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Posted: 2/9/2014 8:34 AM

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Radiant wrote:

There has never been such a thing as "glitched%" or "pacifist%"; those terms don't make sense to me.

feos                 TheGreekBrit: can you tell where did you get the term "glitched%" from?
TheGreekBrit         feos: It's just what people call it
feos                 where?
TheGreekBrit         SMW peeps
TheGreekBrit         YI peets
TheGreekBrit         peeps
TheGreekBrit         It's just
TheGreekBrit         de facto there
feos                 I mean, with % after glitched
TheGreekBrit         It'll never be any% to me
TheGreekBrit         If it's glitched then it's glitched%

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Posted: 2/9/2014 8:25 AM

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I'm referring to what happened to branches like this. [1898] SNES Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island by Carl_Sagan in 1:33:40.18 Even adelikat disagrees with that. But no one cares enough to post (!), so I won't be insisting on anything either.

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Posted: 2/9/2014 8:10 AM

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CoolKirby wrote:

What do tiers have to do with this? We have always had any% runs on this site, since the first published movie. Its definition has never changed.

Glitched branch existed since 2005 and all understood its meaning. Suddenly it became evil.

CoolKirby wrote:

So you're saying you don't think the branches should be changed?

They should be changed in a completely different way. But my opinion on that way doesn't perfectly match the others'. Before applying mass changes a single person requested you should have consulted on IRC. A few days ago all that matter was discussed, but somehow none of those people was interested enough to post. But the current flow is wrong.

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Posted: 2/9/2014 7:56 AM

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Changing branch for 31 movies is worse than changing all the "not fastest" branches each time something is done differently in the fastest one? Alright.

CoolKirby wrote:

Also, despite your signature, any% has always meant "the fastest possible completion" on this site.

So what? Tier system did not exist on this site for 9 years, does it mean it's bad?

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Posted: 2/9/2014 6:50 AM

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@ all: I see your logics. If I publish a playaround that is the only current branch, it is also any% for you? What if I then publish 100% that is SLOWER?

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Posted: 2/9/2014 6:47 AM

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So suddenly the current pub screenshot is okay? Is there a branch agreement yet?

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Posted: 2/8/2014 10:37 AM

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Patashu wrote:

Because this is not a well known game nor does it have well known physics, would you consider making soft subtitles that can be thrown on all youtube uploads and encodes without any further effort from you? Youtube supports any format listed here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734698?hl=en So you can write it out once (for example against your own encode) and upload it here for anyone to use.

http://rghost.ru/52282618

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Posted: 2/8/2014 9:52 AM

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If emulator breaks the original hardware framerate it sucks, no? It's an emulator resource after all.

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Posted: 2/8/2014 9:45 AM

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Emulator Resources? I'd make your page a subpage of that.

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Posted: 2/8/2014 9:23 AM

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I saw the birth of it... I check recent changes every day, as I check email.

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Posted: 2/8/2014 8:35 AM

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I track EVERYTHING from http://tasvideos.org/FullRecentChanges.html.

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Posted: 2/8/2014 7:38 AM

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Yes, or they watch the verification movie. However some emulators store SRAM into movies already too.

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Posted: 2/8/2014 7:37 AM

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Link to video

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Posted: 2/8/2014 7:12 AM

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xxNKxx wrote:

I'm not really fully understand. With my poor brain can understand, if I want unlock any secrets by beat game, I need beat game for them, then start record movie at beginning for make TAS. Is it right? But how about the movie run after I have shutdown emulator?

Don't you resume your work the other day? You start a run, save a state, close emulator. Open it again, turn on read+write and load your state. You are back into your movie. As for SRAM file that has the completion state, it doesn't get removed when you close the emulator, so it reads that file as many times as you start the other mode.

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Posted: 2/8/2014 7:10 AM

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The previous run was submitted as any%, but published as newgame+. It oddly obsoleted the existing any% which then was reverted. And only recently it was renamed to replay mode.

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Posted: 2/7/2014 5:06 PM

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In most cases, it must be a game that creates a SRAM file after you complete the game, or so. You record a movie that creates that SRAM file (can be unoptimized), then start a new movie where the game works as after you completed it, it knows it from the SRAM file. I don't even know which games allow such "post completion" mode and don't use SRAM, but require to do regular savestates. But if there is such a game, you well need to make a verification movie to the needed point, save a state at certain frame and start a new movie from that savestate. Then the judge replays the first movie to that frame and makes a savestate too. If it's hash is the same as for your saverstate, then your target movie is valid. It happened that a SRAM or a savestate may be hacked in order to cheat, so we need to verify the states you make "post completion" runs from.

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Posted: 2/7/2014 3:02 PM

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Guys please download that movie and open in a text editor. http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/12524165076168221

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Posted: 2/7/2014 2:56 PM

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Anyone knows why this game is SO dark?

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Posted: 2/7/2014 1:50 PM

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Patashu wrote:

Put it in the title or bust. (The frame used for the video's thumbnail is poorly (automatically) chosen, too. It should show a storm of bullets and enemies!)

Yes, I watched the vid and poorly noticed how a few seconds were spent on gathering hundreds of enemies on a small spot and killing them all in 1 hit, then I automatically selected the frame where all their parts are flying around and the explosion is seen. Frames where screen is filled with bullets and enemies are lasting throughout the whole movie, but only in 2 spots you can see the unique and clever manipulation (with WTF aspect before you figure out what exactly is being done). As for naming out the difficulty, I asked the clear question about mentioning it, Nach answered it and was alone who did so before the movie was published. Are you guys kidding me now? EDIT: Since it desyncs (thanks HourGlass and 40 fps), I will reencode it, but PLEASE tell me what label should I use for branch.

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Posted: 2/7/2014 1:42 PM

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Any way you guys can deliver a dump/encode it?

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Posted: 2/6/2014 5:38 PM

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When working on knife thrower, I found out knife timeout decrements NOT every frame (sometimes it doesn't). Will debug tomorrow. EDIT: When new level block set is loaded into video RAM, object attributes such as timers don't count. Object positioning is still counted in a temp loop. So, since you move at constant speed, you can't manipulate these knife timers by skipping their routines deliberately. Which is sad, will need to get around tossers the hard way...

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Posted: 2/6/2014 1:44 PM

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xxNKxx wrote:

wa, many secrets around here :P I don't have any secret, not funny :(

What do you mean?

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Posted: 2/6/2014 4:10 AM

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People keep posting these things (same as with Notable Improvement) in a way like they were DELIBERATELY skipped. One is unable to perfectly mark everything! Help with just telling why it's needed.

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Posted: 2/6/2014 4:07 AM

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Benchmark?

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Posted: 2/5/2014 4:48 PM

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And not a single idea I gave is disproved. Neither is any question answered. Great. Also, where did you get the term "restriction" that suddenly is the key to naming Moons runs? You still don't see how you're making Moons runs serve around Vault?

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