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ALAKTORN stop it, this is not funny :U
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Because I didn't have doubts?
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The main question is: is picking barrels limited in this movie, and if it is, how?
Also, in Moons we explicitly allow esoteric goals as long as the definition feels solid and the movie is entertaining, the guideline you quoted existed long before we created tiers, and can't be taken as a rule in such cases.
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We don't have a workaround rule for "annoying boot-up sequence", and I don't think we should, because scenarios one might want to work around could be endless, and having an exception for every iffy case would mean no solid rule is even there. So it's annoying but we'll have to deal with it.
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07:10:33 <Warepire> feos: The Dolphin smart Idle skipping PR might have broken determinism in Dolphin
07:10:42 <Warepire> (it was merged recently)
07:10:55 <Warepire> It should be noted somewhere.
EDIT:
This has been sorted out and should be added to the OP I think?
Dolphin revisions from 5.0-10039 to 5.0-10093inclusivelyshould not be used for TASing due to non-determinism exposed by tweaks to idle skipping. It was fixed in 5.0-10095.
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I checked it out and I think it's a decent goal definition. The gameplay difference is very apparent; the main question becomes "but you still go fast without running and rolling in a few places", but it's legitimate since it's not running, or rolling. In Sonic "no zips" Aglar clips through things and people noticed it and it was questioned, but the result was still very entertaining, technically no zipping was involved, and it was published with a potential way to be obsoleted by a slightly different goal. Here it feels the same, maybe it'd feel more "walkathon" without going fast at all, but gameplay would look largely similar to this movie anyway, just a little bit slower.
I think walkathon is the best name, even if it's not 100% perfect. It should just be mentioned that we define walkathon as no running or rolling which is what the Y button does.
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Nevermind, fixed.
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TheProJamer wrote:
Golf has 21 courses, but you can only play 18 in one game - the "Special" holes are isolated from the others. Would it be better to have a "Golf, 18-hole game" and "Golf, Special course" category, or to slam them both into a larger category?
Isolated in what way? If they only become accessible after having completed (or tried) the 18-hole game, we'd only accept a movie that plays Special alone if those are entertaining enough for Moons. In that case, it'd be better to play all the golf courses in one movie. If they are accessible independently from the start, they can be played independently and be acceptable, but given the nature of the game, I guess playing all the golf courses in one movie still makes the most sense. So yeah, just do all golf courses in one movie.
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When first booting up the game, you're usually forced to play through an altered version of the Skydiving game mode before you can do anything else. The game doesn't even count it towards your progress - in an All Sports TAS, you would still have to play through it again later. Given the inconvenience of this, would it be acceptable to just have a verification movie attached for some TASes so that they don't have to do this?
How long does it take though?
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Darkdevil wrote:
Would I cancel this submission, or just upload the new file when it's done?
Don't use the submission queue (workbench) for movies that can be easily beaten. Do due research and have all due discussions beforehand, make a movie that's not questionable, only then make a submission.
Sometimes making a submission is the only way to draw people's attention and actually discuss the project, but you have the attention now, so do all the preparations in a dedicated game thread and make sure your work is complete.
This also goes to other people reviewing Darkdevil's movies: please participate and help him figure things out.
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Why 2 loops though?
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Okay try the latest dev build (link the the OP).
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That one is a command line tool, what you need is a VideoForWindows encoder that can be seen in this menu
Lagarith doesn't work well with youtube, Camstudio codec isnt recognized by bizhawk 2.x, so your best bet is x264vfw, with either lossy or lossless mode. See here for where to get it and how to configure it:
http://tasvideos.org/EncodingGuide/CustomEncoding.html
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Agents are go! Checked out the game and it's absolutely ridiculous. It's so boldly and unbearably stupid that it's amusing, I hope I don't go off the rails after having judged it. The movies are yet to be watched.
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From what I can tell, no one on TASVideos is pushing for instant tape loader for movies, and it's unlikely to ever be allowed due to our purism. For casual gaming, by all means, just like skipping the BIOS.
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Bizhawk only accepts CUEs for PSX, while other PS emulators only accept BINs. What's written in the submissions depends on that factor, and also maybe on human error, and also the hash of the BIN is more important so maybe people were just sharing that?
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We had a staff talk and couldn't find solid reasons for banning team-base sports games from Vault if they provide enough freedom for the player and can be meaningfully TASed. The former blanket ban for all team-based games was a result of some slight oversight and lack of good examples. It seems deviations from traditional rules in usual fixed-time team-based games are fine. So this game is acceptable now.
http://tasvideos.org/diff.exe?page=MovieRules&rev=380
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Your best bet is finding the code in your game (or games) that polls input, and attaching a lua hook to that code. That way every time input is about to be read, you could feed it precisely. The question is, do they even allow to attach lua functions to reading memory? I'm looking at their luaengine code and I can't tell at all.
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/frontend/mame/luaengine.cpp#L791
Their lua docs are known for being miser:
https://docs.mamedev.org/techspecs/luaengine.html
And the implementation is known for being absolutely incomprehensible, so all you have is asking crazyc, the author.
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Great reason indeed.
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This movie has some blank frames at the end, we usually don't leave those in because they give false impression about input length. While checking this I found that the very last input can end sooner too. Haven't tested earlier ones. Here's the movie.
http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/54530816263675334
Chef Stef, what do you think?
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Comparison (no frame diffs since it's already written, and no time is lost):
Link to video
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Lagarith doesn't work well with youtube, Camstudio codec isnt recognized by bizhawk 2.x, so your best bet is x264vfw, with either lossy or lossless mode. See here for where to get it and how to configure it:
http://tasvideos.org/EncodingGuide/CustomEncoding.html