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Grandma's sweater, of course.
And that was all.
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To start with SRAM for Xtreme Mode.
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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I haven't tested it. I wonder if the difference Balloon makes would be enough, though. I see it can save several seconds in Skull Man's stage, but on the other hand, I wouldn't have Hell Wheel in Dive Man's stage. Hell Wheel saves a truckload of time, especially with TAS ability to control it. It'd also lose a lot of time actually getting the Balloon in Dive Man's stage, which requires fighting another miniboss (with the pea shooter), which will also take a lot of time.
I doubt it'd be worth it. I'm guessing Hell Wheel alone will make up for the difference in Dive Man's stage, and getting Balloon in Dive Man's stage without any weapons is also going to cost at least half a minute, probably a whole minute. I don't see Balloon making up for that much time.
Also, taking the detour and saving Beat in Skull Man's stage I'm fairly sure would also take more time than it would gain.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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There's really not so much choice here... there are only a handful of authors who did more than one run, and there's even only just one with more than two.
I nominate mtvf1. His MegaMan Battle Network TASes are quite nice.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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I nominate goofydylan8. He wins by a pretty wide margin, basing on quantity - with 15 NES runs published in 2012. They may not all be very interesting, but the technical level is consistent and he did make some quite nice TASes.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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I nominate mtbRc, for his multiple very high quality, very entertaining Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin TASes.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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I nominate turska and Bernka. Bernka for his highly optimized Mega Man X (and Mega Man clones) runs, and turska because he has achieved a lot, just in one year.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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I nominate Nahoc and SwordlessLink.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Excuse me for the delay, I forgot I hadn't judged this run yet, and it has also been a busy time with the season's holidays. I have accepted your run now.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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I suppose it could save a bit of time, but I'm not going to fix it. It's likely it will cause desyncs later on, and it's only a glorified testrun anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Very nice. I love the way the game physics are abused. Yes vote.
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<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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It's because of the flood system throughout the stage, though it isn't really visible because I go through most flood sections too quick for the floods to appear.
Heh, the game has a few juicy bits of Engrish throughout the game. The funniest one though is in the game intro (which is skipped in the run). Apparently the game takes place in the Reploid Research Lavatory. ...yeah.
As for the route, I start off with the intro stage (duh), and get Zero's Saber+1. (Saber+1 costs 200 souls, but I get 200 from the intro boss, so this is no problem). This way, Zero is the most damaging character to bosses as he can do 4 damage with an airslash (killing them in 8 hits).
I start off with Flame Mammoth and Tunnel Rhino, as those have a few quite useful weapons which also serve as weakness weapons to other bosses. Fire Wave does 6 damage to Wire Sponge, and Drill Crush does 5 damage against Wire Sponge (again), Overdrive Ostrich and Neon Tiger. So I do Wire Sponge and Overdrive Ostrich next.
During all stages so far (particularly Overdrive Ostrich's stage, with the autoscrolling sections) I luck manipulate for many soul drops to appear, so that I have 1000 souls by the end of Ostrich's stage (I get 200 for every boss (800 total), and the other 200 souls are collected throughout the stage. 1000 Souls unlock Buster+2, so I buy Buster+1 and Buster+2 in the shop for 200 Souls each (leaving 600 souls).
Now X is the most damaging character, as his X-Buster shots do 5 damage to bosses now. The next four bosses could be done in practically any order, but I figured to do the bosses with more useful weapons first. Ray Claw is useful for Launch Octopus, Marine Tornado is useful for Volt Catfish, and Tri-Thunder is useful for Blast Hornet.
I stick with X throughout Sigma 1, as both characters do equal damage to Velguarder, but I switch to Zero in Sigma 2 because Isaz & Sowilo are weak to Drill Crush as well as being more useful during the last part of the stage. Also during these stages (from Neon Tiger to Sigma 2), I collect 200 souls, so I end up with 6*200 = 1200 souls from bosses, adding to 200 souls collected and 600 souls I already had to 2000 souls, which is just enough to unlock Zero's Saber+2. Now Zero is the most damaging again, with air slashes doing 6 damage to the standard eight bosses and even more to the fortress bosses (8 to Sigma and 9 to Gareth). So the rest of the run consists of Zero slashing everything in his way again.
A brief rundown on the glitches:
Wall clipping - Most of the time (depending on positioning), moving into a wall causes X/Zero to clip into the wall for one frame, which allows them to ground-jump off them with no delay. This is used a lot throughout the run. Also very useful for dashjumping. I also use this sometimes for other actions, such as Zero's Fire Wave.
Rapid walljumping - like Xtreme 1, pressing A every 7 frames causes X/Zero to ascend walls quickly.
Hitbox abuse - quite simply, hitboxes are weird. Most notably, Zero's wall slash has a ridiculously tall hitbox, and it's possible to cancel the slash into an air slash while retaining the original hitboxes. Sometimes, I abuse those hitboxes to do hits that appear impossible.
Damage recoil cancel - like the SNES games, the recoil from taking damage can be cancelled by catching a wall.
Retaining above-water speed in water - by frame perfect jumps in the water, never walking or standing on the ground, I retain the speed I have before entering water. Used throughout most of Launch Octopus' stage.
Gareth invincibility glitch - Basically, he turns vulnerable again when he gets hit by a spear (which also damages him). Combined with Zero's upgrades, I manage to do 9+2+9 = 20 damage near-instantaneously.
Those are the most notable ones I can think of at the moment.
It's possible to go to Berkana by playing as X when the cutscene starts in the first section of Sigma Stage 3. However, I found out it was impossible to complete Berkana's stage within the scope of this run. X needs the airdash to go through one platform section of Berkana's stage, which I don't have. (Yes, Mega Man Xtreme 2 is about on the same level as X6. Without an airdash, X will just get stuck at some point where he'll have to kill himself on spikes)
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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I haven't had much time for it lately; I've been busy with some other TAS projects (which are finished now) as well as real life matters leaving me with not a lot of time to TAS.
I'm planning to get back to this run, but I can't say exactly when. Hopefully in the near future.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Yeah, I'd like to know it as well.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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What the hell did I just watch? o_O
...not going to vote anything on this one.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
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<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Glitch.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.