Usually when making a movie, we have Raw data UNchecked since it can cause desyncs. So why play this with Raw data checked?
this is why plugins are really important, as they affect the timing
Nitsuja, where is your act 3?
edit: oh, and about which team is faster, it seemed to me that when playing the game casually, the Tails/Sonic team seemed to be much easier for speed, just because you can get such a massive speed boost quickly using Sonic as the second character. edit2:okay, now that I've seen some of the runs on TSC, I can definitely see why sonic is faster, so never mind about what I was saying.
Still, I'm not sure if it would be entertaining to go back to the "factory ring" to change out the characters between every level.
Did you just figure out that Tails/Sonic is the fastest? And you're recording without previous SRAM? This team should be obvious for a couple of reasons: 1. Tails doesn't encounter the extra characters, so he goes to the world map immediately, instead of going through a cut scene. 2. The final boss. As far as I can tell, tails can hit the final boss with his tails, instead of waiting for the bosses' hands or whatever. (I'm not sure how you fight the final boss without him)
Sonic Advance 3 isn't that hard to time attack compared to the other two :o
Nitsuja, have you ever considered time attacking the sonic advance games legitimatly? You've really surprised me with these newly found routes and just how low some of these times can really go!
New Gens release. Time to update it. It already has sega cd savestate support.
would it be possible to include another row of display, for keys currently held down by Autohold or even normally? this would make frame advance that much easier, since it would be easy to tell what was on and not between frames
its really annoying the emulator minimizes itself whenever you open a file
when you play at 3% speed, and when you pause at say frame 50, then press start again to continue recording, it doesnt resume at frame 51.. instead it skips is and resumes at frame 52
I would like to get "Always on top" option in VBA (and every other emulator aswell), so would that be too much to ask?
I thought there was an extra chip found in the S&K cart that takes over main processing when Sonic 2 is locked onto it, with data taken from the Sonic 2 cart.
I just wondered, what do the blue speed booster thingies do? I mean they look kinda neat, but what purpose do they serve?
It seems that just the act of grabbing at something (without actually grabbing anything) can influence boosting. It might be worthwhile to just experiment with dash jumps and grabbing like a maniac for a start...
My only guess at the moment is it could be some variant of the trick used to gain height in Strangeness' Jump video. http://wheat.cupofdirt.net/mischief/MischiefMakers-310-Jump-999.avi
unless someone wants to just ask Vigama what he means. :P
If you hold B and C here, you will run-jump through the entire next room, and make it into the pool room. Even cooler, you will take one jump into the pool room, trigger the "falling into water" animation, but simultaneously be shot by a guard and killed, even though it looks like you never get hit. You can immediately press any button and continue, and you will start in the pool room, having bypassed completely the lengthy fight scene.
That may be, and probably is the case, however, even if fixing that leads to consistant performance on the same machine, there'd be no guarantee that the same GMV would sync on someone else's computer.
... my theory is that Gens continues to generate frames while performing CD seeks & reads. And those times aren't always constant. I'm planning on trying to make CD Reads into a blocking operation, but ...
Question now for nitsuja: Could you incorporate the following changes into a v10?
I would also note that for some reason, my compiled EXE is nearly three times the size of Nitsuja's. I don't know why this is or how to fix it.
The Gunstar Heroes run uses normal difficulty because it says hard doesn't change anything except prolonging the boss fights.