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Posted: 7/18/2019 3:29 PM

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fsvgm777 wrote:

For what it's worth, there is a T64 to TAP converter (and vice versa) that's available called WAV-PRG. It can be found here. If games converted from T64 to TAP can be used for TASing them....that's left for the senior judge to decide.

It should be covered by the paragraph about mediums here: http://tasvideos.org/MovieRules.html#RomImageMustBeGood But if the original image can't even be run on actual C64, we should prefer an image that can be. In a situation when neither format is authentic, conversion from emulator-only to C64-usable looks acceptable.

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Posted: 7/17/2019 2:34 PM

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zdoroviy_antony wrote:

Can movie be submitted, if it is not new world record by a time, but same time and more entertaining version, when beat time is most likely not gonna ever happen and author of original time improvement don't want to submit a run, because it is most likely not gonna be accepted? I want to try, because it is cool movie for my opinion.

The general answer is yes: if there's no known way to improve the time anymore, but entertainment gets significantly improved, such a run can be accepted, as discussed in the SMB topic.

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Posted: 7/16/2019 10:29 PM

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And if you just run right from here (or shoot portals to the right) you will reach the end later than in the movie?

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Posted: 7/16/2019 10:14 PM

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Why can't you jump up right away here?

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Posted: 7/16/2019 9:10 PM

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It would have looked much better if the characters moved asynchronously like in the current Genesis movie and the SNES version publication. Gens has the Multitrack feature that allows to record each player input separately, but I suggested bizhawk and tastudio to Juarez where it's super easy to control each player individually with all the needed precision, but for whatever reason it wasn't used. As a result it looked cheaper than those 2 other runs. Voting Meh.

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Posted: 7/15/2019 5:57 PM

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If there's actually more variety in boss fights, not simply "more of the same", and if less player health means more dodging (since there's no damage boosts here), hardest difficulty has value. But the game is boring either way, so for me personally difficulty changes nothing.

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Posted: 7/15/2019 4:12 PM

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I'm also prepared for tons of downvotes for including that boss fight. Yep, I've seen some things over the years, I won't be surprised at all. But at least the goal of "all bosses" would be solid.

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Posted: 7/15/2019 3:42 PM

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And if you just listen to your heart and skip that glitched boss fight, labeling the movie with something fitting, there's a high chance it gets downvoted for skipping the boss fight. Tough situation. But we've seen tougher! :D

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Posted: 7/14/2019 8:25 PM

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Fortranm wrote:

There are no relics for Richter and Maria.

Sounds like Alucard is the only character able to provide for true full completion then. But there's already such a movie on PSX. For the sake of diversity "Maria, all bosses" should be fine, just not marked as full completion. And yeah so far people seem to prefer including that extra boss.

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Posted: 7/14/2019 6:53 PM

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Would "Maria, all bosses" on Saturn be faster than [2661] PSX Castlevania: Symphony of the Night "all relics & bosses, luck mode" by ForgoneMoose in 36:58.32? Also what about the "all relics" requirement?

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Posted: 7/14/2019 6:35 PM

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The first ice level got old after a few seconds, but all the rest was really cool. Voted yes, quality hack and nice TAS!

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Posted: 7/14/2019 1:37 PM
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It works! Thanks for all the help!

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Posted: 7/14/2019 11:33 AM

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This kind of "run right for justice" games gets old after a few minutes, so it was really hard to keep watching the same thing after 1/2 of the movie. And after having watched that, there's nothing new in the second half either, aside from falling for a while and then an epileptic blinking screen. Voting No.

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Posted: 7/14/2019 4:58 AM

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libTAS sync notes were missing from the movie rules, but they are very valuable since full config is not stored in movies. Please add libTAS config notes to the annotations and upload that to userfiles as well.

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Posted: 7/13/2019 3:12 PM

Post subject: Re: #6444: Jont's Linux Undertale "True Pacifist Ending" in 1:21:55.37

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Jont wrote:

Resetting to not canceled due to advice from an external source (my dad). He recommended that I see this judgement process through.

Easy. This submission has been bested.

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Posted: 7/12/2019 7:45 PM

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If that boss was not available to Maria even with a glitch, it would feel weird to call a movie without it "all bosses". But if it's indeed, literally, all bosses (thanks to a glitch), at least the branch would be accurately labeled. I don't see a problem with glitch usage in order to fight it.

EZGames69 wrote:

But the question is if there’s a way to access bosses that weren’t intended to play, would it be required or is it optional?

I think it would be required for anything labeled "all bosses".

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Posted: 7/12/2019 3:24 PM

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Is it locked out just for Maria or in general?

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Posted: 7/10/2019 4:47 PM

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Thanks! This could have a dedicated subpage under http://tasvideos.org/Bizhawk.html if you want to make one. It could then be linked from this tool's Help menu. Also feel free to post issues on our github. This tool is underused, so we don't know which fixes it needs.

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Posted: 7/7/2019 1:19 PM

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We don't include botted rerecords, otherwise this list would have reached trillions years ago, completely losing its meaning: http://tasvideos.org/MovieStatistics.html#MostRerecords

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Posted: 7/7/2019 8:52 AM

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aiqiyou wrote:

https://www.speedrun.com/Speedrunning/thread/h1jwd https://www.speedrun.com/Speedrunning/thread/zf3by https://www.speedrun.com/Speedrunning/thread/as9vo https://www.speedrun.com/Speedrunning/thread/fr41h https://www.speedrun.com/Speedrunning/thread/06c4q https://www.speedrun.com/Speedrunning/thread/mznvv

Wow this is disgusting. We won't tolerate this kind of harassment in here. And so far it looks like NESexpert is planning to continue. I sent him a private message asking to stop it, so we'll see. This problem is currently being discussed among staff.

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Posted: 7/6/2019 6:20 AM

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Open .tasproj in 7zip and remove LagLog and Session.txt, then it will load and play. However I was getting strange savestate mismatch that wasn't there in 2.3.1, so I couldn't load branches. It's some problem with waterbox savestates, it claims the hash is different, even though the game image and SyncSettings are correct. There's no workaround for branch state mismatch so far, even though it could be skipped and input would load just fine, it just hasn't been set up yet.

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Posted: 7/3/2019 6:24 PM

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As I mentioned before, the main problem with non-standard content is complete absence of consensus on what should be represented how. And as I've tried to come up with some regulations over the years, none managed to fly beyond free chats. As for myself, my goal has always been to upload tasblocks as single segment videos with waiting times edited out. If uploading it in its entirety isn't feasible, I don't have the passion to be selecting segments that are already featured at tasvideos.

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Posted: 7/3/2019 5:04 AM

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Please try on standalone mGBA (not bizhawk core).

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Posted: 6/30/2019 2:18 PM

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Masterjun wrote:

I mean, it's right there in the submission text. If even the senior judge doesn't read properly, then I'm probably caring about this too much. But not anymore! Who cares!

Please quote the part of the submission text that tells which enemies get hurt but not killed (which was my original question).

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Posted: 6/30/2019 10:00 AM

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aiqiyou wrote:

Masterjun's mean is we shot the tanks in stage2 and stage4.

In the boss rooms? I count these things as parts of the boss, even if they aren't necessary to kill, I don't have a problem with them being destroyed. Though those don't match his words "The run hurts enemies without killing them". I think he means something else.

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