Purchasing a TASbot?

2016-11-18 04:13:04 pm

Keeper of TASBot

Quote from Unessential:

I recall the first time I saw a TASbot run, they were selling kits and prototypes to build your own TASbot. Since last year (now that I can afford one) I haven't been able to find any information on it. Who's involved with TASbot, and Can I still buy one of my own? it would be cool to just pick one up at the coming AGDQ if so. Prospect of just loading up TAS's on original hardware seems too cool to pass up. regardless of the desync rate

Hi Unessential, dwangoAC (organizer of the TASBot blocks) here. I have a couple of older replay devices immediately available and there are plans in the works for something new. I have one of true's NES/SNES replay devices (capable of playing back Pokemon Plays Twitch and other low-transfer-rate games) as well as one of true's Multireplay devices (a standalone / self-contained design capable of handling non-streaming content including SMB on SMW). Both would involve you paying true via Paypal and me shipping the boards to you. Unfortunately, true has limited information at http://truecontrol.org about the devices and I'll be honest in saying that at this point both of these boards are unlikely to see much future development as-is but on the plus side they are immediately available for shipment and are the devices we used at AGDQ 2014 through 2016. Neither board comes with cables which you will have to build yourself; this is typically the hardest part.

Going forward, there are loose plans for a new board designed by total using components suggested by true in the form of a Cypress PSoC 5LP devkit board with some pinheaders (raw initial code can be found at https://github.com/tewtal/tasbot). This will be a much cheaper option once it is fleshed out and will likely be able to handle more than the current boards can. You can stop by #tasbot on Freenode IRC for more details - if you don't normally use IRC, just navigate to http://chat.tasbot.net which will take you there immediately using a web client. I look forward to chatting with you and anyone else who wants to talk about replay devices. Thanks for the interest!

[quote="Unessential"]I recall the first time I saw a TASbot run, they were selling kits and prototypes to build your own TASbot.   Since last year (now that I can afford one) I haven't been able to find any information on it.    Who's involved with TASbot, and Can I still buy one of my own?  it would be cool to just pick one up at the coming AGDQ if so.  Prospect of just loading up TAS's on original hardware seems too cool to pass up. regardless of the desync rate[/quote]
Hi Unessential, dwangoAC (organizer of the TASBot blocks) here.  I have a couple of older replay devices immediately available and there are plans in the works for something new.  I have one of true's NES/SNES replay devices (capable of playing back Pokemon Plays Twitch and other low-transfer-rate games) as well as one of true's Multireplay devices (a standalone / self-contained design capable of handling non-streaming content including SMB on SMW).  Both would involve you paying true via Paypal and me shipping the boards to you.  Unfortunately, true has limited information at http://truecontrol.org about the devices and I'll be honest in saying that at this point both of these boards are unlikely to see much future development as-is but on the plus side they are immediately available for shipment and are the devices we used at AGDQ 2014 through 2016.  Neither board comes with cables which you will have to build yourself; this is typically the hardest part.

Going forward, there are loose plans for a new board designed by total using components suggested by true in the form of a Cypress PSoC 5LP devkit board with some pinheaders (raw initial code can be found at https://github.com/tewtal/tasbot).  This will be a much cheaper option once it is fleshed out and will likely be able to handle more than the current boards can.  You can stop by #tasbot on Freenode IRC for more details - if you don't normally use IRC, just navigate to http://chat.tasbot.net which will take you there immediately using a web client.  I look forward to chatting with you and anyone else who wants to talk about replay devices.  Thanks for the interest!