if an 3rd person is alone. I don't even know the lua language for the moment so it's a good thing !
Might be into it, hit me up on IRC.
ViGadeomes and I will team up.
Note minimum is 3
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Dimon12321 wrote:
So, the objective is to TAS the game in 3 days? Everyone will know the game name when the competition starts?
No, in 2 months. Yes they will know the game name when the competition starts.
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[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
Bad webcam is bad