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Oh god, this game is officially broken!
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Updated, please check.
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It literally says about Wine "Note that for future purposes, testing this workflow is still encouraged." It's not fully functional yet, but if no one reports its problems to keylie, it won't improve.
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The main problem is we can't distribute pre-installed disk images with Windows. Asking people to install it themselves requires 1) perfect match of the installation files, and 2) perfect timing sync between author's installation and user's installation. If you spend a different time installing it on your end, disk timings (and hashes) will be different, which leaves no guarantees the whole thing will sync on that image.
A potential workaround is running windows apps on a different OS that has compatibility, but ReactOS doesn't work in PCem, so the only other variant is Wine in Linux. So if your game works in Wine, that's most likely how you should TAS it, without having to deal with Windows whatsoever. Wine support in libTAS is incomplete from what I've heard, but it will hopefully be improved in the future.
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Interesting idea with double quotes in subtitles!
Language: avisynth
"SaGa Frontier "+Chr($22)+"Lute"+Chr($22)
I'll use your encode officially, but I'm still interested in seeing the encoding commands too.
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Why not? The video looks good to me, but I'd need to see your scripts to be sure.
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Are you using TAS Encoding Package?
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Imagine you release a tas and submit your movie, and the next day they FORCE PUSH game update that breaks sync. And while you're resyncing, they FORCE PUSH one more down your throat. Awesome job, Valve.
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I was about to accept it...
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Alright so it's an interesting case where the same action is a major skip glitch in any%, but only a mild skip in 100%, just because you can skip most of the mandatory items in the former, but you have to collect them all in the latter. So [4435] GBA Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge "no levels early" by g0goTBC in 42:13.32 will be the only branch that "Forgoes major skip glitch" and needs a label indicating that.
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BTW I got informed that if you load a state, dithering is missing for 3 frames. So it has to be compensated somehow. One solution is dumping 3 extra frames for the end of a segment (without state load), and appending the next segment starting with 3 frames after the save load. Does this make sense?
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g0goTBC wrote:
If banning the one instance where we clip past the last door gate is a little too precise, I guess we could go by the "no levels early" category for the 42 minute run. The more I thought of it, the less sense it would make to clip into levels early in that run if an approvement were to be made. After all, I'd have to open all the levels to be able to open the door to the final boss fight if I were to only ban the 50 jiggy door clip, because the game forces you to open all the jiggy doors in the intended order.
When the branch label for [4513] N64 Donkey Kong 64 "no levels early" by theballaam96 in 1:37:18.52 was discussed, I didn't like it initially, but none of us was able to suggest a better label that would be generalized yet descriptive enough. And here it also seems to make the most sense, because even if people find other techniques that skip most of the game without collecting the required items, that might not even be a door clip anymore! Yet we want to limit majorly unintended skips, and your idea sounds best to me.
Does it make sense to clip though any doors in the 100% run?
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My final question before this is officially arranged, is do we want to have any advises to our future selves working on those submissions? Like some simple guidelines on what to aim for? Probably existing judge guidelines don't quite cut it? Like
The goal difference should be easy to explain and to understand, without prior knowledge of the game at hand
Techniques of identical nature should be treated identically
The decision should resolve the community consensus, not limit it
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AleMastroianni wrote:
I would first just beat the final boss randomly when collecting a wumpa, not clear at all to the viewer, and minutes later just perform the wrong warp to skip directly to an ending cutscene, without the podium after winning the final race.
I cant say i find this an “ending” of the game.
At that point one would just perform the geg glitch 16 times in a row, without driving at all, skipping to just an ending cutscene.
I think RedHot brings some valid points, and i agree with him to an extent, but i dont consider doing the things 2 manipulations separately as an end to the game.
I overall liked the purpose of this tas, balancing somehow the entertainment and the downtime as opposed to the plain and repetitive cutscene skip.
I will edit the submission text to include RedHot explanation, which is definitely more clear
"Fastest completion" doesn't have to be entertaining to be accepted. And if memory corruption is used and leads to a glitchy major skip, often itisnotentertaining. And since we ditched the concept of tiers and the Vault, any% just goes straight to Standard, no need to aim for entertainment and get Moons. If a movie gets good rating, great, but it's not a requirement for anything anymore, for goals that are eligible for Wiki: Standard.
Since glitched endings are a confusing territory in terms of completion legitimacy, we rely on a few things that prove that it's "legitimate enough".
Judge Guidelines wrote:
Runs that incorporate "game end glitch" techniques need certain verification on whether the ending really occurs. It can be done by comparing how the game acts after it ended normally, with how it acts after it was glitch-ended. Missing some critical ending routines would mean it was not really completed.
So as long as you're completing the correct mode, and the ending is the same, and the game behaves the same afterwards, it's a valid completion, technically.
With that said, I wouldn't want to reject this run for doing things "wrong" or "suboptimally". Yet I wouldn't want to reject a future attempt to obsolete this run, that does less, while still calling the right ending from the right mode. If that ever happens!
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Nice. I think this is good to go now.
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Redhotbr wrote:
This is not the fastest way to watch the cutscene while having Oxide beat in RAM. As you can check in the item table, it's possible to manipulate the Oxide star (08FBB0 & 0x4) and then warp to the credits. This brings the discussion of what truly means to beat the game, and what state of the game should be considered to award completion. If you consider the oxide star as beating the game, then one item manipulation in Dingo Canyon is enough. If you consider star + cutscene, then you can obtain the star via item manipulation and warp to the cutscene. If you just consider the final state the ending cutscene, then warping to the credits is enough. I personally believe that obtaining the star via item manipulation (just like the keys are obtained) is a valid way to skip the final boss, since the game gives you all awards from doing so.
I agree that simply getting the ending from the Battle mode directly doesn't mean you've completed anything. And even if you do some memory corruption in other modes, triggering the ending from the Adventure mode is a legitimate ending in my opinion. And if you can skip the "boss beaten" flag and the items, I'd still consider it a proper "game end glitch".
AleMastroianni, what do you think?
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yep2yel wrote:
Hey, so, I have question. I've been working on a NG+ run of Phoenix Wright, but I was wondering if a clean sram run would be acceptable. What I worry about is triviality. One thing that makes the NG+ run non-trivial is that your inputs have to be spot on for every single text box to maximize speed, but in any%, this is gone, so it does become about speed reading.
My personal opinion would be it's *technically* submittable, only because it's got a definite end, and the interactive parts do require precision to get perfect. Much like a game with copious amounts of cutscenes. Yes, the bulk of the game may be cutscenes, but you still need to play fast in the parts where there aren't, which makes it a legitimate, if boring, speedrun.
First of all, it has to be entertaining for NG+ to be published.
Regarding NG, if it's challenging to route and execute, at least in some parts, it's not trivial, and therefore it's acceptable.
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weils wrote:
Hey, I was just wondering whether the Professor Layton series (or specifically in my case, the fourth game Last Specter) would be eligible to be submitted to the site?
While we're waiting for someone who knows the game, why wouldn't it be acceptable?
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Firstly, "50 jiggy door skip" is very non-descriptive. I needed to read several guides (and to watch your commentary several times) to understand what it means.
Secondly, is that the only thing that won't be used in the updated version of [4435] GBA Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge "no levels early" by g0goTBC in 42:13.32? I know you plan to use all the superspeed tricks in 100%, but what about the other branch?
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Sorry I meant "This is a Tool-Assisted Speedrun", not "This is watching a Tool-Assisted Speedrun". Also if you plan to encode movies that don't aim for speed (like playarounds), then the logo will need to say "Superplay" instead of "Speedrun".
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End the video after this screen (when the text disappears, before the new song stars):
For the logo, spread the text a bit, it's too squished together. You can add your favorite character in the corner if you want. I'd also make the link white so it stands out more. Replacing "you are" with "this is" would feel more neutral. Overall, here's some logos that the publishers have used, that might give some insight on the style:
http://tasvideos.org/SiteHistory/EncoderLogos.html
Subtitles look good.
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For the logo, spread the text a bit, it's too squished together. You can add your favorite character in the corner if you want. I'd also make the link white so it stands out more. Replacing "you are" with "this is" would feel more neutral. Overall, here's some logos that the publishers have used, that might give some insight on the style:
http://tasvideos.org/SiteHistory/EncoderLogos.html
Subtitles look good.