Went back to re-watch some Melee TASes. I'm a bit concerned that someday those videos might just vanish. Perhaps Wak's Youtube channel might one day close without forewarning and poof, all HRC TASes for each character are gone.
So I'm asking, should we do something? I was thinking about downloading those videos to hold on to them.
Downloading them is a good idea. There are plugins for chrome and firefox that make it easy.
It feels like it 'should' be possible to optimize 0:33 so that the left black bullet spewer is parked on a little faster (which would get, what, six more bullets?). Does the combo not work if the homing lasers are released further to the top right?
I Am Not A Judge, but personally I think as long as it sounds like something the machine could plausibly boot up with it's okay.
e.g. picking the starting values of uninitialized RNG = ok.
I think you should use all three characters for the submission, since it wastes no time and shows off more of the game's art.
Maybe you can encode a secret message in the choices!
I can only choose the character once at the start of the run. So I can only choose one of them for the run.
Oooh, I see... So you changed it for each individual encode. I understand.
In that case, Guilmon is the cutest, so~
EDIT: Or you could package the movie with a lua script that picks a different character at random every time you play the TAS again. This is obviously the best solution
I think you should use all three characters for the submission, since it wastes no time and shows off more of the game's art.
Maybe you can encode a secret message in the choices!
For what it's worth, I would love to make a TAS of Haunted Castle on Arcade, however, the sound of the game does not emulate properly in FBA-rr.
According to what I've heard, it does work properly in MAME-rr.
Awesome! Thanks for linking this, Patashu.
Looking through the user guide, I notice this emulator has frame advance. If it could someday also record movies, there's a game or two I have in mind.
A big new glitch in Sweet Home allows for sequence breaks to be performed.
Link to video
The effect of performing this glitch is that you can create a party where the two party members are not adjacent to each other.
Normally the party members just follow in your steps and thus don't check collision.
However now your party members are far away from you. You can move them remotely to pass through solid props (gates, rocks, etc) and NPCs and then take control of them for real after the sequence break has occurred.
It also looks really funny!
If anyone is interested in TASing this game again (the existing TAS is http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13905 ), this will for sure save tons of time.
<Mothrayas> adelikat: feos' proposal is that the first step should be to make a mame-rr movie file parser
<adelikat> what does that have to do with anything?
<Mothrayas> I don't know, but feos logic seems to be backward in general
<Mothrayas> people seem to want mame-rr support though
<adelikat> I dont' know of anyone who's asked about a mame-rr tas they want to submit but can't
<Mothrayas> despite I haven't seen anyone come up with a mame-rr file
<adelikat> if someone succeeds at a submittable movie, I'm sure we can come up with one
As adelikat says here (log is from #tasvideos IRC), the only reason why MAME-RR isn't supported on tasvideos is because no one has submitted a MAME-RR TAS yet.
So if you want to submit one (looking at you £e Nécroyeur), go ahead and do it already!
