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Posted: 9/18/2013 6:24 PM

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Sure, write all you wish so that no one then says "is that it, huh?"

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Posted: 9/18/2013 4:36 PM

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What about content overlap? Are those so different they need separate places in Moons? Prove they are.

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Posted: 9/18/2013 4:16 PM

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Okay, after a long conversation with adelikat, I was given approval to change some obsoletion chains if it will fit into the system of tiers. Now the question becomes not, whether a movie must be ubobsoleted, but rather, would it be accepted if it is submitted today? Explanation. To reduce the amount of arbitrary branches in the past, judges decided to obsolete runs by one another that were quite different. For example, SML2 any% was obsoleted by glitched. Now, if we imagine that the any% SML2 is submitted today, will it be rejected for suboptimality comparing to the current glitched? Because, when #4041: McBobX's Genesis Knuckles in Sonic the Hedgehog in 14:09.43 was submitted, it was rejected for not using the known tricks, which would lead to overall suboptimality. Similarly, if [450] SNES Chrono Trigger by hero of the day in 4:21:11.83 will be submitted today, I think it will be rejected for failing to be up-to-date with the current level of TASing. Another reason to reject a movie is if its content is already present on the site in a better way. So if [2400] NES Cross Fire "pacifist, no damage" by NhatNM in 05:56.36 will be submitted today, we will reject it for being too similar to [2409] NES Cross Fire by MESHUGGAH in 05:52.50 and being slower. The last reason is having unvaultable goal but failing to achieve Moons by being boring. Not sure if such movies were obsoleted in the past, since they were most likely rejected in the first place.

So if you really want some movie to be unobsoleted, let's examine if it is eligible for Moons as if it is submitted today, and if it is not sloppy (represents the current standards/face of the site).

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Posted: 9/17/2013 2:28 PM

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That would not matter. Would we just kill the publication if it is outdated? No. Glitched submission was grabbed as an excuse to kill it. Then this "precedent" was grabbed to kill greatly optimized runs for some new reasons. See how much good such cases bring?

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Posted: 9/17/2013 2:22 PM

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boct1584 wrote:

Odongdong wrote:
[450] SNES Chrono Trigger by hero of the day in 4:21:11.83 can be revived and put in "any%" category.
That run is extremely outdated. inichi did a testrun which beat that one by almost an hour.

It was never submitted. And as long as this exact branch is unobsoleted, we can't kill it with just anything related. Otherwise it will be like, obsolete Battletoads 1p Warpless + 2p Warpless + 1p Warped: by 2p Warpless. It is not right and serves no goal actually.

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Posted: 9/17/2013 2:14 PM

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Post #327944 On the matter: Moons allow us to publish runs that are considered GOOD by the audience and not care about the fact that it uses some strat that was also used in other branches. As long as the audience feels they are different enough, and good looking, they all need separate publications.

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Posted: 9/16/2013 7:54 PM

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Будет! http://tasvideos.org/TasingGuide.html

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Posted: 9/15/2013 11:54 AM

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http://tasvideos.org/GameResources/CommonTricks.html http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13010

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Posted: 9/15/2013 11:49 AM

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Neat.

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Posted: 9/14/2013 12:36 PM

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Maybe.

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Posted: 9/14/2013 8:20 AM

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Well, it's all about wording now, so I did 2 more edits to be judged for clarity. If you are still not satisfied, reword it all you wish. My intent was to announce the hype, it was done. I'm not good at perfect wording.

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Posted: 9/14/2013 6:58 AM

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Tried to edit RAM watch.

System.NullReferenceException: Ссылка на объект не указывает на экземпляр объекта.
   в BizHawk.MultiClient.WatchEditor.RamWatchNewWatch_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   в System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
   в System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
   в System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
   в System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
   в System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   в System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   в System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   в System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
   в System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
   в System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   в System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   в System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

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Posted: 9/14/2013 5:40 AM

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Check it.

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Posted: 9/13/2013 8:46 PM

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If a game has some complex RNG (Konami games), comparing ram dumps won't do the trick. Basic game state might be the same, but some addresses (of different relevance) might change. But anyway, you can save a state and hash it, or a part of it (where ram is saved), and compare the whole state. And yes, there are lua hashing functions :)

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Posted: 9/13/2013 3:48 PM

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http://tasvideos.org/Adelikat/EmptyQueue.html

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Posted: 9/13/2013 2:37 PM

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Ilari wrote:

AndiHoffi wrote:
Is there a way to get a whole memory-dump in lua? I did not find anything like it in the doc. Without the memory-dump, I can stop the whole thing immediately, since there would be no way to detect equal states (that have been reached on two different ways).
Whole emulated system memory or whole host process memory? The first isn't the complete state (there are e.g. CPU registers), and the second contains all sorts of irrelevant stuff (that likely differs even if states are identical).

Wouldn't one only need critical addresses values?

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Posted: 9/13/2013 2:10 PM

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Suddenly Link to video

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Posted: 9/13/2013 4:06 AM

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TASEditor stores savestates for each frame, for different games they obviously won't match. So "one greenzone+6 emulator screens" concept is not possible unless it does not contain greenzone/savestates at all.

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Posted: 9/12/2013 3:27 PM

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The guy who sets the flag needs to know where it is needed, so please poke me in such cases.

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Posted: 9/11/2013 3:00 PM

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How do I check if it is inside the file?

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Posted: 9/11/2013 2:56 PM

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How do you do it? Please explain step by step, per emulator/case/whatever.

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Posted: 9/11/2013 2:12 PM

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I can include 2 audio tracks into encodes...

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Posted: 9/10/2013 1:42 PM

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Someone unembed this picture: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=349274#349274

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Posted: 9/10/2013 1:40 PM

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Forgot to ask, how was this SRAM verified?

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Posted: 9/10/2013 1:39 PM

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I just did not see the letters in what was suggested. And I'm not going to verify the presence of every pixel from the author's screenshot in his own run. Anyway, here's my opinion:

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