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I'm just going to point out two things that 0xwas wrote for the first seven minutes (he's allegedly looking through more):
- his rng manip and onett skip were still suboptimal (our wip has done better) - changing game version due to different onett skip isn't good excuse imo (only differences are texts and faster menu opening/closing technically), plus, skip is still possible in english too
I'm also going to play the Discord card. chatterbox is in the same channel as 0xwas who has been providing input back and forth with pirohiko, input which is faster before this was conceived in which he didn't reference and instead just decided to make on a whim from the looks of what we have here.
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Citra is slowly creating tools for TASing themselves and this might not be necessary.
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Archanfel wrote:
Shorter loading times due emulator difference alone is not true improvement but i guess Spikestuff will be happy to have BizHawk version, since he requested converted my previous submission .bk2 just a week ago.
Nah, that's just you being petty excuse since you don't want to TAS on the better emulator and can't make a valid justification on why you're using Gens like you wrote a week ago. And which EZGames (and I) are still waiting on that justification from you. TAS is fine, short but eh.
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I'm going to call for two users 0xwas and pirohiko. Since this was done relatively quickly in the amount of time to produce it while I know they're gearing to improve on yours and have been grinding it heavily to find anything possible. I'm not impressed on how quickly this was produced and submitted when there's the possibility to find more for this specific branch TAS.
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We probably don't need a page specifically since we can do what SMB does which is actually write in the description with the RTA time in mind and state what that is when the timings are different where it needs the check.
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There's a difference between using a game and making a tune out of it in an actual TAS and cutting it up and manipulating it. Rewrite your steps at 4 and 6 to 8 cause it's just dumb to read... considering how redundant these steps are. People already do this to Video Games / TV Shows / Movies and modify the footage/audio to work with them and so-forth. (forgot the term of the people who do this.) You know, people who put in the time. And why are you writing "TASes" when you're disregarding the fact the possibility of a TAS can actually do it in the first place without the cuts... which you're calling for in your "steps"?
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I have 5.0-8991 installed which is part of the monthly updates and it still has TAStools. I did bug Fog quickly about it and it may just be a bug in the UI.
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The timer starts from frame 0, when the system is turned on. That wait for demo is a waste of time.
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Context for the unaware. geod is the creator of 3DNes
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This is not a bug Evan. You're the one missing the firmwares. BizHawk will not be providing bioses to any emulator. It's your job to go to Google and hunt them down.
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October 2018: Link to video
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solo_netbattler wrote:
The Japanese version and the overseas version are largely different in specifications and it is difficult to regard them as the same game anymore.
I'd like to see a list of reasons as to this. I only thought speed was the only factor in the difference which is a major choice between versions not a "level is missing/different" case changing the strategy of the game.
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Note: I did attempt resyncing it between QuickNES and NESHawk there was an issue on the first reset so-- yeah...
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I know, English. Excuse it for this case. I'm just going to ask one question, and I know you both know English so it should be fine to ask. (Unless someone who knows Russian and English would translate it to Russian so we don't rely on Google Translate for some). Why not just bother making one that's better than inhouse BizHawk and create a GMV to BK2 convertor? And yes, Hawk as mentioned has a decent one already, but you can improve on it is a suggestion (since for example SNES' one doesn't work as intended for some from what I've seen, but works fine for me). The only thing that Gens has over BizHawk is 32X since well PicoDrive is a joke. Gens can still do all the things you have it set still have the better lua, interface and whatever else. But. If you have this converter then making it work towards the better emulator would be the more logical option is it not?
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Yeah going to have to agree with the question of why did you use the Japanese version and not the US version as the US version is faster?
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How many times do we have to tell you Zekann? (great for you to change your alias) v0.10.008a is incomplete the same version you've submitted twice in the past. This hack is still being worked on, and is not recommended for TASing. STOP SUBMITTING. If you want to upload this hack upload it to userfiles. Speaking of userfiles he's Spiked input once again. Cause you don't know how to end your input. 14863 frames of blank input removed Original Submission Judgement Notes:
GoddessMaria wrote:
Hello, Zekann, and welcome to TASVideos! Unfortunately, your submission does not meet site standards. It must be optimized and beat all known records. In addition to that, the co-creator of this ROM hack has made it known that he does not recommend TASing this game in this stage as it is still being actively worked on which will fix many of the bugs and glitches present in this current build. That being said, I am rejecting this submission.
Also I assume it's this one as the encode (looking at branch): Link to video So a cheat code was used, making this a very lazily produced TAS.
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Great TAS however, as pointed out by EZGames.
Archanfel wrote:
EZGames69 wrote:
Is there any reason you used Gens rather than BizHawk?
Gens is love, Gens is life.
Unless you're a Linux user or a person using 32bit architecture in 2018 a valid reason in using a very obsolete emulator in terms of Gens vs Genesis Plus GX (Hawk). It would be very nice to know as to why you're running Gens still and not a "love, life" throwaway joke.
Evil_3D wrote:
EZGames69 wrote:
Also not exactly related to the movie itself, but is there any reason you used Gens rather than BizHawk?
is love, is life. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And Sonic folk it's just because of Lua being your excuse and lack of a "camhack". (Since some of you are apparently Linux bound) How about you port a better Genesis emulator into something like lsnes, an emulator that goes to Linux and use that instead? Especially with this garbage:
r57shell wrote:
Just a way to remind you that Gens has buggy sound. :)
Being a thing with Gens.
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Old Encode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qovNlu6UoQ (Just for the convenience of "at least there's one now" if you decide to make your own one.) Forgot to mention, shotgunning this one when accepted.
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eddie82 wrote:
Most people use .cue+.bin anyway (without the .sbi subchannel data)
Hawk requires the SBI files for the games that require it. Otherwise the game crashes. Recent submission example.
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Now in what way are backlogs considered as "errors"? You know, for example. Earlier this week where videos uploaded on a certain day would be stuck on 360p for a couple amount of days before becoming whatever desired resolution you wanted it to begin with. Partially thanks to YouTube being down for 2 hours as Google was removing Google+ and the site wasn't fully functional for that day on the upload end.
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FitterSpace wrote:
But I feel like it would be a pretty big boost in entertainment for those with 120+Hz monitors.
I feel like I need to stress a point out. This is only going to be possible if those viewers download the downloadables (hires versions) since YouTube maxes out at 16k60fps. They would have to go to the site in order to see it playback for those higher refresh rates.
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creaothceann wrote:
Why would compression alter the emulation?
See Dolphin. Compressed Wii to wbfs and Compressed GameCube links to desyncs from what I've screwed around with in the past.
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Migu wrote:
Although the restriction is a tad arbitrary and it's not perfectly optimized.
Curious on where the suboptimal gameplay is, than that of what the author has listed in the submission text.
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Let's just use a published example: [2397] Windows Braid by keylie in 22:15.28
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Yeah, I know both of them and you literally just explained 'em. They're both compression rather than raw. Personally. Rather not have to deal with having to compress a bin/cue in order to sync/encode a TAS if it's submitted in this format. .pbp is a format for PS1 games on PSP as a side note and some PS1 emulators accept it (like the dodgy ePSXe).
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