I can't get this video to play either... I'm going to wait for an encode.

Did you save any frame with the new route, Comicalflop?

I hate these reset TASes. I can never get them to synch and I think I'm in the majority there. Imo these TASes shouldn't be made until there is a more reliable version of mupen. How good this run is? I can't tell...

Synced fine for me. Awaiting to see a 100% all melon run! (...and waiting for an update from Comicalflop on that improvement.)

I still haven't had time yet to go over and test that improvement.

Has anyone done a (non-official) encode of the run before improvements? Sorry for being impatient, but this one looks really awesome :D

I second that request!

I third it :P I actually tried making one the other day but couldn't get the movie to sync past the first level. Mupen and I are not friends and never have been. But seriously, I'm surprised our ravenous horde of encoders hasn't gotten *anything* out there yet. This is almost like TASvideos back in the day where an encode before publishing was unheard of :) Kids these days have it so easy. Why, in my day we had to blah blah blah and furthermore give me an encode and get off my lawn.

I would guess the encoders don't want to spend time on this submission when a new one will probably show up soon and waste that effort. Sad, but hardly unreasonable.

Not unreasonable, but people are generally unreasonable. I fourth the encode request.

I can get Yoshi's Story to work in PJ64 using those same plugins, but it reports that from beginning the start screen to just before choosing the lucky fruit, fps drops from 60 to 30. The listed version of Mupen does NOT like that. :( This might account for the desyncing everyone who can't get it to run is getting.

I got the run to work in Mupen with the versions you outlined with no trouble. I was also able to record short avi clips after I worked around the black avi bug Mupen has in Vista by disabling visual themes and desktop composition in the compatibility settings. However, if the file hits 4GB (which it did with Lagarith and Huffyuv), it fails and MPC sees it as noise (and plays audio noise) and VirtualDub crashes with an out-of-bounds error immediately. I assume this is something 32-bit related. This is a Mupen AVI recording bug. It should just make more segments like Fraps does. I can record the first few levels or something if someone would like. I could also Fraps it but that's a pretty bad idea with fixed-framerate applications, though that may just be with applications whose logic framerate is different from their video framerate (like Worms Armageddon; 50 fps @ 60Hz (or whatever refresh rate the video driver tells it)). Anyway, I have owned this game in Japanese since I got my N64. Back then, I had no idea what to do since I don't know Japanese. I was used to SMW and SMW2-YI, so I would run through the levels endlessly until the level mysteriously ended. At some point, I figured out that it was getting the fruits that was beating the levels. Also, I was mystified that beating one level beat that whole zone. It didn't make sense. I recently played Yoshi's Story again and got almost to the end; to the last area. This experience makes me appreciate the awesomeness of this TAS. I had no idea before I saw the SDA run a couple weeks ago that you could get a powerup that turns all the enemies into watermelons. The movement in this TAS is clever. I especially like the jump glitch (or funny mechanic) you abused so much in the cloud level. Edit: Actually, the problem might be with the resetting. It's reinitializing the video. With Fraps running, this crashes Glide64. It may have a similar issue with Mupen's avi recording feature. I now have a Fraps recording of the first level.

i cant get past the "nintendo presents" screen, it just goes to black. other games work fine on the mupen provided, and yoshi story works fine on pj64. i have tried different video plugins

I Frapsed the first level. Glide crashed after the emulator reset (part of the input) while Fraps was recording. I'm currently encoding said Fraps recording of the first level. I haven't worked through my logged conversation with Grunt to learn about removing duplicate frames or anything like that, so don't expect anything fancy. I'll post when it's done. I may work on a full encode after that, but I still couldn't get any versions of Glide Napalm to run without crashing immediately. This means the texture errors inherent to the older version of Glide would still be present in the full encode. Mupen really is a pain! I guess it's better than nothing though.

I made a temporary unofficial encode. Dailymotion transcoded it to make it look worse and decided to desync the audio slightly. The audio is synced in my local video. I couldn't get any version of Glide Napalm to run without crashing, so the minor texture errors inherent to the working Glide version posted by Comicalflop are still present. However, despite all the BS, hopefully this video will let more people see this great run. :) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xifhme_comicalflop-s-yoshi-s-story-tas-in-11-00-23_videogames By the way, to get the AVI dump from Mupen without Mupen corrupting it at 4GB, after each emulator reset, I pressed Pause (the keyboard key), stopped AVI recording, and started it again with a new filename (part1, part2, etc.).

Yay, thank you! That was pretty awesome. Much better than the first stage by itself, heh. Looking forward to improvements to this and a 100% levels and melons run :P

LOL @ Yoshi's pose at the final boss run looks great

TYVVVVVM for encode :D great run PLOX PUBLISH! very strange... the main menu for yoshi story reads "STOP" vertically XD

However, if the file hits 4GB (which it did with Lagarith and Huffyuv), it fails and MPC sees it as noise (and plays audio noise) and VirtualDub crashes with an out-of-bounds error immediately. I assume this is something 32-bit related. This is a Mupen AVI recording bug.

AFAIK 4GB is an internal limit in the AVI format. There is a way to circumvent it, like mencoder does when you create an AVI file larger than that, but I don't know how official that "hack" is. As for VirtualDub, I bet it's a 32-bit binary, so unless it has explicit support for files larger than 4 GB and handling more data than that (which has to be taken into account in special ways in the program's source code), it just won't be able to handle them. OTOH, if you are just making a test encode, why not use a codec that compresses the video more?

I've saved huge (>9GB) working Lagarith AVI files with VirtualDub before. I'm also using the 64-bit version of VirtualDub anyway. It's Mupen's fault for not having support for huge AVI files and not segmenting the AVI automatically. There's a version which is hacked to segment automatically, but it's not the same as the version which is hacked to support resetting in input movies. Segmenting the AVI manually works.

Thank you, Lex, for all the encoding work! I finally got to check out the Dailymotion encode. I must admit, I could hardly follow what was going on. The game is very fast-paced, and it seems over way too quickly. I'm not particularly familiar with this game (I know Yoshi's Island a lot more), but I'd still say this was entertaining. Yes vote.

The game looks straightforward* if you're going for any 30 fruit, but beating the levels this quickly, and using some rather obvious bugs, is great fun to watch and must've been a really spectacular effort. *I did play it as a kid, this adds some bias Yes to publishing, looking forward to even more glitching and perhaps an all-melon run as well.

Now there just needs to be a 100% run for this game. :3

Now there just needs to be a 100% run for this game. :3

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