TASVideos has evolved greatly over the past few years. We've gotten a new site, new administration, new rules and systems that allow for new content, and we even managed to add an S onto that old HTTP. With the amount of positive change and additions we've made lately, it's only natural that we need more contributors than ever to keep up with the influx. TASVideos relies entirely on user contribution: Without the users, there would be no TASVideos. Every single person on the site can contribute in some way or form!

If you'd like to contribute more actively, this list is broken down into types of contributing depending on the experience and resources of the user.

These are things that anyone on the site can do at any time.

Simply watching runs and giving your opinion on them can greatly help the site, the staff, and the userbase at large.

Registered users can watch submissions and post their feedback on the Forum thread. This can greatly help submitters in multiple ways, including giving them the positive motivation to continue TASing or helping them improve as a TASer.

All of our movies are uploaded to our TASVideosChannel YouTube channel for easy, high quality viewing. Simply watching those uploads helps more people find them and us in turn, hopefully bringing in new people to make new runs for people to enjoy.

On TASVideos itself, any logged in user can rate our publications from 0-10, which can serve as a way of helping other site visitors find entertaining runs they may have otherwise missed.

If you want to take your submission watching to the next level, you can help Judges out immensely by watching their input files directly on your machine to ensure that they don't desync.

Anyone who's interested in doing this frequently is highly encouraged to apply to be a Reviewer.

We encourage submitters to include a YouTube video of their submissions, but not everyone is capable of doing that. If you're able to provide a video of any submission that does not have one, you immensely help make the submission more accessible to the general community. Temp encodes like these can be of any quality, as long as it is watchable.

The best thing you can do for the site is start learning how to TAS so you can submit your own movies! As long as you have a rerecording capable framework, a good amount of patience, and access to a search engine of your choice, you have the potential to make and submit TASes for everyone to enjoy.

We have a wide variety of Game Resources and community-compiled information, as well as a Discord server and an IRC channel to help guide you if need be.

TASVideos serves as a wiki, though editing permissions are not given by default. To become an Editor, contact a Site Admin, and please mention if there is anything in particular you are hoping to contribute. Editors can edit and create pages, as well as help maintain submissions, publications, and games.

Editors can also contribute to sync verification.

Check out the custom markup before you start.

We maintain user translations of our wiki pages. Anyone with Editor privileges can create new translation pages or improve the existing ones, just always make sure to verify them by other contributors that speak your language.

People with coding experience are always needed.

The TASVideos website is open source and always looking for help with bugs and new features. The site is built with ASP.NET (mostly C# and HTML/CSS).

This site depends heavily on emulators capable of rerecording, most of which are open source. We are always in need of help from coders for maintaining and developing these emulators. Anyone interested in rerecording emulator development should consult Emulator Resources/Development. We greatly hope people will help improve emulators to meet our site requirements. Interested in adding rerecording tools but don't know of a particular emulator? See our list of potential frameworks. This page also includes TASing frameworks such as libTAS and even individual game TAS mods, and they are also heavily encouraged to be worked on!

Due to the way our site operates, any new emulator or TAS tool needs to have a parser written for it, as otherwise the site will not recognize the submitted input file. If you're the developer of a rerecording emulator or TAS tool that you want supported by the site, please contact the Senior Judge and Admins so we can work with you on having it supported.

We definitely want new good rerecording tools. People often over estimate the amount of experience needed to make useful coding contributions. Many times, unimplemented features or bugs are the result of lack of time, not difficulty in coding. If you have any experience in C, C++, or C# and are curious about helping, please contact adelikat!

TASVideos staff members are responsible for the daily operations of the site. Staff members are, unfortunately, unpaid volunteers who work in their spare time.

There's no formal process or application to become staff. Current staff may reach out to community members they think would make a great addition to the team, and community members interested in joining may reach out to staff members expressing their interest.

The site is founded on encoding input files to video and publishing them on YouTube. Without these, it's much harder for people to watch our runs quickly and easily. Therefore, we are always looking for people capable of making good encodes.

Accepted movies need to be published, meaning they require high quality multimedia files meeting strict requirements to be created; the Encoding Guide has suggestions for how to get started.

In addition, we have many historical movies requiring encodes suitable for streaming on YouTube.

If you have encodes published on the site and feel you can contribute to the publication process, contact a senior publisher or administrator about becoming a publisher. Full information can be found at the Publishing pages.

If you are an experienced TASer and meet the requirements you can apply to be a Judge. Contact a senior judge or administrator. Full information can be found at the Judging pages.

Judges decide the fate of our submissions.