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What about "sniped"? This would showcase the dramatic effect. Overall I like this idea.
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Okay so here's the workflow that should work:
http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20837
It's using FS-UAE and libTAS, so no need to worry about internal support for rerecording, since we can just force it from the outside!
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TAS Encoding Package has been broken since 17 Jun 2018: 10-bit 4:4:4 encodes were just 4:4:4, and 8-bit. Please update.
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I don't understand what you're saying at all.
I'll try to reply to the actual post when I see the relation between reality and your feelings about it.
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Where are you even seeing disrespect?
Publishing as obsoleted makes no sense, because what would the actual record be? Technically obsoletion works by setting the "obsoleted by" movie ID, it can't be "spherical obsoletion in vacuum" if there's nothing to obsolete it.
Overall, it's undeniable that this movie has been proven to be sub-optimal. Usually we publish improvable movies if the improvement is hard to implement, but it has been properly bested now, from start to finish, with the improvement that MESHUGGAH posted, and with lots of other timesaves.
This is a speed competition after all, one should always expect to be bested and work hard in order to win.
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You'd be better off running Windows 95 in DOSBox, which is already fully tasable via libtas.
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But what's the reason?
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Your best bet would be making a movie that we can't so easily beat.
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The safest way is just following the official instructions. If that's not available, going for the most common CPU speed of that era is also safe. I wish the table gave some insight about popularity.
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First of all, I don't think "Media" is the right name if we want it to be official. That's way too broad. If we use "Mass Media" instead, it becomes clearer what we're trying to show. And even then, the text on the page should inform us that this page (or these pages) collect appearances of TASing and TASers in mass media.
Make use of wiki lists instead of forced linebreaks. Why do you put "GamesDoneQuick/" so many times? AGDQ/SGDQ is already there. Then, you have 2 bots, those would be 2 items in the list, and then all the GDQs would be a TASBot's sublist. Personally, I'd bold all mass media source names.
Split them into TASVideos TASers and Other TASers.
You seem to be showing Games there, not individual TASes.
Movies, Bots, TASers, and Games seem to need to be on subpages. Also I believe Interviews should be a subpage of MassMedia.
http://tasvideos.org/MassMedia.html
Seems to be relevant in lots of places. I'd leave that for later.
Having them as 2 groups on the same page should be handy enough.
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It means the movie was started while unpaused. Remove the playback parameter, unpause the emulator, and load the movie using Ctrl+R.
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Can't be proven without whoring the hell out of vp9 arguments. The main difference from intended vp9 use is that corporations have encoding farms and want to save on traffic. So I do believe they spend more cpu-power on crushing the filesize than we can afford. And they do save money through this, while we gain absolutely nothing either way.
This is several times more true for AV1, which saves 30% more filesize than vp9, but takes years to encode.
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Brief testing shows that reducing the quality down to what we use for primary runs twice as fast as x264, but produces a file that's 1.5 times bigger. Lack of detailed docs didn't help. I mostly used this command on SMW "game end glitch":
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How does gameplay change between the divider that was used and the one that should be used?
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The question is about published movies :P
Yeah, for the sake of experiment, try watching it on your usual devices and see if they handle MKV.
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Why not download the MKV? It has better quality.
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It would fully depend on how meaningful each sub-game is for TASing. As a start, try checking them against this:
Does it ever end?
Does it increase in difficulty?
Does new content appear as you progress?
Does the manual say anything about your goal?
Is it less trivial than simply pressing a few buttons to win?
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And you don't download the standard definition files either, right? Just watch in the browser?
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Please tell what is your primary way to watch published movies. If you use several methods, vote for the most commonly used one, and mention which is which in the post.
Also, please tell why you're using that method, and why you don't use other methods.
For streams, specify if you use the tasvideos embedded player option, watch directly on the hosting site, or download and watch locally.
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That's not what I'm asking at all. I don't mean incompatible with a movie, but incompatible with the perfectly legitimate architecture.
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That one point doesn't mean all other points don't apply. Here's the whole text:
So this movie (and its improved version) doesn't count as full completion. Now does it count as fastest completion? The game doesn't have an ending, therefore we look at this:
Is the game still playable after you reach max score?
Is there any notion of difficulty and new content?
If each sub-game is offered independently and there's no global goal like in [2425] SNES Vegas Stakes by hero of the day in 02:43.20, we count those as modes and they work as independent games, and each of them is judged against the common rules. Some of them may be acceptable. And you can also make a movie that plays all the acceptable sub-games in one go. But first we'd have to know if they are acceptable.
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Publishing a run that's already been properly obsoleted by a new submission, and claiming "that's the current Contra TAS record", doesn't feel perfectly right either.
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How incompatible does the old divider have to be to require this clause in the first place? If a compatible machine was available back then, it's a pro. If the gameplay doesn't change, it's a pro.
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