Topic by fruitbane

Posted: 6/1/2009 8:04 PM

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fruitbane

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Joined: 3/28/2005
Posts: 216

I wonder if my particular Firefox configuration doesn't get along with the site FuzZerd is using to host his files. FuzZerd! We might have it! Blarglslelelsel!!!! Frikkin stupid crap problems...

Posted: 6/1/2009 8:06 PM

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arukAdo

Experienced player (954)

Joined: 12/3/2008
Posts: 936
Location: Castle Keep

Dont ask me why or how, you made the issue totally incoherent to me (not your fault but heh, im clueless now), but the problem come from you and not fuz, since i dont experiment it

Tasvideos.org personal page

Posted: 6/1/2009 8:17 PM

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I run adblocking and popup blocking on Firefox, as well as extra cookie management. On both my computers the download corrupts from sendspace.com. IE can do it fine, but then I have to put up with popups and advertising. FuzZerd, while this isn't your fault at all, I would recommend a new free file hosting service. Try out the one I used for my movies.

Posted: 6/1/2009 11:11 PM

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FuzZerd

Player (51)

Joined: 4/10/2009
Posts: 226

Hahaha that's really bizzare. I'm suprised that it corrupted for rapidshare, sendspace, AND the TASvideos submissions? crazy. heres a link from filedropper http://www.filedropper.com/legaxefuzz have you tried the kato and ken movie yet? also how did you watch the dragon egg movie if the submissions download is corrupting the files?

Posted: 6/1/2009 11:21 PM

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fruitbane

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Joined: 3/28/2005
Posts: 216

That's a good point. I don't know. I was able to watch Kato and Ken. When I get home I'll try your file from FileDropper and hope that there's not something more going on : ) I wonder who else around here uses Firefox and if they have trouble, too. Update: OK, it worked. I can read the file, now. Excellent...

Posted: 6/4/2009 8:42 AM

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FuzZerd

Player (51)

Joined: 4/10/2009
Posts: 226

I did level 2 today, boy is that level laggy. http://www.filedropper.com/legaxefuzz_1 I got hit in a lot of places I hadn't planned on, and the lag could have probably been improved a bit by turning around to kill more enemies. I also think the bears in level one can probably be improved a bit so I should probably go back and fix it.

Posted: 6/4/2009 8:45 PM

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fruitbane

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Joined: 3/28/2005
Posts: 216

I'll take a look tonight and see if I can offer you any useful insights. Whether or not my desktop is planning on working is still a crapshoot and until I get the new one ordered and put together all TASes are off. Edit: Watched this. Pretty good. The area with those hopping caterpillar dragon things is obnoxious. You seemed to handle it pretty well. And you got one of those Golden V-Wing speed power-ups I mentioned earlier. They don't speed up the swing of your axe but they speed up the charge on it. Once you get to the highest axe level fast-charging will be critical, though you'll have to weight the power of the attack against the screen-pause effect that comes with landing the blow. A max attack sorta slows things down.

Posted: 6/5/2009 9:42 PM

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FuzZerd

Player (51)

Joined: 4/10/2009
Posts: 226

actually the wings DO increase the speed that you can attack, not the speed you charge (or at least the speed you charge isn't noticable if it does). I'm not sure they will be useful since you usually want to attack with a single charge anyway. I was working on improving this the other day, I saved 30 frames on the bears and 21 frames up to the first crown. I wasted a bit of time killing enemies but I think I already gained this back from removing lag. this game is kind of weird that the lag frames don't show up as red.

Posted: 6/5/2009 10:57 PM

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Sp00ky

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Joined: 8/18/2008
Posts: 80

I'm starting to wonder if only grabbing 3 power-ups is better than 4 in this game, the screen freeze effect is obnoxiously slow. I never was good at optimizing games with lag effects but I wish you a lot of luck, this looks cool so far and I think it will look nice when completed.

Posted: 6/6/2009 5:59 AM

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klmz

Editor, Emulator Coder, Expert player (2105)

Joined: 5/22/2007
Posts: 1134
Location: Glitchvania

arukAdo wrote:

No, and it make no sence to me, i just copied it dumbly (fuz last file) So its when you download the file you corrupt it, i have no idea how tought

I don't think so. Zip files have CRC, don't they? If they were corrupted during downloading, the extractor (7-zip etc.) would warn you. I've been unable to play any mcm movies these days, even if I am using exactly the same command lines with the same games and movies (including adelikat's Dragon Egg!) as before. I've tried all available mcm files around here, and all of them have been stopped as soon as the emulator starts. Hint: I know how to use command lines correctly.

<klmz> it reminds me of that people used to keep quoting adelikat's IRC statements in the old good days <adelikat> no doubt <adelikat> klmz, they still do

Posted: 6/6/2009 8:50 AM

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FuzZerd

Player (51)

Joined: 4/10/2009
Posts: 226

finished improving level 2, for a total improvement of 316 frames. http://www.filedropper.com/legaxefuzz 30 frames came from the bears in zone 1. a good portion of the rest was from improving the position that I opened the idols at. 96 frames came off just between the 2nd crown and hitting the first boulder mainly due to randomly going really fast after the rope. 68 was from a better strategy on the boulders, which I was able to do by not getting hit as much in the main level. I think a good portion is also due to lag management.

Posted: 6/6/2009 1:22 PM

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fruitbane

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Joined: 3/28/2005
Posts: 216

klmz wrote:

I've been unable to play any mcm movies these days, even if I am using exactly the same command lines with the same games and movies (including adelikat's Dragon Egg!) as before. I've tried all available mcm files around here, and all of them have been stopped as soon as the emulator starts. Hint: I know how to use command lines correctly.

I've been loathe to admit this, but I'll do it because it may help you. The files weren't corrupt. You have to have "-play 1" in your command line. Try the command I now use.

mednafen -play 1 -pce.xscale 3 -pce.yscale 3 -mov "path to mcm file" "path to ROM file"

This will scale the movie to 3x along both axes and will play the move rather than loading it stopped.

Posted: 6/11/2009 9:09 AM

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FuzZerd

Player (51)

Joined: 4/10/2009
Posts: 226

I finished zone 3, but it probably needs some work. I think I could have taken some damage in 3A and ended up with less health and I'm not sure about my boss battle strategy. http://www.filedropper.com/legaxefuzz_1

Posted: 6/11/2009 10:23 PM

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fruitbane

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Joined: 3/28/2005
Posts: 216

I really like how you use the vines to increase your speed for a time. I wonder if it would be worth hanging onto the vine in stage 1 a bit to get it moving in the right direction in order to get a fast-track to the end of the level. Were there no axe power powerups in stage 3 anywhere? 'Tis a shame.

Posted: 6/11/2009 11:22 PM

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FuzZerd

Player (51)

Joined: 4/10/2009
Posts: 226

what? there are no swinging vines in stage 1. there is a power up in zone 3 but it takes about 30 seconds to get and theres one near the start of zone 4b if you don't get it, so I didn't think it would be worth it. I'm also still not sure exactly how the vines work, and think I might be able to get the same speed by jumping off them a few frames earlier.

Posted: 6/12/2009 12:05 AM

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fruitbane

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Joined: 3/28/2005
Posts: 216

You're right. I shouldn't respond from work : ) The vine in stage 1 is stationary.

Posted: 7/9/2009 8:20 AM
(Edited: 7/14/2009 10:00 AM)

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FuzZerd

Player (51)

Joined: 4/10/2009
Posts: 226

I know I've sort of been neglecting this run, but I finally finished zone 4. I figured out I could save about 30 frames on the bears by taking less damage, but I couldn't get it to sync up. and I accidently reverted back to an older version of the eyeball bosses but that hardly wasted anything, and it looks cooler turning invisible anyway. http://www.filedropper.com/legaxefuzz http://rapidshare.com/files/255663423/legaxefuzz.mcm.html for some reason I had to delay getting to the crown in the level by jumping late at the start of the level and hitting a bat while on the ground. but the level 4 power helps a lot on the boss seeing as its 3 times as powerful as a level 3 charge! edit: reuploaded and added a rapidshare link because filedropper deletes stuff too fast.

Posted: 7/14/2009 9:50 AM

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Pasky13

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Joined: 5/4/2005
Posts: 502
Location: Onett, Eagleland

That link is broken :(.

I think.....therefore I am not Barry Burton