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[23:31:29] <dwangoAC> DrNach: One sec, tickling my daughter
[23:31:42] <DrNach> try not to cause any damage
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paulko64 wrote:
Another interesting item is that I think I coded the distance meter for 5 digits only. I.e. not sure what happens after 99999m... But I can imagine that there is no volunteer to try to find out :)
That's what the game over screen looks like when passing 99999m (once). The score on the top-right part of the screen while running appears with an m in the front, like e.g. "m00017m", though I didn't manage to screenshot that.
That said, I suppose we can consider 99999m the maximum score as intended by the game.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<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.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
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Encode added to submission.
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ars4326 wrote:
A shame on losing some published work (perhaps someone will improve them someday?), but I can agree on the reasons why.
It should be noted that even if p0rtal_0f_rain wasn't banned, we don't uncancel submissions for the vault if they were cancelled by the user themself. If the author doesn't want their run to be published or to face judgment for publication for any reason, we respect that decision and won't go against it.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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To be precise, when doing Brock through Walls the game looks for a mapping of the user's current coordinate (coordinates 36, 16; which is in hexadecimal 0x1024). If it can't find it, the game soft-locks (as described in the submission text), so it's necessary to have either 1/0/2/4 DVs or 16PP/36PP for the first two moves the second and third move (thanks Chamale for the correction) or having a Pokémon with 16 special in slot 1 and 8/10/13/15/17 health in slot 2, as described in Chamale's post linked above.
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Dyshonest wrote:
What can that byte be used for? Purely what inputs are/aren't allowed? Or can it be used to call for other things to occur?
It's a byte. It determines what inputs are/aren't allowed, as was stated. It is only read by the game for that purpose (and on occasion written to, for instance to initialize a cutscene, or when doing exactly what the memory corruption in this run does), but it is never executed, so no, it cannot be used to "call" anything.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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Dyshonest wrote:
What is the "Brock Through Walls" glitch classified as? It sounds like carefully planned memory corruption more than ACE, but I'm not sure.
Yes, "carefully planned memory corruption" sums it up pretty well. In the end, Brock Through Walls just uses memory corruption on a certain byte which normally locks input during a cutscene state. The memory corruption reenables input (partially), and being in the cutscene state allows the player to walk through walls. No ACE is involved.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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mklip2001 wrote:
I also understand that this doesn't have to be a universal policy for banned users. These two users were particularly problematic. (We do have an mmarks publication, for instance...)
That isn't because of the banned user(s) in question, it's because we don't unpublish any runs, even ones by banned users. mmarks and C0DE RED (incidentally, an alt account of p0rtal_0f_rain here) are examples of users who got runs published before they were banned.
However, any non-published submissions by banned users will be rejected/cancelled by default.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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creaothceann wrote:
Archanfel wrote:
Old movie was done on Snes9x 1.43 which is no longer accepted. For unknown reasons, game speed on newer 1.51 version approximately ~1.02 times slower than was in 1.43. Probably it is one of reasons why it is forbidden nowadays. Newer emulator is big disadvantage, about ~15 seconds was wasted just because more accurate emulation was used
More like, old incorrect emulation was ~15 seconds too fast.
It's a case of both. snes9x 1.43 lags too little, but snes9x 1.51 overcompensated it and added too much lag instead. That said, 1.51 is still more accurate to hardware than 1.43.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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A speed TASing competition (think like speed chess) is being organized by dwangoAC. See this forum topic for more info.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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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.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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got4n wrote:
Nevermind found it, it's because its name isn't Pokémon Platinum but Kou Dai Yao Guai - Bai Jin Ban.
...which is just the romanized Chinese name for "Pokémon - Platinum Edition".
That said, it does seem to be better known as the romanized Chinese name.
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Nice wall-clipping glitch. Given Sintax' penchant of reusing its glitchy engines over and over again, I wonder if there are other (different) games by Sintax that can abuse similar exploits.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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This is the Sintax game (with Flareon, Abra, Pichu and Psyduck as playable characters), isn't it? (Haven't watched the run yet, though I have played the game).
If I recall correctly, it (barring sprite modifications) is identical to a bunch of other similar games by Sintax; the best known example I can think of is Sintax' The Incredibles game.
That said, I have no idea which game came first.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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Wiki: Nach/TASQuiz
Coming forth from some inane rambling interesting conversation on the IRC channel, Nach decided to come up with this TAS Quiz (link above).
Do you have the understanding, skills and creativity that are required to create an expert TAS?
Note: in order to take the quiz, message Nach with your answers. Do not post answers in this thread, lest you spoil it for other test-takers.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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The problem with fidelity systems or other anti-troll measures is they also block legitimate submissions from e.g. Japanese TASers from nicovideo or the like (who may not speak English, and thus are unlikely to post in the forums). Other anti-submission systems like delays also possibly just scare them off from submitting when they're allowed to.
That's why we won't be introducing any such systems.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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That's DOS Mega Man (1), not DOS Mega Man 3.
That said, both games are equally terrible, so it's not like you're missing out on much.
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The framerate difference is quite small, yes - the difference lies in how lag is emulated. Mupen has less lag than N64 and BizHawk, which causes a few seconds of difference.
Looking at the console verification video on YouTube of the 5:02.25 run, on console it appears to be roughly 5:04.xx or thereabouts - thus adding about 2 seconds' worth of lag.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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Yes, that is pretty much what I meant by "unplayable".
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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Spikestuff wrote:
jlun2 wrote:
Why are people still using that to TAS?
Why not.
It's a "Deprecated emulator" which means it's not recommended but it doesn't mean that it isn't allowed. If the emulator is allowed then there is no issue there.
Because Mupen is absolutely terrible.
Anyway, the reason people are using Mupen for Mario 64 is that it leads to slightly faster times, which is actually really important if you try to aim for sub 5-minutes on a run like this.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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mklip2001 wrote:
I'm confused. Is this a hack, or is this the wrong title for "Donkey Kong Country 2"?
"Super Donkey Kong 2: Dixie & Diddy" is the transliteration of Donkey Kong Country 2's Japanese title.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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ALAKTORN wrote:
Tags are next to absolutely irrelevant for YouTube searches. Title is the most important factor.
https://www.youtube.com/results?filters=video&lclk=video&search_query=tas+gbc - YouTube video searching for "tas gbc". 9 videos from TVC on the first page.
https://www.youtube.com/results?filters=video&lclk=video&search_query=tas+gbc+game+boy+color - Adding "game boy color" to the query, which is a tag on TVC movies and otherwise not noted anywhere on TVC videos. 12 videos from TVC on the first page now (most of the rest of the videos having "game boy color" somewhere in their descriptions instead).
I may have overstated the importance of tags, but to say they're "next to absolutely irrelevant" is just as ignorant.
EDIT: Since it's subjective anyway how much is 'irrelevant' enough, and there doesn't seem to be any conclusive evidence as to how much impact it makes exactly (which also varies over time, varies based on the user searching, etc.), it's pretty much pointless to argue this further.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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The problem with that is that which screen is the "main" screen seems to change constantly. Such encodes are generally only done if most of the action is focused on one screen. Otherwise you'd have to constantly swap around the big screen, which can be a lot of trouble for encoders to figure out and might not be good for watching.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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Kurabupengin wrote:
Expecting some good shit from Yong Yong this time.
Prepare to be disappointed, then. The game is severly broken, has all kind of (bad) glitches, but most importantly, is so broken that it is completely unplayable in every emulator (except hhugboy), so it isn't even possible to make a TAS of it as of yet.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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That's what the game over screen looks like when passing 99999m (once). The score on the top-right part of the screen while running appears with an m in the front, like e.g. "m00017m", though I didn't manage to screenshot that.
That said, I suppose we can consider 99999m the maximum score as intended by the game.