frame-perfect

alternative frame perfect

1. not comparablevideo gamesOf an input, trick etc., performed accurate to the duration of a single frame.

   It also requires frame-perfect precision in execution, with particular inputs having to coincide with in-game timers and triggers.

   2019, James Newman, “Wrong Warping, Sequence Breaking, and Running through Code Systemic Contiguity and Narrative Architecture in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Any% Speedrun”, in Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, volume 4, number 1, Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 7–36

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   Immediate decision-making, twitch reactions, tight timings, microtemporal awareness and frame-perfect [4] performance characterize competitive play behaviors in fighting games, first-person shooters, MOBAs and real time strategy games.

   2018 December, Matt Knutson, “Backtrack, pause, rewind, reset: Queering chrononormativity in gaming”, in Game Studies, volume 18, number 3, →ISSN, pages 1–15

   Moment #37 is famous in Street Fighter 2, for instance, because its execution required virtually frame-perfect inputs, which very few players had the dexterity to perform. Another norm is that the sport be regimented and codified.

   2021 May 20, Stephen Mumford, A Philosopher Looks at Sport (A Philosopher Looks At), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 60