I'm not trying to be mean/rude with my comments
I wonder if it would be a good idea to not have a thing called Moons at all, ie to implement the proposed Moons flag but call it something else. That way it's clear that this is something completely new and not related to the old tier system.
Except all the ones in BizHawk did. Blame BizHawk poorly compressing files (speed/size tradeoff, pun unintended).
If you want to prove any of this wrong all you have to do is create two separate verification movies saves that unlock Zero and then create a movie that fails to select both X in one version/revision and Zero in the other.
Ah, this all makes sense, thanks. Another possibility re Dr. Mario could be that vanilla Dolphin is assuming the dtm contains ~2 polls per frame rather than Lua Dolphin's ~4 polls. That would explain how it could get to the character select screen before desyncing with a longer upward movement than normal, as this is the first point in the dtm where duplicating inputs on consecutive frames would cause a desync. You could verify this by checking whether the menuing is slower than in your encode.
Also, I just noticed something in your encode that I also caught in mine after uploading: the aspect ratio appears to be squished vertically by about 10% (based on Luigi's shield, a perfect sphere, being rendered as an ellipse). This hasn't occurred in my NTSC encodes. I believe this can be fixed by changing the Aspect Ratio setting in Dolphin's Graphics menu to "Stretch to Window" and manually resizing the playback window to Melee's 73:60 (ie 584x480 at vanilla resolution).
Wow, I was not expecting it to sync on vanilla Dolphin. Awesome.
It might also be beneficial to make MemoryCardA.EUR.raw read-only, so you don't have to restore it from the backup each time you run the submission dtm. You will get a 'could not write memory card file' error the first time the game tries to save after each boot, which can be safely ignored. I believe this step should not be necessary if all the prompts are played out in step 2; and if this step is performed, perhaps the memory card backup should be created after it, not before it.
If every single selection including the first is Dr. Mario, then somehow the RNG seed wasn't initialized and isn't getting updated; I've never seen that before. If multiple selections occur until it gets to Dr. Mario, at which point it repeatedly selects him, that's a weird desync - I am alternating pressing A and B, and this can be duplicated by ignoring all the A presses. Perhaps if the 60 Hz prompt is not selected, the game is polling different inputs within a given frame?
I'll abstain from voting until I see an unedited encode.
Definite Yes vote, definitely inherit that well-deserved Star!
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I would seriously ask: I don't think the site rules needs that statement. Do you believe that this means I'm endorsing hate speech?
Do whatever you want.