The one thing that I've always wondered about a published playaround would be what the grounds might be for it's "obsoletion". If it were based purely on entertainment for people to vote "Yes" or "No" on it, I think we'd have a new submission every day or so. If it were barred from being obsoleted, it would quickly get boring and people would start demanding a new one.
Just my thoughts.
A determined TASer could (and has, if I'm not mistaken) produce a TAS.
Are you talking about my Overtop TAS?
Some people in the thread could watch it just fine, yes, given that the Neo Geo memory card was erased beforehand. Or created, I forgot, lol.
Also, I could record an AVI from it just fine, and I even youtube'd it. It has the same "save AVI" interface as Gens and FCEU as far as I can tell.
I'm all for approving FBA, but since its own author says it's not ready there's not much I can do :(
Use %28 and %29, and %21 for the exclamation mark. In fact, this will work with ANY character of your choice, you can use %41 for "A" if you want, though that's pretty useless.
There you go.
Also, I love Back To The Future. Please go on.
(nice pick of screenshot)
Quick question for any Genesis hardware experts out there. When playing on an emulator, the title looks kinda rough. Most prominent is a ton of vertical dithering - empty spaces between solid vertical lines. Quite ugly.
However, when I play it on the original hardware hooked up to a CRT TV, this dithering is gone. Where it should be is smooth coloring. When it comes to character animations, it comes across as a transparency effect. As a result, it looks much cleaner and prettier.
This is obviously some kind of hardware trick similar to abusing LCD's afterimaging by using 30 Hz flickering on GBx titles to get a transparent effect and push more colors from the hardware. What are the mechanics behind this? I find it interesting.
Because of the low quality of the RF connection, when you play with a Genesis on a real television, the image tends to blend horizontally consecutive pixels. This supposed weakness has instead been used for several kinds of cool effects, from smoother gradients to fake transparency.
This post by ICEknight, on the Sonic Retro forums, shows many of those effects, which can be emulated in the Kega Fusion emulator. Gens doesn't have that kind of filter, though you can press F9 to enable the quick blur -- it's not the same thing at all, but it will blend pixels together.
If you still can't start a new thread, maybe even convert this topic into a new Tin Star thread, possibly editing the first post to reflect this change.
Or make a new post in this thread which would serve as first post of the new thread and ask a moderator to split it.
Sometimes I feel a higher bitrate would be welcome, yes. File size shouldn't really be a limit nowadays, since connections are faster and faster, and hard drives are bigger and bigger. Quality matters, in my opinion, and now that there are archive.org mirrors for most of the movie files, getting them shouldn't be a problem too since you're no longer forced to use the starving torrents.
Because if he's not the one who applies the improvements, the submission should list someone else as co-author. I'm not that familiar with the submission system, but if it's possible to switch the current author from "marzojr" to "marzojr & xxx", then this one can stay, yes. I just wanted to be sure that everyone could get proper credit.
As this run/threads hasn't had a post in almost three weeks and the submission text does not indicate an updated .gmv file, did anything happen with the 21-frame improvement marzojr found?
My feeling about this is that this submission should be canceled since it's been declared suboptimal by its own author's words, and then someone skilled at Sonic like Upthorn or Nitsuja can hex that improvement in, and make a new submission as a co-author. But that's just my opinion.
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As for the embeded player, I think that if you wait long enought (I ask a lot of processing power with my 600 movies) it will generate a file in different format for every movies.
EDIT : I just found out that that you can embed movies from archive even if there's a lot of movie uploaded. You have to click the big Play, then select your movie, then click the 3 horizontal line in the flash player. It will give you a like to embed this movie.
Yeah, you're right. The big "Play" button wasn't there last time I checked, it just needed a lot of time to process all those movies. Good, now we know that flash players are going to be generated, but as I said, nobody is interested in them :(
mkv files got deleted and I don't really understand out it works.
Because mkv is a stupid gay format. They're not considered as movies, and they're deleted. Avi files, instead, work perfectly.
SXL wrote:
you're a hero dude.
Yes he is. I can't believe I can actually download movies now thanks to him. I've been watching TASes all day long. :D
SXL wrote:
one question though : why don't .avi files get an embedded version ? this way, so many movies could be watched online, and that would prevent us from the youtube madness.
ZeXr0 wrote:
It's true that it could be used instead of youtube because there's no size or time limit.
Yes, archive.org generates an embeddable flash player, but only when you upload files individually (like I did); when you upload several files at the same time, they're collected in a single download page, and the flash player isn't generated. Not a big loss, though, since nobody at all was interested into said players when I posted about them.
Anyway, since there's a lot of links to be added to the movie pages, I formally ask Bisqwit for (temporary) Editor powers, as I'd love to help out with the update and whatnot.
I promise I won't abuse them (there are still logs and you can ban me if I do), and that I'll give them back once the big update is done. The fact that I lack a life gives me virtually a lot of time I can waste over this.
The audio seems to desync for me, and the picture seems oddly fuzzy. It also seems to cause FFDShow to use alot of cpu on my laptop, far more than is usually required to decode h264...
That's weird, it works fine for me :\
Oh well, thanks for the report, I guess. Anyone else can confirm/deny this? I'd like to know what I'm doing wrong...
Thanks Shinydoofy. I'll add content to this post later.
edit: nevermind, I can't view this MKV with any program. Oh well. I'll wait for the final version with the additional levels, hoping for an encode I can actually play :\