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I love this new route, MrGrunz! I would rather see a run using this route than a traditional RBA run, as long as it's not too much slower than the traditional route.
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I think all three modes have the potential to make a great run. There could be runs on this site for Air Ride, Top Ride, and City Trial (all getting 100/120 boxes, since some take too long to be entertaining).
I might make a City Trial any% in the future, or at least work on some test runs.
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Vykan12 wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPmvNChWjMI
Someone actually made a video about whether wrong warping to the credits is considered beating the game. *Facepalm for the ages*
At least he agrees with the OoT TASers that it really is considered beating the game, and he's not clamoring for separate categories.
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I had a fever yesterday, so I had one of my rare crazy dreams last night: I was in one of the computer labs in my school, printing some papers. Just then, real, full-size printers came out of the printers, all having price tags that said $12. I asked the computer lab supervisor why the printers had price tags on them, and he told me that he was giving every student a printer for working so hard in the lab, and for the extremely cheap price of $12, we were allowed to keep it. It then occurred to me that printers don't print printers, and I asked him why the printers were printing something other than paper. The supervisor looked at me like I was crazy and said, "They've always been able to print printers." Not doubting his dream logic, I paid him and took home my new printer. (Yes, we happened to be dismissed exactly at that time.)
When I got home, my parents told me that we were going on a three-week vacation the same day. So I set down the printer, packed my stuff, and we left for vacation. I don't remember where we went, but I think it was a beach somewhere. We returned way sooner than I thought we would, and it occurred to me that I hadn't even changed my clothes. I asked my mother why the vacation was so short. She told me that she misspoke earlier: it wasn't a three-week vacation; it was a three-day vacation. Before I could react, she suddenly left to visit her sister, and my father said "Well, back to work," and left for work, leaving me home alone. I started excitedly setting up my new printer, and then my dream ended.
EDIT: Just had a dream where I could TAS in real life. I built a house really fast using my powers and everyone was amazed. It had to end eventually though...
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I'll have to see whether using a blank memory card and saving the game after each spatula would be worth it timewise. It's kind of sad how it's limited to one use per slot.
I don't think your Jellyfish Fields post-slide skip is going to be of use in this run. There are two easy spatulas for rescuing Patrick and completing the cave. Patrick is also needed immediately after for Drain the Lake and the Clam Skip (since it appears he jumps higher than SpongeBob, which is essential for this skip).
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if we can find a way onto that rock we can skip the shell and save a load of money
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I could try adding a delay frame or two. It's possible that, like Lord Crump and Zess T., triggering an event on a different frame number will cause frames to be saved or lost later. So having different input in the Prologue will probably cause a difference in timing later in Chapter 1. It's hard to find what effect a frame or two difference will have until later in the Chapter. Luckily, there are usually platforms I have to wait for, so this isn't too much of a problem.
Also, the RNG depends on the frame number, since being a frame or two off caused a stage prop to fall on Mario or the Blooper during the Blooper battle, and being two frames off in the second area of Petal Meadows caused a Paragoomba to move from one side of the screen to the other. The two frames I was still ahead were lost in the beginning of the third area, when Goombella stops me to tell me about the Tattle ability.
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I also watched every level that you uploaded, and so I can definitely give this a Yes vote. This is an impressive and quite fast-paced run! I haven't watched aleckermit's speedrun, but I think the skips are really planned well.
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Thank you for uploading a YouTube encode, turska! I wouldn't have been able to watch the run otherwise.
Nice run! Lifewater Oasis, Crystalus, and The Perilous Pit were all really good. Voting Yes!
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Peachtotheinfinity wrote:
3. If for some reason you might need the lighting bolts constantly alternate left and right to charge it faster (the faster you alternate the faster it charges)
Plasma might be good for Destruction Derby, so this could be useful.
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8. I think if you go on one of those vine things it is as fast as going in the air.
I think you're right. You can go pretty fast on the rails, especially if the machines have "run amok" (AKA charge tank running wild).
I like your list, but I was thinking of making one with all of the achievements from the U.S. version and listing how difficult or long I estimate they would take.
I also was planning to make a run of City Trial that earns as many achievements as possible in 5 minutes (and the stadium event too). It would be a good first step to a City Trial TAS (which I don't plan on making).
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jlun2 wrote:
For some reason, my Kirby's Air Ride dtm file never syncs unless I manually delete the save file within the memory card. Are other builds of Dolphin like that too?
Do you mean that your movie starts by creating a save file on the memory card, so when you try playing it back, it doesn't work because there is already save data on the memory card? I'm not sure what else you can do in this situation other than deleting the save file every time you want to watch the movie from the beginning for now. Once you get past the menu, though, you can make a savestate and just play your movie back from after you saved the data every time.
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I use a keyboard for everything except GameCube TASing. When I'm working on a GameCube game run, I have my Logitech gamepad's buttons mapped like a GameCube controller, with the two joysticks being the Control Stick and C-Stick. I work on a laptop computer, so I'm sitting over my keyboard anyway, so I can press my frame advance button and savestate buttons on the keyboard without changing positions.
It helps me to have the gamepad set up like a GameCube controller, since I know the GameCube controller well and I wouldn't know which buttons to press if the buttons were mapped to keyboard keys. I also find this setup comfortable.
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I haven't been able to work on this at all because I've had lots of homework and projects to work on and school in general has taken up a lot of my time. I'll continue working on my run today, but I just wanted to let everyone know why I haven't been posting updates on this recently.
Also, getting Goomther and Professor Frankly to face backwards is not an emulation glitch. Goomther does turn around and walk backwards on certain frames, and Frankly does face backwards if you take a certain path to the Goomba Gang cutscene.
EDIT: OK, so I saved 4 frames in the Prologue, but those frames were eventually lost through loading screens in the beginning of Chapter 1, so I ended up saving 0 frames total. Well, the Prologue looks a little different now, but anyway, this means I can continue working on Chapter 1!
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I would still recommend editing your original post so it looks better.
Also, I only listed the PSX version of Chicken Run because the PlayStation is currently emulated better than the Dreamcast, so a PSX version run is preferred.
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I agree with c-square that the PAL key part is boring, but the rest of the TAS was really entertaining and well-made. Congratulations on finishing the run after all this time!
Yes vote!
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You can easily edit what you wrote for any amount of time after you posted it. I've changed information recently in some posts I wrote months ago. Just click the "edit" button next to the "quote" button on the top-right corner of your post, make the changes, and click Submit. You have to be logged in to be able to see the changes, but it would definitely be a good idea to edit your original posts.
By the way, the games you listed divided into PSX games and Non-PSX games are as follows:
PSX: Crash Team Racing (Adventure, All Characters), Crash Bandicoot 1 "100%", Crash Bandicoot 2 "100%", Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Croc 2, Chicken Run
Not PSX: Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (GBC), Mario Party 1-3 (N64), Mario Party 4 (GC), New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) - all different categories, Croc: Legend of the Gobbos (GBC), Croc 2 (GBC), Luigi's Mansion (GC) - all endings, Crash Bandicoot XS (GBA), Clue (1992 SNES game or 1998 PC game?), Super Mario Galaxy (Wii), Super Paper Mario (Wii), Legend of Spyro (which one?), The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii)
You can post the names of these games in the "wishlist" topics of their respective consoles (which are in each "Games" section, i.e. NES Games, DS Games, etc.). I don't know which game you mean for "Clue" or "Legend of Spyro", but be sure to note which one you mean for each of those in the wishlist topic you post them in.
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The TASVideos forum can be weird with keeping several games or hacks in one thread or branching them out into several threads. Super Mario World and Super Mario 64 have lots of threads for different hacks but some games have posts about hacks mixed with posts about the original game (though I can't think of any examples).
Speaking of keeping the N64 Games section clean, there are lots of threads about Super Mario 64 (improvements, "16 star", etc.), some threads that aren't even about games (like "N64 analog stick" thread), and threads asking where the topic for a specific game is (like Donkey Kong 64), with only one reply from someone linking to the correct topic. And there's even a thread called "Wind Waker" (which is an incorrect name for a GameCube game). The older threads of the N64 games section are a mess and I wish that section could be cleaned up so it looks better (but I'm not an editor, so I can't do it myself).
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ThatGugaWhoPlay wrote:
I will take care of ALL THE ENCODES. I will start in Monday.
Monday, as in six days from now?! If anyone wants to make a temporary encode before that time, you should let them make one so more people can see the completed run.
I think I'll probably watch the run on the emulator so I don't have to wait six days.
