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Posted: 8/14/2012 5:16 PM
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Seeing the holywar that rule has blown into on IRC, can we just allow the original author to host his run on his own YT channel if he wants and if it's properly encoded? For guys that earn money from views, that was voiced as a critical matter (like they would stop submitting), and for guys like me it's just pleasant to have your own TAS you care about on your channel (I don't mind having a copy on TVC not linked to from the pub).

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Posted: 8/14/2012 3:43 PM

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There's also this: Thread #13010: How to find glitches/bugs ?

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Posted: 8/14/2012 3:40 PM

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Being a partner doesn't automatically mark all others' matches as copyrighted.

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Posted: 8/14/2012 3:52 AM

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You shall use 2 slightly different samples for 16-th notes on a bass drum. Just lower the pitch A BIT and make it A LITTLE more quiet. It would sound like you use 2 kick drums.

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Posted: 8/13/2012 4:19 PM

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I'd prefer creating a page for a game, and posting reviews inside the tabs or something.

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Posted: 8/13/2012 2:50 PM

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http://tasvideos.org/GameResources/CommonTricks.html

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Posted: 8/13/2012 2:08 PM

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P.JBoy wrote:

Here's a much simpler script

Language: lua
while true do    
    if memory.readbyte(0x03000BDE) ~= 0001 or memory.readbyte(0x03000BE0) ~= 0002 then
        avi.pause()
    else
        avi.resume()
    end
	vba.frameadvance()
end

Oh god this was really obvious! We don't need a frame perfect video after all! The Guide shall have this script for all cutsceneless GBA encodes. I also guess some other emuators allow that.

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Posted: 8/13/2012 4:11 AM

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We upscale to HD afterwards. And for upscaling we use a lossy codec. http://tasvideos.org/EncodingGuide/VideoDumping.html#Pcsx http://tasvideos.org/EncodingGuide/HybridEncodeScript.html

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Posted: 8/12/2012 6:15 PM

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Looks like you use LZO instead of GZIP. Level 5 must not lag. What's the resolution of these dumps btw?

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Posted: 8/12/2012 6:48 AM

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I think in some cases we can ingnore the lack of real-time action in a run that produces some true technical achievement. For example, the run entirely made by a bot was extremely boring, but the concept was cool after all. The same authour also made another submission wich caught some interest. I don't mind rejecting these 2 runs, but probably we can start publishing such things as pure tech achievements? This won't lower the site's standard in any way, because the explanation of why is such submission worthy would be inside the submission text. PS: after Garfield, I don't think we can get lower in standards of "MUCH ACTION".

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Posted: 8/11/2012 5:11 AM

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Are you sure you use a lossless codec instead of uncompressed?

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Posted: 8/8/2012 2:39 PM

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Nach wrote:

feos wrote:
The resolution pulled from YT is reported by some natt's page, but it has ALL published encodes and all resolutions table. But for reencoders, only the availability of HD for current runs is necessary, but it's quite hard to get that idea from natt's page.
YouTube offers no public API to get that info, and we have not created one yet. Further, the current design of the encoder site is that once video is siteloaded to YouTube, it's never looked at again.

Hmmm... then how did natt get it?

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Posted: 8/8/2012 2:31 PM

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The resolution pulled from YT is reported by some natt's page, but it has ALL published encodes and all resolutions table. But for reencoders, only the availability of HD for current runs is necessary, but it's quite hard to get that idea from natt's page. Also I'm interested what to do if the ENCODE gets obsoleted (if tasblend one is replaced with deblink or so). Can existing encodes be deleted from the channel, or marked as non-public? The playlist thing is necessary for YT viewers. If they look for movies right on the site, they don't care what channel hosts them. But if we start having all encodes at one place, we must make it easy to navigate through these (currently) 600+ (!) videos.

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Posted: 8/8/2012 3:38 AM

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Explain the guidelines of usage the uploader with submissions/publications. For example: "Upload only the published movies encodes, for submissions you can use your own channel". Also for status.html it would help to have a field "High Definition" with yes/no. Or it can use just "no" (or N/A) if HD is unavailable, but report the highest definition available if it is HD. EDIT: And it would be insane to create "Current" and "Obsoleted" playlists and toss the encodes between them when necessary. Having playlists by platform is also awesome.

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Posted: 8/7/2012 5:10 PM

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http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/1651353856/NinjaGaidenPacifist-3Levels.fm2 Please point out my mistakes. I'll revisit the second level anyway. Can green-grey witches be manipulated? EDIT: updated the movie, as I completed one more stage.

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Posted: 8/5/2012 6:11 AM

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http://www.hot-virtual-keyboard.com/

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Posted: 8/1/2012 6:22 PM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A7lVzHttRY#t=395s

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Posted: 8/1/2012 4:37 PM

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feos hi BrandonE BrandonE hi feos how is writing pub text for metroid going feos I'm expecting a novel feos BrandonE: I meant metroid fusion 100% BrandonE I know what you meant. I can ignore the comment either way. TASVideoAgent Submission #3655: BioSpark's GBA Metroid Fusion "100%" in 1:35:19.3 unclaimed for publication by natt: http://tasvideos.org/3655S.html TASVideoAgent Post edited by natt (WorkB: #3655: BioSpark's GBA Metroid Fusion "100%" in 1:35:19.3): http://tasvideos.org/forum/p/321048#321048 [a:10] feos lol) TASVideoAgent Submission #3655: BioSpark's GBA Metroid Fusion "100%" in 1:35:19.3 undergoing publication by natt: http://tasvideos.org/3655S.html TASVideoAgent Post edited by natt (WorkB: #3655: BioSpark's GBA Metroid Fusion "100%" in 1:35:19.3): http://tasvideos.org/forum/p/321048#321048 [a:10] natt now for some pub text! "What if metroid was girl..."

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Posted: 8/1/2012 3:55 PM

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http://code.google.com/p/tastools/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2FFCEU-MemoryWatch

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Posted: 8/1/2012 2:59 PM

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[offtopic] Hi Mecha Richter :D [/offtopic]

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Posted: 8/1/2012 2:56 PM

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Crap. This is weird. This is realy so. But still, as this game suggests a great room for item management and minor movement optimisation, it just can't be tased well enough with less than 10k rerecords. I'd expect several thousands for each level. I'd expect posting and improving WIPs. I'd expect making sure all that can be done IS done to the game. Meh vote.

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Posted: 8/1/2012 3:51 AM

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It's very well possible that this games take account friction on certain surfaces.

This just CAN NOT be the case. My first guess it depends on the speed, like, when you do several jumps in a row, you don't slow down starting walking. But you do after only one jump. I could test it I think. Anyway, if constrant jumping is faster because it cancels these stops, it's nothing wrong to constant jump. If my testings would proove the measure of improvableness of this run I'm guessing it has, I will vote No. Otherwise I'll vote Meh, because this is a fantastic game to master basic tas techniques and you don't seem to do it.

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Posted: 7/31/2012 6:12 PM

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Bump. Aren't you guys going to do the stats once again?

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Posted: 7/31/2012 2:08 PM

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Watched the first level so far. Sometimes you make several full speed jumps and then walk with no delay at the same speed, but sometimes you get stopped if you start walking after these fast jump. What's the difference? These stops kill the pace badly. Also, is the jump height fixed? You seem to stop moving while jumping on floating platforms, if the second jump is too high to hit the edge of the platform. EDIT: Water sections. Sometimes you were swimming, sometimes you were frequently jumping out of the water to increase the speed being in midair. There also was a place where you almost filtered out of the pipe:

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Posted: 7/29/2012 3:52 PM

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It can be useful for a pacifist run. Does it work in other NGs?

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