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Wow, that's a lot more entertaining than I expected. I expected another RPG that I never played or seen before. But it had a good bit of action along with the usual massive darkkobold luck manipulation.
Easy yes vote.
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FatRatKnight wrote:
It's not just the Rewinder.lua that's failing to update the input display, but Multitrack2.lua and this silly test script, too:
local stuff= savestate.create()
savestate.save(stuff)
gui.register(function ()
if input.get().space then savestate.load(stuff) end
end)
I have no idea what the problem is. I tested with a DW4 lua script that DarkKobold wrote and it was updating input display after loadstate. And more importantly, the code to do that is explicitly there, so I don't know why it doesn't always work.
EDIT: Also, the brand-new checkbox in Movie Options doesn't remain checked after I close and re-open the Movie Options window. Whether it has any effect, I did not check.
One day I am going to figure out how to avoid annoying things like that pre-release. I don't know how that one slipped by me. It is simply not updating the dialog, the option is getting saved into the .cfg file and being used. I fixed it and updated the interim build if it annoys you enough. (People not using that option should not bother since the interim build isn't optimized like releases are)
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Ok, we fixed up a few things and made 2.1.4a, all TASers should download this and not use 2.1.4
Fixes:
Fixed an erroneous loadstate error during read-only that made many savestates say that the savestate is past the end of the movie.
Fixed crash on .fcm convert
I looked into savestate.save() input display. It works just fine but fails on the rewind script. I suspect it has something to do with how savestate.save() is used. It maybe that it is saving to memory and that input display is not saved in that instance? I honestly have no idea.
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So I decided to tinker with this game because I thought it has mega TAS potential. Here is a WIP/Test run of level 1. What do you guys think? Should I continue? Any tricks/glitches for this game that I don't know about?
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Were you the one that notified that on sourceforge? I tried savestate.load and input display works just fine. Maybe it is the rewind script in particular? I can't fix it if I can't recreate it...
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FCEUX 2.1.4 released!
I/We stepped up this time and finally attended to the needs of TASVideos. This is a major release for TASers with tons of movie related goodies. Here are some noteables:
Microphone recording support
New PPU flag in movies
Much faster loading of movie files and loadstates while recording
Finally a fully bulletproof implementation - read-only is now bulletproof
A movie finished mode - similar functionality as GENS & DeSmuME
VBA/SNES9x style read+write loadstate where the full movie is loaded, and not truncated until the next frame (enabled in the movie options dialog)
Memory Poke function (one of the last regressions from old fceu.28)
New input display (inspired by desmume9.6)
More informative Replay dialog including fixing small bugs like inability to report starting from savestate
Replay From Beginning function works with savestate movies
Fixed zapper.read() from crashing on movie playback stops
Autohold - fixed multiplayer display
Hotkeys for RAM Search functions
Lots of cheat search & debugger fixes
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TAS-Movie-Editor added to the TASTools project to SVN (and a binary available for download).
http://code.google.com/p/tastools/
There is still some work to be done on it in order to finish up some of the movie file formats and to add some of the newer ones, if anybody is interested. The project is coded in C# and has project files for VS 2005,2008, and 2010.
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You have movie.playing() and movie.recording() that in conjunction will give you a "is playing" for your while loop
In addition there is a movie.getmode() which will return record, playback, nil (or in the next fceux release: finished)
that can also get the job done
You also have movie.length() for your movie length. Btw, all of this info is in the FCEUX help that comes with FCEUX >_>
Look specifically in the Lua Scripting chapter Lua Functions List page
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I've been using 2010 for some weeks now and I have to say I really like it. My only complaint is that features like "go to definition" are a bit slow compared to 2010. Things like that are trumped having things like an integrated profiler. All in all, thumbs up to VS2010.
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However, the game's timer is screwy too. And bisqwit was saying that an ideal TAS should optimize realtime as well as the timer. I on the other hand think real time only is a good reasonable solution.
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Unfortunately netplay is broken in FCEUX. fceu-server seems to work with it though. I don't have the necessary expertise to fix netplay. And I haven't found anyone who can/will.
It is on the todo list to fix netplay. Ideally with the P2P support like you suggest. Having to use fceu-server is a pain.
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EtchenBa wrote:
As a competitive chess player this was not very interesting to me. I think more interesting would be trying to fulfill various achievements. Fastest stalemate, fastest self-mate (get yourself checkmated, if that wasn't obvious), fastest checkmate with a pawn, force the opposing king to YOUR king's original square and mate, etc.
Just my two cents. Considering most of you are not competitive chess players, I doubt you'll share my sentiments.
Those are all interesting suggestion. All of them would be a more impressive feat than a 3 move checkmate.
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New release of VBjin.
Changelog:
ROM loading from commandline (which means movie loading now possible as well)
added Lua functions - memory.readbyte, memory.writebyte, memory.readword, memorywriteword
MusicSelect?.lua - a script that allows the selecting and playing of music tracks in a game
Recent menu items enable sound on load (not just the open menu)
View->Mix Left & Right View options as well as other display options
Wave file logging
RAM Search - fix update previous values
RAM Search - redraw the list when search size/format is changed
Runs faster! (capable of full fps)
Most of these fixes come from ugetab, so much thanks to him.
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DevilSpree wrote:
The people that praise him are laughable. You want me to go see him live? Pay for my plane ticket or shut up.
Worse than the Danny Johnson fans, except he was proven to be talented with faulty controllers.
This is your warning to drop the attitude.
(Note: I could have quoted any of your posts as every single one seems to be negative, rude & insulting to someone.)
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Anybody who has played a computer chess game knows the CPU is horrible at low levels. It isn't very interesting to see that exploited for a quick checkmate. I don't doubt that there is an interesting way to do a chess TAS but I think fastest time based on poor CPU play isn't the way to go.
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The throwing glitch was a nice trick. The vertical level around 5 minutes in was an interesting watch. Not a jaw dropper but good enough for a solid yes by me.
