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Here's another issue: this hack is just the bosses of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. The bosses are the same, so there is hardly any new content here.
Why should we accept such a hack, if the same bossfights are already in currently published Sonic 2 runs?
The movie rules state that hacks must provide unique gameplay.
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That movie is not mine. This submission is different.
His point is that that run beats yours by about half a minute. Which means that your run is quite suboptimal.
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Kurabupengin wrote:
I'm assuming this is sarcasm and you're being a dickish troll.
It really wasn't, and he really isn't.
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How is this proposed run different from the currently published "all souls" category?
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Kurabupengin wrote:
though bsnes is really fucking slow.
You should read the Ars Technica article creaothceann linked to.
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Kurabupengin wrote:
Masterjun wrote:
Kurabupengin wrote:
On the video, the guy said that MarI/O found a new potential glitch involving a block and stomping on a Koopa Troopa.
Where exactly would it be useful in the warps run?
I have no idea. I just thought it was worth posting.
Please try to consider whether any newly found trick or glitch has any practical use in a run, before calling it a "potential improvement". Otherwise we are all just wasting our time over nothing.
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I dislike the way the speed-entertainment tradeoffs appear to lose you out on a sub-10 minute end time. The run looks nice otherwise.
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franpa wrote:
Why 30FPS? Doesn't the game run at 60FPS? I remember playing the first world and gameplay was a ton smoother than what I saw in that Youtube video.
The YouTube video is just a choppy upload, which looks to be closer to 15 FPS. I think Syobon Action natively runs at 30 FPS, which is still good enough for reasonably smooth gameplay in most cases.
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Felipe wrote:
About game genie codes: Of course I had to use this, it was the idea of the race. There are other TASes that rely on hacks, so it's not an excuse for not being accepted, is not it?
There's a wide difference between playing a game hack/modification and using a cheat code. Runs that use cheat codes are firmly established as not being allowed, and never will be. Especially not an invincibility cheat.
MovieRules wrote:
Tools that manipulate ROM or RAM (e.g. Game Genie codes) are not allowed
They count as hacked versions of the game if they touch ROM areas. Either convert it to a real hack or don't use it at all.
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I pastebinned all the long code posts.
Please use pastebin or something similar to link to your scripts instead of pasting whole near-thousand-line scripts. You are making topics practically unreadable otherwise.
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TASVideoAgent wrote:
The idea was to kill off my family to avoid lost time to them getting sick and other inconvenient things. Once they were dead, I'd bump the food rations since I would have plenty for myself (hey, I'm in the Save the Frames camp)
Never before have I laughed so hard at a submission comment detailing a TAS strategy. The ways morals and decency are sidelined for the sake of fast strategies sometimes are hilarious.
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turska is stepping down as a judge and publisher.
turska has been a very good judge and very wise and knowledgable person to talk with overall. His contributions as a staff member will be missed.
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[02:30:57] <scrimpy> rip trihex :(
[02:31:34] <scrimpy> you'll not be nintendo world champion, but you'll always be the world champion of my hard
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Warp wrote:
I'm wondering how much longer a 100% items + 100% map run would be compared to the regular 100% items run.
If the difference is relatively small, then... maybe it could be a possibility?
Judging by the time and collection rate (33%) of this run, even factoring in the known improvements, a 100% items + 100% map run would be over 1:20 real-time by just the 67 extra 7-second item jingles alone. The current 100% items run is 1:08. So let's say it's 12 minutes slower at a minimum - I think that's a bit too much difference to be 'relatively small'.
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MESHUGGAH wrote:
I request the admins here to delete all my movies and my profile / acount, I'm not going to use this site anymore or take part in any scenes related to speedrunning or whatever, I won't be a part of this cancerous misery.
MESHUGGAH, if you want to leave, just leave. Log out and never return, if that is what you wish.
We will not delete your account or your records. We do not do this for anybody, and will not do this for you. We will not purge any already existing submissions, publications or posts if you leave or are removed. They are a part of site history and will not be removed without a very good reason.
If I catch you vandalizing wiki content, game resources, submissions, or other useful information, as you more or less threatened to do on your user page, you will be shown the door the less friendly way. Do not let it come to that.
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YouTube comments are well known to be toxic at times, and the comments to the other run are a clear example of that.
Just ignore and disregard them.
EDIT: And split off a thread derailment about these YouTube comments. Let's focus on this submission, not on YouTube comments on the other run.
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ALAKTORN wrote:
Mothrayas wrote:
a 100%/all Zero parts run (which may also obsolete the no upgrades run).
That makes no sense. “no upgrades” is the total opposite of 100%, why would it be obsoleted by a 100% run? Sounds to me like this new any% route is a lot more similar to it than a 100% run would be.
The primary feature of that movie is to showcase the "best ending" by collecting the Zero parts. If a 100% run does that as well, that makes this showcasing no longer necessary, and hence obsolete.
You could also argue that this any% run can obsolete the "best ending" run now, because they both collect few upgrades (although the latter doesn't collect any) but then there will be no "best ending" run on the site until a new 100% run is made.
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I'd say, let this one be a separate branch and label the other one as 100%. The 100% run can then be obsoleted by a 100%/all Zero parts run (which may also obsolete the no upgrades run).
Also, Nahoc, the current accepting message is really brief - please at least make it clear in the message what tier the run is accepted to, and whether it is accepted to be a new branch or not.
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Warp wrote:
Just as a reminder, and to clarify things if they aren't clear (from a kind of more "legal" point of view):
When someone submits a TAS to this site, there's this piece of text alongside the submission button: "By pressing "Save/Edit" you agree to publish this content under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license."
Said license establishes the following permissions:
Creative Commons CC BY 2.0 wrote:
You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
So in order to avoid any kind of misunderstandings: Yes, anybody can take any TAS published at tasvideos.org and use it as he or she sees fit, for any purpose whatsoever. The author of the TAS cannot retroactively revoke these freedoms from anybody, no matter how much he or she "owns" the TAS. (By submitting, the author agreed to this license. If the author doesn't agree with it, then he or she shouldn't have submitted in the first place. After submission it's too late to take it back. Again: These freedoms cannot be revoked even by the original author.)
That being said, the same license imposes some restrictions on this usage, namely:
Creative Commons CC BY 2.0 wrote:
Under the following terms:
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
While it was a mistake to not give credit in the publication text, this has been fixed, so it ought to be ok.
Warp, while what you are saying is correct regarding copyright, licensing and such legal matters, that is entirely irrelevant to the topic at hand, which is the notion of adding credit in the form of coauthorship in the site movie rules, which are requirements for a movie publication on this site, not for being legal intellectual property. We are not suing nymx or sending lawyers at him for not coauthoring cpadolf, or anything as silly as that. Legal matters aren't coming into play here.
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nymx wrote:
Oh...one more thing. TASVideos makes it clear that copying scripts is alright, as long as you make reference to...which I'm sorry that I didn't do that until this morning. They even discuss the idea of Frame Wars, which means that we are not expected to write our own script everytime we create a new TAS. It is just pointless to optimize a run that has already been maxed out. You'll find that the majority of my TAS over 95% is mine for a good reason. There isn't anything out there that can be copied to accomplish the goals for this category.
The rule is indeed relaxed for frame wars, but that is completely irrelevant to anything that's going on here. Super Metroid has in fact never even been in a frame war situation. I'm not sure why you're bringing the frame war rule up.
Also, the last few times there have been frame wars, the end result movie actually ended up authoring everybody who participated in the frame war as they used each other's input. At the very least it's a courteous thing to do in that case.
The only thing that is in question here is whether Cpadolf's 3 minutes and 18 seconds of input (and possibly more) is considered enough to have to coauthor him or to just credit him in the submission. I would go with the former. It's not a small improvement or trick you copied, it's literally half of a whole section of the game.
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nymx wrote:
It just seems that SM is hated so much that any new developments in our community will be rejected.
I'm sorry, but frankly this is a ridiculous statement. Just because people did not enjoy seeing this one category does not mean Super Metroid is "hated so much" in this community. Super Metroid has in fact the most published branches of any single game on this site, and second largest amount of publications overall (behind SMB1). There definitely is no bias against the game on this site, and I don't believe even any member who posted here actually hates the game as a whole, rather than just disliking this one category.
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nymx wrote:
[The submission text says that 90 seconds of improvement are possible. If there are 90 known seconds of improvement, then the site publishing this would be against its stated mission.
What would you have me do? Lie? Even CPAdolf, Saturn admitted to inefficiencies, only to be followed up by improved runs. If they are not perfect, then you should accept it. That would exclude a lot of videos. But as it stands, there is no way to determine that. If we find discrepancies all the time, videos will never get published...because it takes too much time.
Please note that there is a difference between submitting runs and finding improvements later, or submitting a run when you already know there's a minute and a half's worth of improvement. A publication may not be perfect, but the aim is to be as perfect as possible according to current knowledge.
And honestly, 90 seconds worth of improvements is a lot, especially for a game like Super Metroid that has been TASed to death. This being a different category than the other publications is not a good enough excuse.
nymx wrote:
This is a true statement that is buzzing already with our runners.
Perhaps you should have predefined TAS categories that you will accept...so that no open ended write-ins can be submitted. Since it is open, how are we supposed to know that you are going to shoot it down? Afterall, SM has been going strong for 21 years, and the exploration of this has been extreme. If you think that low% is not arbitrary, then how does fit with the difference low%? speedbooster, ice, iceboots...more to come. Each with something to offer that has specific challenges. Will you be obsoleting your low% videos once a 13% solution can be determined? If and when that happens, then your video should not meet your high standard of quality. In my case, how can you optimize the map traversing and not waste time? Even though I hate it that there is nothing posted at the end of the game, it requires an eagle eye to watch and determine. :(
(...)
I suggest that you lock down submissions by having predefined categories to prevent "Arbitrary" entries.
If we limited the site to only certain categories, it would be overly restrictive and people would complain. It would also automatically make us lose out on a lot of off-beat categories that turn out very entertaining, such as Super Metroid's RBO category, SMB warpless walkathon, playarounds of any sort, etc. And before you ask - no, we cannot make individual lists for every game, as that would be way too large a list to handle. Thus, we determine it by seeing whether the people find a submission entertaining. This category, people just happen to not find it entertaining. Would we have been able to see that coming? Who knows. Would rejecting a run immediately on sight if it has a category like this be a good idea overall? Probably not.
nymx wrote:
Kurabupengin wrote:
The amount of 1st post lurkers is suspicious... are we under attack?
Oh my...each of those "lurkers" are members of our Super Metroid community. Their identities are legit and can be found as active members on Deertier.com
Yeah, I want to make clear to everyone who asked me about this - I verified that the people who registered to post in this thread are legitimate. It's not an 'attack', nor is it sockpuppetry. It's just members from another community joining to debate about this run.
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andypanther wrote:
There is something I noticed a while ago, just remembered it now:
Youtube normally doesn't require Flash and some browsers have it pre-installed anyway (Chrome). But for some reason, embedded Youtube videos in submission texts tell you that you miss a plugin if you browse that site on a browser like Firefox without having Flash installed. Embedded videos in posts don't have this problem, only submission texts, which seems really strange. Did anyone else notice this or is it just specific to a PC I'm using?
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