Adelikat

This is the personal homepage of Adelikat.

I have been a member of this site for about 3 years now, and have contributed several TASes. It should be apparent that I had a deep preference for NES games. However, I enjoy TASes of all platforms. According to Humanmetrics I am an iNTj. (I don't normally take personality tests but I was bored.)

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My Completed Movies

I am the author/co-author of 34 currently published runs:

(Go vote!)

  • NES Mike Tyson's Punch-out!!in 19:28 "Clock Stopping Glitch"
    • This movie uses the clock stopping glitch to achieve lower clock times for many opponents but it is over a minute slower in real time. Cancelled due to lack of interest.

  • NES Tecmo Super Bowl in 08:15
    • Over a 5 minute improvement to the published movie. The entertainment value wasn't as good according to many people. Cancelled due to poor response.

The fast completion time is because this was an incomplete rom that left the gamer's debug codes in. So it was simply a matter of level selecting and hitting the end level code.

  • NES Archon in 1:31
    • Never submitted. I personally don't think this makes a very good game choice for a TAS and it is a very unknown game.

  • NES Dragon Warrior 4 in 2:26:07
    • My first version of DW4 and intended as just a test run. I didn't submit because there were so many known improvements. It was a bit too unpolished for publication.

  • N64 Glover in 1:00:35.97
    • This was just a test run to learn the basics of the game and find some tricks/glitches. Nothing was optimized. The next version improved it by almost 20 minutes.

  • NES Marble Madness in 2:54.63
    • Version 2. Cancelled because I found some minor improvements. (Version 1 is a test run that I never submitted and no longer have).

  • NES Contra (Gryzor) in 09:39 "1-Player Pacifist"
    • Version 1. Cancelled when it was shown that the level 5 tanks didn't have to be destroyed by dying and running through them. While this is much slower it better achieves the pacifist goal.

  • SNES Ardi Lightfoot
    • A test run to see this game's potential. Verdict: Not much. Didn't think it was publish worthy so I didn't try to do a more optimized version.

TODO: dig up links + add info

  • NES RC Pro AM.
    • Abandoned because it didn't meet my expectations. But I might return to this at some point. If someone is interested, I have ram address info & new info about the "orange car" glitch

  • NES Dragon Warrior 4 v3
    • Abandoned due to heavy desync issues, a rom crashing bug, and a weird input bug that made me lose a huge chunk of work. I guess this wasn't meant to be >.<

  • N64 Hexen
    • Abandoned because the N64 port of this game is just too highly problematic. In addition, there were significant plugin problems. Too bad I can't make a TAS of the PC version ^^

Commentary/info on each of these TASes can be found here.

Site Responsibilities

Editor

Not too active in this function. I mainly just help keeping the movie pages updated.

I have this fantasy of making some nice game resources pages, especially for the games that I have TASed but that looks more and more unlikely. I also would like to make a TASing tutorial, but when it comes to typing stuff like this, I am lazy. :P

Judge

I am an active judge on this site. As a judge, I try to look at all submissions in queue and try to give some feedback, even games that I am not familiar with. I try to prioritize and give older submissions priority.

The things I look for when judging a submission's fate:

1) The most important thing I look for is if the game is suitable for TASing. By this, I mean that it requires some tricks/glitches/strategies in order to optimize it. Basically, the optimal solution must not be blatantly obvious, such as simply running to the right and hitting the level exit. The more complex the process of optimization the more likely I am to be interested in it.

2) In addition to having surprised, it must not get repetitive. Such as if all levels require the same "solution", if all levels and/or bosses look the same, or if the same technique is used relentlessly throughout the run.

3) How optimized it is. This is slightly different from saying how perfect it is. I am looking that the author has some sort of mastery over the "craft" of TASing. I.e., they are familiar with the basic techniques of TASing and employ them skillfully. The route is planned out. Known tricks & glitches were used, etc. This criterion also applies to improvements to published movies. If a movie beats a published movie but still has a lot of noticeable flaws or is known to be improvable, I may reject it.

4) Viewer feedback is important, especially when a movie is borderline. However, this is not a democratic system and I have been known to go against the audience. This is usually when the audience response differs from my assessment of 1, 2, and 3.

TODO: Describe in more detail and provide example movies.

Publisher/Encoder

As a publisher, I can currently encode/publish submissions of all the current rerecording platforms, NES, SNES, SMS, GENS, GB, GGC, and GBA. However, with SNES, I am limited to movies no longer than 20-25 minutes. For N64, I am hesitant to encode because I haven't been very happy with the quality of the ones I have encoded.

Also, I can't make movie screenshots for GENS (from a weird bug that only I seem to have).

I try to prioritize which movies to publish based on the following criteria: how old the submission is, if it is the author's first publication, ease of encoding.

A movie that is easy to encode may not necessarily mean it is short. Some movies have a high amount of identical frames which will be decimated or little motion which will mean faster processing. These factors heavily determine how long the encoding will take.

Also, I encode most of my own submissions.

Active TAS Projects

  • None particularly worthy of the label "active" at the moment.

Future TAS plans (many are tentative or just ideas)

  • Mario Kart 64 "All Cups"
    • I messed around with the first track of this but lost some motivation. But I badly want to see this TAS!

  • Double Dragon 2 - Found a new trick so I am planning to improve my previous movie.

  • TMNT v4 - I found yet another improvement that could save about 8 seconds (rough estimate) as well as various subpixel optimizations.

  • Contra pacifist v3
    • Lv 3 can be improved by one more jump glitch that I discovered while making the 2-player run. I have ideas for some more improvements as well.

  • X-men 2
    • One of my favorite games for Sega Genesis. I will see if I can improve the current movie somehow.

  • Golden Axe 2 and/or 3
    • Both of these have potential to be as funny and entertaining as the original.

  • Road Rash 2 (maybe 3)
    • It is a crazy idea, but I want to do a 2 player split-screen version of this. Player 1 will aim for pure speed while player 2 goes for a playaround, fights enemies, and does insane stunts/crashes. Player 2 will always get busted or crash out before player 1 finishes. This way the movie is still as fast as possible while still being an entertaining playaround - the best of both worlds. There may be ways that player 2 can help player 1 get faster times as well, perhaps bumping into his bike from behind to boost his speed? Needless to say, this will be difficult to TAS and will require a lot of planning.
    • I am thinking Road Rash 2 because Road Rash 1 doesn't have 2-player split screen and Road Rash 3 has much worse graphics and is longer. Though Road Rash 3 has a much better weapon selection and you can keep multiple weapons and keep them after a track is over. This might make the playaround part much more entertaining despite the worse graphics; so I may decide to do this game instead.

  • SMS Double Dragon 2-Player
    • The SMS version is a lot like the original NES version but with 2-player simultaneous mode, you start out with better abilities, and multiple enemy types on the screen at once. This has great TAS potential.

  • GB Tom and Jerry

My favorite TASes

adelikat's recommended movies

These movies are ones I think do a good job showing off the various aspects of TASing. If I were in charge of starring movies, these would be the ones starred. It would also be nice if each one could have some commentary as to what/how they demonstrate the art of TASing.

If you have any comments for me as a player, editor, judge, or publisher, PM me on the forums.

Get Firefox!Adelikat last edited by adelikat on 2008-06-14 23:32:06
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