When comparing against a prior movie for faster time, the faster time must come from improved play in the actual game-play segments. For example, gaining time by switching to another version which loads faster, has shorter cut-scenes, or by more optimized usage of the title screen menus is not counted as an actual time improvement. A movie which doesn't have any actual in-game game-play improvements over its published predecessor will not be accepted. If time is gained from using a more accurate emulator, but game-play hasn't been improved, such a movie will be rejected. However, if improved emulation introduces more lag, extends the cut-scenes, or slows down game-play in some way, yet the actual game-play has improved, such a movie will be considered a valid improvement.
Rule is stupid
the first game showing superhuman play with a team with low stats, with the 2nd game showing superhuman play with great stats. they are different enough to both be published.
Sports games in the Vault are restricted to one game per series per platform. For example, PGA Tour Golf III on the Sega Genesis may obsolete PGA Tour Golf II on the Sega Genesis. Which game obsoletes which is decided by which game makes a more technically impressive run, as decided by a judge.
Hello. I'm going to be making a TAS of Metroid Prime 2, but before I can do that I have a couple questions: First, I'm running Dolphin on Linux, and while I am aware that using non-stable versions of Dolphin is allowed since stable versions release very infrequently, I'm unsure if the non-stable version I have would be acceptable, since the version numbering isn't consistent with what I see on the Dolphin website (I plan on updating Dolphin as soon as I start the TAS, but at the moment I have "5.0-0491831-dirty". The "dirty" also concerns me.) If I did the TAS on this version, would that be okay?
Secondly, in this game, there are cutscenes that cannot be skipped unless you've already played through the game once. These cutscenes slow the run way down, which is detrimental to the entertainment value of the run, and since I'm going to be aiming for moons tier with this TAS I'm wondering if this would be a case where starting the run with dirty SRAM would be allowed, provided that I provide a verification movie from a clean memory card. Thanks!
I'm curious now too. Would something like the "challenges" mode in Megaman 10 be acceptable to tasvideos ?? wii mm10. It's not really a "completes game" objective, but it does require you beat the game on all modes first to unlock everything, (easy, normal, and hard). I'm NOT talking about "endless attack" which is totally different. It's basically like 60-something short mini levels. about 20 or so are just the robot master fights, in all difficulities. (you either get a silver or gold trophy depending on how you beat them) and 30+ are little small levels.
gambatte only reports cycles in 32 bit unsigned format, so anything longer then about 4 billion cycles will roll over.
I can provide my lua script if needed for independent verification - it outputs emu.totalexecutedcycles() for each movie.getinput(), we usually use this to transform GBI timestamps for console verification but I stripped out the GBI transform to get the raw cycle count at last input: 2A225FA40 (11,310,332,480 GBC m-cycles in decimal) Now this number needs some elaboration. The game boy has roughly 4mhz T-cycles, but is effectively memory bound to operate every 4 cycles (1 M-cycle, roughly 1mhz). The GBC has a double speed mode, so to capture every possible GBC m-cycle Gambatte operates at 2mhz internally. We'll want to compare instead using the canonical ~4mhz GB T-cycle count, so we double to 22,620,664,960 GB t-cycles. Divided by the GB t-cycle clock rate of the Game Boy observed by Gekkio of 4.194304Mhz (t-cycles/second) http://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Game_Boy_Technical_Data We get a final time of 5,393.187 seconds (1:29:53.187), which corresponds quite nicely to the time observed during console verification.
http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/60945646847026200