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Borderline tier cases are never easy or clear, so no one should be too annoyed by either outcome. It's only a big deal when it's either Moons or rejection. All the rest can be fixed.
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The global level counter resets after going from 0 through 4:
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81B4: INC (IX+07h) AF:0044 BC:015E DE:03E8 IX:702E ; increment global level counter ($702E + 7 = $7035)
81B7: LD A, (IX+07h) AF:0000 BC:015E DE:03E8 IX:702E ; load the result to A
81BA: CP 05h AF:0500 BC:015E DE:03E8 IX:702E ; check if it equals 5 now
81BC: JR C, +04h AF:0542 BC:015E DE:03E8 IX:702E ; if true, jump to $81C2
81BE: SUB A, A AF:0542 BC:015E DE:03E8 IX:702E ; else, reset A to 0
81BF: LD (IX+07h), A AF:0042 BC:015E DE:03E8 IX:702E ; write that 0 to global level counter
When that happens you go back to level 1 ($7035 == 0), and barrels speed doesn't seem to change.
I player up to level 11 and nothing changes at all. Your speed is the same, enemies speed is the same, enemy spawn speed is the same. The game seems to track how many loops you've played, but I fail to find any difficulty changes.
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STEP 10: The fun never ends . . .
When you reach the top of the elevator screen, the game continues to cycle through the screens--
but the action gets harder as you go! Keep playing until you run out of Marios.
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#5325: £e_Nécroyeur's Arcade Donkey Kong in 01:29.94
About difficulty settings available from the start. If gameplay would look the same, use easiest. If more of the game would be shown or it would be objectively harder to play and to TAS, use hardest.
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Fixed and rereleased. All links are the same.
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This game has an ending guys.
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MESHUGGAH wrote:
^ Alyosha: On the 1st level of #5093: feos, Alyosha & Samsara's NES Battletoads "warpless, 1 player" in 21:38.38, the stick can be picked up 1 frame earlier. Since it wasn't any revolutionary and pretty sure it would desync the movie, I didn't reported it until now. I only had fun with the first level so I don't know about other possible improvements.
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So I used it in Level 1, saved 144 frames, and lost it all to the fucking global timer. Bah.
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I'll try to check it. Do you have any memory addresses?
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Thanks. I don't think "full completion" goal is possible for this game, you just play the fastest route and end up getting full score because you simply do things right. Specifically, you have to do extra actions to lose score, while common understanding of "full completion" is doing extra actions to gain more points. For this reason, I think 400 points are inherent to fastest completion of this game, and the branch label is unnecessary.
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Fortranm wrote:
The Coleco Adam Super Game version does, but as mentioned in the submission text, the Colecovision release and the Coleco Adam release have major game play differences.
The ending doesn't show up there, but it seems to have an extra level and looks like just an entirely separate port, not a variation (version) of the this submission's game. So I think it can be published separately.
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Game completion rules for games without ending were defined for Vault since 2012, but not a lot of attention was paid, and some movies that haven't maxed out the difficulty happened to get accepted. Last year we clarified those rules and started paying more attention to them, so yes, you will have to play through maximum difficulty loop. But obviously, only if the difficulty even increases from loop to loop, and only if there are loops.
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c-square wrote:
feos wrote:
You mark this as 100%, are there ways to beat it with lower completion?
Yes. Although getting all 400 points is mandatory, there are three ways to lose points in the game, and it's possible to end the game with fewer than 400 points.
Would that be faster than your movie?
c-square wrote:
- Using single-letter shortcuts where possible ("l" for look, "z" for wait)
- Using acronyms ("ATS" for "Advanced Tea Substitute")
List all of these please. I could assume what things mean, but I want to be sure.
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STEP 5: Time is running out...
When mario removes the last rivet, Donkey Kong(TM) steals the girlfriend away
again! The game continues, and the action gets more and more challenging.
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Phew, finally I've read it. It was constantly oscillating between horrendously boring and funny, and in the end I didn't like the experience I've had.
Questions.
What word shortcuts are you using throughout the run?
You mark this as 100%, are there ways to beat it with lower completion?
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After a few hours of brainstorming, Corey and I got stuck. There's no way to make interlaced PSX scenes look accurate to hardware and pleasant to watch at the same time.
Since TV doesn't output blade sharp pixels, blurring the footage a little bit looks like the closest replication of TV to me, but it doesn't feel like good experience I should say. The best result is provided by using the entire 480p framebuffer that PSX actually renders but never displays on TV.
Examples by Corey:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/kcppp0redeafs4v/test_psx.zip/file
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fsvgm777 captured TV output and it almost perfectly matches this function if I run it on 576i footage from tuner:
Language: avisynth
AssumeBFF() # or AssumeTFF()
SeparateFields()
PointResize(last.width, last.height*2)
clip1=SelectOdd.Crop(0,0,0,last.height).AddBorders(0,0,0,0)
clip2=SelectEven.Crop(0,0,0,last.height-1).AddBorders(0,1,0,0)
Interleave(clip1,clip2)
But there is one problem. The previous feld doesn't instantly fade out because of how luminophores work. Because of that, after dumb separation of fields, you don't see these frames:
But these instead:
Notice how it only partially shows letters L and E, but the previous frame (or field if you will) bleeds in, compensating for partial display!
How do I make the above script bleed the previous frame?
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Just "max kills" really. You can't kill some enemies.
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Wow this was a crazy trip, but we've made it!
When you play PSX games that have interlaced footage, or just the BIOS sequence, you see that it runs at approximately 60fps (50fps for PAL), that can also be seen if you dump video of that mode. But it is also 480 pixel high (576 pixels for PAL), which is confusing.
PSX doesn't support 480i 60fps mode. Only 480i 30fps. Moreover, on TV those interlaced video fields don't magically increase resolution, instead they become alternating 240p frames running at 60fps!
Actual 240p modes also run at 60fps and in steady scenes using that mode, on a tv you see perfectly steady images. But when you closely look at how tv shows steady footage in interlaced modes, object edges visibly flicker as the 480i fields alternate. Footage might be posted later.
Now guess what bizhawk (actually mednafen) is doing? It sets the resolution to 480p. It shows the first field at odd scanlines of that framebuffer, even scanlines remaining black. Then it shows the even scanlines of the next frame, while the odd scanlines simply persist through the next frame. Then the odd scanlines update and the even scanlines persist.
This means it takes every field and keeps it on the screen for two 60fps frames, while updating fields at 60fps, simulating 480i 60fps interlaced mode. This is done for UI convenience and doesn't correspond to how the real console works.
This means that when we want to deinterlace whatever octoshock is doing for this kinda footage, we need to take only first field from every first frame, and only second field from every second frame. And make them 240p as the TV shows it.
tl;dr: PSX in 480i doesn't magically increase resolution, 480i fields show up on tv as 240p frames one by one at 60fps. It arguably just makes the object borders slightly smoother. Probably that's why the interlaced mode wasn't that popular?
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Try this:
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Those aren't explicitly shown to you at any time, therefore not required for this branch.
It means that while the game does acknowledge that you have obtained them, it only indicates this under certain conditions. If that's incorrect, let me know.
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Okay, watched, and I can say that it doesn't really look all that entertaining or challenging, let alone it's visibly sloppy. Killing tons of enemies is already a part of SMB TASing, and adding a few more doesn't change much.
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No one is forced to make such a movie, and it doesn't even have to be entertaining! If we agree it's full completion, once someone makes it, it can be accepted to Vault and serve as a pure speed record aiming to maximize completion in some objective way.
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Running it inside gnash is definitely feasible as long as there's at least some way to extract the minigame and run it separately.
However with all the extra apps libTAS can run the games in (using libTAS to TAS emulator programs that run games), this will definitely be supported at some point, but the site is not ready for full-on support. The rules haven't been defined, the tests haven't been done, the submission parser doesn't recognize such sub-platforms (it only knows libTAS movies as Linux, but not as DOS, Arcade, Flash, or anything else that you can emulate).
slamo is the main person doing these tests now, and I want to announce that all these emulators will be supported in future once people test them well, so atm I'm waiting for slamo to start having time on TASing again, then this process could be started.
What is guaranteed tho is that if you can comfortably TAS within this set up, please go ahead and make a test movie, this will help with the end goal, and maybe you even make a submittable movie before this support starts, so when it does, you just submit it.
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But these instead:
Notice how it only partially shows letters L and E, but the previous frame (or field if you will) bleeds in, compensating for partial display!
How do I make the above script bleed the previous frame?