Kega Fusion is closed source? Huh. I did NOT know that. (So... if I do go through with this, I'll need to pick other emulators for the Sega systems.)
Edit: I'll go for Gambatte for GB/GBC then (But again, only if I DO make this emulator.) Also, I'll ask the MAME Devs for permission to use certain drivers as cores for things such as the Fairchild Channel F.
So, this is my ideas for if I make an emulator in the future. My emulator would be kind of like RetroArch, using cores based on other emulators. I would ask for permission before making a core, so that I don't use any that I don't get allowed to. In the initial beta, there'd be:
• NES (FCEUX)
• Famicom Disk System (FCEUX)
• SNES (Snes9x)
• Game Boy (VisualBoyAdvance)
• Game Boy Color (VisualBoyAdvance)
• Game Boy Advance (VisualBoyAdvance)
• SG-1000 (Kega Fusion)
• Master System (Kega Fusion)
• Game Gear (Kega Fusion)
• Genesis (Kega Fusion)
• Sega CD (Kega Fusion)
• 32X (Kega Fusion)
• Pico (Kega Fusion)
And there would be a mix of original cores and more ports overtime before the first official release of the emulator, such as:
A Playdia core (Original)
A Pippin core (Original)
NUON (Based on Nuance but much more improved)
And 3DO (Based on 4DO)
Just to name a few.
The emulator's name would be EmuTopia.
My Sonic the Hedgehog (Master System) Green Hill TAS got very close to The8BitBeast's TASes of the game. It was off by 50 frames, but it got darned near close :)
Hmmm. This seems to be a recurring issue with newbies.
There is nothing like slowing down and figuring out a game. In fact, the longer I have worked on a game...the more I have found. Embarrassingly enough, all my TASes have been submitted with flaws...not because I didn't take a great deal of time to figure it out, but because I didn't do enough testing to find things that were not so obvious. Simple platforming games, like this one, still has challenges to get through. Its no all about holding "RIGHT". Spikestuff clearly made that known with his effort. Experience pays off, but if you have none...you have to start with the right approach. SLOW DOWN and stop racing to do something. I made this mistake with my very first submission and FAILED.
I think you'll be surprised how rewarding it is to put a decent amount of time into a TAS. Then length of a game certainly doesn't mandate a certain amount of time. If this wasn't so, then the Gameboy version of Tetris (B Game), wouldn't be in the MILLIONS of re-recording by a BOT. When this TAS was done, it cut around 6 seconds from the previous version.
Check out Mr. Wint's TAS: http://tasvideos.org/4536S.html
If your TAS does get accepted...you take the chance of increasing the visibility of your submission and creating a challenge for others to obsolete yours.
I really need to take my time... Sorry. I like to go fast, like Sonic.
Take your time and focus on quality. On the submission page use the 'Prefill Submission Text' button. It will give you an excellent framework to follow for writing submission text. Use it to help explain what tricks were used in each level or any oddities that made the tas easier/harder to make.
Ok. (I swear, every little thing I do causes something bad. D:)
I'm gonna be watching the TAS on March 6th, but what time will it be streamed at in United Kingdom time?
Edit: Nvm. Someone said that GMT is UK, so sorry....
A sidenote to SonicFan53: the only reason why some people aren't quite happy with your posts or how you go about posting is that you don't exercise restraint expected of a public forum user. It's actually quite simple. Think over your post content before you press "submit", edit posts instead of following them up with extra details, use existing topics for relevant questions whenever possible, and don't automatically assume that whatever you're doing is important enough to announce before any consequential results are produced. Maybe consider going on IRC or Discord first if you need immediate feedback. A public forum such as TASVideos is not a chat but a document of discussion, collaboration, and research; treat it as such, and everyone will be happy.