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Nevermind, fixed.
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Isolated in what way? If they only become accessible after having completed (or tried) the 18-hole game, we'd only accept a movie that plays Special alone if those are entertaining enough for Moons. In that case, it'd be better to play all the golf courses in one movie. If they are accessible independently from the start, they can be played independently and be acceptable, but given the nature of the game, I guess playing all the golf courses in one movie still makes the most sense. So yeah, just do all golf courses in one movie.
How long does it take though?
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Don't use the submission queue (workbench) for movies that can be easily beaten. Do due research and have all due discussions beforehand, make a movie that's not questionable, only then make a submission.
Sometimes making a submission is the only way to draw people's attention and actually discuss the project, but you have the attention now, so do all the preparations in a dedicated game thread and make sure your work is complete.
This also goes to other people reviewing Darkdevil's movies: please participate and help him figure things out.
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Why 2 loops though?
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Okay try the latest dev build (link the the OP).
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That one is a command line tool, what you need is a VideoForWindows encoder that can be seen in this menu
Lagarith doesn't work well with youtube, Camstudio codec isnt recognized by bizhawk 2.x, so your best bet is x264vfw, with either lossy or lossless mode. See here for where to get it and how to configure it:
http://tasvideos.org/EncodingGuide/CustomEncoding.html
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Agents are go! Checked out the game and it's absolutely ridiculous. It's so boldly and unbearably stupid that it's amusing, I hope I don't go off the rails after having judged it. The movies are yet to be watched.
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From what I can tell, no one on TASVideos is pushing for instant tape loader for movies, and it's unlikely to ever be allowed due to our purism. For casual gaming, by all means, just like skipping the BIOS.
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Bizhawk only accepts CUEs for PSX, while other PS emulators only accept BINs. What's written in the submissions depends on that factor, and also maybe on human error, and also the hash of the BIN is more important so maybe people were just sharing that?
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We had a staff talk and couldn't find solid reasons for banning team-base sports games from Vault if they provide enough freedom for the player and can be meaningfully TASed. The former blanket ban for all team-based games was a result of some slight oversight and lack of good examples. It seems deviations from traditional rules in usual fixed-time team-based games are fine. So this game is acceptable now.
http://tasvideos.org/diff.exe?page=MovieRules&rev=380
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Your best bet is finding the code in your game (or games) that polls input, and attaching a lua hook to that code. That way every time input is about to be read, you could feed it precisely. The question is, do they even allow to attach lua functions to reading memory? I'm looking at their luaengine code and I can't tell at all.
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/frontend/mame/luaengine.cpp#L791
Their lua docs are known for being miser:
https://docs.mamedev.org/techspecs/luaengine.html
And the implementation is known for being absolutely incomprehensible, so all you have is asking crazyc, the author.
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Great reason indeed.
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This movie has some blank frames at the end, we usually don't leave those in because they give false impression about input length. While checking this I found that the very last input can end sooner too. Haven't tested earlier ones. Here's the movie.
http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/54530816263675334
Chef Stef, what do you think?
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Comparison (no frame diffs since it's already written, and no time is lost):
Link to video
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For significant updates it's welcome to make new posts, that way people get notified via email and can keep up-to-date. Editing the post doesn't send email notifications, so use it when you don't mean to inform people about new finds or when something doesn't require additional discussion.
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Who's saying it is?
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No movie is unimprovable, so yours doesn't have to be. But make sure we can't easily beat your time. For that, achieve as good time (overall) as you reasonably can. If you can't beat your own time anymore, it's usually a good indication the movie is well done.
On the other note, there is a page that provides some hints on Wiki: ReverseEngineering. It's not all that hard when you know what you need to do.
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I wonder if this could fix TP?
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It's related directly to your thought:
The game wants us to not reset during saving, and we ignore that. If it wants you to say a certain word into the mic, we're not obliged to care, we just do what works optimally.
You're allowed to reset and power off for CD games as well, including during saving.
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As DrD2k9 said, if you just start a movie from a save file, you need a legitimate verification movie and your main run has to be entertaining enough for Moons. If it's not all that entertaining, it will be rejected.
If you want to guarantee that it's published, regardless of feedback, do everything in one movie. And as theorized, it might end up being longer overall than that published movie.
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