how would we implement those?
Give PCem a shot until MAME matures some - it's quite good. I've even managed to install Windows XP with some recent cdrom fixes committed to the tree, and it works surprisingly well. On an emulated Pentium 233, Voodoo 2 and a functional network card, no less.
These runs won't be too long for a simplistic game of Atari ? I think, after 1-3 tracks most of people will stop watching because it's always the same thing.
Also, I think the best way to TAS these games with an In-Game time is to reach the lowest one because it's the way to speedrun this kind of game which will be thinking of by everyone and be played like that in casual play like a default goal as finishing a game like Super Mario Bros or Aims to the best score possible like in Seaquest. There is nothing more to do in this game, and lowest In-Game Time is like a landmark for all players of this game. And doing all these tracks in the same TAS will have as a result that these tracks will be suboptimal on this point. I know that levels aren't accepted anymore but losing this landmark (in-Game time) in a no branch run of this is like losing the goal to finish Super Mario Bros x).
If we do that for this game, it means that we will have to do that for all Atari games like Grand Prix, Barnstorming, Sky Jinks (which is the same mechanics 4 determined levels and one "RNG" level) and Private eye (I'll submit 2 TASes in some days if I find a way to present maps).
I won't talk about this anymore now because you are the Senior Judge and you decide and judge what is better for the site ^^.
Is it really necessary to do more than 1 course (assuming the hardest is the one chosen) in a given game that doesn't link or monitor how many courses have been completed? (For a contrast, consider Mario Kart type games where the various courses are monitored/linked to a completion goal of winning points/trophy.)
Games which consist of multiple full games available immediately in a menu, such as separate level sets, often referred to as episodes in DOS games, or the individual games in Super Mario All-Stars, they may be played and submitted individually. Playing a single episode or individual game to completion, or all episodes or games, is considered game completion. Playing multiple, but not all, episodes or games is not considered completion. Multi-games should be avoided if all the games they contain exist separately on the platform, play the individual ones instead.
<ThunderAxe31> I wanted to try MAME-rr.
<ThunderAxe31> I did regret it pretty fast.
<ThunderAxe31> (I got a BSoD)
<feos> haha
<feos> note: due to several billions trillions of supported machines, mame savestates aren't going to be cycle accurate
<feos> which is bad for stresing rng
<Quibus> feos: can you explain why/how the amount of supported machines influences accuracy?
<feos> what fixes some machines will break others
<ThunderAxe31> feos: then, wouldn't be the case to create a different core for each machine?
<feos> it how it works since day 1
<feos> and it looks like you misused the "be the case" thing
<feos> something is the case means it's actual reality
<ThunderAxe31> I don't understand.
<feos> comsider this conversation
<feos> *consider
<ThunderAxe31> oh I understand now.
<ThunderAxe31> oh, well... I thought you was referring to *this* conversation
<feos> <Nach> I suspect adelikat in stealing my cookies
<feos> <Mothrayas> I think that's indeed the case. last time I met adelikat in person, my cookies disappeared as well
<feos> <adelikat> it was your dog you puppet
<feos> do you understand what "to be the case" means now?
<ThunderAxe31> yes.
<Masterjun> rip those cookies though
<feos> well maybe adelikat still keeps them
<Masterjun> in a case?
<feos> yeah just in case
<Masterjun> well, case closed I guess
<feos> in that case, I feel like we really helper ThunderAxe31 out
<feos> *helped
<ThunderAxe31> feos: you're welcome
<ThunderAxe31> lol
<Masterjun> barely used any upper case letters as well
<ThunderAxe31> I'm happy to be a helper :DMovies for all games or episodes inside a multi-game or multi-episode game can obsolete individual movies that only play a single game or episode within the game. This is assuming that the combined movie surpasses all the individual movies that it is trying to obsolete.