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This run is amazing! I made a comparison video, per floor. The script is here.Link to video
You grab this platform and jump from it 1 frame sooner than me, but somehow we land on it at the same frame. I suspect subpixels aligned weirdly. Nice lag reduction by not shooting a bullet right after!
Awesome! Falling off the hook so you don't have to dodge the enemy.
I have no idea how you got no lag here!
You start moving left later here, losing 1 frame.
Looks like I spawn the first crow 1 frame sooner too? But I see you manipulate it differently and just walk under it to advance further, nice.
Nice spawning! And later on too.
Insane platform zipping in this whole section!
Yeah I forgot the boss can also appear in the middle, only realized it after it was published, lol.
I did wheel zipping for fun there but forgot to test if it would let me jump forward sooner, lol.
You aligned the previous jumps not to have to release Right, nice!
Wait did I just shoot the wall instead of the boss?
Nice, you manipulated him to become vincible sooner!
Does this jump require subpixel management?
I don't know why I'm releasing Right. Maybe to manipulate the next enemy?
Looks like you made a small jump so you got lower falling speed and lost 3 frames.
Nice, jumping down allows you to grab the lamp hook much more optimally! The rest of the floor is just crazy.
Wow it didn't damage you!
Wow this whole fight. Not only do you casually walk on the rope to shoot him sooner...
...you also manipulated him to instantly jump to the top!
I don't think I tried reaching that left corner right away, without having to jump on the platform first.
Manipulating the drones better you shoot one and then you can shoot the wall sooner, nice.
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Download this file, and drop the folder with your game files onto the bat file.
Download hash.bat
Language: batch
@echo off
setlocal enableextensions
if [%1]==[] goto synerr
if not exist %1 goto nofile
call :isdir %~a1
if [%_is_dir%]==[F] call :procfile "%~f1"
if [%_is_dir%]==[T] call :procdir "%~f1"
goto:eof
:synerr
echo.
echo Calculates MD5 hash for the input file(s) using Windows's CertUtil command.
echo.
echo USAGE: %~nx0 ^<input^>
echo ^<input^> File or directory for which to generate hashes. If directory,
echo processes all contained files and subdirectories.
echo.
goto:eof
:nofile
echo.
echo ERROR: %1 does not exist.
goto:eof
:isdir
set _is_dir=
set _attr=%1
if [%_attr:~0,1%]==[d] (
set _is_dir=T
) else (
set _is_dir=F
)
goto:eof
:procfile
set _hash=
set _fname="%~f1"
set _fname=%_fname:^^=^%
for /f "delims=" %%A in ('CertUtil -hashfile %_fname% MD5 ^| find /i /v "md5" ^| find /i /v "certutil"') do set "_hash=%%A"
echo %_hash: =% %_fname%
if [%_is_dir%]==[F] pause
goto:eof
:procdir
for /f "delims=" %%A in ('dir /a-d /b /s "%~f1"') do call :procfile "%%~fA"
pause
goto:eof
It should print hashsums for all the files. Either copy them and paste here, or upload a screenshot somewhere and post it here. As for the .cue file, just open it in notepad or any other text editor and copypaste here its contents (it's legal).
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Even though this run now collects all 7 chaos emeralds, it does it in the first zone, which makes the rest of the game basically the same as in [3584] Genesis Sonic the Hedgehog 2 by Zurggriff & Aglar in 17:40.08, which is probably why it's called "previous" in the submission. We use to make full completion a new branch, or we supersede one branch with another if gameplay is fully included. But here most of gameplay is included, so aside from the first zone, the rest is too similar to the any% movie IMO.
Are there any opinions on branching this?
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I think Flash needs a subforum, because of the obscene amount of games it has, and they will only be getting more and more attention now. Not sure about 3DS yet, since those games are arguably harder to TAS, so I expect activity to be increasing slower.
If we see that one thread is not enough anymore, we'll add the subforum back (tho moving former mupen64 subforum threads back would be a waste of time IMO).
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The difference is you can't go left here until 1 frame later, like there's an invisible block or a collision with the block at the bottom of the screen.
In the NROM version you can go to the left so you can turn right faster, gaining speed and falling to the lower platform earlier. Also in the NROM version you resurrect after death faster. The rest is level loading time difference.
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Yeah your version is official actually, lidnariq just made a custom build that fixed some bug and ended up lagging less as MESHUGGAH mentioned.
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I mean DriarNROM(UE).nes used in the previous submission is newer judging by file metadata, it's mentioned in fm2 metadata, linked from the submission, and didn't require adding delay.
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Turns out the movie header is completely wrong, it mentioned the ROM filename used in the previous submission that this one doesn't sync on, and the hash does not belong to any existing ROM at all, since the fm2 this was converted from stores hash differently.
It syncs on the ROM hosted here http://www.driar.se/
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Can't get this to sync on 2.8 or 2.7, the ROM matches.
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Yeah I'm using that bios from the movie header.
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I can't get this run to sync using (sha1)
04fcfee8157a995e7f643ea71e962fe1 "Destruction Derby Raw (Track 01).bin"
ad24de8bbb40795d97b76a344962f58a "Destruction Derby Raw (Track 02).bin"
5de2753366d6f6ec5dc9d736eb5b23e1 "Destruction Derby Raw (Track 03).bin"
94015f72627252a568b3baad4f1bc85b "Destruction Derby Raw (Track 04).bin"
a3083ee927acfcdf5a3cb2974ec222df "Destruction Derby Raw (Track 05).bin"
3ccc73566be33f188b2ae6b472baa2b7 "Destruction Derby Raw (Track 06).bin"
75308294c150dee31a70e84d6e13d798 "Destruction Derby Raw (Track 07).bin"
c6a3134ff789b8ec7f4ad1a01e882c61 "Destruction Derby Raw (Track 08).bin"
9cd51b0469b0459068f3a2924e35d042 "Destruction Derby Raw (Track 09).bin"
6d3ec75966907431d766e6b37914a072 "Destruction Derby Raw (Track 10).bin"
a217fab3aacf8cdc520d4ecedc0d777d "Destruction Derby Raw (Track 11).bin"
e43d969dd150b60ceb59baeb1f3411f6 "Destruction Derby Raw (Track 12).bin"
369ff3006396bbca8d9a1fb9cc125af9 "Destruction Derby Raw (Track 13).bin"
67fc6b57495db8fa4039989a9c9badfc "Destruction Derby Raw.cue"
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The run looks well done, and the idea to TAS an emulator using Hourglass is very unexpected, but it's what we do with libTAS officially, so adding support for PC98 should not become a problem I guess?
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Better encode:
Link to video
Sorry, this movie doesn't feel like a playaround to me, but rather like aimlessly wandering around while occasionally clearing the sand. Playaround involves showcasing game mechanics in obviously entertaining ways. Which mechanics does this movie showcase? If the goal is clearing the sand, then it needed to be done more optimally, without having to turn around and hit an enemy without killing it every once in a while. Leaving a lot of sand behind and running to another part of the screen, then leaving a lot of sand there and running back, looks like the speed was not the goal at all. Finally, if the goal was clearing the sand, it needed to be cleared in the whole game in my opinion (for games without an ending we define game completion when all new content has been completed).
For the above reasons, I can't accept this movie for publication, and I have doubts that it will make sense in the Playground class too.
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This makes sense to me so far.
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Of course I could delay this movie and run it for a year, though even then we can't be sure nothing bad happens ever. Since the goal of the mode is not "survive until the time maxes out, and then X", waiting until 59:59 is not a part of that goal.
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Ah so it maxes out content and difficulty? The description says it uses a cheat and a lua script to avoid the crash, but that's fine I guess.
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I can't figure out how to describe the goal.
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I think we need to have an explanation of whatever term we end up having, linked as something like [?] near the actual definition, similar to how there are tooltips in some apps and on some sites. That way we can have comprehensible sentences without cluttering the decision field itself. Also "unacceptable" has a "don't dare do this" vibe IMO.
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"Declined" sounds ok, tho I'm not a native speaker.
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Thank you!
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Any news so far?
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Sounds like it's worth a feature request on github,
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Sounds confusing.
For non-existent games there's nothing to catalog so yeah we can't do that. For low quality homebrews I don't see why it would become damaging.
Yes. And game resources too.
Agreed. We should always have an ascii-only name cataloged for easier searching if the game was called non-ascii, and having the non-ascii name cataloged on top of that also makes sense for non-ascii searching, whoever can afford it.
There's this potential issue if we're unlucky or too careless.
Depends on how well those tags work on YT itself, and I don't know enough about it.
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