To sync this TAS, you need to slowly frame advance while it's paused (around 1 frame advance per 5 to 10 seconds IRL) or otherwise will desync on inconsistent loading screen, please let me know if it still desyncs after several tries.
My final submission of 2022 text
Here is another henry stickmin TAS on TASVideos submission page and my last TAS submission of 2022 ever because it's less than 24 hours until new year 2023, enjoy!
CasualPokePlayer: Replacing movie with a resync using a modified swf that has internet elements removed (I also added in sync notes to the annotations.txt here).
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To sync this TAS, you need to slowly frame advance while it's paused (around 1 frame advance per 5 to 10 seconds IRL) or otherwise will desync on inconsistent loading screen, please let me know if it still desyncs after several tries.
Author didn't validate for a system that would work when dealing with a Newgrounds title showing ads which is something that has been done in One Chance and MURDER.
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+fsvgm777 never censoring anything.
Disables Comments and Ratings for the YouTube account.These colours are pretty neato, and also these.
To sync this TAS, you need to slowly frame advance while it's paused (around 1 frame advance per 5 to 10 seconds IRL) or otherwise will desync on inconsistent loading screen, please let me know if it still desyncs after several tries.
Author didn't validate for a system that would work when dealing with a Newgrounds title showing ads which is something that has been done in One Chance and MURDER.
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TheAmazingFursona wrote:
Oh... so what gonna happen next?
Well figure out how to remove the major discrepancy without removing that splash.
You made the TAS in 6 hours. Some time in dealing with that should've been made first.
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+fsvgm777 never censoring anything.
Disables Comments and Ratings for the YouTube account.These colours are pretty neato, and also these.
Well figure out how to remove the major discrepancy without removing that splash.
You made the TAS in 6 hours. Some time in dealing with that should've been made first.
Well, i thought modifying game files is forbidden by movie rules, whatever.
After i finished encoding another one, i replayed several times this TAS on SWF with "PlaceObject2 (75: API Connector (NewgroundsAPI)) Depth: 17" removed from frame 1 with md5 hash of 048d85d7ee5963d877f3f0baa5654cc5...
... and it 100% syncs with fast-forward enabled, amazing!
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TheAmazingFursona wrote:
Well, i thought modifying game files is forbidden by movie rules, whatever.
It is allowed if it's the only way to make it TASable:
Movie Rules wrote:
Gameplay must be accurate to hardware
Outside modification of a game or a system BIOS is not allowed. If modification is the only way of being able to TAS your game, ask a Judge if it can be allowed. In such cases, a full set of reproduction steps for the modification must be provided with the submission.
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If TASing is meta-play, TASVideos Movie Rules are meta-meta-play!
Well, i thought modifying game files is forbidden by movie rules, whatever.
It is allowed if it's the only way to make it TASable:
Movie Rules wrote:
Gameplay must be accurate to hardware
Outside modification of a game or a system BIOS is not allowed. If modification is the only way of being able to TAS your game, ask a Judge if it can be allowed. In such cases, a full set of reproduction steps for the modification must be provided with the submission.
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Following the instructions in the submission does appear to sync the submission fwiw
This probably means modding the swf isn't really needed? For what it's worth, the only nondeterministic part would appear to be the beginning, there aren't any nondeterministic areas afterwards it would appear. Would it be preferred to not do this determinism hack due to the "slowly frame advance at the beginning" seeming to be a substitute for a clean swf?
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In the most ideal case, a clean, unmodified SWF is preferable. In my opinion, I would prefer a modded SWF that ensures 100% determinism without any special instructions.
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We can make libtas auto-pause for a while using a lua script I think.
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I've been made aware that regardless, it appears that if you simply disable internet on your host machine, the game will simply not run (I guess libTAS doesn't block internet itself, so this is only apparent if you do it yourself).
On that, even with the unmodifed swf able to be syncable, that's dependant on internet servers staying up, which is probably not desirable long term. It'd be best to just do the modification perhaps.
This probably means modding the swf isn't really needed? For what it's worth, the only nondeterministic part would appear to be the beginning, there aren't any nondeterministic areas afterwards it would appear. Would it be preferred to not do this determinism hack due to the "slowly frame advance at the beginning" seeming to be a substitute for a clean swf?