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Posted: 2/4/2018 1:38 PM

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MESHUGGAH wrote:

- Is it really necessary for the Movie Watching and Movie making be unified under a tab (instead of adding them to the main tabs seperately)?

I agree with this. The rest need pondering.

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Posted: 2/3/2018 6:39 PM

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Make sure to only port if you have improvements. I saw in one of your boss fights you're faster due to a new trick, just mentioning it anyway.

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Posted: 2/3/2018 1:30 PM

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I believe the hourglass version used here is not r81 (since r81 has its version written in the dialog caption). In r81 I get a crash in the end even if I use the first input option (Safe), which is what the author uses in the video. In r51 it just desyncs. kopiapoa, what hourglass version are you actually using?

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Posted: 2/2/2018 4:58 PM

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19:21   <Spitestuff>    I like to have a murder streak thank you very much.
19:21   <ThunderAxe31>  Spitestuff: I'm sorry.
19:21       *Spitestuff assumes Dragon Quest
19:21   <Spitestuff>    You mother fucker.
19:22   <TASVideoAgent> Submission #5777: Hoandjzj's DS Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies in 6:06:01.94 ACCEPTED for Moons by ThunderAxe31: http://tasvideos.org/5777S.html
19:22   <Spitestuff>    YOU MOTHER FUCKER
19:22   <ThunderAxe31>  just how did you
19:22   <ThunderAxe31>  what even are you
19:22       *ThunderAxe31 panicks
19:22   <TASVideoAgent> Post edited by ThunderAxe31 (WorkB: #5777: Hoandjzj's DS Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies in 6:06:01.94): http://tasvideos.org/forum/p/463548#463548 [a:10]
19:24   <TASVideoAgent> Submission #5777: Hoandjzj's DS Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies in 6:06:01.94 undergoing publication to Moons by Spikestuff: http://tasvideos.org/5777S.html

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Posted: 2/2/2018 10:34 AM

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Just pointing out that for some people using tastudio right away is an easier way to familiarize themselves with serious tasing. Some basic usage example: https://youtu.be/wJu_DHnJbJA?t=290 For a detailed manual of a similar tool (taseditor in fceux, which has almost identical controls and features), read this: http://www.fceux.com/web/help/taseditor/

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Posted: 2/2/2018 8:35 AM
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[if:UserIsLoggedIn] [module:DisplayMiniMovie|ratingsort=F|tier=Stars|notier] [endif]

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Posted: 2/1/2018 8:57 PM

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Link to video

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Posted: 2/1/2018 3:24 PM

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If it syncs on a fixed version, I think it should be encoded on that.

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Posted: 2/1/2018 8:39 AM

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Wikipedia says this standard can use 10 (and even 12) bit 4:4:4 video. I wonder if youtube is capable. As for segment limit, for me it wasn't strictly 50 with avisynth either. Something like 75 as well. But GScript rocks!!! Hmmmmm... https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7126552 https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/youtube-now-officially-supports-up-to-10-bit-hdr-8k-60fps.2491332/

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Posted: 1/31/2018 4:28 PM

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It doesn't crash in the beginning for me, but it always crashes in the end. The only thing that prevents the crash is disabling multithreading in the middle of the run. But that prevents the name entry screen from appearing, I get endless loading.

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Posted: 1/31/2018 8:42 AM

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Not too long ago I heard that the Moon is made of grated cheese. I am not as into astrology as most people but is the Moon made of grated cheese? They also say there's also someone's face drawn on the Moon. Who's portrait that could be, do you guys know?

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Posted: 1/30/2018 8:36 PM

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You can't transform the savestate, it's completely different. You need to make a movie that reaches the same point your savestate is on, make a new savestate there, and put it into your movie. The file is called Core.bin. Otherwise, starting a movie from a savestate is usually a bad idea, especially if you want to submit it here. Even even if your fix works, there's no guarantee that the movie will sync on the new version.

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Posted: 1/30/2018 8:31 PM

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If savestate format changes over versions, you won't be able to get it to work on them. The only thing you can do is regenerate that savestate on a new version and substitute it in tour movie.

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Posted: 1/30/2018 8:11 PM

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Movie header wrote:

StartsFromSavestate True

You're screwed.

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Posted: 1/30/2018 7:27 PM

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Upload the movie somewhere.

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Posted: 1/30/2018 7:14 PM

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Are you trying to open tastudio projects instead of simple movies? If so, open them with 7zip and remove Greenzone. Or simply export to bk2 and it should work in newer versions.

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Posted: 1/30/2018 5:03 PM
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1. After being presented factual reasons behind starring Jetpack, he ignores them and keeps pedaling the idea he made up. 2. The star tier operates the way it does because staff designed rules for it that were making sense 1) for staff members and 2) for the audience. http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12998 3. 5% number, as well as some other contents of that page, are not used in reality, they were put there to get things rolling, to help getting the general idea. When I started revising the old star list, both adelikat and Nach participated, sharing thoughts, ideas and cautions. So it started off as a collective effort. As it went along, people started giving suggestions as well. Each suggestion was checked against the main requirements. You should not expect all stars to meet all requirements, because it is unrealistic. I'm saying that based on all the years spent working on this tier. But it never means no checks happen. And it never means there are stars with only one requirement met. But there are stars that people can get insane about, both camps: those who want them to be starred and those who don't. Factual star rules (and my personal mindset) always account for such possibilities. Everyone will never be equally happy. But like I said, my job is to ensure that the worst corners are cut. 4. Logical failures are not helping. Calling 10% of moons an arbitrary number and stating that the only possible non-abritrary number is 100 is absurd. Refusing to notice that is ignorance. Ignorance is worse than honest mistakes, because one actually knows the truth, he just dislikes it. There can be no discussion whenever someone decides to ignore logic.

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Posted: 1/30/2018 2:32 PM

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Back when FinalFighter came up with the trick (which is, let's admit, revolutionary), no one was sure it's even supposed to work. He made a ROM hack what recreates the conditions that need to be met, and it was verified on a powerpak. Debugging it was tricky, but in the end it was concluded that it's possible to make it work. But no one suspected that the very concept won't work on console. I don't think that's what you're saying tho. If the conditions are different, improving them and improving the run might fix the verification. If conditions used in that run are outright impossible, then it's pretty sad. Start from this post: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=223361#223361 Another point. Inaccuracy itself doesn't spoil the joy of tasing. We want to optimize games, we do it. If they are inaccurately ran, well, we optimize romhacks, fine. But accuracy is still required by movie rules for a reason. Possibility of console verification was still a basis since the beginning. So while TASing on accurate emulators doesn't kill the joy from tasing, using inaccurate emulators for that might kill the joy of some people involved, since there's quite a lot of spheres that overlap here: TASing, video encoding, emulator coding, software tool development, hardware tool development, even presence at events like GDQ. The more spheres are involved, the more importance accuracy gets. I want to say that even before the first SMW game end glitch was verified, seeing that was my dream. And an even crasier dream was showing that on console before thousands of people at AGDQ. It happened! It became the highlight of the event for years! Standing ovations after Pokemon Plays Twitch, man, isn't that one of the nicest things TASing ever caused? Well, after dethroning Todd Rogers of course.

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Posted: 1/30/2018 11:49 AM

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The verification movie can't end properly because the game crashes at frame 116817 (out of 117134). But the Extra mode still gets unlocked. And audio gets dumped. And BG is there. It just doesn't sync :D Oh, and hourglass complains about the version the movie was recorded with. I run it with r81, it says unknown version, and in the author's video HG doesn't have a version in the dialog name. And the game files I have don't match the author's hashes. But the hash of th15.exe is the same as in the author's video (I applied the 1.00b patch). Lots of fun. EDIT: Switched hourglass to english locale. Started syncing, sound died. LOL. EDIT: And the game crashes right before movie end as well. Frame 100241. If everything else works, we need an extended movie so we could try providing encodes from it without crashing in the middle. kopiapoa, please post an extended movie, including all the material that should go into the final encode, and even then it should have some extra input in case it crashes earlier than expected. The movie must be identical to the one you submitted until the frame where it ends, just record from there. Meanwhile, we found out that the dump still gets the audio even if the game is silent. BUT it desyncs consistently (in the same way) when avi is captured. Right now I'm capturing audio only. If capturing video only fails, we'll still have to reject the run.

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Posted: 1/30/2018 9:12 AM

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Warp, there's no counter-anything once your opponent turns on cheats. If you love when people repeatedly insult you, don't expect the same from me. Topic closed.

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Posted: 1/30/2018 12:30 AM

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arandomgameTASer wrote:

And that discredits his entire argument why exactly?

That discredits his entire argument exactly because it uses the dirtiest sort of cheating in order to enforce his otherwise flawed demands. If you and I have an argument, and you are ready to put effort required to prove me wrong, or, if needed, have a compromise, but I instead hit you with a knife, we can not really expect that the argument is gonna resume the usual way. Because I've just proven that I'm not interested in any outcome really, I'm interested in acting destructively.

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Posted: 1/30/2018 12:10 AM

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Yep. It's just the most offensive single word I've ever read on this forum. Especially knowing how I treat this site.

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Posted: 1/29/2018 11:50 PM

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Arc wrote:

What I'm getting at is that the starman shouldn't be cucked by a few outspoken forum members, nor by the site admins—being a tool to carry out their will.

Once I respected you for keeping up to date with TASing over the course of all these yours. Now I see that you've completely lost your mind. None of your opinions will ever be taken with with the smallest bit of seriousness.

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Posted: 1/29/2018 6:50 PM

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To Twice-Baked Bowfish. Shortly after making my last post in this thread I spawned a staff discussion about why educational games are mostly not suitable, which TAS requirements they don't meet, how to objectively check whether they meet them or not, so about all that can be unclear here. The currently present rule about educational games (updated recently) reflects the agreement of all the staff members involved in this discussion, and when the judgment it made, it will explain how the updated rule resolves all the complaints.

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Posted: 1/28/2018 10:32 PM

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DrD2k9 wrote:

It may take longer for a run's induction into (or expulsion out of) what is essentially our 'Hall of Fame,' but it would be a directed system that would hopefully reduce stress on feos as well as spreading out the responsibility.

It's not stressful, it's just taking me long to get around. And setting up a ~~machine~~ ~~neural network~~ system that'd generate solutions everyone will be happy with, is exactly the kind of stress that no one wants here. If everyone can control it, then no one can, despite of how good and reasonable they might be.

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