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To summarize your efforts, you recreated the game AI in Rust, created a scriptable working Atari 2600 emulator in Rust, ported a modern Othello playing engine as a script for the emulator, and pitted the modern engine against the primitive game AI thousands of times to get the best result. And yet you still managed to save some frames. I do applaud your efforts for a game like this.
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It looks like the submitted movie doesn't actually reach the credits like the currently published 1 player run. This one does, though I'm not sure if movie will have to be replaced.
https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638048456560262145
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[1926] NES Contra (Japan) "pacifist" by Soig & zyr2288 in 09:29.08
After noticing that previous pacifist runs had only one player, I was thinking that we should let this one be part of its own branch. It's probably different enough from the main 2 player pacifist runs.
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aiqiyou wrote:
feos wrote:
The difference is you can't go left here until 1 frame later, like there's an invisible block or a collision with the block at the bottom of the screen.
In the NROM version you can go to the left so you can turn right faster, gaining speed and falling to the lower platform earlier. Also in the NROM version you resurrect after death faster. The rest is level loading time difference.
Fine. Our TAS can be well synchronized on the new Rom. in the next step, we only need to carefully check the details.
Ah, I thought this TAS would be resynced on the NROM version, but that doesn't appear to be the case.
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Impressive. Now the current TAS will no longer be nothing but bodyslams and time outs. It's now full of actual pro wrestling, making it more entertaining. I'm gonna miss the YouTube comments on how actual pro wrestling viewers and audiences would riot if they saw nothing but timeouts though.
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warmCabin wrote:
This is the TASEncoding package everyone uses these days, correct? Would you want me to upload the X resolutions output by it or do you just need a logo + disclaimer on the 4K one for YouTube?
Though I would download from the latest master. I'll ask feos to make a tagged release out of that and call it 3.0.
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I have no idea how to get this movie to sync. It won't sync on FCEU 0.98.28, FCEUX 2.0.3, and FCEUX 2.6.1. And there's only one version of the ROM as cataloged by TOSEC and No-Intro. If anyone else can get this movie to sync, please tell us what you did.
edit: It apparently syncs up using FCEUX 2.2.0.
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Bigbass wrote:
despoa wrote:
Has Lunar Pool been attempted for verification yet?
I was unable to get the original movie to sync in FCEUX after importing the fcm movie. Someone would need to attempt to resync, preferably into BizHawk (ideally using the 2.8-rc1 release or master-branch), but resyncing in FCEUX may also work. At which point, I'd be happy to attempt a verification.
I would not attempt the regular run. I doubt that's actually accurate to what an NES would output. The "no friction" run looks promising. I dumped it in FCEUX 2.5.0.
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The original download link to the game is dead, but I managed to save it from the Internet Archive, which helpfully kept it. I'm posting a mirror here for anyone in the future that wants to TAS this game or encode this movie.
https://mega.nz/file/HtFCVDCK#3LXZ3jdI0fqWlT0snGD6JR2G43IC6XyiUsYBTi3uCtg
In the NROM version you can go to the left so you can turn right faster, gaining speed and falling to the lower platform earlier. Also in the NROM version you resurrect after death faster. The rest is level loading time difference.
