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You get back Sunday evening. I gave you a day and a half to get 60 seconds of unoptimized work done, and you need more than a day and a half?
Fine, I ammend the initial agreement. The turn in time is now 0001 Teusday morning PST. You just got yourself two whole extra minutes.
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Then you have until Teusday at 0001 PST to make a 60 second unoptimized WIP of all 4 Wario Land games being played at once. If you can't do that, you relinquish all claims of being a master at the game and you will forever give up attempting a quad run of the game. edit: And you have to change your avatar to something non-Wario.
Who agrees with these terms?
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Tell you what, Rridgway. Get us a 60 second long, generally unoptimized WIP of all the games at once. Can't be that hard when you're the mast, right?
You have 12 hours.
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mmbossman wrote:
93-100=A, 90-93=B, 87-90=B+ etc...
Err, rephrase? How is a B higher than a B+?
I always thought the normal grade breakdowns were 90-100 A, 80-90 B, 70-80 C, 60-70 D, 0-60 E/F. Then again, a lot of that depends on post-score class curvature and general teacher ambivalence (which happens a lot in college).
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AKA wrote:
as far as I understand GB/GBA games are the least popular on the site.
SMS games are crying. I hope you're happy.
Anyways, I think the merger is a bad idea. The way I see it, GB/GBC games are "meant" to be played on a GB/GBC system, whereas the GBA is "meant" to be played on a GBA console. Of course they all use the same emulator, but I don't think that that justifies grouping all the games together. We're splitting the games up by their intended consoles, not their emulators.
I know that GB/GBC games can be played on a GBA handheld, but that's not a logical argument (that you didn't make, but still). Should we bundle GBx and DS games when a DS emulator comes out? What about bundling GCN and Wii games when a Wii emulator comes out? How about bundling all the Playstation games together when a PS3 emulator comes out?
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Chamale wrote:
It's just that generally, I think less videos should be cancelled. The judges can decide if a movie is up to tasvideos' standards.
I think that authors have the right to cancel their runs whether you like it or not. If someone feels that their run is not up to site standards, that can only be a good thing. That is, they are of the creed that the site doesn't need to be bogged down with poor quality/boring runs, or that they have seen an error in their submission and have decided to fix that.
If anything, I would like to see more cancellations and less rejections in the submission queue. There comes a point where people should be able to tell when their submission is doomed to rejection and save the judges some effort.
As for the grade thing: everyone is probably more used to the concept of 10% grade incrementation. The fact that what your school considers an A+ is what the average school would consider a solid B makes me wonder how bad you have to do to fail your grade. I mean, the work done at any grade level is determined by the information being learned, so I don't see why a school would give kids a break like that when all they're learning is stuff like Algebra or Geography.
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Great job improving this. The boss fights were noticeably better (poor Ridley), and the mostly undetected Pirate Ship was a nice reprieve from the usual blasting. Yes vote.
e: For your last shinespark, can't you do it while in ball form to also zip through that small airduct? I'm sure I've seen someone do it before...
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Highness wrote:
I just feel that IMDB is superb when it comes to movies.
Wikipedia is good too, just that a site that really focus on the same concept as IMDB, but for video games, would be awesome.
Maybe when you have a group like the Screen Actors Guild, which already did half of the work for most of IMDB's work, it wouldn't be so hard for a gaming version to pop up. I just feel that there is too much rampant bias and general greed in a lot of the gaming industry that too many people would be unwilling to work together to get this information out there. Even if you were able to gather up all the public domain information and create an index for gaming, do you really think that people are going to care about who voice acted for which character and whatnot?
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What's wrong with Wikipedia? It has lists of games based on genre, platform, series, etc, and you can usually hop from game to game based on producers/directors/voice actors/etc.
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Chamale wrote:
85% is not "bad reception". At my school, 85% is the standard for an A+.
Really? Wow...
Some people just don't feel that their runs are being received as well as they had hoped for. That's just a personal preference. I remember someone almost cancelling a submission because it got 2 no votes (this was like 1-2 years ago, though). Some people just don't like the idea that their work isn't being appreciated enough.
Concordantly, I've seen runs with 70+% approval rates with good confidence get rejected because the judge didn't like it. Don't think of the voting system as a clearly defining reason to publish or not.
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Lorenzo_The_Comic wrote:
How about Mario Paint? I've never been able to use the mouse in SNES9X yet.
You obviously haven't stopped by the snes9x forums, then. I couldn't get the mouse to work at first, but then I went to the official emulator site, and they have an FAQ on how to troubleshoot your mouse to mouse input.
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I think a few people have started to make ZMV runs because ZSNES used to have superior sound to Snes9x, or something along those lines. However, many gave up because ZSNES is unstable compared to Snes9x when it comes to rerecording.
Also, Snes9x's audio is finally on par with ZSNES, so I can't really see any reason to pick ZSNES instead, outside of personal preference.
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Hard to say how I felt about this. It was entertaining for large chunks, then boring enough to elicit some turboing. Overall, I think I watched about 3/4 of the run, of which I was mostly impressed. The fact that Kirby games drag on for as long as they do always makes me wish that people wouldn't run them, but whatever.
MYehs vote...
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Phil wrote:
Zurreco wrote:
Also, I've seen plenty of bad runs submitted after years of effort
Which ones?
I don't think it would be too kind to point out which runs I have personally deemed as "bad" runs. That being said, just know that I feel this way about some runs.
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I found this to be pretty boring, but not more so than any other repetitive run on the site. Voting No, and hoping that future runs won't use an otherwise novel glitch to such extents.
Also, I've seen plenty of bad runs submitted after years of effort, so I don't see how someone can't assume that the converse (short time -> good run) can't be possible.
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Truncated wrote:
May I suggest you simply log out and check for yourself if the link you are going to post is available without an account?
Or, I dunno, make a list of the free forums yourself instead of asking people to do stuff for you?
Logging out still grants me access to Lets Play! and YCS, even though people are complaining that they can't access those subforums. That being said, I can't compile that list myself. A little help would be nice.
That being said, if I don't know what subforums are open and which aren't, I still can't promise that I won't post links to privatized threads. If someone makes a request of me, the least they could do is help me out in my attempts to appease them.
