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I'd love to see Ghostbusters (1 and 2). I know that somebody once started a TAS of 2, but gave up later on. The WIP was promising imho. Although 1 is said to be a really bad game (see AVGN trilogy about it), it'd be too tempting to see it beaten.
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Due to several optimizations, I have saved 138 frames after level 1 already and I think I could even make it 140.
This time, though, I'm withholding WIPs and YT encodes, but will post about improvements in case anybody's interested. If not, I'll just shut it and work on it until I think it's ready to be submitted.
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Great to see you've found another improvement!
marzojr wrote:
Can a run be revised before it is published or should I wait for it to be published, collect this and any other improvements I get and submit as an improvement?
Ask an Admin (or judge? Don't know whether or not they can do this as well) to replace the current .gmv file with your improved one. Alternatively, be sure to also link to that file in your submission text so that the judges see this in case it hasn't been replaced by an admin until then. As a sidenote, notice that DeHackEd tends to ignore the PM system and just not check his box very often (if at all).
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AngerFist wrote:
AngerFist wrote:
This is strange, after about 1 hour and 55 minutes, the run freezes no matter which program I play it with.
This is now not true. I think I have located the problem. While I was downloading the fine celda encoding,
It was because of your version of VLC, I had the same error with a slightly different one. All I can say is that I highly encourage you to give mplayer a try. I might not be the best program in terms of usability (as in "WTF I KENT KLICK NUTHING ONOZ *dials.support.line*") to get into, but once I've known it's potential it's a player I don't want to miss ever again.
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Thanks for your encouraging thoughts. :)
I'm about to start the last part (only one level left, iirc it's the longest even), maybe I'll have this done tomorrow.
/edit:
Actually, no, I have not checked any memory addresses. If you happen to have some handy, they might turn out to be useful. But, as said, I don't think I'm going to TAS this game again for a long time. It was basically just a game I loved in my childhood and was never able to beat by my own back then. Seeing what it would look like when played "properly" was I all wanted. Still I'd love to see a WIP of yours (as I think of you as an talented TASer) on that game as well, maybe we could even colaborate on this some time.
Anyway, it's done! :)
MMVYT
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Sonikkustar wrote:
should I tell the people who read this forum about the handkerchief trick in 1-6?
I think you should lay open the glitches you used because this way people could start their own experiments with the game and find possible improvements.
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I can't comment on how good this is technically (as I don't know this game and so on), but I personally found it fairly entertaining.
As a sidenote, isn't this game shown in one of the AVGN intros for a brief moment?
Edit2: Avi Here
Has pause screen at start and subtitles and stuff, so possibly publishable.
(320*240 44MB)
Watched your encode and voted 6.5/8.
While the overall quality really wasn't bad, I'm afraid I can't publish it like this for several reason that should be relatively easy to fix:
Your logo screen at the beginning starts out blurry and sharpens while watching it. It's better to have it at a good quality from the beginning so that I don't focus on the picture getting better but on what's written there. x264 has an option for this with mencoder called "zones". Also, I think that "Tool-Assisted Emulator Movie" looks odd, to say the least.
You used B-frames in an AVI container. I can't quite judge the encode because of this and can't give you an exact source, but afaik it's discouraged as MKV works far better with B frames. Maybe an experienced encoder can give you a more detailed explanation.
Your subtitles are shown a little too short for my taste and falsely formatted. Check the Encoder Guidelines for more on this. Very small mistake: it's bobmario511.
Although I know it's a 30fps game, not exactly every second frame is dropped due to the N64's variable framerate. So 60fps should have been taken here.
The game's sound frequency is 44095Hz, downscaling it to 22050Hz may not break a rule I could find, yet again, seems meh to me.
/edit: dispute settled. He doesn't bother his encode not to be considered and I misinterpreted "possibly publishable" (as opposed to nineko's and my previous understanding that we really wanted it to be). The difference in sound frequency seems to result from different versions of mupen being used, I guess (Linux vs Windows).
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I was finally bored enough to start a TAS and here it is:
MMVYT
It's my very first TAS and it's definitely improvable. I'm unsure whether or not to continue this, still I'm not going to submit it at any time. It's rather supposed to push the thread so that a sophisticated TASer might want to give this game a try.
Comments are of course highly appreciated.
Part2 (now with even worse boss fights!):
MMVYT
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I don't hate you and I'm deeply sorry if I seem arrogant.
Initially, I was going to write "nineko beat me to it", yet found that such a post was too spammy.
I don't have anything against your encodes or that you provide AVI files to people who don't want to wait until final publication for whatever reason; more likely, you're welcome to help the community. I also admire your will to continue after several "beatdowns" and giving your encodes a higher-than-usually-acceptable-for-publication bitrate to thus even possibly improve entertainment.
Anyway, it's rather the hoster you choose to upload your files on I'm not happy about. Which one you take is is your very own choice and I can't blame you for that. Still I personally dislike Rapidshare because over the vast majority of times I've tried to download something from it lately, I end up waiting half an hour for 20 MByte because their bandwidth (for non-premium users) seems to be at a somewhat critical level. So because I knew it'd take me at least three times as long to download your encode than actually capturing a lossless one myself, I chose the latter.
I admit my smiley at the end of the post was not very well chosen and might have drawn a wrong picture. Again, I'm sorry about that.
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Bisqwit wrote:
qFox wrote:
I've been a little disappointed to learn you're so much into your religion.
I realize these words sound like nonsense to you all things considered, but I'm not into religion. I oppose religion. Religion is a curse. Faith is a life. There is an important distinction, which is unfortunately lost on people not having that faith.
So you're against religion, yet still have faith in some higher being (that you happen to call just the way christians do) guiding you the way? I seem to be missing something.
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