Posted: 1/8/2010 8:35 AM
Post subject: Suggestion: Display frame count in Author's comments
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Randil
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This is mostly directed for NES submissions, but I think it might be a good idea to be implement for all submissions: My suggestion is to add another small box (preferably under "Movie length:") in the big "information box" at the right hand side of the author's comments for submissions containing the frame count for the movie. There are two reasons why I think this might be a good idea: 1. If someone submits a .fm2 run for NES game X, and this game has a published .fcm run on the site, in order to compare which one really is faster you have to download both movie files, open the published one in FCEU, open the submitted one with FCEUX, compare the frame counts, and then calculate the difference (or alternatively use a calculator and work a bit to find both frame counts). I think anyone who has tried to compare a submitted FCEUX run with a published FCEU run know that it's a bit cumbersome to compare them. 2. It will make it easier to compare runs on a frame level, as you don't have to open the movie files in the emulator or use a calculator to compare how many frames they differ by. Would this be possible to implement? Is this a good or bad idea? Discuss!
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Posted: 1/8/2010 8:40 AM
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sgrunt
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This must be fairly easy to implement, as the times are calculated from the frame count.
Posted: 1/8/2010 9:33 AM
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klmz
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And sometimes the emulator displays a different time length from that in the submission/publication.
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Posted: 3/18/2010 6:53 PM
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sgrunt
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This has now been implemented. New submissions will save the frame count directly from the input file. Old frame counts have been reverse-calculated from the time (as that's what's stored in the database) and should be accurate for the most part (with the possible exception of some of the N64 runs). If you happen to notice that a frame count is wrong, let us know.