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Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Just click the drat thread this is literally not an issue. If there are links it's a VLP and if there are pictures it's an SSLP. Easy peasy.

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Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:

Warning: the final boss is unbeatable on modern systems. Yes, even with the GoG version. I'm not sure of the exact cause, but in essence it moves too fast - getting too many turns and preventing you from winning.

Stuff like that is usually caused by the speed of modern CPUs compared to older systems, and there are programs you can download to artificially limit that speed.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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I like 50x50 Bowser Face Left.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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The Ayshkerbundy posted:

I love how nonsensical this all sounds out of context

Out of context, it kinda sounds like stuff the Half-A Press guy would say about speedrun strats.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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The issue with webms, and this may have been changed since the last time I encountered it, is that if you have too many, it can really strain some computers. Though, like I said, I think it may have been changed so that webms don't autoplay anymore, which would solve it.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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There was an LP of the Japanese-to-Chinese-to-Vietnamese-to-English bootleg of Pokemon Crystal a few years ago, so go for it.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Manage separate files through Audacity.

I know that's not what you want to hear, but there's only so much you can do with full audio chat recordings. Getting separate recordings for each commentator is common practice, and not even that hard to work with.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Back in the wild west of the late 2000s early 10s, there was a lot more of this stuff because SA was seen as kind of the premiere place for LP and to be ~internet famous~ but then LP became more popular on Youtube and monetization came along and then Twitch and now LP's more chill.

It also didn't help that the early LP forum had like the biggest stick up its rear end until like 2013 or so.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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I hope Richard can game n go with the Nintendo Switch.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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No, I was free. We were all free.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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I read a little bit of the original out of morbid curiosity a few years ago and my favorite thing about the MLP fandom is how the show introduced a zebra character as an analogue for not judging people based on their appearance, and the bronies loved to have zebra pony race wars in their fanfic.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Need some opinions on image sizes. The top image is at the same resolution as my capture footage and the bottom is resized down a bit. Is the top too large or could I get away with that size?



Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Yeah, my worry was more that they'd be too big to scroll through a bunch of them all at once without being annoying.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Yeah, I'll probably have to rerecord, this is much better. Needed to change my recording setup.

Waffleman_ fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Apr 23, 2020

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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kethryveris posted:

Let's see if I remember how to do the thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhgnxdLxe8I



Not entirely happy with the compression issues from Youtube - the source video looks much better. I'll see how actual battle videos turn out since most of the rest will be screenshot.

Where's my Laura Bailey :colbert:

E: But yeah, it doesn't look awful as is, just an increased resolution would help. Looking forward to this one, I love this game. Seems like everyone I meet is in a Sakura Wars spirit.

Waffleman_ fucked around with this message at 00:23 on May 4, 2020

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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I think a lot of those have archive.org links.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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There's a few other sites around the internet that still do SSLPs, but none have the real presence that SA had.

I've got Sakura Wars backed up already, so I'm good to go wherever.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Jeffrey buyin' it

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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I'll try to fire up the ol' shop when I get home.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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I feel like if all else fails, the major characters all have their key art ripped, so you could just crop those as a last resort and ditch the emotions.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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The only reason I'm doing emotion portraits in Sakura Wars is that it's piss easy for me to crop them with an Irfanview preset since they're all in the same place on the screen.

Even then, I kinda wish I hadn't it's a big pain in the rear end.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Do screenshot LPs. Free yourself from metrics.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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I think it was a result of one of Lowtax's meltdowns a few years ago.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Yeah, I think C&I retained a large enough following that they're probably fine as they are on YouTube and Patreon.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Doing some prelim work for a new LP and just need an opinion on portraits. The game doesn't really have sprite rips, so I'll probably be ripping them out from the screenshots myself for portraits. I just want to see how the resizing feels.

This is the sprite as extracted from the screenshot I took for a test at my gameplay resolution. Bit big, right?

This is me resizing the sprite at about half of the size. It doesn't feel quite as sharp as the raw extract, but the size feels a lot better to me.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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I'll ask you to use its full name, Chroma Squad: Inspired by Saban's Power Rangers™

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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I got some old Retsupurae on my recs a bit ago and it's got me watching more of that stuff out of nostalgia for when loving everyone was playing Mario World

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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So I had another run at Chroma Squad image settings, and this time I decided to lower the game resolution to 720. This results in screenshots like this:



And portraits like this with no need to resize.

But I worry that the screenshots are a bit big and it's kinda awkward to size down without messing up the text or making it very small. The next smallest resolutions available are extremely tiny and I'm not going to play like that.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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So I tried a quick 1080p recording and did the 1152x648 resize and came out with this



Which also gives me portraits of this size!

I think that's the ticket.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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I'm gonna be honest, that's just how the text is. I'm running the game at the highest resolution it'll go. It looks like that in the raw screenshot. That particular font they use for the smaller text is just not great.

Like, it's so thin that it's hard to retain the overall crispness and also make the font look good.

E: I think this works?

Waffleman_ fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Jul 20, 2021

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Yeah, I had been experimenting with resamples myself, and I think the pretty slight drop in crispness is a price I'll have to pay. I think it helps that the sprites use a lot of just solid colors without a whole lot of shading, which doesn't make the artifacting as bad as it could be with pixel art.

Waffleman_ fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Jul 21, 2021

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Yeah, the next step is to record for the test post.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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I for one think it's cool this rom hack replaced the charming young Andy with some frosted tips PUA dingus. Real Chad.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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You don't need to do teases, just post it when you have it.

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Whatever happened to the classic lovely rom hacks where you just had Mega Man say a cuss?

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Dick Gamingo, the porn parody version of Richard

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Richard Gaminwent

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Evidence that we should reinstate the Pokemon ban

Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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He put the "rules of making an LP" in his drat signature.

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Waffleman_
Jan 20, 2011


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Part of me feels bad because the guy clearly doesn't understand social cues, but then I remember the amputee fetish Pokémon game and Advance Wars But Based.

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