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Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie1 year ago

Yeah the whole thing with the last room that was loaded applies here. In this case the last room loaded was the 3rd room (since you were there before dying and restarting the level), and so since you didn't hit the trigger to load the next room, it sent you to the 3rd room.

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Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie3 years ago

Beat the game, whistleless%

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Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie3 years ago

Ok, one of the mods confirmed that the moderation is fine with this setup. I guess we can lock this thread(?)

Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie3 years ago

Well it wasn't gonna be used by who had it so me and my dad picked it up. Its big and heavy AF. I wish i could adjust the overscan but apparently the button combination I need doesnt seem to work so rip You gotta get lucky with CRT hunting, thats all I can say

Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie3 years ago

Are you kidding me rn? That's literally what happens when you focus the camera onto the screen of the TV, the way the camera captures the pixels makes that happen

Test it by yourself if you can

Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie3 years ago

This is, after the whole 2J record thing happened the mods require me to meet requirements like hands, game, TV and console to all appear in video.

Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie3 years ago

This is just a way of making sure that the moderation is fine with this, I don't want to go and use it and then have people thinking that I'm doing something shady, and that would cause a billion problems for no actual reason. I just want to change to this setup since its easier to get it to work than the one with capture card, and it improves quality overall (mostly bc I'm able to properly set up my camera in a way where it looks just as good as a decent capture card) while being able to stream without having to use jank methods like for it to work like I do with my cap card. The only one requirement I couldn't really meet with this setup is simultaneously showing the console with the rest (that's the one reason I'm even asking at all) so I wanna know if the moderation is fine with it.

Picture of the setup: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/672461115556626446/767467990135996426/IMG_20201018_161905.jpg

Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie3 years ago

Well 8-4 IL is already done in a hacked version of SMB1, and this feature has existed since 5.5, so I can't see why not allow her.

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Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie3 years ago

nevermind I found it, it's so obvious

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Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie3 years ago

But is it hidden or is it just obvious and we never figured it out

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Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie3 years ago

Well not peach%, just "Allow 8-4 IL runs with peach or something" if we can trigger that without having the game to break

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Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie3 years ago

@pellsson uhh... Is there any intended way of triggering that?

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Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie3 years ago

First thing you wanna do is activating 60hz Antibanding, so then the raster effect won't happen. Then you want to change the exposure to like, kind of low. Tap once on 6-step decrease and then tap once on 1-step increase. Then you try adjusting the focus to not make the TV look like there are a lot of black lines and curves across the screen, so make the focus be a little far from the TV screen so then it's a little bit unfocused, but not too much. And then just turn white balance off.

Those are the things I do for CRT cam.

Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie3 years ago

Maybe call it 'Any% Wrong Warp' or 'Credits Warp' or something of that nature.

Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie3 years ago

Looks good for me! Since the newer versions of the emulator show their versions when resetting, I'll keep just capturing the game without the menu and the tab because they pretty much look bad on the stream layout. But I'll show after every finished run the whole desktop with my cam so people can see everything that I'm doing. And I also like the idea of renaming the 'Any% Glitchless' to something else. Either just 'Glitchless' or 'Beat the Game's like @dadinfinitum said.

Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie3 years ago

I'mma add some information that I figured out in the time being and it's actually going to be helpful for my future submissions.

Regarding on the slower framerate issue, I found out why that happens:

"It has already been proven by many users that there is a big difference in the color issue of the national NES (PAL-M) compared to the American NES (NTSC). In the American NES the colors are much more vivid than the national one where the colors are strange and dead. But why does this happen? A: Because in the Brazilian NES, transcoding was carried out using an OffBoard board connected outside the motherboard of the console, it was said to be "poorly designed", and in addition some electrical tracks were broken and the NTSC 21.48 Mhz oscillator crystal (3.579545 MHz) was changed. ) replacing the Cristal PAL-M with 21.45mhz (3.575611 Mhz) frequency. All this modification slows down the performance of color processing causing dissatisfaction for some demanding users."

What that means is that the Licensed Brazilian company that sold NESes here pretty much had to adapt the console to the Brazilian color standard, and the way they did it involved changing the Oscillator Crystal from the one that is used on NTSC NESes, to a little slower one for technical purposes. That means that can be reverted by just removing the PAL M board and swapping the crystal with the original NTSC one, which will both make the console run at the right speed, and run on NTSC.

And that has a really good outcome: I'll be able to use my capture card to record the game footage, and so, I'll be able to use my cellphone as a handcam so then I can meet the requirements mentioned on the document about this whole situation. I'll have to talk with the moderators about the power and reset buttons being on the stream and I'll try to make them visible if possible.

"But, why couldn't you use you capcard before?"

If I used it on my NES, this would happen: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/399305290987601920/709919205482299442/IPC_2019-12-25.14.20.07.1130.jpg

All because my capture card doesn't like PAL M devices. The same issue happens with my Sega Master System. I can use it but only if I play on an NTSC console. I have SMB3 runs submitted with it and they were done on my PS2 (with an emulator, bc back then that was my only way of playing NES games) which is NTSC.

And also I 100% understand the moderators decision on the verification of the run, and in my opinion it's the best decision they could make at this moment, so then we can avoid future misinterpretation and issues about this whole subject.

Addition 1: "Broken Frames"

As mentioned on the document, you can see that there is a frame where a part of the title screen is still on the screen, and the other one is almost 100% blue. Similar effect happened on 4-4, where the top part of the screen is still a black screen, and the bottom part is the level appearing.

I'm not entirely sure of the exact answer of why that happens, but I have an explanation that approximates to what really happens. First, the scanline effect can indeed happen from bottom to top, and top to bottom. It just depends on the frequency of the CRT and the camera's shutter speed. I'm not sure the order of the effect (if it is from top to bottom or bottom to top), but I know the possible causes. On streamlabs mobile, you can go to camera enhance, and then tap on "Antibanding". I choose the 60Hz option since it's the best for my console. It gets rid of the scanline effect but artifacts like the broken frames can be seen. The camera shutter ends up picking the light that comes from the CRT at the middle of its frames, making it look like the frames are broken into pieces. The way I set up my cellphone is by rotating it 90° to the left, and there's a good reason for that. If I rotate it 90° to the right, the effect looks even worse, maybe splitting the frames into 3 or more parts because of the way the camera's rolling shutter captures the light.

Validusername asked me about my setup and he tried to reproduce the effect, here are his results: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/707657400009752712/709921262255997068/20200512_211401_rmedited.jpg

That is an effect that happens with every CRT TV and camera, it just depends on the way both the CRT displays frames, and the way the camera's shutter captures light.

I might add more infos about this in the future if I need to, but for now this is what I can say.

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Rio de Janeiro, BrazilLeKukie4 years ago

Easier strat:

Faster strat:

362 could be possible with power up strats... I mean if a REALLY old small mario TAS could get 362 why not with powerups :) Desc on the works.

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