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FractalFusion wrote:
Nicovideo TAS Rankings for March and April, respectively (both account and free links):
Most of us still can't read Japanese, so those pages are lost on us. (I still have no idea what the idea is here.)
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Warp wrote:
FractalFusion wrote:
Nicovideo TAS Rankings for March and April, respectively (both account and free links):
Most of us still can't read Japanese, so those pages are lost on us. (I still have no idea what the idea is here.)
- Click the no-account link (starts with http://winback.web.fc2.com/nicovideo/?sm ). For example, http://winback.web.fc2.com/nicovideo/?sm14187628 . - Click on the arrow in the center of the screen. The movie will now play. Unless there's a black screen, in which case, try again later.
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Was that video supposed to clarify something? My comment still applies.
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Warp wrote:
Was that video supposed to clarify something? My comment still applies.
First post wrote:
Every month, videos tagged with "TAS", "TAP" or "tool-assisted" uploaded between the first and the last day of that month get ranked by their view count, comment count and mylist count.
It's a short clip compilation showing the most popular TAS videos that were uploaded to nicovideo on a certain month (and showing some clips of videos that didn't make it but are still interesting to check out). If by "what's the idea here" you were aiming at the purpose of this thread in general: Many Japanese TASers do only upload to nicovideo to present their work to the Japanese audience. However, most of those videos are also interesting for anyone of us, therefore I provided a small selection of useful videos in the first post.
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MUGG wrote:
It's a short clip compilation showing the most popular TAS videos that were uploaded to nicovideo on a certain month (and showing some clips of videos that didn't make it but are still interesting to check out).
I see. It was confusing because of all the Japanese text. Maybe we should start doing something similar here?
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Any update for the month of May? Judging by the view and post counts of the rest of the TAS's in those lists, I'd say my TAS should take the top spot for that month at nearly 200k views/10k comments. :D http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm14558442
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There sure was a lot of Dragon Quest that month.
I like my "thank you"s in monetary form.
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So, I spotted: [submission 3160]#3160: DarkKobold's PSX Final Fantasy VIII in 8:08:32.98[/submission] as #19, [movie 1795][1795] NES Solomon's Key (USA) "best ending" in 25:12.06 by agwawaf[/movie] as #18, [movie 1823][1823] DS Castlevania - Portrait of Ruin (USA) in 4:54.56 by mtbRc[/movie] as #16, [movie 1820][1820] SNES Super Mario All-Stars - Lost Levels (USA) in 34:45.66 by MiezaruMono[/movie] as #13, [movie 1803][1803] SNES Mega Man X3 (USA) "100%" in 43:52.33 by Mothrayas[/movie] as #2, and, finally, [movie 1812][1812] Wii Mega Man 10 (USA) "Mega Man" in 33:42.36 by diggidoyo[/movie] as #1! (Did I miss any of ours?) I am glad to see we are relatively well represented in the rankings, and I hope it continues to bring interest here from those crazy Japanese TASers. :) Side note: there are a lot of very weird-looking games in that list.
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I'm curious as to what that RPG with the tanks as player characters is about
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TAS rankings January 2011: Account: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm13441264 Free: http://www.nicozon.net/watch/sm13441264 This is the last missed TAS rankings.
Patashu wrote:
I'm curious as to what that RPG with the tanks as player characters is about
That is SNES Metal Max 2, which is sequel to NES Metal Max(having published run) BTW, this is a Japanese Wiki about TAS anyone can edit. I used to edit this Wiki, but there seem to be few updates recently.
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Nicovideo started providing English version. http://www.niconico.com/ You can watch video without account. http://video.niconico.com/watch/sm14792559 But, I think that it may become impossible to do it someday.
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Grand Theft Auto 3 "All Main story missions" TAS (with many mistakes): Part 1 Account - http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm14718961 Part 1 Free - http://www.nicozon.net/watch/sm14718961 Part 2 Account - http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm14801073 Part 2 Free - http://www.nicozon.net/watch/sm14801073 For the few that are unfamiliar with GTA3 speedrunning, these are the mistakes I spotted: *** Part 1: * Doesn't skip cutscenes. * Goes to Luigis in the wrong direction * Picks up the bat * Doesn't dash when taking the cop car after leaving the Stallion * Doesn't get out of the car when picking up Misty *** Part 2: * Switches to shotgun too early during The Pick-up * Doesn't dash to the Banshee after taking out the truck driver.
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Since nicovideo shows me more black screens than actual videos and the flash player stutters from time to time, I've resorted to downloading the videos before watching, using the usual tools that linux provides. Until Flash 9, video files could be found in /tmp, where the flash plugin stored them. Flash 10 deletes its temporary files after opening, so they can't be found in the filesystem. Here's how to get them anyway:
  • Open your flash-enabled browser and navigate to the video page as explained in the first post. Refresh a few thousand times until the video plays.
  • Hit pause, wait for the video to finish loading.
  • Find the PID of the flash plugin (if ran in a separate task) or your browser, e.g. ~> ps a | grep flashplayer.so It might look like this: 4209 pts/1 SLl+ 2:33 /opt/firefox/plugin-container /opt/Adobe/flash-player32/plugin/libflashplayer.so 4128 plugin true
  • Get all open file handles from flash: ~> ls -l /proc/<PID>/fd/ You should see an entry like: lr-x------ 1 tub users 64 Jul 21 00:28 16 -> /tmp/FlashXXq0Uros (deleted) The symlink you're looking for points to a deleted file in /tmp/ that starts with "Flash". Note the name of the symbolic link, in this example it's 16.
  • ~> cp /proc/<PID>/fd/<FD> ~/my_downloaded_video.mp4
and enjoy the video! If you're feeling particularly evil, re-upload to youtube and post the links here so others don't need to waste their time :p
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If you're using firefox then NicoFox is a good way to rip videos from Nico. It's also worthwhile just to make an account with the help of google translate.
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I use Mitter to rip videos from Nicovideo. You can use the English-language affiliate http://www.niconico.com/ . If what I heard is correct, it will automatically create an account on the main site as well.
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Tub wrote:
Until Flash 9, video files could be found in /tmp, where the flash plugin stored them. Flash 10 deletes its temporary files after opening, so they can't be found in the filesystem. Here's how to get them anyway:
You could also try the DownloadHelper add-on for Firefox, which helps automatizing that process quite a lot. (I haven't tested if it works on nicovideo, but it works for a bunch of other video sharing sites.)
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I personally use Craving Explorer since it allows me to download in .flv, .avi or .mp4.
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TAS Ranking 2011, June Account Account (German) Free It was uploaded by アルファルド (arufarudo). Is Kagemitsu not working on them anymore, or is he taking a break?
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Awesome! [movie 1834]NES Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn "Glitched" in 00:12.86 by MiezaruMono[/movie] is #52, [movie 1822]SNES Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! in 44:40.63 by Dooty[/movie] is #23, [movie 1823]DS Castlevania - Portrait of Ruin (USA) in 4:54.56 by mtbRc[/movie] is #13, [movie 1819]Arcade Metal Slug 3 in 27:09.55 by x2poet[/movie] is #10, [movie 1803]SNES Mega Man X3 (USA) "100%" in 43:52.33 by Mothrayas[/movie] is #2, and [movie 1851]N64 The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask in 1:29:32.02 by MrGrunz[/movie] is #7!
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wow, a top 10 ranking for my TAS, although it was uploaded at 26th june or something. which time period is actually used to count the views, comments etc.?
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July 2011: Account - http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm15578069 Free - http://www.nicozon.net/watch/sm15578069 Saw a couple of our videos on here, but I am too lazy to link them currently.
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2011 Rankings part 1 & 2 have been added to the first post. 2011: Part 1: Account | Free Part 2: Account | Free Part 3:
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