HOLY SHIT YES Code: 10--EIHoppe---------------- M - 999 @ 08:38:81 - 09/08/10 Inp If someone (Ai? Edo?) could work some conversion magic that would be amazingly awesome. HOLY SHIT YES EDIT: Inp link fixed. lol I am good at copy-pasting guys.
Excellent!! Very nice 20G speed. I'll provide a video before the weekend if no one's doing it sooner. Make sure to post a proper link to the inp file.
Congrats on the M, EIHoppe! I just encoded the video for you, however I'm noticing that there are some garbage frames present, with the picture shaking occasionally. I don't know whether this is caused by bugs in mame's built in -aviwrite function, or if there's a problem with my encoding process. Anyways, unless Ai wants to have a go too to see if he can produce a better video for you, I'll upload what I've got some time tomorrow.
It is a bug. I had the same problems with my TGM1 Gm and with Kevin's Death/Master Gm. Only thing you can do is remove the frames manually if you feel like wasting a bunch of time.
It appears that mame's -aviwrite is spitting out garbage at precise intervals of 9192 frames. I don't know if any of you want to look at the source code to see what's causing this...
I've had the same happen to a few of my movies when I was using -aviwrite in MAME. I remember encoding the same video 3 times before realizing it always happened at the same spot. At the time I thought something went wrong while recording the .inp file. I use Fraps now, but it doesn't work for Texmaster and a few other programs. Anyway I'll provide a movie later this evening if it's really bad.
My M video is uploaded to Youtube here. Thanks, Edo. (also, sorry, Ai, I got word from Edo that you uploaded yours just as I finished uploading this to Youtube!)
It's okay. Don't worry about it. Very nice play and the invisible roll wasn't bad. I would have freaked out and messed up big time.
S2 @ 10:26:38. My practice slowed down since I realised that my arcade stick could transform my Touhou gaming too! Anyhow, coming back after a break has brought a freshness with it and I have been getting into the S grades on Nullpo a lot and also got my first silver SK in MAME TAP finally. My 20G technique has come along and I can usually keep locking until I die in TAP now, although I definitely still don't have the repertoire to play indefinitely. It feels like I have a platform to attack the S grades now though. I hope I can rack up another grade or two before the end of the year, what do you guys think is realistic to aim for?
Well S2, S3 and S4 are actually very close, so I'd frankly be very surprised if you weren't at least S4 by the end of this year. Depending on how seriously you take your tetris, and what other commitments you have in your life, I would say that even S8 and S9 are not beyond your reach. By the way, I keep on forgetting, you're a UK guy, right?
S3 and S4 usually come really quickly after S2, so I think you could probably aim for at least S5, if not S6 by year's end. Depending on how much time you have, S7 is not out of the question as well. It all depends on how much time you're willing to invest. I wouldn't be surprised if you get S4 sometime soon though. Very nice progress, though; keep working on your 20G skills! Those are certainly going to make or break your TAP Master progress. EDIT: Beaten to the punch by Edo.
Thanks for the encouragement. I started out last December with no experience of serious tetris and not knowing what 20G was. The first half of this year I pretty much played every dayand read up on the wikis, mostly only 3 or 4 games though and stuck with TAP since I wanted to learn as much stacking technique as possible without resorting to Hold. I got to grades 2 and 1 before the progress slowed up, with 20G being the obstacle for a long time. After much perseverance and frustration it finally feels like keeping a decent 20G stack shape going can be achieved without too much active concentration and I can start thinking about continuing to push for speed and aim for tetrises. The speed at TAP ~800 still feels OK, it's the technique that's the limit still. Yes Edo I am in the South of the UK. I am 35 this month and probably wouldn't have spent so long on games at this point in life (TGM's not all I play by a long shot) but I've been off work for a couple of years while I got a kidney transplant from my dad! There's been so much time to pass so among other things finding time for tetris has been easy. While this situation continues I'll still be playing for sure, and I'll probably keep practicing most days but at some point I'll have to get fit & healthy / back to work / a wife etc and who knows where that will leave my TGM time! I've played other NullpoMino modes too (Nullpo is fantastic) - I qualified S1 in Classic3 Grade Mania 3 and my score table is S3 and S4s only now I think and I clear 150 lines of 20G in 0.95 -> 1TPS. TAP is what I am looking to concentrate on though.
Hey look, I'm capable of getting more than one M! Gold SK, and it bumps me up one place, too. Good stuff. Code: 9--EIHoppe---------------- M - 999 @ 08:32:45 - 09/16/10 INP P.S. I checked the INP link and it actually works this time around. For serious.
