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Posted: 11/24/2007 4:21 PM
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moozooh
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Saturn wrote:
All other (moozooh in first place) are spending their time waiting for him to find this last frame so they can copy his work. I too would suggest everybody to simply move on with their runs, if they can't get that frame by themself.
Er, excuse me, this is exactly what I'm doing: working on my runs. First you want me to work on Ceres, now you want me to move on… I can't even get myself a consistent reason to be blamed for, wtf.
Saturn wrote:
Hero, JXQ and Cpadolf are great examples here, as they didn't focus on single frames, but just moved ahead and finished their great runs everybody enjoys now. Who cares about single frames in them now?
…Except you did? Like during the production of JXQ's v2 run, saying you were xx frames ahead, yadda yadda. And you also wanted to go back each time hero or myself found a new timesaver in the beginning, to implement it in your perfect run. Why didn't you move on and submitted it, instead of focusing on single frames? I'm not sure you're in the right position to blame people.
Saturn wrote:
I'm too looking forward to see evilchens and moozoohs NBMB soon, as this is a really short and relatively easy run to make. But knowing moozooh, I'm pretty sure we won't see anything from him until he gets a perfect run to analyze and duplicate for his own in every frame of it.
A load of bullshit. I'm taking my time because I (surprise!) want to implement all the timesavers I come up with myself, and it takes time and motivation. You, of all people, should know it.
Warp wrote:
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/24/2007 3:07 PM
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I'm amazed. It's not particularly surprising to see a JXQ run surpassed technically, but surpassing it stylistically — and by this much — indeed is something pleasantly unexpected. Yes vote, awesome job!
Warp wrote:
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/24/2007 1:46 PM
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moozooh
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I started playing Touhou games at the end of spring '07, and since I'm a sucker for great music, I've been instantly hooked. Never heard anything better since the SNES days, not to mention that the games rock by themselves. In order of greatness: 1) Perfect Cherry Blossom; 2) Shoot the Bullet; 3) Phantasmagoria of Flower View; 4) Imperishable Night and Mountain of Faith; 5) Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. (Click for samples.)
Warp wrote:
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/23/2007 9:45 PM
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They are… but does it matter, really?
Warp wrote:
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/23/2007 3:31 PM
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moozooh
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You won't get it to sync in 1.42 because 1.42 and 1.51 have differences in emulation.
Warp wrote:
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/21/2007 10:25 PM
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So, I've tried entering the door to the debris room at a different (worse) subpixel position to try preserving contact with the ground (so that I wouldn't have to skip a pump), but for a reason yet unknown to me, the door allows you to start pumping this early only if you enter it at a certain (integer? 45.0 in this case) position, prohibiting me from varying it without losing a frame or a great chunk of distance. I saved half a pixel on the stairway by releasing the run button instead of skipping an armpump. That, however, wasn't enough to jump on the higher ground a frame earlier (I was this close, it has to be possible!), so it screwed with the jump, resulting in a miniscule gain in distance (~24xxx subpixels) overall. That didn't change anything, unfortunately (in fact, the change in position synced with the rest of Taco's smv). Here's the smv, if someone wants to try something else with it. I'm still certain there's more to it than that. Can't be that the improvements stop here.
Warp wrote:
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/21/2007 5:11 PM
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Nope, it did decrement to '16, might have been the excitement that shrouded your emulator. :) But this timer bump was certainly unexpected. If you look closely, you'll see that Taco was only 3.5 pixels away from overriding the frame rule of the door in the debris room. If it's possible to save them, then it's 49'17 alright, with 3130 on the ingame timer as well, which would be the ultimate victory! I'll see if it's possible to optimize the beginning of the room… Two skipped pumps are two whole pixels. There must be a way to reach that steam puff sooner…
Warp wrote:
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/19/2007 12:01 AM
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Liked this run, voted yes. More details here.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/19/2007 12:00 AM
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Liked this run, voted yes. More details here.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/18/2007 9:17 PM
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As fast as what? It was the only option available as the rios don't freeze.
Warp wrote:
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/18/2007 5:46 PM
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Tonski wrote:
a few 1/100 seconds. (sorry dunno how to say it in english)
Fractions or decimals… Either would suffice, I think.
Warp wrote:
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/18/2007 4:53 PM
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Saturn wrote:
Because you have more knowledge about SM-TASing and optimization tricks at the moment. And it's hard for me to believe that you wouldn't like to improve Ceres by your own just like you do it with Zebes.
Having much knowledge doesn't obligate me to apply it everywhere anyone points me to. I'm already a hard enough player to motivate, as if you didn't know… I do share my knowledge with everyone who asks me, though, so I bear no guilt on that part. If I started rambling about how you knowing so much (definitely not less than me) about Super Metroid didn't beat my times on Zebes yet, would you immediately start doing that until you have fully succeeded? I don't think so, as you have other things to do beside accepting silly challenges. And so do I.
Saturn wrote:
It's much more likely that the insecurity to not be able to reach my time keeps you back from even trying in one of your TASes. Thats why I regret mentioning my time at all, as said on M2k2 already. I can understand that it's hard to admit such things for you, but it's just obvious.
My security, in fact, lets me not concern myself with anything I don't want to do at the moment (Ceres, for example) in the least, until I run out of better things to do and am fully up for it. What makes you keep on pestering me about optimizing Ceres does look like an insecurity, though, because you just won't let it go. I'm not bothered by personal achievements and persons behind them; you are.
Saturn wrote:
On another subject, did you manage to save the 2 frames before the Torizo room I told you on IRC?
Haven't tried yet. I've had a couple ideas, though, and might try them soon, perhaps today. [EDIT] improved grammar.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/18/2007 3:22 PM
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moozooh
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Saturn wrote:
So what are you waiting for when you're so sure about everything? You're really a strange guy. Take the opportunity and contribute something useful for Ceres as long as it's not too late. Though seeing how well Taco did in the past, I think he will most likely be the person to find the last 2 frames anyway...
But I'm lazy. Why do it myself when someone awesome like Taco would probably do it anyway? xD
Warp wrote:
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/18/2007 12:47 PM
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I think the last two frames would be opening the door in the debris room two frames earlier. The smv we used had just enough leeway for optimization of the previous room door entry and the runway before the steam boost to take damage a frame earlier in the room and reach the door in time. I did a sloppy test a month ago, and was less than a pixel short of the required distance.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/18/2007 12:38 PM
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I know. Only my first line was addressing your issue, the rest was unrelated.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/17/2007 1:46 AM
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Emulators and ROMs are there alright, but none of the emulators are able to emulate them even remotely well at the moment. Too early to worry about DS. (And yes there is a topic for it so you're not the only one wondering.)
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/17/2007 12:43 AM
Post subject: Re: How much space does 1 frame of a TAS movie file take up?
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gbagcn wrote:
TAS movie files are made up of a bunch of button presses so I am guessing that it depends on the number of buttons the controller has. Since each controller button has 2 states (pressed, not pressed) that means each button should be able to be stored in a single bit since a bit has 2 states as well (0,1). The SNES controller has 12 buttons (d-pad counts as 4) so that means each frame should take up 12 bits right?
While the premise (button states occupying a bit each) is right, the information is stored in bytes, not bits. As such, any number of bits will get rounded up to the closest multiple of 8. One SNES controller should theoretically occupy at least two bytes per frame. The rest (the 31 KBs mrz got) is movie header and all that kind of technical data not having direct relation to the actual buttonpress content.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/16/2007 10:08 PM
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Hey guys, know what? This game reminds me of Castlevania; not sure how, but it does! (Also, voted yes a couple days ago.)
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/15/2007 5:25 AM
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Oh yeah, you have to keep in mind that if you, for some reason, won't be able to see your fleet coming home when it does (due to a power loss, sudden appointment, being out of internet, anything else like that), you may safely consider it dead and your planets robbed by a a top-200 player attacking you with like 200 destroyers or battlecruisers, and then a dozen of small fry parasites cleaning up the remaining resources and defense.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/15/2007 3:07 AM
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There's no way to influence that or the outcome of the battle once the enemy fleet reaches you. That's why I quit OGame: there's no such thing as fair fight there, and everyone will be ready to feed on you once your defense has been breached once. For the record, I got to about 17k points before I quit, and it's taken me about a month to earn them.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/14/2007 11:21 PM
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Right, and change the answer options to "probably" and "how would I know".
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/14/2007 10:40 PM
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Well then I'd certainly go for #1 (or for realtime, for that matter, unless it means some major differences in gameplay that I wouldn't want to see).
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/14/2007 10:14 PM
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Yes, posting movies would be preferrable. So far options #1 and #3 seem most feasible.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/14/2007 4:52 PM
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JRL_ wrote:
In my opinion, playing on a console is easier than playing in full speed on an emulator. For example, on Mega Man X & X3, I can at least reach Sigma's stage on the console, but I can't on the emulator.
Might be a controller issue. In fact, playing at a higher speed does improve your reflexes, at least temporarily — until your brain has re-accomodated to the normal (slower) speed, you will have a benefit of having your reflex basically overclocked for a few hours. However, it also may throw off your timing if you are relying on it more than on pure reflex in your runs (which may be especially obstructive in memorization-heavy games). Playing game at a slower speed almost always hurts your ability, though.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
Posted: 11/13/2007 9:50 PM
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Bisqwit wrote:
Finnish humor from 1980s subtitled in English. I suggest watching at least the first half of it.
It was mildly funny, but I think he needs to learn how to laugh from this guy (watch from 1:40 to 8:00). It's awesome when you watch a failure of a comedy club host being easily outperformed just by a random old man's laugh. :)
Warp wrote:
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
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