Is the only reason to choose NG+ to skip 3 minutes of intro story? Because if that's the only reason, I'm not sure it's justified. In general TASes should start from a clean slate, not some previous save.
The parts of the game skipped by NG+ are inconsequential and uninteresting from a speedrunning perspective, and I'm sure this run can get into moons anyway.
'Note that for future purposes, testing this workflow is still encouraged.'
While you couldn't submit a TAS of TGM3 on Wine on LibTAS right now, having a proof of concept TAS would be an excellent way to jumpstart the process of these TASes becoming acceptable. (Maybe start with something easier though?)
Back before YouTube was big, I had to use the torrent and download links to put them on my hard drive and watch them later. Nowadays YouTube is too convenient to pass up on, but I imagine the alternate encodes are great for anyone who has a particular favourite TAS, or needs something they can watch later without internet access.
(As for fastforwarding, YouTube has playback speed settings and time skip and scrubbing, so it's sufficient for that too! It even has frame advance, it's kind of nuts how good that player is as long as your internet is strong.)
The initial question doesn't specify a specific probability distribution that the random amount of face up/face down cards should satisfy, does that matter or is any distribution ok?
I suppose one could make the argument that completing a single game would count as completion but I believe that would also be fairly trivial and therefore also unacceptable to Vault.
All the games share the same money count, right? So surely it doesn't matter which game you play, the goal is just to hit the maximum amount of money, which is the end of content/best possible state to reach?
Which is a copy of Puyo Pop Fever, which spawned a LOT of clones!
This game was released in November, in 2003. It's another Robotnik's copy, one of the latest copies I would say.
Just to be clear, Mean Bean Machine is a clone of Puyo Pop, rather than the other way around:
International releases
The 1992 arcade Puyo Puyo was translated to English with character name changes and minor visual changes to the Harpy (renamed Dark Elf) character's skit.[citation needed] The Game Gear port of the 1992 arcade game, when used in a non-Japanese Game Gear, loads a similar version titled Puzlow Kids; however, the Game Gear version never officially left Japan.[citation needed]
Instead of directly translating the Mega Drive version of the 1992 arcade game, Sega decided to replace the Madou Monogatari cast with Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog villains. The resulting game, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, was released in 1993. Nintendo followed suit in 1995, modifying Super Puyo Puyo into Kirby's Avalanche (Kirby's Ghost Trap in Europe). Spectrum HoloByte also released a Puyo Puyo title for Microsoft Windows 3.1 and the Macintosh in August 1995, under the name Qwirks.[9]
