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[Murugo]

Aw man, I wanted TASbot to play Color a Dinosaur.

 

[Dai101]

Finally something worth watching!

TASbot should have it's own day.

 

[dreams]

Never understood why people like those TAS runs so much

Yeah, same. It's neat the first time you see it and then every time after it's like more of the same.

 

[CypherSignal]

NotLikeThis

i still don't understand how this super mario programming with tas works

It's basically this but generalized to other games: http://aurellem.org/vba-clojure/html/total-control.html

 

[LucidMomentum]

Yeah, same. It's neat the first time you see it and then every time after it's like more of the same.

It's like watching a magic trick. I always enjoy it.

*edit* GOIN GHOST

 

[dreams]

It's like watching a magic trick. I always enjoy it.

*edit* GOIN GHOST

Yeah, I mean obviously it's a huge draw, so to each his own! I'm glad that it pulls in a ton of donations at least.

 

[LucidMomentum]

TASCEPTION WUT

 

[robotrock]

Aw man, I wanted TASbot to play Color a Dinosaur.

same

 

[Zojirushi]

This reminds me of how they wasted that awesome rain effect in AlttP on the first two minutes of that game.

 

[KarmaCow]

That's just a video right? There's no way it's actually rendering SM64.

 

[jediyoshi]

Parallel universe Kappa

 

[robotrock]

PARALLEL UNIVERSE

 

[Envelope]

???????????????????????????

 

[Sax Russel]

TASBot segments, always bringers of the "wat"

 

[Jacobs]

How can they put a video in link to the past?

 

[Holden]

i have never been so confused in my life

 

[nubbe]

TAS are fun since it show how puny humans are

 

[Tansut]

I'm legitimately 100% baffled about what I'm watching.

 

[Death Metalist]

Holy shit

Let's bow down to our master.

 

[KarmaCow]

I guess I missed something but was it reading a video from an external source or was it actually drawing each frame with controller inputs?

 

[robotrock]

Why is portal running at like 30x20

 

[Envelope]

?????????????????????????

 

[riskVSreward]

How can they put a video in link to the past?

I assume there's an exploit that accepts inputs as code similar to SMB3 and they just compiled it on the fly??? I doubt you can fit a video in the sram, but also I don't know what I'm talking about.

It's awesome to watch though.

 

[Jacobs]

They are streaming a video to the snes or something?

 

[CypherSignal]

I'm legitimately 100% baffled about what I'm watching.

They loaded up a video player on the SNES, and the video "file" is being streamed via the inputs on the controller.

 

[Aeana]

This is also certainly accomplished via the MSU-1 custom chip for SNES which lets it play FMVs and CD audio.

 

[LucidMomentum]

Why is portal running at like 30x20

Because it's a homebrew video player that they loaded inside A Link to the Past and they're using controller inputs to "play" the video file.

 

[robotrock]

Because it's a homebrew video player that they loaded inside A Link to the Past and they're using controller inputs to "play" the video file.

They loaded up a video player on the SNES, and the video "file" is being streamed via the inputs on the controller.

ahhh wow

nuts

 

[Tansut]

They loaded up a video player on the SNES, and the video "file" is being streamed via the inputs on the controller.

Okay. My brain accepts that. Thank you.

 

[linko9]

They should really take more time to explain what exactly this is, in terms of hardware, etc. Like, could I take a snes and LttP cart and a robot and make that happen? Or is that some MSU1 hack running on a SD2SNES playing a video file?

 

[robotrock]

so portal is a video file and not being played in real time?

 

[Zojirushi]

That's how I played Portal.

 

[CypherSignal]

They should really take more time to explain what exactly this is, in terms of hardware, etc. Like, could I take a snes and LttP cart and a robot and make that happen? Or is that some MSU1 hack running on a SD2SNES playing a video file?

You can take a SNES, LttP cart, and a robot, yes. They literally have a raspberry pi playing back the pre-reocrded inputs through to the SNES ports.

 

[jediyoshi]

They should really take more time to explain what exactly this is, in terms of hardware, etc. Like, could I take a snes and LttP cart and a robot and make that happen? Or is that some MSU1 hack running on a SD2SNES playing a video file?

It's all real hardware. Controllers/console/cart, what's being manipulated are the inputs.

 

[jett]

Super Mario Maker event denied for reasons.

A 5fps video of a Portal TAS though? Approved!

 

[Reversed]

i don't know if portal is actually writing a program in game.

 

[Tukker]

Yeah, same. It's neat the first time you see it and then every time after it's like more of the same.

Isn't that the same for each speedrun though? At some point you just know what is going to happen once you know all the tricks in that specific game.

 

[OTIX]

They're really doing a terrible job explaining what's going on.

 

[Envelope]

Super Mario Maker event denied for reasons.

A 5fps video of a Portal TAS though? Approved!

SMM didn't make it this year?

 

[dreams]

Super Mario Maker event denied for reasons.

A 5fps video of a Portal TAS though? Approved!

They did a mystery tournament instead. Chill.

Isn't that the same for each speedrun though? At some point you just know what is going to happen once you know all the tricks in that specific game.

It is, which is why some games aren't in year over year. Some stay in every year only because they bring in tons of donations. (for example, TAS block, which I said earlier)

 

[Suzushiiro]

It's all real hardware. Controllers/console/cart, what's being manipulated are the inputs.

Yeah, they're basically using controller inputs to load a video player that can decode video being streamed to it via the controller inputs.

 

[dickroach]

They're really doing a terrible job explaining what's going on.

yeah. this should be cool, but i'm sitting here just thinking 'wtf am i watching'

 

[BasicMath]

Super Mario Maker event denied for reasons.

A 5fps video of a Portal TAS though? Approved!

Mario Maker is probably going to be a once every 2-3 GDQs thing like a bunch of other popular runs. I imagine it's a pain to organize too. It requires level designers and 8 good Mario runners plus 2-4 backups. The only thing that is tradition and is staying is Super Metroid and that's because it gets insane donations.

 

[ZangBa]

I like TAS runs normally, but these are weird and kinda boring.

 

[StopMakingSense]

I wonder if this is something they had to do to get around some no prerecorded TAS thing.

 

[GeoNeo]

Was that just a FMV running on SNES hardware? They did not explain much at all.

 

[LucidMomentum]

JAMES CHEN!

 

[Dai101]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

 

[atomic moth]

Poor James doesn't need this embarrassment

 

[TheChits]

lol James Chen