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Posted: 11/18/2005 3:48 AM
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There don't seem to be any seeds. I'm at 0.0%. EDIT: Never mind. It just started downloading. I'll keep BitTorrent open to help it spread around.
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Posted: 11/17/2005 5:51 AM
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I agree with Highness. My second thought after seeing the Mario 64 run (after "Blast Corps") was "Turok". A fast run, mowing down dinosaurs and bosses in Turok, would rule.
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Posted: 11/17/2005 5:43 AM
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That's how I thought it was spelled, but I decided to use the same misspelling as Zurreco. Incidentally, I always assumed that it stood for Millions of Instructions Per Second, which was a common performance measurement in those days and something that Nintendo was very proud of when they announced a system with a 100 MHz CPU (ended up being 93.75 MHz); much as Ermac stood for Error Macro in the Mortal Kombat series. I'm pleased to learn the true origin of the name.
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Posted: 11/17/2005 3:35 AM
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Mipps can't be made to appear any earlier. He appears only twice in the game. Cheez: don't tell your girlfriend.
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Posted: 11/16/2005 10:51 PM
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Now.
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Posted: 11/16/2005 10:47 PM
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Exactly. In low-gravity levels, sometimes you can spin around and hit multiple marbles on the same pass. I've played those levels and come far short of platinum times, then gotten extremely lucky and beaten them by like 50%. Since you have to earn the faster vehicles, you have to plan your strategy to get them as quickly as possible. It may be worth playing levels minimally first, then use better vehicles in your 100% or platinum attempts later. I think this would be a great collaborative effort.
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Posted: 11/16/2005 10:19 PM
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The game is mostly playable in Project64, but there are definitely times when it plays way too fast, and there are graphical errors such as a lack of reflection or correct texturing on objects that are supposed to be shiny. Nevertheless, I wholeheartedly agree that a run of this game would kick ass. This is one of my all-time favorite games, and I played it until I got platinum on every single level (nothing great happens at the end). Destroying things is very relaxing. Sideswiping with the dump truck is frustrating, so frame advance would allow some spectacular runs with that vehicle. If you can get the speed and angle just right, you can send it flying through a whole block of buildings. The goal, as previously noted, would be to try to already have platinum times on as many levels as possible. Mini levels don't have a 100% completion medal, so only major levels would have to be revisited after clearing the carrier path. The path used by the experts is probably as good as any human could ever play it, but a re-recording emulator with frame advance opens the door for superhuman feats of accuracy and glitch exploitation. The size of this game and variety of vehicles and strategies would make this a great cooperative project, if it ever gets emulated well enough to try.
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Posted: 11/16/2005 6:02 PM
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NO. WAY... There's a re-recording N64 emulator now??? How did I miss this?! (Please someone make an absolute Blast Corps smackdown!) That was phenomenal. As a person who used to play this game every waking hour (except for school) and invite friends to his house to play this game every waking hour, I consider myself pretty good at this game. This is even better than the time attack videos that blew me away. The super fast backwards stair climbing is awesome. I had never seen anyone use the rabbit to face the second Bowser before, so now I understand how you can beat the game with only 16 stars. I learned a lot by watching this movie. I posted at one point that a re-recording N64 emulator would change everything because it would throw camera angles into the mix, turning a TAS into a real movie that could be critiqued based on the choice of camera angles. Which angle is best? Close zoom or long zoom? First person perspective or floating camera? I suggested that a TAS-maker would have to be a Steven Spielberg as well. A movie could be technically perfect and the camera angles could be crap. I'll leave the comparisons to Steven Spielberg aside and just say that this movie meets the standard of excellence for both technical perfection and visual presentation, and that's saying a lot. This is a definite Yes vote. This also completely revives my passion for TASes. Just when I thought that everything had been done and the only way to keep things interesting was to start accepting runs of hacked games, a new era of TAS-making comes along with N64 re-recording, and the first movie that absolutely had to be made is already out. My hat's off to you.
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Posted: 11/15/2005 9:47 PM
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Actually, I'm 99% sure that I'm going to be hired as of next week. I never got around to working on the run again because, well, I didn't think I had it in me. The movies around here are just awesome and it's easy to get an inferiority complex. Having made a couple of movies with frame advance, I know that I could finish, but I never motivated myself to try. Sorry if I got anyone's hopes up.
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Posted: 11/13/2005 7:21 PM
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The last minute comeback angle really doesn't do it for me. This movie is at its best when he's kicking as much butt as possible. Huge shortcuts, incredible jumps, awesome reaction time. That's what makes a TAS memorable for me.
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Posted: 11/11/2005 4:00 AM
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xebra wrote:
Shin, hopper, et al.: Honestly, I just want to know what she's saying. Let's keep all that ... whatever ... to a minimum at least until the actual intended purpose of this thread is fulfilled.
Well, honestly. I don't generally make such comments, but I find this thread rather silly. I never understood why it was important to know what she was saying, and the gif file certainly isn't long enough to figure anything out, so I secretly suspected that the real purpose for the thread was to get people to look at the pretty girl. I figured, when in Rome...
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Posted: 11/10/2005 11:34 PM
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I do all my web coding in Notepad. When I want a new line I press Enter, and that's the way I likes it!
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Posted: 11/10/2005 11:32 PM
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That gif is actually quite hypnotic. All that... bouncing.
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Posted: 11/10/2005 7:21 AM
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Hey, I'm not greedy. I'll take whatever I can get! Good luck with your degree.
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Posted: 11/10/2005 4:37 AM
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I like the way Boco thinks. I wish I lived in Heather's imagination.
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Posted: 11/10/2005 4:15 AM
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Just a guess here but, based on the URL, could she be Korean?
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Posted: 11/10/2005 1:18 AM
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I like reading Google and Babelfish translations. Some of that stuff is just weird enought to be good. Like my signature for instance, which is the way both Google and Babelfish translated a Japanese review of my website.
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Posted: 11/9/2005 8:58 AM
Post subject: DOS Games Compatibility Wiki
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I've seen some emulation threads about older games like Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3-D here, so I thought maybe this might be of some use/help to someone. I see a lot of threads on a lot of forums about getting old games to play on new computers. Rather than editing each other's responses into a single, coherent answer, responders fill the thread with multiple posts with sometimes conflicting information. The knowledge has limited usefulness and longevity because the answers can only be viewed by visitors to that thread, and the thread is lost when new posts push it off of the main page, or the thread is pruned due to inactivity. I felt that there should be a central location for people using any operating system to pool and permanently record their knowledge of how to get DOS games running on modern computers, so I created a wiki at DOS Games Compatibility Wiki. For any given game, if anyone knows how to get it running, they can post their solution and let the rest of the world know. The first thing you'll notice is the lack of a logo in the upper left corner of the wiki. That's because I have absolutely no artistic talent and haven't created one. If anyone would like to create a logo for me, that would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise I'll just create something ugly later.
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Posted: 11/9/2005 6:59 AM
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I've visited eBaum's World on only a couple of occasions when a friend of mine visits and shows me some video that I absolutely have to see, and I was totally unaware that there was any scandal related to the site. I don't care to take sides or form uneducated opinions, but this Flash movie is just so hilarious, and the song is so catchy, that I felt strangely compelled to share it. I've never posted anything like this before, and probably never will again. I hope this is good for a laugh: www.ebaumsworldsucks.com.
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Posted: 11/8/2005 3:05 AM
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OmnipotentEntity wrote:
I disagree with the Genisto's assertion that a perfectly played run would be boring. The most entertaining moments I found in the movie were the parts played as fast as possible. I'd rather see a video that mocks the hardest difficulty by lapping the computer than one that stuggles and just barely finishes first. But that's just me.
I agree 100%. When he's really kicking butt, it's amazing. Huge shortcuts, incredible jumps and, of course, Rainbow Road (which apparently could be better). I really would like to see a perfect run of this game. EDIT: Oh, and Spacecow? You can let out your breath now and we'll start again on "3".
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Posted: 11/5/2005 1:54 PM
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Everyone does.
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Posted: 11/5/2005 4:26 AM
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Spacecow wrote:
This is a lot of fun to watch, to me it was quite clear Genisto knew exactly what he was doing, and we've had "playaround" videos published before. This had better get published, and I'm going to hold my breath and stamp my feet and pout until it is!!
To me, crashing into walls and falling into the water several times in a row just looks sloppy. I'll hold my breath and stamp my feet until I'm sure that it won't be published, and we'll see who passes out first.
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Posted: 11/4/2005 7:52 PM
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Damn this is a long story. I went to a private religious high school of 100 students until I was kicked out, at which point I went to a public high school of 850. I was intimidated by being in a school with so many people I didn't know, and I didn't like sitting in the lunchroom with half the population of my hometown (an exaggeration), but I found out that there was a chess club that played in a classroom at lunch. Since there were only about 10 nerds in there, I ate my lunch with them and picked up the game of chess. I got good fast and wanted to find more opponents, so I decided to try that internet thing I had heard so much about (it was 1998). The school had internet access (we were still using 386 dummy terminals with monochrome monitors at my old school), and someone told me about Hotmail. I used Alta Vista to look for chess servers and found FICS, which wouldn't accept my free Hotmail address. (If they had I would be something different because hopper was already taken) So, I moved down the list to Chess.net instead. I needed a nickname and I figured that chess pieces hop around, so I chose hopper. It was a stupid name because only the knight hops, so I should have saved it for checkers. Anyway, that was my first nickname, and I became more and more associated with it the longer I stayed there, becoming a Guide, then an Administrator (then Senior Administrator, then Super User, etc.). From then on, anywhere I would go on the internet I seemed to be hopper.
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Posted: 11/4/2005 4:01 PM
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Dark Mana wrote:
however that said the bad luck does get annoying at times when i just wanted to scream OMG JUST FINISH THE RACE ALREADY!
I wish I had a nickel for every time I said that during this movie. lol
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Posted: 11/3/2005 4:35 PM
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adelikat wrote:
update: just completed chp 2 at this point I am about 4 1/2 minutes ahead (16,559 frames to be exact) on to chp3 !
That's awesome. I'm getting really excited about this. Do you have an FCM we can watch?
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