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Some users have been reporting that Chrome (or Chromium or related forks) does not show the "Watch now using (video stream services)" buttons underneath a publication screenshot.
Oddly, I have been able to reproduce this on one browser profile but not on another (using the exact same version). I don't know where the difference comes from. Both have JavaScript enabled, and other relevant settings are the same too as far as I can tell.
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I've already been in contact with gymnast86 a few days ago. The movie file can be submitted, it just hasn't been done yet because gymnast86 said he needs to finish writing the submission text first.
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slamo wrote:
Pokota wrote:
Question: Was it wise to skip the ending text the way you did? It's a neat thing you can do but in the notes you wrote that you avoided touching the ending trigger...
The game is considered by speedrunners to be beaten after level 19, the last level is basically a cutscene that they accidentally let you control. The same thing was done in the first episode.
The glitch to avoid touching the ending trigger is a fun trick, but as far as I'm concerned, not touching the ending trigger means you did not properly end the game. The Volume I run should not have been accepted as it was, either.
Please post an updated version of the movie file so that it does reach the ending.
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DrD2k9 wrote:
fsvgm777 wrote:
By the way, the movie ends mid-gameplay. It probably would be better to suicide the remaining balls to at least reach a high score entry.
If the judge feels this is necessary for completeness (but the run is otherwise publishable), I will have them set the decision to 'delayed' and add the extra few inputs even though it will result in a slightly longer run.
For the sake of (some) consistency with the other Epic Pinball TAS, as well as general preference to have movies end on a proper ending sequence where available, I would prefer that the movie file finishes gameplay, goes back to the main menu, opens credits and ends input there.
If that's done, I will accept this movie.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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Congratulations on finding a glitch that turns this game into Barney the Dinosaur.
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Extract the .lsmv with an archiver tool (e.g. 7zip, winrar) and you'll see an input log file - clean out all but the first set of inputs (you may want to need some good text editing tool for this, such as Notepad++), save the file, and pack it back into a .lsmv file again. Also update the port1/port2 files (see Wiki: Lsnes/MovieFormat for more on that).
If you have issues following any of these steps, it's fine to not bother. I'll stress again that this is optional.
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grassini wrote:
Is it a problem if do a movie with 2 controllers enabled,even though i'll probably not use the second character at all,cause i'll have to test if it saves time in specific places?
No problem, although it's preferred (but not required) to clean up the movie input file and remove unused controllers after completing the run. (As long as that doesn't affect sync on the run.)
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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Fortranm wrote:
It has been said that Vault does not allow dirty SRAM.
However, if I make a Castlevania Portrait of Ruin Sister Mode run that starts from clean SRAM(parts of mtbRc's input might be used), would it be eligible for Vault?
No, because then you would be starting the default game mode, and completing something else instead would disqualify it as any%.
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ajfirecracker wrote:
For Disney's Aladdin (Genesis) there's a glitch that allows attract mode to progress the game. It doesn't save time RTA, but if you end timing on last input a route is possible that looks like this:
1) approx 2-4 seconds of menu inputs
2) done with inputs, TAS timing is over
3) idle at the menu for approximately 2 real-time hours while attract mode slowly progresses the game and eventually triggers the ending
I assume this would prompt you to change the timing mechanism for this game, rather than accept this run?
(Run by me forthcoming on this topic, obviously this is really easy to generate if you only need to TAS out a couple seconds of menu inputs)
End-of-movie time is only considered a stylistical choice, and not an actual end-all be-all of TAS movie time comparison. TAS time comparison is typically done through comparing gameplay segments. Therefore, even if input only lasts a few seconds, the movie would be considered to fail to beat existing unassisted and TAS records. Also, depending on the specifications of the glitch, it would possibly be rejected for being trivial as well.
It would make an interesting joke submission, though, (at the right time), and possibly spawn some nice philosophical discussion about the timing of runs. Ultimately I don't see it coming through, though.
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Up (and Down, and the main Button) are the normal buttons used for stage selection in this screen. It's just possible to go to stage 2 of the same world (and no further) if the inputs for Up and Button are buffered - after frame one in the stage select screen, restrictions are applied as normal and further stages beyond where you game-overed cannot be selected.
It's comparable to, for example, going to Dr. Doppler's stage immediately in PSX Mega Man X3. The input is already processed before the game realizes it's not valid.
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I voted no, although in hindsight meh might have been more appropriate. The music is generally appealing, and the pace is not even too bad, but two hours of an RPG of its nature is still an enormous slog if you're not reasonably familiar with the games or franchise. So far I haven't really seen broad appeal value or interest outside of people who are already familiar with the game/franchise, although I could be wrong.
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I am aware that many users cannot run the latest versions of some preferred emulators, particularly BizHawk - it is actually one of the reasons why many (pending) deprecated emulators still are accepted at all.
When it comes to disallowing emulators, we aim to ensure that good alternatives exist also for people who cannot run some of the modern emulators - but this may still be limited depending on how bad the issues are with the original emulator, in terms of things like emulation accuracy, sync issues, encoding issues, and other aspects that make emulators unpreferable to us as a staff (like how Mupen64-rr or PCSX-rr got banned still).
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<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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It is time to vote for your favorite movie of 2017 to win the prestigious TAS of the Year award!
Registered members can place their votes for any or all of the 13 candidates here.
Voting will close on January 21st 2018, 23:59 UTC.
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Congratulations Challenger. This was a well deserved award. 1/3 of a second is very significant when it is an improvement upon one of the highest-regarded movies on the site.
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Challenger wrote:
Congratulations Mothrayas, and "Mothrayas". You really did a great work with these consoles (exotic) again. Final Zone II and Chip Chan Kick were very nice to watch!
Thank you!
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I agree with the others, this is a nice idea.
Some minor details would need to be ironed out, like exactly what to call the award, what sort of award icon to make for it and such, but that aside I'd be fine to run with that starting from next year on.
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Radiant wrote:
So, a question about categories.
The most prominent platform in the "computer" category is DOS. For quite some time now, the TASvideos site has had a separate movie page and forum for this platform. Perhaps it would be fitting, as of next year, to have a distinct category for "Best DOS TAS"?
For comparison, the last three years have seen 23 DOS runs, and 17 runs for Windows, C64, and MSX combined. In other words, about 60% of runs in the "computer" category are for DOS. This is comparable to the N64 category, which has 22 runs in the past three years.
So I'd like to hear if people think this is big enough for a split as of next year.
Award categories for systems are decided on a year-to-year basis based on whether there are enough movies to hold an award with reasonable competition.
For DOS in particular, this time there were 7 DOS candidates, which is maybe barely enough to hold a category on its own, but there were only 4 candidate movies combined for C64/MSX/DOOM/Windows (one of each), so those 4 movies needed to be combined together with DOS to make a passable Computer TAS award. The same sort of logic goes when it comes to N64 combining with GC/Wii or DS to make Nintendo 3D TAS. You mention N64 which had 7 candidates this year and 8 candidates last year, but the year before that it had only 3, so then it was combined with GC/Wii to form Nintendo 3D TAS.
As for next year, I cannot make any promises on what categories will appear yet, because it will depend entirely on how many movies (at least approximately) for it will be published next year. If DOS has enough candidates to run its own award and other non-DOS computer systems also have enough room for their own award (or can fit in well enough elsewhere), then yes, DOS can become its own award.
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Please stop bumping threads with irrelevant questions or statements. The topic you were looking for is here.
Future off-topic posts may be deleted if you persist on doing this.
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Kianotti15, behave, or else you will find yourself not just allowed to submit anymore, but not to post anymore either. This is your only warning.
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Nominations are in for our annual TAS and TASer awards!
During this week, registered members can now vote for their favorite TASes and TASers of the past year here.
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Alyosha wrote:
In partiuclar, does performing glitches that don't save time (supposing they are very difficult to perform real time) make the run 'stand out' in the sense we are interested in here? This seems to be a large part of the disagreement here, from what I can see.
For Vault rules, no. Playaround is only an entertainment factor, and is outside of the scope of how trivial a speedrun record is.
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Desert Bus is obviously an extreme case, so it's silly to use it as an example. It is not the minimum bar that rules like this are held to.
The point of the triviality/must distinguish from unassisted play rule is that TASVideos, including the Vault, still is a site for tool-assisted speedruns. We're not here to publish movies that can be replicated by hand (or at least without some extreme dedicated effort). To that point, if a movie is replicable within a small enough margin of error in real time (depending on the run, but a general idea for a run of this length would be no more than a few seconds), it's considered too trivial to TAS, and there's no interest in hosting movies/game records that might as well not be TASes.
I haven't seen enough of this movie myself to judge yet, but can anybody show me where they see optimization that's sufficiently non-trivial or TASlike that a realtime speedrun playthrough wouldn't be able to achieve with some practice?
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