Oh yeah, I tried the demo on a friend's iPad, it controlled pretty smooth. I think I also recommended it to Deign some time ago. :P
But the Xbox360 port I'm getting will be the real deal, can't wait for it to arrive.
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Looks like we have a real winner here. DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu "Arrange A" mode.
Link to video
Previously the company has been responsible for abominations such as this and this.
Also, please note the boss has been designed around a gameplay feature that lets you erase bullets with shot under specific conditions, but that doesn't make it any less ridiculous and over-the-top. :D
Still have to wait for a week or so until EMS gets it here…
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Huh? Do you mean reallyjoel's dad difficulty? The one that's a joke difficulty level which is pretty much physically impossible until someone enables TAS conditions?
No, I mean the second hardest. I just don't remember its name and don't have a game with me at the moment. I wouldn't bother going full pacifist on Ultimortal, that's just too much.
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Here's mine (I guess it will explain my disregard to the majority of Nintendo-centric titles). Alphabetic order cause ranking them individually would be hell.
Games I fondly love and still play regularly/occasionally:
• ADoM
• Armed Police BatRider
• Battle Garegga
• DoDonPachi
• Heroes of Might & Magic II
• Heroes of Might & Magic III
• Quake 3
• Touhou 07: Perfect Cherry Blossom
• Tetris the Grand Master (via Texmaster)
• Unreal Tournament (the original, sequels are more elaborate but they have largely lost the charm)
• Worms Armageddon
Games I've fondly loved but ultimately got tired of upon sinking dozens and hundreds of hours into:
• Bridge Construction Set (aka Pontifex)
• Carmageddon
• Contra Hard Corps
• Crimsonland
• Diablo
• Diablo II LoD
• Donkey Kong Country 2
• ElastoMania
• Exile 3 (spent lots of time with it, but never beat it — it's huge and fucking tough)
• Fallout 2
• Gradius V
• Spelunky (maybe I'll return to it some day)
• Starcraft
• Super Castlevania IV
• Super Metroid
• other 2D Worms games (3D ones lack strategy cause drowning is ridiculously easy there)
Games I consider great but haven't had much incentive to replay:
• Alien Soldier (it's kicking my ass ;_;)
• Braid (fun and well-designed)
• Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
• Cave Story (played through thrice, beat the TLB)
• Deus Ex
• Half-Life (played through the original thrice)
• Half-Life 2 w/episodes (played through the original twice, once through each episode)
• Iji (this one is a bit underrated; got stuck playing a perfect pacifist on the hardest difficulty after Ultimortal)
• Last Scenario (a JRPG that didn't make me cringe and dump it halfways, for once)
• MDK (amazing game Jet Force Gemini failed at copying)
• Planescape: Torment (awesome writing and characters, but very crude gameplay)
• Portal (great idea, but puzzles were either too easy or too demanding on speed/precision)
• Quake
• Within a Deep Forest (great mechanics, very easy to pick up)
Possible future candidates (depending on whether they will stand the test of time):
• DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu (w/Black Label and Arrange modes)
• DoDonPachi DaiOuJou (w/Black Label, Arrange)
• Ketsui (w/Arrange)
• Mushihimesama Futari 1.5 (w/Black Label, Arrange)
Something like that. Too few platformers in the list (despite them being one of my favorite genres), but I'm really picky. Another problem is I've skipped pretty much entire generations of console games that I have neither hopes nor desire to make up for.
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Excellent stuff, rhebus! Kind of unfortunate you came up with this already after every major category has been largely covered with technically superior submissions, but, in case something big comes up in the future that will warrant another iteration of improvements, this will definitely be useful.
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This TAS has many awesome small details that quite clearly demonstrate the 2:1 rerecord ratio was not just for show. Every little thing has been taken care of, every required item received, every fight made optimal, every hit taken to the utmost advantage. I haven't been so excited about a new run I didn't foresee in a while.
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The submission comments were awesome, they simply said "This input file should work with every ROM version of this game, and if it doesn't, then F*** YOU! I would also like to show this picture while I'm at it:" and then I posted a picture of Donkey Kong running on a rolling barrell down the street. The first comment on that submission was Tompa, simply saying "Lua'ed.".
This is hilarious, especially that last bit. :D
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HQx is an attempt to increase the resolution by "smart" interpolation, but naturally this results in artifacts that look completely out of place everywhere the algorithm misfires or can't calculate the right values, so that's a no for me. In more complex cases the distortion looks pretty awful.
Then again, I don't care about HD encodes other than on YouTube anyway, because:
a) I prefer watching stuff I like in emulators, where I can use any filters I want if need be;
b) going above 4x of the original resolution (that is, 2x width 2x height needed to battle the colorspace issue with H.264) is pretty pointless because scaling will occur as soon as the user enables fullscreen. Increasing file size by an order of magnitude to make it a tiny bit less blurry (but still not perfect) doesn't really compute with me.
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I believe it has something to do with this.
Then again, now that the core has been more-or-less finalized (all subsystems emulated at 100% accuracy), a TAS-specific fork can be created for the GUI. Byuu has already done enough for this emulator and SNES emulation in general, I'd say.
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Making a fake video is not impossible, but in many cases doing so convincingly enough to go unnoticed requires an amount of knowledge and effort comparable to just recording the thing unassisted. Also, unassisted runners participate in meetups and stream live attempts, so nobody who have seen them doubts their abilities.
Then again, if something looks and acts 100% real, who's there to complain? If you never get to know otherwise there will be no difference, anyway.
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