About this page[1]
Due to the page system restrictments, my nickname "klmz"[2][3] has been spelled with a heading capital "K". However, I only approve of spelling it without capitals, while I only approve of spelling "Emeter" the other nickname of mine with just a heading capital "E".
Special thanks to moozooh for his example of nicely organized and fully informational homepage as well as his constructive comments. :)
Table of contents
- About this page[1]
- About klmz (aka. Emeter)[1][2][3][4][5]
- What kind of TASes I am interested in making (game choice)
- Currently published movies
- Other complete movies
- Current or future projects/plans[1]
- Suspended or even cancelled projects[1]
- Movies which I want to watch as soon as they are completed[1]
- Emulator/other projects
- Comments on some emulators[1]
- TODO[1]
- Feedback
- Footnotes[1][9]
About klmz (aka. Emeter)[1][2][3][4][5]
This section is still under construction.
What kind of TASes I am interested in making (game choice)
- Awesome games: Very good games suited for TASing.
- Bad games: Movies are unlikely to be submitted here, though.
- Challenging games: Including complicated games that are very hard to TAS.
- More games: OK.
- Weird games: No comments.
Currently published movies
NES/FDS movies
Currently I have 5 NES movies and 1 FDS movie published.
- NES Jackal (USA) "single-player run" in 07:25.98
- Thanks to moozooh's comments, I improved the unsubmitted movie and submitted it here.
- This movie happened to be the 2000th submission in this site!
- NES Journey to Silius (USA) in 09:32.03
- The run published had its 5th level redone for improving entertainment without gaining or losing any frames.
- So, just watch the boogie boy dancing to the music!
- NES Kage (JPN) (aka. Shadow of the Ninja) in 09:48.32
- This movie was TASed with the Japan version.
- My first TAS submitted in this site. Had it been rejected, it would apparently have been my last TAS made and submitted here, if not everywhere.
- NES Little Samson (USA) "warped run" in 10:13.27
- This movie was glitched out.
- I decided to make this simply because I had discovered the glitches which I thought would be entertaining.
- And I was right about this.
- NES Super Mario Bros. (JPN/USA PRG0) "warped run" in 04:58:18
- I prove that the flagpole-stuck glitch could indeed save time.
- FDS Super Mario Bros. 2 (JPN) "Mario warped run" in 08:09:23
- This is an FDS movie.
GBx movies
Currently I have only 1 GB movie published.
- GB Ninja Gaiden Shadow (USA) in 11:28.97[7]
- Old WIP (Stage-3 completed).
- This game seems to be a mixture of Shadow of the Ninja and Ninja Gaiden.
- This game seems to be synchronized on both VBAR v19 and VBAR v20, amazingly.
GBA movies
I have completed a few Castlevania movies, but only three of them have been published.
- GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA) in 06:52.08/06:51.96/06:46.20
- The published movie is the latest revison in 06:46.20.
- These movies were all glitched out.
- I was very very lucky when I was TASing the first run.
- Then later, I wasn't so lucky anymore, and the re-recording count grew insanely.
- GBA Castlevania - Harmony of Dissonance (USA) "Maxim warped" in 00:23.63/00:23.58
- The movie in 00:23.58 is published.
- This movie was glitched out.
- Credits to zggzdydp for his great discovery.
- GBA Castlevania - Harmony of Dissonance (USA) "Juste warped" in 11:13.12
- This movie was glitched out.
- Lots of credits to ljffdb2 for massive helps.
Other complete movies
These runs are either obsolete or not even submitted for some reasons. A few of them aren't available at the moment for various reasons.
NES/FDS movies
- NES Jackal (USA) "single-player run" in 07:26.03
- Link not found[6].
- I determined that this run would be rejected even though it was 10 seconds faster than the published movie because I only used one controller in this movie.
- NES Super Mario Bros. (JPN/USA PRG0) "warped run" in 04:58:53[2]
- Obsoleted by my [1080] NES Super Mario Bros. "warps" by klmz in 04:58.18.
- It's said that even "perfect movies" can be improved.
- Here's Bisqwit's Christmas present for Mario fans.
GBA movies
- GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA) "Julius Boss Rush Test" in "02:45.26"
- Link not found[6]
- Very unoptimized test run.
- GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow (USA) "Boss Rush as Soma" in "01:09.83"/"01:09.80"/"01:08.80"/"01:08.71"
- Links not found[6]
- Aimed for fastest in-game time instead of real time.
- I believe "Soma Mode 01:08.71" was the WR for non-glitched BR at that time.
- Glitching the BR could bring down the in-game time under 42 seconds, while the entertainment would certainly suffer a lot.
- GBA Castlevania - Harmony of Dissonance (???) "Maxim warped run" in ??:??.??
- Link not found[6].
- Aims for lowest completion as fast as possible.
- Uses a very different warping route.
- My very first TAS, even before I knew this site.
Current or future projects/plans[1]
NES movies
Apparently one.
- NES Super Mario Bros. (JPN/USA) "all levels" or "100%"
- No WIP is available.
GBA movies
Apparently none.
Suspended or even cancelled projects[1]
NES/FDS movies
- NES Duck Tales 2 (USA) "good ending"
- 15% completed.[6]
- I don't know if this run would be great as Adelikat has made a similar-looking "bad ending" run.
- NES Krion Conquest, The (USA)
- Cancelled.[6]
- I don't think only a few frames shaved off the published movie will be great enough. I won't bother with this unless I find some new tricks.
- NES Super Robin Hood
- 10% completed.[6]
- A game boring to watch.
- NES Hard Relay Mario (SMB Hack)
- Project cancelled.
- A hack that isn't suited for TASing.
SNES movies
- SNES "100 CDs" Rockman & Forte (JPN)
- Once again, I cancelled a run simply due to a nearly flawless submission by others.
- SNES Young Merlin (USA)[7]
GBA movies
- GBA Megaman Zero 4 (USA)
- 7% completed.[6]
- Xaphan and computerbird are supposed to be working on it.
Sega Master System/Game Gear Movies
- GG In the Wake of the Vampire (JUE)[7]
- Cancelled.[6]
- This game is a Castlevania-clone. Its SMS verion is called Master of Darkness. It is weird that the BGM in SMS version plays slower and thus worse than in the GG version.
Movies which I want to watch as soon as they are completed[1]
NES movies
- NES Lode Runner (JU)
- NES Lunar Ball (J)
SNES movies
- SNES E.V.O. - Search for Eden (U)
- FatRatKnight is progressing well.
GBA and GBx movies
- GBA Mega Man Zero (U)
- Gigafrost made a submission but cancelled it later.
- Despite of its gay-looking graphics, the gameplay is great nethertheless.
- GBA Metal Slug Advance (U)
- This game has emulation problems with VBAR 1.72 at the moment and thus cannot be TASed, unfortunately.
Emulator/other projects
GBA Emulators
- The source codes of VBA are not clean enough for me to get what the coders thought. Maybe VBAM is better than either VBAR or VBAL to start with.
- For some reasons, I have no access to my works at present.
- VBARL
- VBARL = VisualBoyAdvance Rerecording + Link. It was only an experimental project and not supposed to provide supports for (re-)recoding, replaying or encoding linked movies by design.
- However, in theory, it might be already capable of (re-)recording, replaying and even encoding linked movies, with extra-ordinary efforts by the player(s), audience and/or encoders to manually synchronize the emulation.
- Cancelled.
- Only one individual in the world has occasionally obtained an internal build of it.
- VBALR
- VBALR = VisualBoyAdvance Link + Rerecording. It is supposed to support rerecoding, replaying and encoding linked movies.
- Not functioning.
- Suspended.
Comments on some emulators[1]
General comments
- These comments are all on emulators for 32-bit Windows platform.
- Currently most of the rerecording emulators work very well, while a few of them have some problems.
- Even if some emulators are set to pause automatically in background, they will always fail to do this if they are minimized using left-clicked Taskbar-Minimization Buttons. This happens to FCEU, FCEUX, Gens and SNES 9x.
- The displayed on-screen messages often disappear too soon when fast-forward is being used.
NES emulators
- FCE Ultra
- mz has fixed the Read-Only Toggle bug which used to annoy NES TASers, and added a few desired features as well.
- The emulation problem since FCE Ultra 0.98.16 which prevented some games like Banana Prince from working has been (almost) fixed in current versions. Action 52 (U) still doesn't work.
- This emulator has the bug that it fails to pause running if the user minimized the window by left-clicking on the Taskbar-Minimization Button, even if the Enable Run in Background menu option is unchecked. It is unlikely to be fixed soon.
- FCEUX
- The fail-to-pause-in-background bug from FCEU hasn't been fixed. It is unlikely to be fixed soon, either.
GBA emulators
- VisualBoyAdvance
- At least one game Metal Slug Advance (U) cannot be emulated correctly with any current VBA 1.72 Rerecording versions.
- "VBA Link Rerecording" would be a great idea.
- Maybe "VBAM + Rerecording" is a better idea?
- Unfortunately, the VBAR source files are full of MFC things which has been annoying me.
SMS/GG emulators
- Dega
- It doesn't work under Windows 9x at all! Well, not so big a problem.
- Its Python menu-item is gray and disabled! I have to find a way to enable it!
TODO[1]
Anyone may do these, while I am supposed to do them myself as well.
- Explain what I've been doing with this page and clean it up.
- Fix typo, spelling and grammar issues. Editors are welcome to do these.
- Comment on the most fiendish instrument of torture ever devised to bedevil the days of man and recall doing that properly in the future.[8]
- Get rid of this section in future.
Feedback
Comments are welcome.
moozooh: First off, in regards to your non-submitted movies.
I'm not sure how exactly did you determine that an improvement of 10 seconds to Jackal would be rejected. Does it look so significantly boring in comparison? Otherwise I see no problems for it to get published as an improvement to the current movie. In the worst case, it can still have a mention in the published movie description like some other movies have/had.
Then, how much of an improvement your Krion Conquest movie actually is? Even if it's not significant time-wise, you might still have noticeably better stylistic choices. After your JtS movie, many of us have been convinced in your exceptional sense of style. :) The same applies to your R&F 100CD improvement. EOF
klmz: I guess single-player movies are supposed to be inferior to multi-player movies in entertainment.
moozooh: Well, I'd leave that to the audience to decide. Mind you, the published Kage, TMNT2, and other movies of similar games all use 1-p because it's faster than 2-p. If anything, I would at least try.
klmz: I should have metioned that "Cancelled Movies/Projects" weren't necessarily "TAS-like" or even "Completed" to avoid misleading. Those semi-test runs don't look so nice (at least according to my standard).
Comments are welcome.
Footnotes[1][9]
[1] This section is still under construction and its contents may be incomplete.
[2] The old .avi of Super Mario Bros. (JPN/USA PRG0) "warped run" in 04:58:53 with my name misspelled as "kmlz" had been downloaded over 810 times before it got replaced with the corrected one. Nowadays, there may still be some people recognizing me wrongly as "kmlz".
[3] Fortunately, My Super Mario Bros. (JPN/USA PRG0) "warped run" in 04:58:18 which obsoleted the old Super Mario Bros. (JPN/USA PRG0) "warped run" in 04:58:53 got published with my name "klmz" spelled correctly in the subtitle(s) of the .avi. Hopefully the new movie makes people recognize me as "klmz" correctly.
[5] It seems that I am too lazy to edit this although I've become an editor.
[6] These movies don't have links to them because I've never submitted them anywhere. Some of them don't meet the requirements here. And even more unfortunately, some have been lost for ever due to an HDD-breakdown. Still, it may be possible to find some of them "spoiled". I may submit some of them somewhere sometime.
[7] These games only receives input every other frame, which could be annoying.
[8] Becoming an editor has helped a lot. However, it can be difficult to recall having done the comment properly.
[9] This section may seem too large. I wonder if more subpages can help.