I actually agree with everything you just said. Arcade versions are usually superior to console ports in every respect, so they should naturally take the priority both when considering first-generation movies and improvements, just as per the current ROM region policy.
Well, it almost seems as if inertia doesn't even apply to them, not to mention flying upside-down within an inch from the ground. What are they powered by?
That might indicate that your CPU can't cope with the high bitrate and takes more time to decode the video than what is needed to decode audio. If the decoding filter isn't configured to skip frames that couldn't be decoded in time, you get audio ahead of the video.
Considering you don't kill that many enemies on your way, do you think a Hard mode run would save time? Since you have three otherwise unskippable cutscenes (about 45 seconds worth of them, actually) on your way, it might be well worth it.
Actually, can't you just use this submission for generating the required save state? Then you could just link to it in the submission message and post what you've done to get the desired SRAM. It's a 100% safe proof of valid SRAM.
Here's my attempt to solve the problem the easy way: http://tasvideos.org/576M.html?rev=8
Feel free to revert if you think it doesn't get the point across.
No, obviously not a giant uproar. But it can easily be seen as a wormhole for drama-loving people using this accident as an argument in favor of accepting any other movie. Not letting the potential drama grow is probably a better thing than otherwise.
That's pretty pessimistic, eh.
I still don't understand how accepting a clearly suboptimal movie will force the next in line to be super-duper-optimal. What exactly will force the player to make a "BETTER" movie, and for that purpose, what constitutes a "BETTER" movie in the first place?
If anything, accepting it would likely do the opposite. The site's standards so far have been to reject clearly improvable, lazily-made movies. I can see the reason for accepting it, what with it being twice faster than the published run, but doing so would compromise the site's standards in general. Even if the strategies were outdated, Guano's movie could at least show the competence of craft (that adelikat is looking for) more than what's described in the submission text.
One could say it would solve most kinds of acceptance debates if you could just forget about the existence of the published movies, and judge the new ones in their own right.
I don't get the logic.
The author here honestly admits he was lazy. So, if this run is accepted, the obvious deduction some other people may conceive is that you may be lazy and not care much about optimization, and still have your movie accepted, because this particular submission was accepted on these exact grounds.
Nice, I didn't know it could be done spending even less energy over the shinespark method: here is the same jump with gravity suit re-equipped as early as possible (costs one frame). Theoretically you can get rid of that frame, but I didn't bother.