Dune 2000 - September 15, 2014

2014-08-08 10:20:35 am

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Due to having more limited time now than when I originally signed up for this, I would REALLY like a staff verdict on the black frames issue before I sit down to watch all of this. Sorry if I am being a royal pain with this.

UraniumAnchor

2014-08-08 10:30:46 am

Not a walrus

Sorry, thought I said that the black frames are probably due to an older version of Yua. We'll try to get them fixed up in post, if that's the only problem then we can give it a tentative accept for now.

2014-08-09 10:17:29 am

Heavy Metal Powered

Alright, will start watching the improved videos tomorrow.

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Shaokhan: 2014-08-17 04:16:04 pm

2014-08-17 04:13:03 pm

UraniumAnchor: By black frames you mean flickering? The flickering is definitely on my side, as I see this inside the game without any recording at all.

LotBlind: Man, thanks a lot for your dedication Smiley

UraniumAnchor

2014-08-17 07:56:46 pm

Not a walrus

Oh, hell, if it's the game then of course it's ok. Tongue

Not much you can do about that with a game this old.

2014-08-18 10:27:33 am

Shaokhan: Can't wait for the other A/V things to get sorted out so we can finally be done with this Tongue

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Shaokhan: 2014-08-21 12:27:13 pm

2014-08-21 12:25:40 pm

Quote from UraniumAnchor:

Oh, hell, if it's the game then of course it's ok. Tongue

Not much you can do about that with a game this old.

Only possibility would be to revive one of my old PC's, but then I'm not sure if I could get same or better play times and if not more issues would arise. Not to mention the time I would have to put into that. Maybe if I make time improvements then I can bear this in mind to do it on the old PC?

LotBlind: I'm not really sure if anything needs to be done right now except Warepire needs to give the verdict?

2014-08-21 12:42:56 pm

I hope UA at least realizes that I've told him several times there were entire completely corrupt encodes that were not just flickering. So yeah there's something more to be done for sure. And I maintain some of them have the wrong aspect ratio as a problem of secondary importance.

2014-08-22 01:50:07 am

To be fair, when I watch the videos in the browser, the aspect ratios don't feel like any issue at all. But what I noticed, for example this video "Dune 2000 Atreides Mission 9 - Version 1 (Hard)" is very dark for me and not mentioned in the excel, anyone else experienced this?

UA: Could you also rename in /dune2000/hard/ the files with "(faster)" to their appropriate names (so they look like the rest), i.e. remove the brackets and the word "speedrun".

Apart from that, only A2-1,A3-1,A6-1,O3-1,H2-2,H3-2 Easy difficulty is left to re-encode if I'm correct?

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LotBlind: 2014-08-22 11:47:20 am

2014-08-22 11:39:55 am

You listed six of them so yeah that's probably the re-encodable ones. Didn't notice darkness issues.

Does the aspect ratio look like this for you?

I just noticed that one of the videos I had already watched has some problems (???), the one you mentioned, the Atreides 9-1 hard doesn't have sound and has some mostly grey frames at the beginning? Looks like only the 9-1 hard uploaded into the "new" folder has that issue, as do some of the others in there. That's why I wouldn't have watched it again. Atreides 8 hard has the same thing but again the old encode was good (I just checked)... So there definitely is a set of runs available that doesn't have A/V issues OTHER than what have been brought up now if you start from the "old" ones and fill in from the "hard" and "easy" ones.

2014-08-22 02:58:30 pm

LotBlind: Yeah that's what it looks like. There will always be black parts, either on top and bottom or left and right.

2014-08-23 11:24:07 am

But that's hardly relevant. This way it has both the black AND a weird aspect ratio. To me it looks much worse like that than the others with black all around. I basically had a hard time adjusting my eyes to it when seeing the first such video.

2014-08-23 11:29:35 am

Well, I couldn't see any difference, depends on the person I guess Cheesy

2014-08-26 01:22:50 pm

Heavy Metal Powered

Been too busy lately to even log in, but I have been watching videos whenever there has been free time, and here is what I got so far:

Here's the verification of the new files, there's not a lot to say, it would pretty much be a reiteration for every level.

A/V: Great, assuming the problems are fixed.
Cheating: none detected.

Improved missions, hard difficulty:
Atreides: Accept, much cleaner.
Harkonnen: I time the mission to be slower by about 15s than the previously submitted file. Is this accurate? If so, reject to use old attempt.
Ordos: Accept, much cleaner.

(Note: Some missions are stubs of / the same as the previous submitted file, those are probably just to make the list look complete.)
Newly submitted levels, hard difficulty:
Atreids: Accept.
Harkonnen: Accept.
Ordos: Accept.

Easy IL table:

Atreids:
Missions 1-4 accept
Mission 5 is slower on easy than hard by over 10s, why?
Missions 6-7 accept (mission 7 watched)
Harkonnen:
Ordos:

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I also want to point out that some missions have different corruption than black frames due to the source being wmv, I am open to help rendering working source files for these if necessary.

Been too busy lately to even log in, but I have been watching videos whenever there has been free time, and here is what I got so far:

Here's the verification of the new files, there's not a lot to say, it would pretty much be a reiteration for every level.

A/V: Great, assuming the problems are fixed.
Cheating: none detected.

Improved missions, hard difficulty:
Atreides: Accept, much cleaner.
Harkonnen: I time the mission to be slower by about 15s than the previously submitted file. Is this accurate? If so, reject to use old attempt.
Ordos: Accept, much cleaner.

(Note: Some missions are stubs of / the same as the previous submitted file, those are probably just to make the list look complete.)
Newly submitted levels, hard difficulty:
Atreids: Accept.
Harkonnen: Accept.
Ordos: Accept.

Easy IL table:

Atreids:
Missions 1-4 accept
Mission 5 is slower on easy than hard by over 10s, why?
Missions 6-7 accept (mission 7 watched)
Harkonnen:
Ordos:

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I also want to point out that some missions have different corruption than black frames due to the source being wmv, I am open to help rendering working source files for these if necessary.

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Shaokhan: 2014-08-29 05:09:03 pm

2014-08-29 05:07:22 pm

Warepire: Nice you are seeing the big picture.

Improved missions, hard difficulty Harkonnen: Looks like you are right lol, I don't know how that happened.

Atreides Mission 5: Well, perhaps because the higher difficulty doesn't necessarily mean the passage will be easier. It's about triggering the right AI instructions that make the engineer pass that appear to be quite random. The basic idea is that you should send the engineers right away, as most people will probably start this mission by building units.