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As I said, until I minimize BH, it occupies so much memory, and if I close BH any method before minimizing, my system will crash as well (BSoD). If it really lets go memory after it stops needing it, not forcing me to minimize to quit successfully, it'd be great.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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Bump of revival. This run is not sloppy.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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Oh, that's sad.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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For me, a 1 frame improvement for one of the most overtased games is quite notable.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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Will you improve your run more then? I'd suggest posting WIPs on NES Games forum here, so that you don't miss any tricks and make sure it will be accepted after submitting. For now it's quite rejectable.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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I resynced my improved version up to the knife tosser in 3-2 and was waiting for a mood to debug the knife RNG, because I got a very bad luck there. http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/4209892223766714
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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TASEditor of FCEUX 2.2.0!
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Awesome stuff right here, the last battle is deeply delusive.
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This movie is indeed very sloppy. Do not bump any corner, just fly right around it, and you gain a bunch of pixels each time. Also, avoid lag in scrolling levels by holding down A button less. I reach the place I tested up to at frame 12737, while in this submission that place is reached at frame 12810. I didn't quite understand how the weapon and refills work, so I wasted some power, but it still proves you should not bump the corners. http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/4185098613587708 Use this Lua script to determine your exact position, it shows Camera X : Player onscreen X and the same for Y respectively. Download CaptainPlanet-Position.lua
Language: lua

function draw() camX = memory.readbyte(0x6) camY = memory.readbyte(0x8) x = memory.readbyte(0x23) y = memory.readbyte(0x47) gui.text(x,y, string.format("%3d:%3d\n%3d:%3d",camX,x,camY,y)) end emu.registerafter(draw)
EDIT: Oh, you also should press Start earlier in some places, right after the lag frame, or the next frame. Read how to figure out the first frame to press a button: http://www.fceux.com/web/help/taseditor/index.html?SemiautomaticTASing.html - the passage starting with "A good example..." Also note, that I spend just an hour testing your submission, and already saved so much frames. I was using TASEditor with Auto-restore function (it's built into FCEUX 2.2.0) and the script above.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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Bump for the threads merging. Any good news for your adepts, jlun?
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Thanks. Appearing twice on the same Staff thread page... hm. Anyway, more superjudging is already in progress!
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When I do something resource intensive, it occupies quite some memory, say ~200 MB while dumping a video. After I finish dumping or even close the ROM, it won't let go the memory until I minimize-hide the application. Then it drops to 9 MB usage only. If I won't force it to release the memory, BH will crash my computer on exit.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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I guess the blue cross means the player still holds his hand on a stone, right? Can it be manipulated so that the CPU decides he finished a move faster?
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Bisqwit: Resurrect this thing please!
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Funny, weird, hard and VERY annoying game. I love the music. It looks easy and boring after being TASed, but I felt cool throughout the run. I liked dragging the elephants and HP use.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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I will TRY encoding.
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You can try out the most promising ones. If even they save only some frames, it can be considered "possible improvements". However, implementing even them you can save more time than you estimate :)
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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TylerArtrip wrote:
Nahoc wrote:
Tyler: do you agree with everything said by Carcinogen? If so, I think your movie may be a bit too sub-optimal.
It seems like there are a bit improvements for this run according to what Carcinogen has pointed out like the "rapid fire bug" which wasn't done in this run and "fight Birkin's claw" "Shooting the claw makes the fight go way faster than just letting Ada shoot it" and several other improvements as well. So yeah I agree with what Carcinogen is saying.
TylerArtrip, do you think you can apply those improvements? You just should have shown your progress to some people experienced in this game to prevent losses. Now it can be taken as posting a WIP and having quite some useful feedback. Also, please estimate the time that can be potentially saved if all of those were applied.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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You did not lose the frame? You didn't record that transition screen from scratch? And didn't copy it from Xipo? I copied it from Scumtron and it's 1 frame faster than yours.
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No to all 3 questions?
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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You lose 1 frame at 5339. Did you do those climbings from scratch, of copied from Xipo's movie?
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Here is where I got into serious troubles - 6-2B. Not enough HP to play. All previous boosts seem unavoidable. Bird is undodgeable. Walls steal my jumps. Suicide in that room causes corner-clippping jump to fail. http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/4033837945331179 But overall, it is a VERY interesting TAS, I advice Scumtron to look into it. Completely different conditions and puzzles. Probably suicides take more time than running those rooms no-damage, I'm out of balls to test every tiny damage management possible, here's when I need a team. EDIT: Here is the finished test tas. http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/4037010555029665 Link to video
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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Saved 56 frames on that boss, thanks. However I have no idea where avoiding damage in 2 can save time. Here is my real project, use fceux 2.2.0. http://code.google.com/p/feos-tas/source/browse/trunk/TAS+WIPs/NinjaGaidenPacifist-compact.fm3 Marx: won't you join? Edit: Revised level 3: 195 saved overall. The link is above. Testing farther levels. EDIT 2: There is a knife thrower in frame 12737. I scrolled her in 3 frames later and got a different pattern. You can try that in level 2. There is a wall-climbing right before, you can notice that I do only 2 jumps and lose time, but even improving that wall-jumping, you would need to sacrifice the saved time to get the desired pattern from the witch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXMJRGmD0Mg EDIT 3: The link to SVN now has a movie up to level 5. Will resume testing tomorrow, have fun improving it for now :D
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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Do it!
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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