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For bomberman, maybe a "skeleton" script could be created that players could then plug in various bots -- ie create a function that gets called every frame for each player -- that way bots could battle each other.
Something like:
--start game
function update()
player1setinput()
player2setinput()
...
end
gui.register(update)
while true do
FCEU.frameadvance()
end
Players would provide just the function player1setinput etc
Same idea could be used for any multiplayer game... Urban Champion anyone :P?
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Well, it won't be granted unless you ask, though I'm not sure who to ask... Bisqwit I suppose. I think the hack and run are good enough that there wouldn't be massive backlash on that front if you submitted it... or maybe I'm being optimistic. Good luck in any event!
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Warp wrote:
For example, suppose that someone has committed murder and he is (justly) found guilty of it, and sentenced for life to jail. Imagine this person would defend himself with: "But look at all the *good* things I have done! I have donated money to charity, I have helped the poor and needy, I have helped my neighbors when they were in need, I have always cared about my parents, who are old and sick, I have always been good and helpful to my friends in the time of their need, I have never stolen anything, I have made any crime before this... Surely all these good deeds should compensate for this one sin?"
Sure, it's great that he has done all those good deeds, but they don't matter: He still goes to jail. He has committed a crime, and he has to pay for it. That's how criminal law works, and people generally accept that as the way it should be. Nobody expects the murderer to go free if he has done enough good deeds during his life.
Actually, it's not unknown for courts of law to consider mitigating factors in establishing sentences. Sure, they won't set someone free usually but perhaps sentence them to life in prison instead of the death penalty. So perhaps they are a bit more forgiving than God? ;)
What really gets me is not that good works won't compensate for sin in general, but that someone who performs only good works by Christian standards with the exception of "taking Jesus into his or her heart" is still sent to Hell. Seems kind of mean to me. I'm all for the message except for this detail.
Speaking of the message:
"...I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Matthew 19:23-24, Mark 10:24-25 and Luke 18:24-25
This seems to be one of the most overlooked passages in practice, at least where I am... Yesterday I saw a very expensive car (Mercedes) with a "vanity" license plate (one that costs extra money and can say what you wish) that proclaimed "THE LORD" and a frame that said "God is my savior". Again, I'm happy with people who would write that on a t-shirt they hand made, but the juxtaposition of wealth with this made me blanch. Is this common elsewhere? Do I live with particularly hypocritical people (it is California so I can't discount that notion)?
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stickyman05 wrote:
Is there a reason that you can't BLJ through key doors? Can you not get enough momentum, or something?
LOL someone had to ask... You can BLJ through key doors but the next floor doesn't "load"
Strangely, I had the same thought about that last star door though... I bet it's slower
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What would be impressive in my mind is have people make a general Mario bot (or some other game) but run the competition on a specially made hack of the game that wouldn't be known before hand.
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Maybe have two divisions, one that's purely deterministic and one that allows for testing via savestates.
Tetris might be interesting (well, and I already made one :D)
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This is cool, thanks for posting it Marzo Junior... I think it's different enough from the normal and Knuckles ones to be included as well (if it is precise enough which I'm apparently not good at telling -- looked really well made to me though)
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LOL Xkeeper, thanks... stupid frameadvance. I'm sure it could be improved vastly; the original was written with BasicBot so crammed all that functionality into 3 lines :) Would be interested to see what could be done with it... and the only difference between statistics and bots is pushing buttons based on the statistics :D
Hey qFox, snes9x+Lua has a timeout function where if it runs for a certain amount of time without advancing a frame it will warn the user and allow you to kill it... would that be hard to implement in the future?
FCEU.speedmode("normal")
-- 0x7 is x of ball, 0x9 is y, 0x125 is amount launcher is pulled back
while true do
--check if it needs to be launched
if memory.readbyte(0x7)==225 and memory.readbyte(0x9)==154 and memory.readbyte(0x125)~=4 then
joypad.set(1,{"B"=true})
end
--check right flipper
if memory.readbyte(0x7) > 145 and memory.readbyte(0x7) < 175 and memory.readbyte(0x9) > 189 and memory.readbyte(0x9) < 226 then
joypad.set(1,{"A"=true})
end
--check left flipper
if memory.readbyte(0x7) > 110 and memory.readbyte(0x7) < 138 and memory.readbyte(0x9) > 189 and memory.readbyte(0x9) < 226 then
joypad.set(1,{"up"=true})
end
end
Don't have the emulator with me so it might have bugs :D
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Bisqwit wrote:
Twelvepack wrote:
Do you need a permit to have a tv? Or is that something else?
In Finland, if you possess a device capable of receiving television transmissions, you must pay a fee (about 200 euros per year), which covers the upkeeping of a few non-advertisement-paid national channels
Here in the great USA we prefer free TV and to pay hundreds of dollars a year for medical insurance that doesn't even cover the extraordinary cost of hospital visits :S Can I move to Finland?
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Baxter wrote:
This just seems to be a list of all mario, sonic, metroid and castlevania games
Well, here's the entire source of that long page:
A huge load of games with "popular" names.
[module:displaymovie|id=1080]
[module:displaymovie|id=1066]
[module:displaymovie|id=868]
[module:displaymovie|id=844]
[module:displaymovie|id=1103]
[module:displaymovie|id=901]
----
----
----
[module:displaymovie|name=mario]
[module:displaymovie|name=sonic]
[module:displaymovie|name=zelda]
[module:displaymovie|name=metroid]
[module:displaymovie|name=mega]
[module:displaymovie|name=rockman]
[module:displaymovie|name=castlevania]
So you are pretty much on the nose; this was mostly experimenting with passing different parameters to displaymovie.
Baxter wrote:
This quite rightly says "Alden" at the top... I think a movie suggestions list (even if it are of relatively unknown games) that would be based upon general opinion would look really different.
Yes, I didn't mean to say that that speaks for the site, just that I tried to choose more obscure games than most favorites list, somewhat in the vein of your initial proposal. I would also like to see a list generated from broader opinion, but that differs in some significant way from a list of highest rated movies.
A while back I tried to compile a frequently suggested movie list, which is somewhat different than highest rated:
http://tasvideos.org/Alden/FrequentlySuggested.html
But it was a small sample and tricky to calculate.
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Cool, good suggestions AnS! Though I'd need some help with picking movies for those. I'll add them to my list of stubs http://tasvideos.org/Alden/Exhibitions.html.
ShinyDoofy also nicely did some encodes for Gruefood on the AVGN list, which I'll update as well.
I'm still open to suggestions for anything :)
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I was curious about tool-assisting flash games... and found Gnash, an open source flash player. It's buggy, but I was able to play and pause a flash game. It seems to have frame advance as well though that didn't work for me. Could be fun...
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1) As long as it is feasible technologically I don't see how that could be a problem. No one's stopping people from still giving only integral ratings.
2) Yes please. How about "Ignoring entertainment, how 'good' is this TAS?" Replace "good" with precise or some better words.
3) I agree as well. In case people don't know you can go to the forum profile of user and click the "Details..." link at the bottom to see their ratings, or you can replace "my" in http://tasvideos.org/rating.exe/my/ with a username. Which is not obvious at all :)
