While watching the movie, my main thought was "damn, he skips so many edges he could otherwise boost from", but after reading the submission text, I understood that wasn't possible everywhere. Nice work, then. :)
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Gameplay is usually identical, so if all the maintainer has is a submitted video it's near impossible. But yes if you can see the physical game it's incredibly easy to identify it as pirated.
s/game/game media
If the game itself is a bit-by-bit copy taken off the official medium, you have absolutely no chance of identifying it without looking at the medium used by pirates.* It's very different to say, distinguishing an emulator-captured video to TV-captured video, as Tub has just pointed out. However, no speedrun video features showing the official media as a proof of their legitimacy, so that is really not a case here. Though, I can understand the reluctancy of messing with the further legality issues no matter how bad they are.
* — May not apply to your country if its pirates are really bad with their job (ie. modifying the game content in some way).
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This supernatural efficiency in getting 100% won't leave a chance for the current any% run to be starred anymore once this one is published -- without any sufficient slowdown, it becomes about twice as actionpacked and efficient opposed to the conventional playthrough. Definitely, one of the best examples of an effective tool-assistance, and quite pleasing to watch for a newcomer.
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This is the fault of speedrunning sites conditioning viewers in to thinking that all movies showing games being played quickly are done on console in real time. Silly, yes, but it's the same logic being used against nesvideos.
Yes, that is a valid point. The severe lack of NPOV-style information concerning the nature and purposes of tool-assistance on the legit speedrunning sites is one of the main causes of the "TAS problem", as Nate calls it.
BTW, I've just written a short post on that issue (link).
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Provided there is a plenty of energy refillers spawning at all the convenient points of the game, I think one energy tank would be enough for all the "take damage to save time" purposes (too bad there's no damage boosting in Fusion).
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Are you really sure my SRAM would work with the japanese rom?
Ah, I forgot that the hard mode was present only in japanese ROM.
The problem is, P.JBoy can't submit his movie here unless it starts:
a) from power-on;
b) from a verifiable SRAM snapshot taken from another movie published here or some trusted well-known place.
However, if he doesn't plan to submit his movie here, there's no problems.
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STOP USING SMILEYS!
Is it that hard to say "man, that's funny!"? Or even, "hahaha dude, that's hilarious!"?
By the way, how about expanding TAS each time we say that? :D
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The (U) ROMs are chosen because they run at 60 FPS (because of the NTSC standard; the (E) ROMs are PAL and thus they run at 50 FPS) which give you 10 additional frames of input per second, which will look faster and give you some more flexibility concerning frame precise actions.
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