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<JosJuice> fsvgm777: It seems like there are no version differences of importance. We came up with a thing you can try, though
<JosJuice> Try telling NKit to remove the update partition
<JosJuice> I'm not sure exactly how to do that, but it might be the decisive factor in making it sync
<JosJuice> Seems like you need to edit the NkitUpdatePartitionRemoval line in NKit.dll.config?
<feos> I agree that this sounds hacky
<JosJuice> It is
<fsvgm777> And does make it de facto a bad dump.
<JosJuice> Yep
<feos> I guess all we need is to see if it starts syncing on such a thing, and then consider it a non-acceptable image
<fsvgm777> (Dolphin already considers the nKit image with that partition a bad dump)
<JosJuice> Dolphin considers every NKit image a bad dump
<JosJuice> Because they are
<fsvgm777> Hmm......the SHA1 of that particular dump matches(!) with the one specified in the submission.
<fsvgm777> (without the update partition)
<fsvgm777> Yeah....it seems to sync now.
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This run is technically quite impressive, but the problem is that it's a new branch, and we already have quite a few of them:
http://tasvideos.org/Movies-127G-RatingE.html
I watched most of them side-by-side level-by-level, and I can say that this branch doesn't fully look similar to any of the existing ones, only some parts look close, to some of the existing branches. Yet we can't be expanding this indefinitely.
Interestingly, the lowest rated branches are the 100% ones. But while Sonic 100% is "the worst", it's 1) full completion, and also 2) still quite different from this run.
From singular branches we have Knuckles and Tails. Both resemble this run in some areas, also I'd theorize that if they are redone now, they will look closer to this movie. However Tails is rated really high, so I'm not sure which we can sacrifice.
I do expect any% to look a lot like this run if it's redone too, but what about singular Knuckles and Tails? Which of them will differ from this run more, if all the new tricks are applied?
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Raw data won't help because we're not watching those on the devices they were developed for, so it has to be some approximation of how they looked to a human in the end. With TVs it's completely impossible, but with handhelds it is maybe a bit more standard?
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Just like NTSC means Never The Same Color, there's no "absolutely objectively perfectly accurate" palette for GBC, because the system had variations. What we can do tho is determining which palette corresponds to what device and encourage people to use them accordingly, instead of "I happen to like when it's all green, let's enforce it".
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The Brookman wrote:
I'll continue with my current TAS which will be a "no abort/no oob" and I'll consider 100% aspect if we can agree on how that could have a "proper" ending point that would be fit for publication?
Whenever you accomplish the last required task and end the mission it's in?
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He is partially allowed.
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I agree about personality and style. Like in finest works of TAS gods (Sonikkustar, Cardboard, FODA), the playarounds feel natural and creative, fitting the game theme. The glitches also help a lot. Great ratings. Decent variety. Starred.
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Mothrayas wrote:
This is absolute art.
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Zinfidel wrote:
There is an in-game completion counter. To reach 100% you have to:
Complete the game to unlock mission free-select (this involves then starting the game again and loading your save data to continue completing missions)
Complete every mission
Defeat every Raven/AC in the missions that they appear in (this includes Valkyrie and both Nineballs)
Collect every hidden part
Completing the game and then doing all the post-completion stuff in one go sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Also just like in Super Metroid, avoiding glitches that greatly damage entertainment makes it even better as a part of community-preferred full completion rules. Using those glitches in 100% would be vaultable, but no one would honestly enjoy such a run, while avoiding them boosts the feel of completeness.
Anchored "100%" is extremely iffy, since skipping previous content makes it "not really all that full of a completion".
"H+/100%", anchored or not, makes if feel overpowered, unfair, and unimpressive, because it artificially makes the game greatly reduce its difficulty.
Vanilla "no abort/any%" may be unnecessary if we have vanilla "no abort/100%".
Anchored "H+" feels like it needs some well established goal that makes the overpowered mode justified, along the lines of "max kills". Playing OP for the sake of itself is like enabling a GT code in Super Metroid just to make it easier.
It's arguably worth a try to make a run of one game using another game's save data, as long as it's officially endorsed, but playing several games in one go, without the game explicitly asking for it, is incredibly questionable.
http://tasvideos.org/MovieRules.html#RomImageMustBeIntegral
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Masterjun is partially back in the form of his true self, Mothrayas. There's obviously not enough destruction going on these days, so he's gonna introduce some. Let's see if you guys can handle it.
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Starting from a fresh save is always the preferred option, because it guarantees your movie will be published as Fastest Completion. Then, if you want to build something on top of that, making it a new, save-anchored movie is okay, as long as it features stuff that is 1) unique, not available in any%, 2) interesting and sensible as a goal, and 3) entertaining on its own. Then if it meets Moons requirements, it can be published.
Regarding 300%, is there some official indication that saves should be used across all 3 games?
The Brookman wrote:
2. Due to Mission Branching, AC1 can not attain 100% completion without first completing the game and reloading into a "post completion" state - which would then have no "clear" completion credits/end screen.
How is 100% completion defined for that game?
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In newgame+, how do I check those elves that give subtanks? In Pause menu I only see Biraid and Clokkle.
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Am I correct in how I verify 100% requirements:
- all ex-skills are available in newgame+
- all disks unlock ultimate mode
- 2 subtanks are available in newgame+, and 2 can be obtained from elves that were collected
Also suggested screenshot
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TommyeAsY wrote:
This request is confusing me. Are you sure this issue is related to my case? I don't remember having this problem nor fixing it. It wasn't mentioned in LibTAS/Undertale installation guide that was made by Luke for UT Community 10 days ago either, and there are people that started to do TASes by following this guide.
It's related to libTAS dependencies versions, and it's fixed in master IIRC. Some distros may have those deps the way libTAS expects them, some don't.
Also, you don't need to disable "Prevent writing to disk" to sync the run. If that is disabled, after the run was replayed once, one has to go to /home/<you>/.config/UNDERTALE and delete the files, otherwise the game launches to black screen.
PS: your movie doesn't tell anything about the distro it was synced on.
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Also this seems to be needed for video dumping:
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Sounds like source of randomness that the game uses for its stuff isn't known or isn't captured properly by libTAS? I don't think it's meant to cluelessly allow games to access everything in the host, but I don't know how sandboxed it is currently. You should talk to Keylie.
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Do I need to delay the publication?
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That would leave us with 2 similar accounts for the same person, which is not allowed. Request a merge, with whatever name you prefer.
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But do have an option of creating those 10 verification movies to be run every day?
We don't allow game modifications unless they explicitly add unique gameplay (as opposed to unlocking something that's already there):
http://tasvideos.org/MovieRules.html#NonOfficialGamesHacksHomebrewsEtcAndPrototypes
Regarding save anchored runs, they need to be different enough from what is achieved with a fresh game, and also entertaining enough to be published in Moons as another branch. For "fresh any%", however, there's no such restriction.
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Thanks to Vynneve for bearing with me, the culprit was the SRAM file. When I first ran this movie, it synced just fine, so the SRAM file wasn't specifically crafted, but after I deleted it and it was created from scratch, the run stopped syncing. So not sure what dirty magic Dolphin is doing there, but here's the file that syncs (should go in User\GC):
https://files.tasvideos.org/common/SubmissionFiles/6550S/SRAM.7z
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They don't change the fact that it's a 2-hour movie. By any% I meant that it would be shorter, therefore easier to swallow in its entirety.
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