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Posted: 4/10/2020 9:36 PM

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Spikestuff wrote:

Just as a note, Service Mode is currently non-functional for replays. I'm assuming it's due to the nvram.

EZGames69 wrote:

also for Neo Geo, the Service mode settings dont seem to have a default setting. when I reloaded bizhawk and loaded the movie again, the "turn off how to play" option did not go back to being on by default. This tells me that boot up does not have the same settings for each boot up. this might need to be a sync setting or something.

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Posted: 4/10/2020 3:58 PM

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EZGames69 wrote:

Alright, so far the biggest issue that I have with TAStudio regarding MAMEHawk is Savestates dont always load correctly. They arent always loading the same inputs from previous frames. I had to sometimes delete them by clearing green zones so incorrect data wasnt loaded. This might not be an issue with the core itself but possibly a leftover with the same bug in 2.3.3, but I am not certian. However it's clear that this bug is really bad with this core as of now.

Redownload/retest.

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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:06 AM
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MAMEHawk testing CasualPokePlayer ported MAME as a Waterbox core!!! Still Arcades only. If you find a game with buttons not mapped ("!" in input display), tell us the game. Don't unzip or rename ROMs. When using game versions, base ROM is required. Open games consisting of just one file normally. For extra archives and CHD files, create an xml launcher using Tools - Miltidisk Bundler (primary ROM to run should go first) To download, just get latest bizhawk interim : https://gitlab.com/TASVideos/BizHawk/pipelines/master/latest Jobs -> package_devbuild_windows -> Download artifacts button

Old link, in case you want to test something in old MAMEHawk: https://yadi.sk/d/WlZCJqoowndnuw File -> Open Advanced

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Posted: 4/10/2020 11:00 AM

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This setup will be acceptable soon: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20538 http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/PCem/DOS.html Meanwhile you have: http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/JPC.html

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Posted: 4/9/2020 5:10 PM

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Being sloppy for no reason has never been a "point" of tool-assisted speedrunning.

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Posted: 4/9/2020 12:54 PM

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There are 2 things we can do.

Just accept this movie to obsolete Sonic 100%. That's the branch with the lowest entertainment rating, and it's slower than Knuckles 100%, which can be considered "true 100%", since Sonic is a sub-optimal character in that category. That will still leave us with the same problem as we're having right now whenever someone feels like making a "low glitch" branch. We know Sonic TASers don't really care about it, and it's mostly for mere mortals like us to enjoy the game without hacks. I don't think it's fair to require an emulator hack to be able to appreciate the movie.

Obsolete Sonic 100% with Knuckles 100%. Obsolete Knuckles with Tails. Obsolete Tails with this run. That way we have a Knuckles branch as well as one full completion branch, and further single-player runs could obsolete one another based on technical novelty and entertainment. Then if someone invents a novel concept, be it "low glitch" or something else entirely, there will be a place for some more branches that are meant to represent entirely different play style other than "same single-char levels with some new tricks". This option preserves the most different concepts separated and advertises up-to-date runs. Sonic 100% is from 2009. Tails is from 2013. Waiting for all branches to be updated will easily require 10 more years.

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Posted: 4/8/2020 5:34 AM

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BrunoVisnadi wrote:

Since most of my real life activities got cancelled due to covid, I'll have much more free time than usual for a few months. Thus, I'll be able to do some TASing during this time, and although I mostly intend to work on 96 exit, I might touch this movie again and give it a proper end of input. In a couple weeks, hopefully I will get it done.

Any news on this, especially in light of the improvement posted above?

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Posted: 4/7/2020 12:10 PM

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And your speed with gens and gpgx is...?

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Posted: 4/7/2020 11:55 AM

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Dimon12321 wrote:

The biggest problem is the performance. Gens core is MUCH faster than the one used in Bizhawk. Its assembler code is even divided into 2 parts to make the core work faster. I have major doubts Bizhawk will reach such speeds in the near future, or maybe, ever! Unless we'd have a state of Alyoshas that would work on every console core.

How fast do you need it to be and why?

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Posted: 4/7/2020 11:49 AM

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GPGX has the functionality but no script, since such a script won't be used anytime soon. Speed is several hundred fps on both. Other sonic tools can be done via APIHawk (C# dlls) since there's no lua for linux yet, and when there is it may still be slow to handle all the calcs and UI.

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Posted: 4/7/2020 11:41 AM

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EZGames69 wrote:

Currently there is no Cam Hack available for BizHawk and if one was made with lua, it would run incredibly slow, and that gets really annoying for tasers to deal with (like it would take some seconds to advance a frame each time)

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Posted: 4/5/2020 9:41 AM

Post subject: Re: Major sync issue

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ThunderAxe31 wrote:

I've already found a major sync instability issue. Download and play back this movie file: http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/get/737638915/Pokemon%20Mystery%20Dungeon%20-%20Blue%20Rescue%20Team%20%28USA%29.bk2 Emulator version: BizHawk_Developer-2020-04-03-230826-#96a753324ada6486d0ec1dd978d0c54e1555a68b ROM checksum (No-Intro):
    File: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon - Blue Rescue Team (USA).nds
  CRC-32: b6c4143e
     MD5: 61373235da72064e8c058fae3c646916
   SHA-1: 503edef4fe6088bca00616efcac3b13da90cd105
 SHA-256: 4bdf72ce0dd7a19c66f49e840f046124994d719678e88a0814d0148f705d3e8b
Around frame 640, you will see a Pokémon walking up. The issue is that each time you play back the movie, a different Pokémon will appear! This obviously shouldn't happen in a deterministic environment. Note that DeSmuME doesn't have this issue, as it always spawns the same Pokémon (Eevee) when it starts from clean SRAM.

This is worth having a github issue for.

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Posted: 4/5/2020 6:53 AM

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Minor differences is not an absolute term obviously. The absolute term is this: Any in-game option that results in inherently showcasing more than 50% of unique content, can be considered a separate mode, and can co-exist in Vault. If a movie is not eligible for Moons, 50% difference is what we need. For Moons, we don't require that much of a difference between branches. But they still should represent, let's say, as much unique content as possible. Unique techniques and glitches, unique routing, unique enemies or items. While we don't have up-to-date runs for every other branch, we can only directly compare whatever we have. I guess I'll end up watching them all again, and checking which branches have unique/similar routes in which levels. While I'm working on that, you guys can list unique elements in the runs we're comparing. That means, what techniques and glitches, items and enemies are only available for Knuckles alone? Tails alone? Sonic alone? Sonic+Tails?

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Posted: 4/5/2020 4:45 AM

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We only call a core SomethingHawk is it was developed by hawk devs specifically for hawk, and for now, all of those are in C#. I think having BizHawk as a name is the best option.

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Posted: 4/4/2020 2:29 PM

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Even then all I saw in that run was running, jumping, and occasionally wall-clipping, over and over, for an hour. I can't agree that there's enough of variety and actual action.

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Posted: 4/4/2020 12:34 PM
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<JosJuice> fsvgm777: It seems like there are no version differences of importance. We came up with a thing you can try, though <JosJuice> Try telling NKit to remove the update partition <JosJuice> I'm not sure exactly how to do that, but it might be the decisive factor in making it sync <JosJuice> Seems like you need to edit the NkitUpdatePartitionRemoval line in NKit.dll.config? <feos> I agree that this sounds hacky <JosJuice> It is <fsvgm777> And does make it de facto a bad dump. <JosJuice> Yep <feos> I guess all we need is to see if it starts syncing on such a thing, and then consider it a non-acceptable image <fsvgm777> (Dolphin already considers the nKit image with that partition a bad dump) <JosJuice> Dolphin considers every NKit image a bad dump <JosJuice> Because they are <fsvgm777> Hmm......the SHA1 of that particular dump matches(!) with the one specified in the submission. <fsvgm777> (without the update partition) <fsvgm777> Yeah....it seems to sync now.

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Posted: 4/4/2020 4:35 AM

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I kept laughing for 4 days and now that I finally stopped, I honestly think this movie's content is kinda acceptable as a demonstration. There's always a chance that if it is accepted, it will get all 3s for entertainment, but the way it's done resonates quite well with what the audience enjoys. It's like the first ever true ACE TAS: it wasn't as impressive as [3050] NES Super Mario Bros. 3 "arbitrary code execution" by Lord_Tom in 08:16.23 and [3358] GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version "arbitrary code execution" by MrWint in 05:48.28, but it looked truly novel and fresh, so people were really impressed. Maybe it still gets rejected for using a non-approved setup, which we still want to start supporting soon^tm. Then whenever we do, it can be accepted?

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Posted: 4/3/2020 5:50 PM

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This run is technically quite impressive, but the problem is that it's a new branch, and we already have quite a few of them: http://tasvideos.org/Movies-127G-RatingE.html I watched most of them side-by-side level-by-level, and I can say that this branch doesn't fully look similar to any of the existing ones, only some parts look close, to some of the existing branches. Yet we can't be expanding this indefinitely. Interestingly, the lowest rated branches are the 100% ones. But while Sonic 100% is "the worst", it's 1) full completion, and also 2) still quite different from this run. From singular branches we have Knuckles and Tails. Both resemble this run in some areas, also I'd theorize that if they are redone now, they will look closer to this movie. However Tails is rated really high, so I'm not sure which we can sacrifice. I do expect any% to look a lot like this run if it's redone too, but what about singular Knuckles and Tails? Which of them will differ from this run more, if all the new tricks are applied?

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Posted: 4/3/2020 5:41 PM

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Raw data won't help because we're not watching those on the devices they were developed for, so it has to be some approximation of how they looked to a human in the end. With TVs it's completely impossible, but with handhelds it is maybe a bit more standard?

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Posted: 4/3/2020 5:22 PM

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Just like NTSC means Never The Same Color, there's no "absolutely objectively perfectly accurate" palette for GBC, because the system had variations. What we can do tho is determining which palette corresponds to what device and encourage people to use them accordingly, instead of "I happen to like when it's all green, let's enforce it".

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Posted: 4/2/2020 10:00 PM

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The Brookman wrote:

I'll continue with my current TAS which will be a "no abort/no oob" and I'll consider 100% aspect if we can agree on how that could have a "proper" ending point that would be fit for publication?

Whenever you accomplish the last required task and end the mission it's in?

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Posted: 4/1/2020 2:05 PM

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He is partially allowed.

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Posted: 4/1/2020 12:58 PM

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I agree about personality and style. Like in finest works of TAS gods (Sonikkustar, Cardboard, FODA), the playarounds feel natural and creative, fitting the game theme. The glitches also help a lot. Great ratings. Decent variety. Starred.

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Posted: 4/1/2020 7:17 AM

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Mothrayas wrote:

This is absolute art.

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Posted: 4/1/2020 6:40 AM

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Zinfidel wrote:

There is an in-game completion counter. To reach 100% you have to:
Complete the game to unlock mission free-select (this involves then starting the game again and loading your save data to continue completing missions)
Complete every mission
Defeat every Raven/AC in the missions that they appear in (this includes Valkyrie and both Nineballs)
Collect every hidden part

Completing the game and then doing all the post-completion stuff in one go sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Also just like in Super Metroid, avoiding glitches that greatly damage entertainment makes it even better as a part of community-preferred full completion rules. Using those glitches in 100% would be vaultable, but no one would honestly enjoy such a run, while avoiding them boosts the feel of completeness. Anchored "100%" is extremely iffy, since skipping previous content makes it "not really all that full of a completion". "H+/100%", anchored or not, makes if feel overpowered, unfair, and unimpressive, because it artificially makes the game greatly reduce its difficulty. Vanilla "no abort/any%" may be unnecessary if we have vanilla "no abort/100%". Anchored "H+" feels like it needs some well established goal that makes the overpowered mode justified, along the lines of "max kills". Playing OP for the sake of itself is like enabling a GT code in Super Metroid just to make it easier. It's arguably worth a try to make a run of one game using another game's save data, as long as it's officially endorsed, but playing several games in one go, without the game explicitly asking for it, is incredibly questionable. http://tasvideos.org/MovieRules.html#RomImageMustBeIntegral

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