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Posted: 1/21/2016 6:41 AM
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I’m also voting for None, because even the TAS itself is poorly understood outside this community; to understand what is ACE, the viewer has to know how the games (and the computers) are working. Seriously, most people cannot even understand what is TAS and what are the goals of TAS. Among my friends only those, who are programmers & other IT staff, understand what TAS is.
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Posted: 1/19/2016 7:02 AM
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A question for Aqfaq or Aglar or MUGG or adelikat or Cardboard or Lord Tom or… How does it feel to be an expert player? Kind of “like a boss” I guess? Or nothing special?
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Posted: 1/19/2016 6:51 AM
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I guess it’s all because of this :-p Gonna vote later, need a temp encode
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Posted: 1/18/2016 2:57 PM
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Wow so yes
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Posted: 1/16/2016 8:16 PM
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How in the world your bank angle stays zero during the whole mission, but you somehow return to (the same?) ship? Anyway, meh vote, I do not find it fun to watch — and the reason is the game itself, not the TAS.
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Posted: 1/15/2016 7:46 AM
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True wrote:
WST wrote:
It is worth to mention that I had Russian КТ819Г transistors, which also suited this purpose perfectly, but there was a little problem: their pinout differs from TIP41C, which was supposed to be used. I had no mood to redo the whole board because of that, so I just put MJE13007, as I do not have anything else in TO-220 package (except some other Russian transistors, but they all have E-C-B pinout, not B-C-E).
They're TO220 and you aren't heatsinking them, so...just put them in backwards... But even if heatsinking, like you mention later, just bend it out of the way a bit, it'll be OK :)
Yep I realize it, I did it in the past a lot of times (for example, just a year ago I had to replace КТ819Г with TIP41C that way). This time it’s a bit different, I do not want the 2 boards to look too much different. It’s a pity that I live in a village and cannot just go to a store and buy the components. But, as my vacation ends in 4 days, soon I’ll move to a city where I’ll be able to buy them (without having to wait at least a week for the delivery), and then I’ll be able to solve the issue by replacing MJE13007 by TIP41C (hopefully these chinese glass fiber boards are as good as indonesian ones, and the copper will not detach), or, even better, building an extra channel, though I will have spare time for DIY only on weekends =( Hope you forgive me, guys, for spending this vacation time to build some stuff, and not for TASing, as you probably wanted. Don’t worry, I’ll get back to my TAS projects as soon as I have mood. Beleive me, without the mood I cannot TAS well. (upd) okay, I will continue working on this amplifier project later, as I buy the HS117-100 heatsinks and some other stuff… If interested, stay tuned — I will certainly post photos of the final version here.
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Posted: 1/14/2016 11:15 AM
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adelikat wrote:
The name of the game here is SPEED. Not just the most entertaining TAS of the lot. So to me it is a no-brainer, CD Man. Everything flies at warp speed faster than anyone can comprehend. It is the fastest movie on the site.
For me it is just way too fast to become “the speedy TAS” of the year %) I mean, it’s so fast that you can’t even notice the speed, it ends before you even think of it
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Posted: 1/13/2016 8:04 PM
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Got this on forum index 
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Posted: 1/13/2016 5:44 PM
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Okay I have just finished assembling the board shown on the photo above (simple audio amplifier for my mom). The one with greeting for the forum members has one little mistake — after finishing it, I suddenly discovered that the used operational amplifier is badly balanced, because of which I had about 0.5 volts output voltage (while the expected value is exactly zero). So I had to add extra resistors for balancing. And before starting to work on the 2nd channel, I opened my PCB IDE (DipTrace, as I already mentioned) and added those resistors. So it was easier to properly balance the second instance. Both boards work fine, but for the second one I had to use MJE13007 as output transistors. You may be wondering why. The answer is: I already used all of my TIP41/TIP31 transistors, which suited this purpose better. This was a surprise for me, otherwise I would have bought them many days ago. It is worth to mention that I had Russian КТ819Г transistors, which also suited this purpose perfectly, but there was a little problem: their pinout differs from TIP41C, which was supposed to be used. I had no mood to redo the whole board because of that, so I just put MJE13007, as I do not have anything else in TO-220 package (except some other Russian transistors, but they all have E-C-B pinout, not B-C-E). Top view of both boards Bottom view of the first board Bottom view of the second board Now need to wash away the remaining flux and mount the boards into a box (power source is ready as well). And then I’ll probably build a simple stereo expander (using 2 opamps or 2-in-1 like NE5532). Ah, I almost forgot. I will need heatsinks. As this piece of crap will be run at low power, I will use heatsinks like this one (already used for an UV LED, just showing). (upd) found some TIP122s, which I also completely forgot about. They are darlington-type NPN power transistors. Nah, no mood to redo it, though the amplification of MJE13007 is only ~25, hope that’s enough (upd2) will be easy to add a subwoofer channel with this cheap lowpass filter from AliExpress (upd3) this can also be useful soon
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Posted: 1/13/2016 9:37 AM
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Could the visual artifacts be explained by using slightly different version of the game? The texts are different, for example, Sepperin stage vs Zeppelin stage…
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Posted: 1/13/2016 9:23 AM
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fsvgm777 wrote:
Who is interested in an alternate encode with input display?
me too
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Posted: 1/12/2016 12:48 PM
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Same as above
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Posted: 1/12/2016 12:32 PM
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True wrote:
Etching is really clean for home-done work.
Yeah I’ve been doing the entire process completely myself since my childhood. At that time, I used paper to design PCBs, permanent marker to draw traces on the board and mix of CuSO₄ and NaCl for etching… Etching this way took about 2 hours (and the result was like this). I knew about some better possibilities, but at that time I couldn’t let myself buying something other than CuSO₄ because of my age. Today I use mix of HCl and H₂O₂, and the etching takes just 2-4 minutes. I use DipTrace to make projects and use both popular technologies (laser toner transferring and UV curable photoresist film). Basically I use the first for small PCBs and the second for bigger ones (as the first method does not work well for big boards).
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As I sent to you personally though, Chinese fabs are so cheap today, home etching isn't very common anymore... but I guess you have to wait longer for those...
There are some local Russian PCB factories as well, some of them are even targetted to the hobbyists. I made an order from such a company only once, when I just came to Jakarta. My plan was to build 4 channels of an audio amplifier — 2 for me and 2 for my friend from there, who also enjoys that kind of hobby. However, the PCB manufacturer, despite their promises, took extremely long to process my order, and sent the PCBs about 6 weeks later than supposed, so, the PCBs came right after I left back to Russia :( So I really prefer etching myself… Way faster and probably even cheaper for small quantities.
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Now help us build some robots :)
I considered that possibility, but the primary problem is that nowadays I do not have any game console (and even an analog TV). I need to buy them first. And sure, if I decide to build some TAS-related device, I’ll contact you about possibility of ordering the board, components and pre-flashed microcontroller.
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Posted: 1/11/2016 5:52 PM
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So long and boring. No vote.
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Posted: 1/11/2016 1:56 PM
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Wow, this run is so beautiful, glad I discovered it
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Posted: 1/11/2016 12:42 PM
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Spikestuff wrote:
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Just ignore what haters are saying
What "haters"? I don't see anyone here who greatly dislikes something, all I see is someone telling the person to put it where it is meant to be dedicated at it's known as the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic thread, and not here.
In my opinion, these encodes have way more relation to the game itself, than to that particular topic
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Posted: 1/10/2016 11:21 AM
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PikachuMan wrote:
I'm thinking of doing a ponified encode as there is a ponified hack in the works. I'll start the encode just as soon as the graphics and text were modified. Imagine Princess Celestia going warp speed.
Nice idea! Just ignore what haters are saying, a lot of viewers will enjoy it :)
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Posted: 1/9/2016 11:29 PM
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Glitchy TAS of 2016 Funny TAS of 2016 TAS of 2016 NES TAS of 2016 TASer of 2016 NES TASer of 2016
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Posted: 1/9/2016 10:40 PM
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:3
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Posted: 1/9/2016 1:42 PM
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I have no idea where to watch it (and, honestly, feel not so much interest to it), but strongly wishing you good luck
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Posted: 1/9/2016 12:52 PM
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How come that a run having “using multiple glitches” in the description does not have “heavy glitch abuse” tag?
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Posted: 1/7/2016 8:37 PM
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Zucca wrote:
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Honestly, I do not see problems with the mentioned places.
It looked like there was too much time wasted on waiting the animals come out of the container (by not looking up). I may need to look the run again more accurately...
As I already said before, this can be done not everywhere.
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Posted: 1/7/2016 9:54 AM
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Sorry I misread your name as SS9017 and at first was wondering why not 9018[/offtopic]
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Posted: 1/5/2016 12:08 PM
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I'll tell Qwerty about it, thanks (upd) task “inform Lorenzo” succeded (code 0)
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Posted: 1/4/2016 2:36 PM
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Zucca wrote:
Looks like Oil Ocean act. 2 ending was not optimized. Right? Also Metropolis Zone boss fight... When you start at that height couldn't you already hit the boss?
Honestly, I do not see problems with the mentioned places; however, I worry about some other places, which I’m going to discuss in the game’s topic. For example, Wing Fortress could be done some frames faster, which I mentioned in the discussion. Kiske told that he was going to take rest from TASing, so, he may correct his mistakes (all of which I consider as minor ones) when he’s back.
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