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DarkRiolu27 wrote:
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I'm not interested in TASing it, but I've always had this question: How is optimizing UFO hard? Isn't it just holding forward most of the time?
It's not hard, it's just incredibly tedious and time-consuming. Kirby's Adventure already has the problem of slight adjustments to movement significantly changing lag, but when you're using U.F.O., optimizing for lag is basically the entire process. Moving up for one extra frame might save 3 frames of lag. It might be better to move up a few frames at a time instead of all at once. Add to that the different combinations of enemies that can be destroyed and different timings for shooting them and you have a nearly infinite combination of options with no way to tell when you're getting close to the most optimal amount of lag.
Ohhhhhhh, yeah, that sounds like hell. Isn't there a way to bot it or something? I remember trying to TAS a game with a similar issue and that was my idea
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DarkRiolu27 wrote:
This 1-1 is 29 frames faster than the current non-credits warp movie: https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638745497760453505
I didn't find optimizing U.F.O. movement to be very fun, so I don't plan on continuing with the category, but if anyone wants to add pause glitches into the run, feel free to use this as your starting point.
I'm not interested in TASing it, but I've always had this question: How is optimizing UFO hard? Isn't it just holding forward most of the time?
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since I think the original publication is the worst TAS to ever be published.
That is a rather strong opinion with no backing evidence or reasoning. Since you didn't comment (or vote or review) the previous TAS, could you elaborate why you feel this way? How does this improvement change that opinion?
Ok, it probably isn't the worst on the entire site, but it's definitely the worst I've seen, and I have my reasons for that:
* The game is an autoscroller, where the only optimization comes from menuing and ceasing inputs as fast as possible.
* The game itself is just a clone of an already existing game, meaning there's no reason to not TAS the original, unless this version had substantial changes, which it doesn't (this is the biggest problem in my opinion).
* The TAS itself has no "playaround", you can see from the creator's encode that they just made the movie almost entirely on recording mode. You don't gain anything from watching the TAS that you wouldn't get by just seeing a walkthrough or just playing the game yourself.
* Remember how I said there were only two elements with optimization. Well, one of those elements isn't even optimized! There was no consideration for what stage should be played last in order to end inputs as fast as possible, which I wouldn't care about if it wasn't one of the only two things you could optimize.
I think this TAS is better, but not by much, it's still "meh" to me (whereas the original was a big no), but it improves on the shortcomings of the previous TAS, such as adding actual playaround and taking the last stage into consideration. Also, Walgrey says that there will be 46 levels, which is more than the original game, meaning there will be new levels, which would negate the second issue I mentioned earlier.
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Hey, I'm TASing this game! In this case, I'm TASing any%, meaning that I have to route which stages to get the silver medals in. It's going to be hard, but also fun
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Thank you all for nominating me! I'm glad my work TASing this wonderful platform payed off!
I really hope I inspired someone to TAS Flash games. I think it's a very underrated platform with a lot of untapped TASing potential.
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feos wrote:
Is there a ticket for this feature in the bizhawk repo? If not, makes sense to create one, so there's incentive, because at least one game is not tasable without it (likely more).
I remember opening an issue about it a few months ago
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WarioWare Gold. The final input of the final boss is a blowing input, which isn't currently supported, rendering the completion of the game's campaign mode impossible
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I have a question:
Imagine that there is a game where the VERY last action of the game is impossible to do because of an emulation issue (A comparison would be something like not being able to jump to the last star in Super Mario 64 because of an emulation issue). Would the game still be publishable if that was the case?
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The person who resubmitted is probably just him pretending to be a different person
Samsara: For context, Logan was recently banned for extremely poor behavior on Discord. He had been banned for the same reason prior to this, but he was unbanned about two weeks ago after promising to show good behavior. As you can see, that good behavior didn't last long. The account that submitted this isn't "a friend of Logan", it's Logan himself lying to circumvent his ban. While it is still true that solo submissions from banned users are not allowed at all for publication even when submitted by others, I've updated this submission from cancellation to outright rejection for being an unauthorized submission so that it does not get mistakenly reinstated should we ever choose to change that rule.
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