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First track only TASes are ancient and not preferred nowadays. The F-Zero (SNES) TAS you mentioned is from 2004.
Voting no for not showing off all of the main game.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Also, this run doesn't seem to be optimal. This TAS by Lord Tom seems to be faster, and at MrFixitOnline the world record for Mute City 1 seems to be 1'06"006, significantly faster than your times.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
I can't get it to synch, even with the settings you gave in your submission text. Any particular thing I am missing ?
Anyway, as stated in the rules, you should have used the (U) version, not the european one.
I know this is done with the PAL version.
I would like to see a run done with the reset recording version of the emulator with the NTSC version of the game on Master level.
Another NO from me I'm afraid. Not optimal, uses a European ROM without a reason for it, does not complete the entire game. Not really a concept movie either right?
I hope that you will come back and slap all our faces with a new production with the right premises though. Good luck!
By the way, I forget now why the U version is preferred over the E version of games, unless there's a good reason to use the E version. The rules don't seem to state what the rationale is.
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Warp wrote:
Highness wrote:
uses a European ROM without a reason for it
By the way, I forget now why the U version is preferred over the E version of games, unless there's a good reason to use the E version. The rules don't seem to state what the rationale is.
Primarily it is one of consistency. Previously, the rules were "whichever ROM is better" (or something equally nebulous), which led to a lot of arguing, etc. (in case you don't remember, reference the JXQ et al. vs. Phil RE: Bionic Commando). In general, it's easier to have a preferred region choice for a ROM, and have the author present reasons why a (J) or (E) should be accepted over the (U) version. The (U) version was chose to be the default in that most of the community reads English as a primary language (ruling out J), and NTSC is preferred over PAL (ruling out E).
In the specific case of F-Zero X, the game runs much more slowly with the E ROM than with the U rom -- apparently no adjustment was made to account for the longer frames in PAL compared to NTSC.
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