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Posted: 5/1/2007 12:03 PM
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Warp
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Ok, I added the lists.
Posted: 5/1/2007 6:34 AM
Post subject: List of worst rated movies or not?
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Warp
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Since I don't have permission to create a poll post, and since nobody who has seems to care, I'll just create a "manual poll" post instead. You'll have to reply to this post in order to vote. The question which has been posed: The MovieStatistics page currently lists the best rated movies. Should it also list the worst rated movies too? Arguments pro: Statistics are "neutral" and only state the facts which can already be seen by other means by anyone anyways, so there should be no harm in showing them here. It's not like the authors of worst-rated runs wouldn't already know how their runs have been rated. In fact, since becoming worst rated is because of a bad choice of game and not sloppy playing, this list may guide and encourage people to concentrate the improvement efforts on games which are more popular instead of the less popular ones. Arguments con: This kind of list could be seen by some as a "hall of shame" list which mocks the authors of the movies. The authors should be spared from this. There's no useful informational value in worst-rated movies because it's unlikely that anyone would want to watch such a movie, and it would only serve as making the already-long MovieStatistics page even longer.
Posted: 5/1/2007 6:19 AM
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Warp
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Instead of going to the more modern game consoles, I perasonally would prefer if TASes were made of the so-called "8-bit computers" such as C64, Amstrad, Spectrum, etc. (I myself would probably start making loads of Spectrum runs if there was a rerecording emulator for it.)
Posted: 4/30/2007 3:32 PM
Post subject: Re: question
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Warp
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S3R14L-X wrote:
how come there are only a few n64 speed runs on tasvideos.org?
How come some people are unable to write meaningful subjects to their posts?
Posted: 4/29/2007 6:03 PM
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Warp
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Baxter wrote:
(4) The games should be about the same length. - There is no point in making a 1 hour TAS, which also completes a 1 minute TAS... it can hardly be called a bigame movie. The whole idea of a bigame movie is gone.
To add to this, I think that a high-quality bigame TAS should aim to end both games at the exact same time. In other words, the last input of the movie file should be the last input necessary to finish both games. Or in other words, one game shouldn't end before the other and then just get the additional obsolete input which does nothing useful. I believe the Megaman X1+X2 run does precisely this?
Posted: 4/29/2007 1:28 PM
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Warp
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Aqfaq wrote:
Post the poll.
Unfortunately I don't have permission to do that.
Posted: 4/29/2007 9:01 AM
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Warp
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Perhaps a poll should be posted?
Posted: 4/28/2007 9:51 PM
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Warp
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quietkane wrote:
And if taken as a whole, they give a very clear impression that this site values quality of runs more than anything else. Not frame-perfection.
Usually frame perfection is quality. In the vast majority of cases frame perfection is the only possible measurement of quality. Exceptions exist, of course, but they are rare.
Posted: 4/28/2007 6:39 PM
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Warp
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Randil wrote:
Would it be possible to include things like "Lowest Technical rating", "Lowest entertainment rating", and things like that too? Or is it only me who's interested in those things? :P
It's perfectly possible, and actually any editor could do it (because the module supports ordering from biggest to smallest and the other way around). However, as someone said, I don't know if that's such a good idea because I feel it kind of mocks the authors of those movies... Btw, I added a simple check to the module: If the same movie id appears twice in a row in a list, it ignores the second appearance. This should fix the needless repetitions.
Posted: 4/28/2007 12:40 PM
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Warp
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It's not a site "bug" per se. It's a side-effect of how the database is constructed. The problem is that each movie file and each avi file have their own entries in the database. If a movie has two movie files (such as is the case with http://tasvideos.org/83M.html) then it has two entries in the database. Likewise, if a movie has two avi files (such as is the case with http://tasvideos.org/817M.html) it also has two avi entries in the database. Some statistics require these to be separate (eg. the file size of the avis is different and thus need to be handled separately) while in other statistics it would be better for them to be merged into one (eg. the number of rerecords doesn't change from one avi to the other). The routine which handles the statistics is generic and by itself cannot make the distinction whether two entries should be merged or not. I suppose it could be possible to parametrize this and make the routine to merge movie/avi entries when requested, but I haven't looked into that yet.
Posted: 4/27/2007 7:29 PM
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Warp
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I added statistics for the best (and most) rated movies. So now we have a list of top-rated movies, finally. I wonder why nobody had requested this.
Posted: 4/24/2007 2:52 PM
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Warp
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Excuse me? In most games saving and reloading is part of regular gameplay, and it's supported directly by the game. Not so in rogue-likes. There undoing mistakes by copying backuped savefiles (not supported by the game itself) is considered cheating because it goes against the spirit of the game.
Posted: 4/24/2007 2:49 PM
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Warp
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IMO RPG TASes are different from the more "regular" TASes in that it makes little sense to watch them if you haven't played the game through. Other TASes can be greatly enjoyed even if you have never played the game. For example, I always enjoy the Megaman TASes very much even though I have never played them. It's easy to follow what's happening because it's a relatively simple platform game with little to no plot. However, RPGs are based almost solely on the *plot* of the game (besides having RPG elements such as increasing HP/SP, learning skills and spells, etc). A TAS cannot show the plot of the game. You have to have played the game so that you can know what's happening. Only then can you enjoy the TAS. I usually don't watch TASes of RPGs I have not played. Besides the reason above, another one is that watching it would spoil the game, and perhaps I would like to play it some time in the future.
Posted: 4/24/2007 2:41 PM
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Warp
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Rridgway wrote:
Don't worry S3R14L-X, we only appear to be insane. But, like many others before you and many others after, you'll learn to love us.
That's right. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
Posted: 4/24/2007 2:33 PM
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Warp
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In rogue-like games that's considered cheap cheating.
Posted: 4/24/2007 2:21 PM
Post subject: Re: Owning up to hidden obsessions...
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Warp
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Rridgway wrote:
Does anyone have a hidden obsession with certain video game characters? If so, tell what it is and what reason do you believe you got it from.
Answering that question would be self-cancelling: If you answer the question, it's not hidden anymore, so the question becomes moot. :P
Posted: 4/21/2007 11:17 AM
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Warp
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I bet he thinks "IRC" is a certain chat program (and a closed source one).
Posted: 4/19/2007 12:44 PM
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Warp
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I think both suggestions for the table of votes with regard to anonymous voters are good, but it's up to Bisqwit to decide...
Posted: 4/18/2007 3:10 PM
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Warp
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Deep Loner wrote:
I don't like the look or feel of GTK+ (as in the Windows version of GIMP).
I think that's more a problem with the Gimp than with GTK+. GTK+ is ok'ish for making portable graphical programs. Its only problem in Windows is that you can't compile small stand-alone binaries using it. Either the GTK+ runtime libraries must be installed in the system or you have to provide over a dozen DLLs (taking up many megabytes) with your program if you want to run it. I believe there are other portable GUI libraries which do not have so much overhead. For what's worth, I have made a program using GTK+ and compiled it for Windows (using mingw), so it's definitely possible: http://warp.povusers.org/FuncViewer/
Posted: 4/18/2007 3:02 PM
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Warp
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I coded something like that and Bisqwit added it to the site engine.
Posted: 4/15/2007 10:06 AM
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Warp
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I didn't know Ocarina of Time is a NES game...
Posted: 4/15/2007 10:01 AM
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Warp
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Well, first you should of course check with google if someone has already made a MacOS X version of snex9x. If not, then open the terminal in your system (I don't remember what's called in MacOS X; search for "terminal", "command prompt", "xterm" or similar) and try to run the command "gcc". If it says that it can't find such a program you'll have to install CodeWarrior or another similar compiler suite for MacOS X. (IIRC CodeWarrior "emulates" gcc by putting such commands in the path.) If you succeed in that you'll have to download snes9x's unix sources and then read how to compile it. Most probably "./configure" and then "make". Expect compiler errors. If they happen, tough luck.
Posted: 4/14/2007 6:47 PM
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Warp
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moozooh wrote:
Wait, isn't it possible to compile the emulator on MacOS right from the source?
If he has a fairly recent version of MacOS X it should be possible to compile basically any unix program, so in theory it should be possible. (I don't know if Snes9x has been ported natively to OS X. If that's the case, then it's better to use that binary, of course.)
Posted: 4/6/2007 2:26 PM
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Warp
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What's wrong with just showing the two movies side-by-side? Why must they be superimposed? I imagine that superimposing them is only going to be very confusing.
Posted: 3/31/2007 8:06 AM
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I don't know why, but I don't find the game addictive at all. It's too difficult for casual playing and ragdolls have lost their marvel long time ago.
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