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Posted: 1/11/2007 11:28 AM
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Always nice to see a potentially long RPG done in 8 minutes...but I wasn't really understanding all the strategies...plus my unfamiliarity with the game doesn't help matters either. I can't vote yet, but I'd probably still give this a yes because you really did a great job planning this out.
Posted: 1/2/2007 8:14 AM
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Always great to see awful games done awful fast. :) I can't vote yet, but it certainly earns a yes from me.
Posted: 12/31/2006 11:14 AM
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Apparently, the .fcm published was not an .fcm but a .zip inside a .zip. It's been replaced to actually be an .fcm now.
Posted: 12/29/2006 9:17 PM
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The fact that you're using Alucard is the only reason I'd need to vote yes. :)
Posted: 12/25/2006 3:56 AM
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According to a FAQ, Vs. SMB has 5 levels from the Japanese SMB2, including the first Castle. They also took out some of the warps on 4-2, so you can only go up to World 6 instead of also being able to go 7 and 8. If a speedrun ever came of this, would this be listed as an NES game or would we have to add a special arcade designation for it?
Posted: 12/21/2006 3:40 AM
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WMP played the sound back correctly on Super Punch-Out and Earnest Evans for awhile, even when I upgraded it to WMP11 (the latter actually had some lag problems, but whatever...), but then I screwed with ffdshow to make it work with MPC and now it only plays the sound at 2x speed and the video at 1x speed in WMP. Go figure. I actually get a different error with the movie in VDub; I get Error Code: 512 (ACMERR_NOTPOSSIBLE). It would NOT be my fault that I get this error, because I have never done anything to make videos have ACM errors in my life. It's something else that I am not able to understand on my own because I have never encoded and compressed anything before. The only thing I can realize is that this only occurs when Maza encodes a 16-bit movie...NES movies are fine. There's probably a correlation between this, and I am not able to figure out what due to my lack of encoding knowledge. Regardless, I hope that Maza still feels like encoding a 16-bit movie after all this. I like seeing the back-of-the-queue movies being published...even if I can't hear them. :)
Posted: 12/20/2006 10:34 PM
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I think it's a tad more than 5, but the number is maybe in single digits...among those who will mention it in a forum, at least. I have tried using GSpot to diagnose the problem, and it says everything is fine. Although I have noticed that the ffdshow audio encoder does not load up with the five Maza-encoded files that people have problems with. On my computer, there's actually a problem with the ffdshow included with the K-Lite pack because the audio encoder doesn't work at all, but updating it on...free-codecs I think...doesn't change the lack of sound on those five, it just uses the audio encoder for every other recording now. Playing with the audio settings so that mp3 decoding is active and etc. doesn't change the fact it doesn't load up. *shrug* Maybe there's something I'm too stupid to know about my computer which causes this...who knows. It's definitely fine with mplayer and VLC, but the latter screws up a lot of other things in my system and the former is...well...actually not bad, so maybe I'll stick with that. :) But MPC is my preference for all media files these days, and I'd like to figure out how I can get sound on those five uncooperative recordings. (Maybe not so much this one, but still...)
Posted: 12/18/2006 7:14 PM
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Maza: Nice touch with the "this WAS a tool-assisted recording". :) But I'm also in the no-sound boat here, regardless of decoder. (The audio filter in the K-Lite variant of ffdshow doesn't seem to work at all...but it only effects the sound on the movies previously mentioned by WarioMCP) What's more confusing is that the Felix the Cat recording you recently encoded works just fine.
Posted: 12/17/2006 4:02 PM
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Too awesome...that's really all that needs to be said here. :)
Posted: 12/13/2006 11:37 PM
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Hmm...in attempting to dick around with the setting to make it work on MPC, the sound now no longer works properly with WMP. While the sound works, it sounds like it is running at 3x speed while the video is running normally. Maza, did you put some sort of weird alien codec into your AVI that my computer cannot properly understand?
Posted: 12/13/2006 6:40 PM
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Adelikat, Maza, what's the difference. :) (kidding...) Actually, I misasked the question, I was wondering about audio codecs if one was being used. I guess if nothing else, I'm trying to figure out why there's no sound in MPC (there's just video) but why it shows up in WMP11. I always thought WMP was the inferior product so it's confusing that the sound only shows up here.
Posted: 12/13/2006 6:25 PM
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Okay, updating ffdshow still doesn't give me sound, neither does updating MPC. But it still works with Media Player 11. Bizarre. Hey Andres? What codec did you use for this and the Earnest Evans recording you encoded? I want to see if it's using one my computer isn't supporting for some reason. BTW, nice job improving this. :)
Posted: 12/13/2006 6:10 PM
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The sound works fine in Windows Media Player...but that app sucks. :) I do have problems using the app I prefer, Media Player Classic, which is using ffdshow. MP3 decoding is enabled here, but neither of the active choices I have work. This appears to be only a problem for this recording, as the other recent things I've downloaded are fine. I'm going to update the ffdshow before I go any further with this to see if it's a codec issue...
Posted: 12/9/2006 9:59 PM
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Two words describe this movie for me: Too cool. Deserves a quick publication and at least deserves one of those little moons, if not a star.
Posted: 12/6/2006 9:38 PM
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I think that if you can reduce the waiting times, you could do a really nice movie with that speed enhancement, ladder glitch or not. That's actually a pretty cool trick...I don't think we've had any recordings which have had the games sped up this way.
Posted: 12/6/2006 7:50 PM
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"Run faster" as in actually speeding up the game or jumping to a later level (like in the Boulder Dash recording)? As a long time viewer (and first time poster...well first time with this ID), I think I wouldn't have any problem viewing what is going to presumably be an hour-long movie that completes all the levels, particularly since you found that nice glitch on the ladders.