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Post subject: Rookie of 2009 Poll - Winner announced!
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The votes have ended and we have a winner: arukAdo the Rookie of the year for 2009. Final Poll results: arukAdo 23 Kriole 11 ---- We will now have a 6 day final run off poll of the top 2 winners: arukAdo and Kriole. Go vote! initial poll results: arukAdo 20 SDR 3 Ryuto 6 Kriole 7 Sonikkustar 2 NxCy 5 maTO 4 ---- The nomination process is over. Due to the number of nominations we will do a poll for 7 days with everybody's nomination. Then we will do a run off vote for the top 2. Now go vote! The nominees: arukAdo 1. 1293 | DS Castlevania - Portrait Of Ruin in 11:40.35 2. 1437 | DS Castlevania - Portrait Of Ruin in 10:14.85 (coauthored with gocha) 3. 1337 | NES Akumajou Special - Boku Dracula-kun in 19:49.12 (coauthored with adelikat, Randil and DarkKobold) 4. 1313 | Saturn Castlevania - Nocturne In The Moonlight in 06:51.22 5. 1363 | PSX Castlevania - Symphony Of The Night in 19:01.63 (coauthored with pirate_sephiroth) 6. 1289 | PSX Resident Evil 3 - Nemesis in 1:07:25.52 7. 1419 | PSX Resident Evil 3 : Nemesis - The Mercenaries in 18:54.02 8. 1341 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo Of Blood in 23:17.78 9. 1335 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo of Blood in 24:23.47 (coauthored with adelikat and paul_t) 10. 1435 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo of Blood in 24:21.75 (coauthored with adelikat) 11. 1431 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo of Blood in 38:26.12 (coauthored with adelikat) 12. 1433 | PCECD Double Dragon 2 - The Revenge in 11:57.73 13. 1432 | PCE Madoo Granzort in 08:46.08 SDR 1. 1342 | Arcade Xmen vs Street Fighter in 11:38.38 2. 1333 | SNES Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 in 16:46.58 Ryuto 1. 1307 | GBA Kuru Kuru Kururin in 10:22.08 2. 1315 | GBA Kururin Paradise in 20:35.53 3. 1367 | GB Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru in 1:27:43.3 4. 1403 | GB Little Master in 05:35.37 5. 1414 | GB Minesweeper in 00:29.65 6. 1399 | SGB Tetris Blast in 03:57.98 7. 1416 | SNES Super Gussun Oyoyo in 07:26.33 Kriole 1. 1428 | GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow in 28:01.58 2. 1368 | SNES Super Metroid in 38:41.52 (coauthored with Taco) Sonikkustar 1. 1375 | GB Looney Tunes in 09:28.88 2. 1429 | Genesis Decap Attack in 19:35.88 3. 1278 | Genesis McDonald's Treasureland Adventure in 24:33.63 4. 1411 | SNES The Addams Family in 03:19.35 (coauthored with Kyman) NxCy 1. 1264 | SNES Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest in 1:23:10.88 (coauthored with Comicalflop) 2. 1314 | SNES Super Mario World 2 - Yoshi's Island in 06:08.02 maTO 1. 1404 | Genesis Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 06:43.12 2. 1425 | Genesis Instruments of Chaos starring Young Indiana Jones in 09:04.58 3. 1379 | Genesis Shadow of the Beast in 11:56.9 4. 1384 | Genesis Shadow of the Beast 2 in 06:33.33 5. 1409 | Genesis The Jungle Book in 08:17.17 ---- Nominate the author(s) you think most deserve the award of best Rookie of 2009. To be eligible for this award, the author must have had their first publication published in the year of 2009. Nominations will be 7 days, after which this will be turned into a poll with the nominated authors.
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Post subject: TASer of 2009 Poll - Winner - Lord Tom
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The final vote has ended and we have a winner - Lord Tom. Final vote results: Cpadolf - 17 Lord Tom - 20 ---- This was a close vote, with clearly some choices were more liked than others. Due to the number of nominations we will do a poll for 7 days with the top 4. Then we will do a run off vote for the top 2. The results of the first round of votes: adelikat 8 arukAdo 6 cpadolf 9 inichi 4 janus 1 kriole 2 Lord Tom 9 Phil 1 Randil 1 Shinryuu 1 I'll also be handling this poll as adelikat has to recuse himself for being one of the candidates. --Nach ---- The nomination process is over. Due to the number of nominations we will do a poll for 7 days with everybody's nomination. Then we will do a run off vote for the top 2. Now go vote! The nominees: adelikat 1. 1283 | DS New Super Mario Bros in 26:27.5 2. 1281 | PCE Dragon Egg in 07:36.27 3. 1335 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo of Blood in 24:23.47 (coauthored with arukAdo and paul_t) 4. 1435 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo of Blood in 24:21.75 (coauthored with arukAdo) 5. 1431 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo of Blood in 38:26.12 (coauthored with arukAdo) 6. 1337 | NES Akumajou Special - Boku Dracula-kun in 19:49.12 (coauthored with arukAdo, Randil and DarkKobold) 7. 1345 | NES Contra in 09:41.36 8. 1279 | NES Double Dragon 2 in 08:40.13 9. 1323 | NES Transformers - Convoy no Nazo in 04:20.39 10. 1331 | NES Super Mario Bros in 18:44.48 (coauthored with klmz and andrewg) 11. 1383 | FDS Eggerland in 36:58.98 12. 1369 | GBC Speedy Gonzales - Aztec Adventure in 30:17.5 (coauthored with JXQ) arukAdo 1. 1293 | DS Castlevania - Portrait Of Ruin in 11:40.35 2. 1437 | DS Castlevania - Portrait Of Ruin in 10:14.85 (coauthored with gocha) 3. 1337 | NES Akumajou Special - Boku Dracula-kun in 19:49.12 (coauthored with adelikat, Randil and DarkKobold) 4. 1313 | Saturn Castlevania - Nocturne In The Moonlight in 06:51.22 5. 1363 | PSX Castlevania - Symphony Of The Night in 19:01.63 (coauthored with pirate_sephiroth) 6. 1289 | PSX Resident Evil 3 - Nemesis in 1:07:25.52 7. 1419 | PSX Resident Evil 3 : Nemesis - The Mercenaries in 18:54.02 8. 1341 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo Of Blood in 23:17.78 9. 1335 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo of Blood in 24:23.47 (coauthored with adelikat and paul_t) 10. 1435 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo of Blood in 24:21.75 (coauthored with adelikat) 11. 1431 | PCECD Castlevania - Rondo of Blood in 38:26.12 (coauthored with adelikat) 12. 1433 | PCECD Double Dragon 2 - The Revenge in 11:57.73 13. 1432 | PCE Madoo Granzort in 08:46.08 cpadolf 1. 1247 | GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow in 04:38.9 2. 1380 | GBA Metroid Zero Mission in 1:01:08.0 3. 1326 | DS Contra 4 in 22:31.42 (coauthored with zggzdydp) 4. 1299 | SNES Contra 3: The Alien Wars in 03:20.38 5. 1366 | SNES Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt in 13:11.05 6. 1270 | SNES Super Metroid in 21:35.57 7. 1259 | SNES Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel in 09:38.85 inichi 1. 1285 | SNES Chrono Trigger in 21:23.98 janus 1. 1377 | SNES Breath of Fire II in 4:55:16.22 2. 1418 | SNES Breath of Fire II in 4:53:48.98 3. 1420 | Genesis Phantasy Star IV in 1:35:58.8 Kriole 1. 1428 | GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow in 28:01.58 2. 1368 | SNES Super Metroid in 38:41.52 (coauthored with Taco) Lord Tom 1. 1348 | NES Excitebike in 05:29.44 2. 1320 | NES Metroid in 33:25.7 3. 1286 | NES Super Mario Bros 3 in 10:26.42 (coauthored with Mitjitsu) 4. 1252 | SNES Lemmings in 1:03:04.45 Phil 1. 1396 | NES Bionic Commando in 13:45.26 2. 1352 | NES Donkey Kong in 01:08.67 3. 1373 | NES Goonies in 02:31.38 4. 1358 | NES Kung Fu in 03:41.14 Randil 1. 1337 | NES Akumajou Special - Boku Dracula-kun in 19:49.12 (coauthored with adelikat, arukAdo and DarkKobold) 2. 1260 | NES Deja Vu in 10:16.98 3. 1325 | NES Gremlins 2 in 07:00.07 4. 1406 | NES Kid Icarus in 22:17.38 5. 1372 | NES Little Nemo - The Dream Master in 22:06.95 6. 1426 | NES Pizza Pop! in 09:34.29 Shinryuu 1. 1242 | NES Mega Man 2 in 24:33.5 (coauthored with TaoTao, pirohiko and FinalFighter) 2. 1346 | NES Mega Man 2 in 23:54.75 (coauthored with pirohiko and FinalFighter) 3. 1241 | NES Mega Man 6 in 30:46.78 ---- Nominate the author(s) you think most deserve the prestigious award of best TASer of 2009. Nominations will be 7 days, after which this will be turned into a poll with the nominated authors.
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Post subject: 2009 TAS awards ceremony - Winners Announced
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Winners! Chrono Trigger "glitched any%", TAS of the year Lord Tom, the TASer of 2009 arukAdo, the Rookie of 2009 Lord Tom, the NES TASer of 2009 Cpadolf, the SNES TASer of 2009 maTO, the Sega TASer of 2009 Ryuto, the GBX TASer of 2009 arukAdo, the Rookie platform TASer of 2009 Megaman 2, the NES TAS of 2009 Chrono Trigger "glitched any%", the SNES TAS of 2009 Crusader of Centy, the Sega TAS of 2009 AoS "100% Souls", the GBX TAS of 2009 Castlevania - Symphony of the Night, the Rookie platform TAS of 2009 Family Feud the Funny TAS of 2009 Chrono Trigger, the Glitchy TAS of 2009 Family Feud, the Innovative TAS of 2009 Shining Force, the Lucky TAS of 2009 Gunstar Super Heroes, the Speedy TAS of 2009 ---- Greetings and welcome to our 3rd annual awards ceremony. Here we acknowledge the best tool-assisted movies and movie makers over the course of 2009. 2009 has been an epic year for TASVideos including an unprecedented expansion of TASable platforms. This year we witness the first time publications of PSX, Arcade, Saturn, PC Engine, PC Engine CD, Game Gear, and Nintendo DS games. In addition, our most unimprovable movies were improved, and our most entertaining obsoleted. Due to limited publication of these new systems, this year they will be lumped into "New Platform" categories. This year we have a new twist to the awards. Money! The money came from some very generous donations. Much thanks to the contributers! (Will place names here upon request of the donators) It isn't much but I want to be able to reward our outstanding contributers in some way. I hope this will become the tradition and the values can get larger as we are able to afford to do so. Current prize pool: $100 Distribution: The TASer of the year: $20 TAS of the year: $15 Rookie of the year: $15 Each of the platform TASer & TAS of the year awards will get $4 each "Specialty" Awards will get $2 (awards such as lucky, speedy, etc) Also, awards now display on winner's forum posts as well as displayed on movie pages. Once nominations are done, we will start a two week poll. Afterwards the winners will be announced. The TAS of the Year voting will then be opened. TAS of the year nominees will be the winners of the individual platform awards. SNES and N64 were combined this year due to lack of N64 publications. SNES isn't a great one to group it with, but seemed to be the best option. For details on rules, awards, and eligibility, see the awards page.
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Derakon wrote:
Second, people who know the game don't seem to consider the gameplay to be sloppy (and speaking as an educated amateur, I certainly didn't notice anything that looked off).
More importantly, the gameplay in this movie is not only "not sloppy", it is clearly superior to the published movie. Also the oot example is exactly why we need a rule of this nature (though for the record, I consider the gameplay of the published movie about as equally as bad as that submission, but that is for another debate). There was a boy and his blob submission a long time ago that better illustrated this concept. We had a 5ish minute optimized TAS. A shortcut was found that shaved several minutes off the route. A submission using this but was obviously sloppy (where the published run was not) was made. It was rejected because, while faster, was much less impressive looking. Regardless of the rules, we do need an "out" in the guidelines for this (rare) situation.
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GlitchMan wrote:
Maybe they could have thought "You know, it's on a newer NES emulator. Why couldn't this TAS look better than it already does?"
Well, that' snot what happened. And the emulator used should not effect things like that anyway. Also, the reason it was rejected is because of the rule quoted in the rejection comment. Known improvements are grounds for rejection. It isn't like this was a hidden rule nor a rarely used one (I've seen it employed many times). However, it is a rule that I think it worth taking a 2nd look at.
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GlitchMan wrote:
quaddruple posting
Sometimes the sight runs slow, or even gives an error code. In all cases, your post likely went through and the error was in displaying it. Please quit posting over and over in this situation. Wait, then check to see if your post went through. kthx And for the record, I don't agree with this rejection either. And for another record, why does converting it to .fm2 have anything to do with anything? O_o
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Still can't get it to sync. Doesn't matter anyway as I am attempting to obsolete it as we speak. I'll vote meh since I can't find the ROM.
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Desyncs for me. Perhaps I'm using the wrong emulator version? Maybe I have a bad ROM dump :/
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Zurrecco wrote:
I didn't find this all that interesting. Lots of not much going on. The GB version on the site is more than enough to represent the game, methinks. Meh vote.
If only one is needed to represent the site, why not have this one instead? It does have nice gameplay, and certainly better graphics & sound.
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Unfortunately this problem is widespread. Most every movie of mine seems to be improvable by removing the last frame of input. It has to do with a bug in loading a state while recording. Right now my theory is that upon loading a state, it puts the last frame in the movie but does not play it in the emulator. Thus, you think you need one more frame input, but in reality, you don't.
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Actually, even the last 17 frames of his movie is yours. I removed a frame from the end of your movie and it became his, and plays to the end. Looks like you messed up and didn't end as soon as you could. However, we don't accept that kind of improvement. It must complete the game faster. EDIT Not to mention we don't accept someone trying to pass someone else's work off as his own. That is ban worthy.
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Might be worth pointing out that this movie is known to be improvable by at least 30 seconds due to new glitches, routes, optimizations. It is actually in the rules that such a movie should be rejected despite being an improvement to an existing movie. I didn't write this rule, but I assume it is there to prevent many small improvements to the same movie from clogging the queue. I've always been on the fence about this rule though and have many times opposed the rejection of such movies. I think the line should be a subjective one. If the movie is a significant improvement (not just about completion time, but as far as having new tricks/glitches/etc) that perhaps it warrants publication despite known improvements.
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Close enough to the NES version to evoke nostalgia. As such, you get a yes from me.
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Simply unpause it (the pause key by default). Notice that frame advance automatically puts the emulator in pause mode (notice the pause symbol on the lower right of the screen).
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Due to voting abuse on this submission: 1) The poll is reset 2) This thread will be locked 3) This submission will be rejected.
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Because using her results in a slower time. Suboptimal is in terms of completion time, not the speed the character moves. (It could go either way, but completion time is what I decided)
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Easy yes vote. This is an entertaining game for TASing. I've been wanting to do a TAS of it every since I saw a certain person review it. If I had known the TAS would be so short, I would have done it already ;) Anyway, congrats.
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http://tasvideos.org/MovieClassGuidelines.html The movie class guidelines clearly describe uses warps as BOTH intended and unintended warps. I don't believe unintended warps are a common enough occurance to warrant a new category. Both have something in common, skipping a significant portion of the game. By these guidelines, the AoS publication is incorrectly labeled and should be fixed.
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No where in the rules does it state you must use a certain BIOS. However, maybe it should. I know nothing about the BIOS used in this movie. Why was it used? Is it more/less accurate? How can we be sure it doesn't allow things that shouldn't be possible?
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Xipo wrote:
I have seen the Encoded Video,it looks cool and interesting.But not as adelikat said,the viewer response was bad,please think it again.
Please clairfy.
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moozooh wrote:
moozooh wrote:
To be honest, I don't see how it is indicated anywhere that a new glitchless any% will be able to come through.
I would still like adelikat to clarify this issue.
Could a new glitchess any% movie be published? That idea is on the table.
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I voted meh. Not very much TAS potential in this game. However, I was very pleased with your stylistic/entertainment choices. I thought you made the most of the game.
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sgrunt wrote:
I have found that using the BIOS now listed in the submission text causes the run to sync (the advice about the RE1/2 fix is still completely irrelevant). Is that permissible?
I'm curious about this as well. What is this BIOS, how does it differ from the usual BIOS, and should it be permissible? Also, is the RE1 hack confirmed to be moot? If so it should be removed from the submission text. If it is necessary, then arukAdo's points need addressing.
There's an "ending", but no credits sequence. It goes back to the "where is your data stored?" menu.
This is normal for this game? It really has no ending sequence? I'm prepared to accept this movie based on entertainment value & viewer response. But I want clarification on these issues first.
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I wasn't excited by the idea of Kid Niki, since I find the NES ones not interesting. This one wasn't very interesting at first, but fortunately I kept watching. It got more interesting later on in the movie. I'll give it a meh.
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sgrunt wrote:
1) unapproved hack
That is an rule no longer in affect. Hacks do not require previous approval. However, the bad dump is grounds for rejection right there. What is interesting about this hack vs the exisitng hacks and published SMB movies? I give it a no vote.
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