"Castlevania (KC).nes" shouldn't desync unless there are some changes in the emulator's options that may affect movie sync. Try clearing all the settings and try again.
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That suddenly reminds me of South Park episode 8-05:
Stan: Please, you guys, our whole town's reputation is at stake! Will any of you do it?
Red Goth: I'm not doin' it. Being in a dance group is totally conformist.
Henrietta: Yeah. I'm not conforming to some dance-off regulations.
Little Goth: I'm not doin' it either. I'm the biggest nonconformist of all.
Tall Goth: I'm such a nonconformist that I'm not going to conform with the rest of you. Okay, I'll do it.
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Well, if you decide something on the inclusion of his works here, I could contact him. It'd be much easier for me because Russian is the primary language for both of us.
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Do you need Death's soul as in "I need to go back to Death and redo all that comes after that"? Well, it may be worth it if you grab the Lightning Doll soul in the room just before the top. It could save 3-4 seconds in the end, which would compensate for taking and using Death's soul, etc. That would be redoing ~17000 frames, though. Which is, of course, a lot. Are you sure it is easier for you to redo that much than somehow manipulating the minotaur to drop his soul?
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That's almost exactly the opposite of my thoughts. :D So I may serve as a living evidence of that.
EDIT: Not to upset any one of you guys; you just know that I'm not a fan of Megaman, Mario and Zelda games, and thus generally deem them and, for most parts, the runs as well, rather unentertaining. No offense intended.
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Nice, now you're whopping 47 frames faster by the moment of entering Skull's room, and the rerecord/frame ratio… Well, you've got to see that ratio. :D
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Can you explain the exact technique in MPEG4 which makes benefit of motion blur?
Well, I have a few guesses.
First, motion prediction and compensation. The more blurred the outline of an object in the temporal domain, the easier it is to estimate the vector. Blurred frames introduce an additional prediction basis that allows the encoder to spend the bits more effitiently.
Second, the fidelity factor. As can be witnessed with most other transform codecs (be it audio, video or picture compression), it's easier for them to encode gradients/clear tones/etc. than edgy transitions/noise/etc.. Blurring smears all the sharp edges which is a huge bonus for an encoder.
There could be more reasons for that, but I don't know them.
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Yep, same here. EDIT: No, I lied: I've seen Nitsuja's run as well, but whatever.
Decent run of a decent game. Yes vote.
Glad to see you in business again, JXQ. :)
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Note that these are recorded with motion blur - I wouldn't be surprised if this increased the size of the AVIs.
Motion blur actually helps modern MPEG 4 encoders, since all of them heavily rely on the motion vectors and the amount of overall movement on the screen (hence the sudden bitrate drops in static scenes and such), etc. The difference may be much greater than you may think (I've experienced up to 30—40% bitrate drop on some videos using motion blur with x264).
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BTW, the recent Doom 2 TAS by RamboBones (in 14:02 — 35 seconds faster than the previous record by entryway) was just awesome. And it was entirely frame-advanced by our terminology (or "built", by theirs).
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