Awesome run! The character really does justice to ninja genre.
Some somersaults indeed looked slower than a sliding/cartwheeling due to prolonged downkick at the end, but it's really a minor issue. Voting yes!
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Regrettably, either choice is a compromise, as Mupen has neither flawless graphics emulation nor proper reset recording. Go with the less problematic option, which in this case I believe is Glide64 without resets, from power-on.
I think you shouldn't worry about your run not getting published in any case. If it is entertaining and well-made, which I'm sure it is, we'll work it out somehow.
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If people could only behave in a certain way, they would not have free choice, and thus they would not be making choices at all. Is that what you would prefer?
I think that, from theistic standpoint, there is no option to prefer: either your religion directly states that you have freedom of choice, or that you haven't. Naturally you'd want to choose whatever the religion prescribes you to if you want to follow it in the first place.
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To be fair, b-frames can be used with AVI, but stable output is not guaranteed.
Although what I suppose marioguy actually wants to say is that we should offer encodes in two flavors: highly compressed H.264/Vorbis/MKV and hardware device-compatible… uhh… XviD/MP3/AVI (I mean, if we were to offer more-compatible versions of a video, why not alleviate other problems people have asked about before)? Or something. There's no way to please both parties with a single option.
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Okay, after watching it, I can say I was impressed by some of the strategies. As for the rest… Call me spoiled, but for a TAS with so much action, there is paradoxically little action (referring to the line quoted after me in the submission message). However, all things considered, this is a very optimized and entertaining TAS, so yes vote is heading your way. You guys did really well.
On another note, this TAS is going to be a codec poison. I hope the publishers will take this into consideration.
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Just so you know, hotarubi is working on a best ending run, and he's saved ~30 seconds in first two stages.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe80f-0tQqY&fmt=18
(Sorry Flygon, it seems you don't get to upload this one.)
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Shinryuu, replace the Nicovideo link in your submission message with this one: http://dic.nicovideo.jp/v/sm7956924
It's the same video, except it doesn't require registration to watch.
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if beginners can't find the FAQ page, how do you plan to make them spot the new section ?
As much as I would like to support Raiscan, this is really the stumbling block. Now instead of pointing newbies to the FAQ, we're going to do so with the beginner section. Which essentially doubles the funtionality of the FAQ et al.
If you look at any niche community that revolves around something technical (and whether you want it or not, TASing is technical), pretty much all of them have FAQs intended to educate inexperienced users and share the context. RTFM'ing is one of the two feasible ways to deal with lack of experience, the second being ad hoc education using forums or chats ("ask a question, receive an answer"). Remember how you learned anything in your life, and you'll find it to be considerably close to truth. Anything else is going to be redundant, because it'll be a copy of existing functionality with basically identical problems.
However, it doesn't mean we can't make RTFM'ing (read: self-education) more accessible. There have been many discussions on creating video/flash/whatever tutorials. This is the way it should develop in my opinion. Furthermore, I believe using flash is much better than video because it allows for greater interactivity and ease of use, as well as the possibility of seamlessly embedding it into the FAQ.
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Further elaborating on the idea of interactive tutorials, we can make them even more educational if we base them around problem solving (which serves a double purpose since problem solving is the key element of TASing).
Example: give a newbie an emulator and a certain lua script for, say, Mega Man 1. The script will load particular sections of the game and have hardwired goals assigned between checkpoints (for instance, a sequence of jumps or a boss fight) as well as a number of frames for optimal solution. The player will then have to come up with a path within a certain threshold of the optimal solution. The script will also assign score points for overshooting the threshold. After all challenges are passed, a sum of the points from all checkpoints in a form of per-task statistics can then be used to measure your e-penis determine and increase a newbie user's TASing capability in a concise and user-friendly way.
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Well, 120 frames is negligible, no-one's going to scold you for not using password in this case. In such case, not using a password beats the otherwise any day.
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