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If the goal is "get to Ganon without using the sword, and only then use it", I'd say anything goes which achieves that goal. It doesn't really matter what you do, as long as that goal is strictly achieved.
However, I don't think that the choice of how to achieve that should be based on how many frames each option takes; which seems to be what Baxter is implying.
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That would be awesome to have a dynamic page like that. I would feature it on the main tabs or front page or something.
I'd be curious how they are making that page.
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I am adelikat and I approve this message.
Good job Sonikkustar, hopefully this might grow into a more dynamic streaming situation. However, have we looked into whether or not ustream itself has a similar feature? Some kind of channel where all tas live streams could be grouped?
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Since when do we need a special category for a run like this?
GlitchedLow gltich
or
GlitchedLow glitch
If a run is sufficiently glitched, the glitches are definable enough, and a low glitched run is demanded enough, then a low glitch category works and gets accepted on the site.
I'd say the two most requested ones that aren't already done are low glitch Megaman, and Sonic 3. Someone doing those is virtually guaranteed strong audience support and publication (given that the technical quality is still on par with the glitched versions).
I see no need for additional categories. 'Route intended by programmers' sounds like a most terrible idea. Who's to say what they intended, and more to the point, why do we care what they intended?
Route used by SDA? I see what you are getting at with this idea, but it still doesn't work for obvious reasons.
Let's just try for some common sense here. If a run gets too broken, it loses that familiarity/nostalgia factor for people. If the main source of that brokenness is one particular glitch, then a run avoiding that glitch could be publication worthy (by having an audience support, being sufficiently different from a glitched run, and having a well defined goal).
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I think increasing the star list by 1 is ok in this situation. The number of publications has risen, and stars are supposed to represent 3-5% of the total publications.
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If we are talking about the official encode, I must object to the large resolutions! It isn't about filesize it is about the fact that a lot of peoples computers can't even handle the playback. Our torrents strive for accessibility too. I vote 320x240 or _maybe_ 640
Save the monster big ones for the streams. Or include a 2nd torrent for it (in which case I vote for having the smallest and largest of the options).
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http://code.google.com/p/gens-rerecording/downloads/list
I uploaded GENS11b. It is a small update to GENS but fixes a rather old and nasty bug in Ram Search where the Reset button was not setting the previous search to current.
In addition Ram Watch now has a Separator button which adds a separating line into the watch list.
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I don't think OoT needs a star either, nor do I feel that way for any Zelda games. Zelda games are far more entertaining to those who know the game than those who don't and stars should movies that are awesome to the general audience whether they have played the game or not.
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Ok, I would say that the awards prize pool idea was a flop. Most authors donated it back to the site anyway, it felt weird trying to deal with the money, and most people in this thread don't seem to inspired by the idea. So this year we won't do it.
The icons and the general appreciation from the audience are far more effective motivators anyway.
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The renaming project DID reach a consensus it stalled when nobody could come up with a way to script such a naming scheme retroactively.
As for playaround, I like the idea of distinguishing between fastest time runs and ...well... playaround movies. However, I can understand the importance of them still being labeled as tool-assisted. Perhaps playaround should be the category name instead? gamex-tas-playaround-author.mp4?
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Bisqwit: Indeed we are different.
That link represents stable income for the server costs of TASVideos. That is a good thing for us as a community. To those who don't like it, Sorry but you will have to deal.
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Tetris fast 999999
I think this is now a very good star worthy movie. In addition to being more optimized it increases the "wow" factor tremendously with use of non-long piece tetrises. In addition I think it makes it a lot more accessible to the general public because that is a trick that anyone who's played tetris can at least appreciate. It is the type of movie that could potentially appeal to someone who wouldn't have otherwise gotten into the idea of TASes that much.
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moozooh wrote:
scrimpeh wrote:
While I don't think that premature judging isn't a big problem, this certainly sounds like a good idea to me. I do, however think that the delay might be a bit too long, especially for submissions that have "YES!" written all over them.
So, for example, Submisssions that are improvements to published runs could have their delay shortened, since there is a solid base to compare the run to.
Alternatively, the votes could be used to factor in how long the delay is, so a highly anticipated movie can be published sooner, although I think I'm making things too complex here.
We've had way too much improvement submissions that themselves had known improvements the authors didn't get a chance to incorporate because the judges/publishers were too hasty with accepting and publishing. That's the reason your suggestion won't work.
Yes, case in point: Tempo. Sonikkustar knew I was finishing up that movie and was ready to submit, however, he wasn't around for about 24 hours or so and it was published for he could watch. When he watch, he spotted an improvement that led to this which is something I could have easily redone and updated the submission file.
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Noob Irdoh wrote:
All the movies with a (none found) are Famtasia moves, except one, which is a SNES movie without an encode: http://tasvideos.org/1074M.html.
Since this one needs a new encode to begin with, can I claim it, encode it, and put it on archive.org?
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moozooh wrote:
I think it's different. Imprecision is when you're rounding calculations to make them faster. A bug means you're calculating wrong, not just imprecise.
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For those who don't know we are trying to archive every publication on TASVideos, including obsolete movies. We have a list but are 346 movies short. I've downloaded every active torrent and archived them (if I missed some, let me know!) and dug through all my old avis to find obsolete movies, and exhausted DeHacked's old collection.
But we still need 346, many of which are post h264 codec AVI files so they are at least decent quality. If anybody has some of the movies on the list, post it here! Uploading it to archive without posting is risky because we don't multiple copies of the same file there and others maybe be doing the same thing. It is also acceptable to upload them to something like mediafire and linking it here. If so, I will handle the rest.
I need those movies, help!
