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It's just because of color limitations. You can only have three colors for one sprite, so if the background's mostly the same color, they can get away with having the background color being the imaginary fourth color.
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Randil wrote:
Fun fact: Did you know that Circus Charlie (the character) doesn't have any eyes? If you look carefully, you'll see that Charlie's eyes are always the same colour as the background. Doing all those crazy tricks without having any eyes is really impressive!
He must have two tunnels straight through his head! The original Bomberman had the same problem. The buttons on Mario's overalls in Super Mario Land were also holes to make them look shinier.
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I think it should be all in one file so you don't need external saves. The movie itself would unlock Wily Tower and complete it. But if anyone disagrees, speak up now!
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Well, it's been discussed before. http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1385 Mazzic finished one movie and started on a final version, but that was four months ago, so I don't know how he's coming along now.
As for warps, I don't think there are any legitimate ones, but Spoonshiro submitted a movie that skips some of the levels for reasons yet unknown. Maybe you could do more investigation on what happened there.
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Oh, I used to play this game. It's pretty hard, and it would probably look good as a movie. I would go for the first 48 levels, but if you think that's too boring, then 24 would be fine.
What pickups are helpful in this game again? Would it be worth anything to pick up NINTENDO, if for nothing else than to show off the other car designs?
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I think it's okay to bring this back up now.
So is Frenom up to the task of recording all four games in a row now that we've found a ROM that can save? I'm looking forward to seeing the last few mistakes ironed out--and it'd be great if some of those "get hit and pause" situations turned out to be unnecessary.
Boco wrote:
..but her comments on plot, characters, and other things within the section of the site devoted to canon works shows a decided lacking. For one, she considers Captain N as canon. I don't think I need to say anything more, unless you want specific examples of her being completely and entirely wrong.
No, go on. Where did she ever say that Captain N was part of the real story? Because I don't remember that. (Mainly I get curious once in a while as to what game series purists consider "canon"...)
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