Now, please correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't PC TASing be as simple as recording and playing back the mere keyboard and perhaps mouse input?
I'll do my best in encoding some of the obsolete NES and SNES movies. Currently, I've encoded this movie. I'll put a link soon. EDIT: OK, it's up: http://www.mediafire.com/?fghymhyjrje Tell me what I should improve.
I can help, if you'd be willing to teach. I have a pretty decent comp too (my internet is my limiting factor), and I'm a fact learner too.
Alright, I made a decent amount of headway, but I'm having difficulty getting the subtitles and the logo in. This is as far as I got without any problems. I was wondering if someone could look at what I did here to tell me what I did wrong. EDIT: encode itself, figured I'd upload it just because http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Ep8WPLgAM
http://tasvideos.org/Sgrunt/DIVXMovies.html
Select your game well Not all games have potential for entertaining TASes from a viewer standpoint. Select those games which give you a chance to make a TAS that entertains viewers. Just because a game is popular, difficult, or is entertaining to play or run or TAS, does not necessarily mean that it is entertaining to watch. If a game is a good game to TAS, it should be possible to adhere to the guidelines: * The game should give an impression of complexity; it should not be overly easy or straightforward. * There should be enough variety to entertain. It should not have, say, 10% of it entertaining and 90% boring. * It should not be too long. * A TAS of the game can be distinguished enough from a non-assisted run. * It should be impressive (for example, a chess TAS is often unimpressive). * It should be able to have clear goals such as completion. * It should not be a bad game in the first place, such that it distracts the viewers. As an example of a bad game choice, see Front Line (this example is not an intention to mock anyone, as the author not only acknowledges how bad it is, but enjoys such fact). If the submission can be watched at a greatly increased speed without missing anything, do think about the gamechoice.
Yes, there's luck manipulation going on[...]
However if we announce this now, right before April 1, people are going to think it's some kind of joke and won't take us seriously. Maybe we should wait to announce till the end of the week? Further, since many people probably save submissions for this time of year, we'll probably be less hated if we go out with a smile, and not lock the submission queue until after everyone submits their joke submissions. It won't be so bad to put things off for a few days if people still have nearly tow months to backup.
(encode coming soon courtesy of sgrunt)