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Awesome Games Done Quick 2016: January 3rd - 10th.

I just watched a run where he was on the couch commentating so... I doubt that's true?

I think he's allowed to be there but can't run. But apparently he had trouble with staff and stuff looking at him weirdly.

I don't get the flashing cart thing though? What happened there
 
It's replaying the inputs but it is finely tuned to running on a console and is prone to getting out of sync. I think with the Sonic Advance TAS run at SGDQ last year they had to manually connect the controller inputs, pin to pin to get it synced.

Yes but how is everything going exactly right for it. Aka bowser gets this item, hits this player, etc etc, how does the random ai not mess it up, especially a game like Mario Kart just seems weird. I understand a super mario world or something tas run as all enemy spawns etc are identical.

But is Mario legit... That predetermined?
 
I haven't seen the TAS Blocks from previous GDQ's. Were they just not as good as this was? I see some people aren't too fond of past ones.

Some people are just against the whole idea since it's not a person playing but generally it's well received. Stuff like the total control of SMW and Pokemon Plays Twtich from past GDQs were hits.

Yes but how is everything going exactly right for it. Aka bowser gets this item, hits this player, etc etc, how does the random ai not mess it up, especially a game like Mario Kart just seems weird. I understand a super mario world or something tas run as all enemy spawns etc are identical.

But is Mario legit... That predetermined?

I'm not sure about MK64 but I assume the RNG starts out the same on boot so with precise inputs throughout they can deterministically plan out a route. There's less intensive versions of this like in Golden Sun where you can forced certain drops by using certains skills and killing enemies to reliably manipulate the RNG starting from boot.
 
Anyone know what song was playing during setup just now?
It might have been Rainbow Road's music from Mario Kart 64, if it I'm thinking about the same song
Wait, you can space jump behind the finish line to complete a lap?

Normally it doesn't, but I'm assuming it works on courses that have walls on either side of the finish line and I guess the game doesn't check for people going around the stage in such a fashion.
 
I haven't seen the TAS Blocks from previous GDQ's. Were they just not as good as this was? I see some people aren't too fond of past ones.

They were even more ridiculous in previous years. Last year they had TASbot execute arbitrary code in Pokemon Red to get a fully functional, real time twitch chat into the game with emotes.
 
I think he's allowed to be there but can't run. But apparently he had trouble with staff and stuff looking at him weirdly.

I don't get the flashing cart thing though? What happened there

He had a cartridge of a golf game that he wanted to run for this agdq last time and flashed it and the organizers thought he was trying to circumvent the normal application program.

But if I understand it right that was a misunderstanding and it's good now(?)
 
They were even more ridiculous in previous years. Last year they had TASbot execute arbitrary code in Pokemon Red to get a fully functional, real time twitch chat into the game with emotes.
twtich chat through pokemon red, through supergameboy, through SNES.
that was ridicoulus.


That was the first one.

The mk64 tas was a small bonus, the real TASblock starts in a moment

First one so far

thanks. nice
 
I'm not sure about MK64 but I assume the RNG starts out the same on boot so with precise inputs throughout they can deterministically plan out a route. There's less intensive versions of this like in Golden Sun where you can forced certain drops by using certains skills and killing enemies to reliably manipulate the RNG starting from boot.

This.
 
Missed it on stream, does someone know when they do the songs in the KH1.5 run (like which world or soemthing)?
Looks like it drew a huge crowd, too. I'm guessing that's mostly because it got lucky airtime-wise? I didn't think Kingdom Hearts was that popular to watch.
 
They could've chosen a better game for this challenge tbh

if they had chosen a known game, there would be no race. The only way the race works if it's a game nobody has any knowledge of beforehand, so they can give the human runners a chance by letting them practice, while the TAS has to be done in a few hours.
 
That was like the one of the worst genres they could've picked for viewers to learn how the game works in a few minutes, let alone watch 4 playthroughs at the same time. Even they had trouble knowing who was ahead at all.
 
Good concept having runners race a hastily built TAS, but being a game so unfamiliar to viewers made it very confusing.

Agreed.

did anyone watch the Ratchet & Clank run? I wanted to watch it but didn't wake up in time.

Can anybody who has a clue explain wtf is being said here?

I guess "NES Open Golf Cart" is speedrunner code for porn or something?

He wanted to speedrun a golf game, but GDQ said no. He waved a golf game around on stream.
 
if they had chosen a known game, there would be no race. The only way the race works if it's a game nobody has any knowledge of beforehand, so they can give the human runners a chance by letting them practice, while the TAS has to be done in a few hours.

They should have just used a few newly made Mario Maker levels or something.
 
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