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I can't understand a thing flygon says. :(
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I very much agree with this post.
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Tommorrow morning, about 10:30 (Eastern time zone) I'll be doing a live streaming tutorial on finding RAM addresses. I'll be recording the broadcast too, hopefully it will be good enough for an official tutorial video for the site.
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Looking forward to this. I had a hard time finding RAM adresses.
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That was actually quite interesting stuff. I think these types of tutorials would be good in text (because then they would be easier to find and understand to people who don't necessarily understand spoken English so well).
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http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/8547343 Recorded that live stream in hopes that it would be a helpful tutorial for TASers. Not the best nor most exciting commentary but I hope its useful. I hope to do some more, particularly with more basic stuff and maybe have a collection of tutorials.
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That's a long video, I advise splitting it into sections that are well labelled. That said, I might end up doing one for VBA or snes9x I reckon
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Thanks master adelikat for archiving the tutorial for us TASers.
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http://tasvideos.org/LiveStreams.html Anyone affiliated with TASVideos, List your TAS Streams and I will put it on here for ease of navagation.
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I am adelikat and I approve this message. Good job Sonikkustar, hopefully this might grow into a more dynamic streaming situation. However, have we looked into whether or not ustream itself has a similar feature? Some kind of channel where all tas live streams could be grouped?
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Add me in: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-tasing Also, SDA have a site wich tells who are online of a number of streamers, can this be done here?
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That would be awesome to have a dynamic page like that. I would feature it on the main tabs or front page or something. I'd be curious how they are making that page.
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adelikat wrote:
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/8547343 Recorded that live stream in hopes that it would be a helpful tutorial for TASers. Not the best nor most exciting commentary but I hope its useful. I hope to do some more, particularly with more basic stuff and maybe have a collection of tutorials.
For the hitpoints it would have been nice if you had mentioned that on some rare games, it won't subtract hitpoints, but count the times you've hit the enemy instead. Also that the y-address can be either 0 at the top or 0 at bottom or that speed doesn't get negative with every game when running to the left. Those kind of things can often cause some confusion. I would go comment on ustream, but I don't want to sign up there. :X
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When I try to livestream recently, it just seems to be frozen. Also, when I watch others streaming and they run an emulator, it keeps lagging (it plays 3 seconds, then lags 5 seconds). But when they only stream their browser or nothing special the stream is fine.
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You guys TAS so weirdly. o_O 2.0.3's TASEdit is superior. ;D EDIT: I always thought your name was "A Deli Kat". My life has been changed. For today.
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testing: works, see the thread in Sites!
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Check out my ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nitro-s-tas-land I did a live TASing segment of Gargoyles Quest 2 earlier and will do more!
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Post subject: Improving streaming/commentaries
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So, I did a test commentary for a couple of my runs, and found it a fairly enjoyable experience. I decided to see what kind of improvements I could do for streaming the first is my setup to include the emulator audio, Skype, and my microphone. There are a few options to do this, however, this is the solution that worked for me. My Via Audio Deck (Onboard soundcard software) has the ability to create, in windows, a playback channel and a recording channel. Thus, I unmute my mic (so it can be heard through the speakers) and run the line-out through a standard 3/4" splitter, and run one side to my speakers, and the other directly back into the line-in port. Now, to stop feedback, the line-in is muted, however, it is still fed to the recording channel. Thus, everything coming through my speakers is heard in ustream. Also, I felt that the ability to draw on the screen, like a sports-commentator, would be beneficial for explaining parts of the runs. Thus, I whipped up a Lua script, and will be using this to do future commentaries. This one was built for gens, but could be easily adapted to other platforms. Download Madden.lua
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TempBuf ={}; ScreenBuffer = {}; for i = 1,120,1 do NewBuf = {}; for j = 1,160,1 do NewBuf[j] = 0; end; ScreenBuffer[i] = NewBuf; end; --***************************************************************************** function press(button) --***************************************************************************** -- Checks if a button is pressed. -- The tables it accesses should be obvious in the next line. -- best function EVER, written by FatRatKnight if keys[button] and not last_keys[button] then return true end return false end pause_mode = false; cleared = true; PM = savestate.create(); while true do keys = input.get(); if keys.leftclick then cleared = false; xm = math.max(1,math.floor(keys.xmouse/2)); ym = math.max(1,math.floor(keys.ymouse/2)); TempBuf = ScreenBuffer[ym]; TempBuf[xm] = 1; ScreenBuffer[ym] = TempBuf; end; if keys.rightclick then end; if press("C") then cleared =true; for i = 1,120,1 do TempBuf = ScreenBuffer[i]; for j = 1,160,1 do TempBuf[j] = 0; end; ScreenBuffer[i] = TempBuf; end; end; if press("space") then pause_mode = not pause_mode; if pause_mode then savestate.save(PM); end; end; last_keys = keys; if pause_mode then savestate.load(PM); sound.clear(); end; gens.frameadvance(); if not cleared then for i = 1,120,1 do TempBuf = ScreenBuffer[i]; for j = 1,160,1 do if TempBuf[j] == 1 then gui.drawbox((j-1)*2+1,(i-1)*2+1,(j-1)*2+2,(i-1)*2+2,'yellow'); end; end; end; end; end;
This script has a psuedo-pause function, that allows you to draw on the screen, while the game appears to be paused. As most lua implementations don't have sound.clear(), there will be buzzing noises during these pauses. Here is an example So, I'm think I will do a full, real commentary of Shining Force 1 soon.
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Woah, nice lua script DarkKobold. I think I will use this too. :)
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Commentaries with football announcer arrows sounds awesome! Is there a way you can get the stream to be permanently recorded so we don't have to watch it live?
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There are several streams already recorded. Take a look through the channels.
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Pointless Boy wrote:
Commentaries with football announcer arrows sounds awesome! Is there a way you can get the stream to be permanently recorded so we don't have to watch it live?
Simple. On the Broadcast page, you click Broadcast, then Record. Ta-da.
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Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
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[comment removed] Its DarkKobold's turn: Link to video Go view it!
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So is this fad finally over now?
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From what I found, people just don't like watching TASes in progress. I advertise in #IRC, get maybe two viewers, and those viewers are not actually following. Sort of not worth the effort to set everything up, if no one is going to watch SDA's streams are fun to watch because you are watching actual speedruns, with the possibility of seeing death, increasing the interest. In progress TASes, on the other hand, are slow, repetitive, and boring if you aren't involved in the planning or execution. Really, I'd love for someone to disagree with me.
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