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SXL
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mouse input recording/replay is the main problem. keyboard only games should work, more or less.
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SXL
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interesting, but a bit plain. is walking faster than jumping ? if they're the same, you could jump and strike as if it were random, making the clones kill everyone perfectly instead, as unexpected as possible. the game just beg for clone abuse.
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SXL
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I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death - NAS
SXL
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this site ought to have a "beginner's" section, with short video tutorials, explaining in clear subtitles how to start with the good bases. as of now the site is too elitist. it would help if the tools were less crude : recording a certain section several times over takes multiple steps (play with the read-only, load, save, frame advance buttons, etc.). a "play around" tool like the piano roll would bring fun and lower the wall for newcomers. how do I know those ? if both existed, I would start TASing right away. I'm quite sure many others would.
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death - NAS
SXL
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yeah Nitsuja, we trust your taste in games and your TAS skills to produce yet another mind-blazing run. it looks like a regular platform game, hope it allows some speed abuse. will check on the speedrun later.
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death - NAS
SXL
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dude, an array is just an indexed list. you can store stuff (of the same type) in there, and write/read each by its index. let's say, you got 10 numbers, first is mylist[0], second mylist[1]... last is mylist[9]. this way, you can process your stuff with loops :
int main() {
    int mylist[] = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9};
    int i;
    for(i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
        printf("%d ",i);
    }
}
this will display "0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9". hope this helps.
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death - NAS
SXL
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or you could just pad "<html><body>" before and "</body></html>" after in a test.html file like I did, and open it with your browser. it should be fairly easy for the bunch of coders here to write a parser to generate a url for each movie. I might write one in javascript if I get the time.
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SXL
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SXL wrote:
is it possible to have one by movie, by fiddling with the url generated ?
yeah of course it was. archive.org automatically re-encodes each movie into 512k-mp4 (rightmost column), and each file is then accessible via the flash player. the full pack flash movie has all the urls in a row : you just have to strip each you want to have your movie. it's possible to customize it as many variables are directly available in the link. it could really change the face of the site. let me try : (quite sure it won't work as html code is stripped by phpbb) <embed src="http://www.archive.org/flow/FlowPlayerLight.swf?config=%7Bembedded%3Atrue%2CshowFullScreenButton%3Atrue%2CshowMuteVolumeButton%3Atrue%2CshowMenu%3Atrue%2CautoBuffering%3Atrue%2CautoPlay%3Afalse%2CinitialScale%3A%27fit%27%2CmenuItems%3A%5Bfalse%2Cfalse%2Cfalse%2Cfalse%2Ctrue%2Ctrue%2Cfalse%5D%2CusePlayOverlay%3Afalse%2CshowPlayListButtons%3Atrue%2CplayList%3A%5B%7Burl%3A%27TASVideos%5FSMS%2Fpsychofox%2Dtas%2Dfrenom%5F512kb%2Emp4%27%7D%5D%2CcontrolBarGloss%3A%27high%27%2CshowVolumeSlider%3Atrue%2CbaseURL%3A%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Earchive%2Eorg%2Fdownload%2F%27%2Cloop%3Afalse%2CcontrolBarBackgroundColor%3A%270x000000%27%7D" width="640" height="508" scale="noscale" bgcolor="111111" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" allowNetworking="all" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> // edit works in a regular html page, prevented by forum's engine, I'll let you guys copy/paste wherever you want to test it. looks great. also, note that the playlist can't be generated by the site. so the whole movie can hardly get exported elsewhere. stripping movies will probably get mandatory. as for the mkv problem : it seems the format is too complicated for archive.org to re-encode in the 512k-mp4 format. maybe it has to do something with multi-tracks ?
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SXL
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yeah, the flash players have been generated, but only one by pack. is it possible to have one by movie, by fiddling with the url generated ? then we could start adding those to each movie.
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SXL
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it's long, but it was fun and interesting. I could feel that the game was mastered by the player : it's not as impressive as zelda but still gave nice wtf moments. 8/7.
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SXL
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you're a hero dude. one question though : why don't .avi files get an embedded version ? this way, so many movies could be watched online, and that would prevent us from the youtube madness.
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SXL
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adelikat wrote:
Fabian wrote:
Instead I'll contribute by saying that the first hand is not very well played, in my opinion.
I agree, imo
thirded. full house, first to talk, call, wtf ? that's more a call to a punishment... I'll read yours later Fabian. I don't have one to post, but you may watch one other reason why a full house might not be enough : slightest chance ever.
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SXL
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it totally omits everything about the "all red gem part". it replaced the previous normal run version. shouldn't a separate version have been released ? or at least, fulfill both the description and the filename accordingly ?
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SXL
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I've bought a new screen where I run FireFox on a large resolution (1600 pixels wide). I'm seeing the logo being replicated on the right, mostly cropped. I guess it's okay to report a bug ? Has it been introduced in the last version ? [URL=http://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tasiz2.png][/URL]
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SXL
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In some cases, you don't want to overwrite the data without deleting first, because that data can be corrupted in some way, like viruses, bad sectors, etc. Reinstalling your OS on a non-clean partition is prone to risk, especially as it becomes necessary in very bad cases.
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death - NAS
SXL
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pirate_sephiroth wrote:
now I remembered this old stuff I read somewhere:
everywhere on the intertubes wrote:
(...) and a reformat is never necessary to reinstall an operating system (...)
I doubt so. Or I'd really like to learn how to do that for XP.
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death - NAS
SXL
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It's boring. Speed isn't the issue in versus fighting TASs, it's variety. Show us every possible combo, glitch, etc. and of course no mistake. I agree with the Shang Tsung idea as well, be as innovative as possible.
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death - NAS
SXL
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why not let the user set the value to "every x frames" to save, then fast-forward to the real frame the user wants to go to ? or using variable distances (in frames) between savestates automatically saved, like -2, -4, -8, etc., since usually you need precision close to the current frame you're actually recording, and less in the past...
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death - NAS
SXL
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simply, a prerequisite ? anyway, what are you going to do Bisqwit ? look for another source ?
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death - NAS
SXL
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why not using a cross-platform toolkit like WxWidgets ?
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death - NAS
SXL
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moozooh wrote:
FODA suggested exactly this editing interface some time ago, but for some reason I can't find his forum post.
yup, and it has been quoted already in the "dream tas tools" topic : http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=38496#38496 as well as the savestate tree : http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=37006#37006 //edit image link is dead, reposted it
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SXL
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I'm interested, could you please post it ?
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SXL
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if you have a day off, you can take the ferry on early morning at Battery Park (or next to) to Ellis Island, then jump to Liberty Island on the afternoon. the Empire State building seems a good idea too, if you like museums there's the Metropolitan which is next to Central Park, the MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Brooklyn Museum, etc.
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death - NAS
SXL
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if it's supposed to be 100% dedicated to this project, why not consider donating the same amount to the association ? they'd use the money more efficiently than you (no offense), like buying clusters of servers. you'd also save the power needed to run the machine, and supplies to maintain it, as well as the wasted place in your room.
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death - NAS
SXL
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Warp wrote:
Dacicus wrote:
First there was automatic Mario; now there's automatic Kirby.
Not as impressive as the automatic Mario videos, though...
like this one ?
I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of death - NAS
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