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There's been some talk about that sort of thing before (in fact, the site has some code to handle one particular example: .lmp movies for the Doom engine). It needs to be decided on a case by case basis, which would include some thorough inspection of how the engine's movie format works, etc.
I personally would be strongly opposed to any engine that was not open source. Not on ideological grounds, but practical ones; tasability, verification, and encoding are hard enough already on the open source emulators! Going back to the days of famtasia would be a nightmare.
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SoulCal wrote:
feos wrote:
He started youtubing our tases back when they were almost not present at youtube at all. Mirrored quite a ton of Archive streams, and it was really good. Then, after youtube was taken into official consideration (HD encode era), his videos started becoming obsoleted.
Well that makes sense. If that's the case, why is he still uploading the TASes the site already hosts on TVC? Seems kinda strange to do that, and I doubt he obtains the permission to post all the videos he uploads from the varying authors.
And we keep referring to him as a "he" right? As in 1 guy, and not a group like TVC is?
The TASVideos publication license grants him/her/it/them/Illuminati all of the permission he/she/it/they/Illuminati need/needs to repost content. He/She/It/They/Illuminati is/are still posting videos without any particular cooperation or coordination with the site staff.
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Yeah, #3 is true. Not much I can say really; I'm not too involved with publishing TASes anymore.
#2 has been bantered around before, it's certainly not a bad idea.
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Oh rry? That suggests that implementing it in your game was highly desired or required for official Nintendo certification.
I was thinking more on the lines of something like the Atari 2600, where there is a specific "Reset" button on the console, but all it does is provide its status to an IO port, where the game can do whatever it does\doesn't want to do.
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Nach wrote:
Scepheo wrote:
the Start button and the reset button?
On a side point, the Reset button may actually be programmable by the game. Link's Awakening uses Reset to Save.
It's kind of silly to call it that though. There's no physical button on the GameBoy labeled "reset", nor is there a particular hardware functionality being used to implement the key combination resets. It's pure software.
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natt wrote:
Just checked it, and Oracle of Seasons & Ages are not linking up, giving Error. But that's an emulation problem, and one I'll be trying to fix for sure.
Followup: I've tried the same thing on BGB, and it behaves the same way. Which leaves me wondering: am I doing something wrong or am I not understanding the link feature of these games. How is it supposed to work? Here's what I've got; BGB shows the same:
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Just checked it, and Oracle of Seasons & Ages are not linking up, giving Error. But that's an emulation problem, and one I'll be trying to fix for sure.
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The NES is 256x240. 256x224 is a convenience crop that emulators do, so it's easy to just not do that. The SNES, unless it's set to the 256x239 mode, is actually 256x224. There are no extra hidden lines to show. "Extrapolating" what the extra lines should be sounds like a giant mess; better to just use the graphics debugger or similar tool if that's what you want.
As far as the one line missing/one line extra bug, could you give some easily reproducible place in an easily obtainable game where I can see this? It doesn't sound like there's any bug at all, but I can check against lsnes and bsnes just to be sure.
I'm going to make a youtuber encode off the HD dump with the shadow glitches, and downloadables off of an SD dump (original resolution) with no shadow glitches.