Mike McKenzie showed me this page today...
http://www47.tok2.com/home/pepusi/index3

A lot of movies and a lot of sick times. After some of the vids it's pretty obvious to me that they (Hirano) are using an emulator to do these runs. Just watch the PC vid and how quickly he gets those boosts charged up. I don't think that's possible unless you are able to slow down the game and steer back and forth during the slide. Save states would also explain how he hits some of the insane SCs 3/3 like Ribbon Road. Thoughts?

Mark Jones   wrote on 07/15/04 at 03:45:41:


I can talk only on MC1 extra track, since i've not decent times on others tracks.
Hirano times are:
8,75  - 7,78  - 7,78 -  9,50 -  9,35  (1-1-1-0-0)
My best splits are
8,66 -  7,73  - 7,73 -  9,90 - 10,23 (1-1-1-0-0)
So if we talk only about shrooming laps, my laps are better  
And i dont use his wiggling/trembling tecnique to get early boost (how can be done?).
About non shroomers lap it's strange that  he got 4th lap slower than last lap, because the beginning of 4th lap is in the middle of a ticking tecnique...

Really dont know if he use an emulator but:
1) his time can be better
2) i wish to know the truth

termoPilucco

Yep it's those SSMT "zig-zag" boosts that lend me to believe that he is using an emulator. Basically you start a slide and zig-zag back and forth building up the boost... however he does this insanely fast and my guess is he uses an emulator to slow down the game in order to that. Actually I'm certain that he does.

termoPilucco   wrote on 07/15/04 at 05:59:20:

Now my 2nd and 3rd best lap time is 7"68  
So, in this laps, Hirano extra boosts are useless...
Or maybe he has better splits and is not using an emulator.

termoPilucco

Vincent_Zee   wrote on 07/15/04 at 22:30:50:


I experienced some disconnection with Hirano site.
Just download each file using a download manager (since resume is necessary when connection is unstable like this).

termoPilucco

i didn't know anyone made pal and ntsc games for wireless consoles.  unless nintendo planned on hooking it up to an antenna to receive tv signals.  isn't the gba game compatible with both gba systems, if there is a difference?

i doubt very strongly that there is a pal/ntsc difference on mksc..

i think it comes down to skill or emulation

Oh well, I have read this topic and I have compared those vids with the vids I have and for me it's obvious that that guy has played on a emulator, you can see that the graphics on the vids are not the same, it's more clear, like the emulators filters (where are the scanlines on his vids?), and you can notice that there is a small buffer in the sound like the emulator, how he could make so good quality vids from the gba screen? uh?

Look these 3 RR images, the first one is one vid I have from a real gba, the 2nd one is from his RR vid, and the 3rd one I took on the emulator here.







And I have a vid of someone getting that jump on sky garden on all 3 laps on a real gba.

Moritz

Well with the GBA player for the GameCube you can play MKSC on a TV and record the vids just as you would a Double Dash vid... using the video output of the GameCube. You can even use this to record replays of older runs you achieved while not using the GB Player. I know I tried it.

Moritz   wrote on 07/28/04 at 10:39:51:


Hmm, when i add a title or i re-encode the video, it's usual that i loose audio/video synch (crappy Pinnacle software).
Anyway your pictures show exactly the same colors in 2nd and third images... and since we can see a pixel precision map it seems that the Hirano image comes no from an analog source.
If we count that his wiggling tecnique seem to be impossible to do in real time...   bah... too sad.
Anyway most of his strat are great  

termoPilucco