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Please, Felipe, no one is threatening you. We just want to understand why you're leaving.
I don't understand what you mean when you say someone stole the idea for your "Perfect Bonus" Sonic 2 TAS. Is someone making a Perfect Bonus run of another Sonic game, and you think they took your idea?
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I think the best thing to do would be to find the codes for SpongeBob's position and position him behind the Chum Bucket Lab doors, then see what would happen.
I can't test any of this out, because I'm going to be studying for final exams the rest of the weekend.
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<Nach> the best part about CoolKirby is the mood avatars
<Nach> some of the best on the site
<CoolKirby> Thanks Nach!
<Guga> Agree.
<nitrogenesis> my name is short for Gus von Eiffel no Shintzu Mysterious Scientific NitroGenesis Caliban Potato
<CoolKirby> You really think so?
<Nach> CoolKirby: yes I do
<rog> ya, CoolKirby has god-tier avatars
<nitrogenesis> my mood avatars are all dodongos, except for about 5 which aren't used very much
<Nach> nitrogenesis: not able catch him?
<nitrogenesis> heh
<nitrogenesis> Nach: can i have a sausage
<Nach> nitrogenesis: after CoolKirby has
<nitrogenesis> CoolKirby is very allergic
<nitrogenesis> and I'm older then him
<nitrogenesis> so let me have the sausage!!!
<Nach> than*
<Guga> the mood avatars of nitrogenesis are cool too.
<nitrogenesis> Or I'll sacrifice Garfield
<Nach> Nitrogenesis: After Coolkirby Has
* CoolKirby inhales the sausage
* Nach gives CoolKirby a large pot and a chef's hat
<Nach> Guga`: CoolKirby is calling you for dinner
* CoolKirby pulls everyone on IRC into the pot and stirs thoroughly.
<Guga> Kirby making food.
<Guga> Yum.
<CoolKirby> Lots of sausages for everyone!
<Nach> thanks CoolKirby, Guga` tastes quite good :D
== nitrogenesis [8e44bfc2@gateway/web/freenode/ip.142.68.191.194] has quit [Ping timeout: 245 seconds]
<Guga> lol
<CoolKirby> Hm, nitrogenesis quit. He missed his sausage.
== nitrogenesis [8e44bfc2@gateway/web/freenode/ip.142.68.191.194] has joined #tasvideos
<nitrogenesis> hello again
<Guga> hi nitrogen
<Nach> Hello sir
<nitrogenesis> damn disconnects
* Nach rips off nitrogenesis foot and devours it
<Guga> you missed your sausage
* Nach offers the other foot to CoolKirby
<CoolKirby> If you don't take the foot off, Nach, you're coming with it.
* Nach gives CoolKirby some extremely rare peppermint candy
* CoolKirby inhales Nach's other foot
* CoolKirby takes down Kaboola with the power of the Mint Leaf
* Nach gives CoolKirby a microphone
* AngerFist hugs nitro, there there, there there.
<Nach> It's karoke time everyone!
* Nach runs for cover
* CoolKirby uses the first mike
* CoolKirby uses the second mike
* CoolKirby uses the third mike next to a button and gains 255 glitched mikes
<CoolKirby> Hooray!
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jlun2 wrote:
Is there a walk thru walls code? Maybe we can use it to check. :)
This page is the best resource of cheat codes for this game I've found (most other sites just have a few of the same codes (the lame ones like Infinite Shiny Objects and Infinite Underwear). You're free to search for a walk through walls code, but I haven't found it yet. I think if you could change SpongeBob's speed (with Cheat Engine?) to a really high value, you might be able to go through walls.
In case you haven't seen these yet, this is COEL625's video about beating both final boss levels without the Cruise Bubble, and this is his video about beating the first boss form without either the Cruise Bubble or the Bubble Bowl.
jlun2 wrote:
If you made a savestate during the battle, closed game, played back the dtm, and reload the state, there's a high chance the boss behaves slightly differently.
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DukeNukem007 wrote:
I always thought the game was interesting, even though the physics are bad...the graphics are really not that much worse than the SNES version. The music is pretty bad, although our own Dragon Warrior time-attacker Acmlm has a home-brewed SMW .nsf that sounds almost as good as the original if I'm not mistaken.
I played this game about two years ago and I also thought it was interesting. The music and sound effects always annoyed me, so that's probably part of why I stopped playing. (Seriously, what's with 13:15 in ISM's run? Is that supposed to be the Starman music?) The pirates really should've put as much effort into the sound as they put into the graphics. Is Acmlm's .nsf the castletheme remix? I really like that one.
I liked watching ISM's TAS too. He did a great job with what he had, and I enjoyed seeing what the game looks like past level 2.
You know, if a run of a pirate game like Super Contra 7 could be accepted, why not a run of this game?
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jlun2 wrote:
Just curious, but exactly what is the planned route for the run?
Edit:
Does the Robot Spongebob battle level get triggered by going behind the door, or pressing A with 75 spatulas?
No one has posted a planned route yet. Currently, COEL625 is working on finding a way behind the door or out of bounds in the Chum Bucket to possibly skip the 75 spatula check. It's not known if it will even work, but that's why we're testing it.
In the final boss battle(s), the Bubble Bowl is only necessary for one of the brain holes, and the Cruise Bubble can be skipped entirely. So if we could beat Robo-Sandy and go to the Chum Bucket with 16 spatulas, we might be able to Bubble Bowl Boost into the door. Again, this hasn't been tested yet.
I definitely thought the speedrun would be done by now, but we haven't even heard from the speedrunner in months. It would be very helpful if we could just see what his route looks like.
jlun2 wrote:
You'll need it to play back this .dtm showing the last boss glitch.
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I haven't played this game, but I found this pretty entertaining. It's like the Resident Evil TASes (haven't played those games either), only with some annoying constantly changing camera angles. The graphics look really good for an N64 game, and maybe that's part of what kept me interested. It's also clear by the way you avoid enemies like the Black Knight and the Tiki that it's tool-assisted and optimized for that matter.
This has already been accepted, but yes vote anyway.
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I absolutely love it! This must be the fastest the site has ever run! This was a great move and I want to express my appreciation to everyone who helped move the server.
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Nach wrote:
I use TASVideoAgent for all my notification needs.
I'm away for a good part of each weekday until next month, so I appreciate knowing when threads have new replies and when I get a new PM (since I reply to those first) since I can't be on IRC.
Well, the problem appears to be fixed now, so thanks to whoever fixed it.
I'm also really enjoying how incredibly fast the site is now. On every computer I've been on in the past few days, the site posts replies and loads even movie pages very quickly.
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If the person who filed the copyright against you doesn't own the rights, then you can dispute the copyright claim. There's a form on YouTube for that.
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feos wrote:
Even PM notification failed to arrive.
I noticed I'm not getting PM notifications either. I would appreciate it if someone could fix this fixed soon (though no one probably saw this topic had new replies because they didn't get the "Site Bugs" e-mail notification).
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Since the site was moved to a new server earlier today, I have not been getting e-mails for all of the topics I am watching for replies. These topics still signal that I am watching them for replies, but I am not getting any notification that someone has made a new reply. All of these topics were being watched before the server change, and this is the first post of mine on the new server, so I'll have to see if I get an e-mail notification about the reply to this post.
Other than that, the site is really fast now and I haven't experienced anything close to a 500 error since the server change, so I want to thank everyone who helped move the site.
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That didn't seem like 18 minutes (not counting the credits). It felt like 5. I was very entertained throughout the run, and there are so many great moments (other people have listed some of them). I can't give this anything other than a Yes.
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This is the current fastest any% speedrun by Paraxade (5:39:56).
One of the biggest glitches in this run is the BiT (Back in Time) glitch. A paragraph by Paraxade from this page explains how it works:
Mkay, so there's a new glitch in Skyward Sword that breaks the game fairly significantly...Basically, you kill yourself, then on the Game Over screen, select "continue" and immediately reset the game in the home menu. This results in being spawned on the title screen, so you can access the file select screen while running around in Skyloft. If you go to a bird statue, then save and load a file with the same A button press, then you'll spawn in the map you're saved at, but at the XYZ coordinates of the statue in Skyloft. This leads to breaks where you can be teleported to rooms halfway through dungeons or to OoB spots which allow you to access places early.
Support for the Wii MotionPlus accessory was added to an old revision of Dolphin, but the current master and more-save-fixes builds do not support recording movies with the accessory, and it would take a lot of work to implement MotionPlus in current Dolphin builds. Unfortunately, this means a TAS of this game cannot be started at this time.
Until a run can be made, strategies and route plans can be discussed here. I will be updating this first post of the thread with the newest WIP and other important information so it can be easily found without requiring viewers to search through dozens of pages to find what they're looking for.
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You would ask someone in the thread of the game you're working on. If there's someone that's been helping you by posting in the thread, ask that person. Otherwise, you can just ask in the thread if anyone wants to make the run with you.
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Just ask someone who's also interested in the game or TASing the game. If they say yes, you're on a team. You will each do part of the run, and so both of your names will appear when you submit it. Then you will have co-authored a run.
Also, welcome to TASVideos!
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That video on YouTube appears really unoptimized too (though it's not a speedrun by any means), though I think either the character is slow or the game is just really laggy. Either way, we can't verify that the uploader didn't skip parts of the game or something sneaky like that, and keep in mind that this is the first input file of this game being completed.
JayTheBrainMann, I haven't watched the movie, but you never mentions it being tool-assisted. You just refer to it as a "speedrun". If you didn't use frame advance and savestates to make the run, then it's not a tool-assisted speedrun (TAS) and it doesn't belong on this site.
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SaxxonPike, the run has already been published and already obsoleted both the "glitched" run and the "NewGame+" run.
There is still room for an optimized any% run on the site that does not use save corruption, but for now, this run is the only Chrono Trigger run on the site.
All of this information is in the comments above.
