The RTA WR is on White 2 ( http://www.twitch.tv/sinstar20/c/2545915 ) but I don't know if it means anything for TAS or not
Also werster picked White 2 as well, having this to say:
"Black 2 vs White 2:
The difference between these games come from the layout of different areas. The first plasma first adds an extra battle for White 2, but the second one has two less battles in White 2. Reversal Mountain also has one less battle.
Time saved for White 2: 2 battles, ~2 minutes"
So unless there's something TAS/segmented only to exploit in Black 2 over White 2, White 2 is coming up as the winner.
I already thought about a G/S/C run as well, since there seems to be no run of it (not counting the glitchless run), but I don't know much about the glitches in this generation, yet, and they are not as well explored as in Gen I afaik. Also, it appears to be harder to gather information about it (e.g. I wasn't able to find any reliable information on the glitch used in the video you linked). There will be a lot of research to do first, but I may be up for it in the near future.
I suggest you approach TheZZAZZGlitch ( http://www.youtube.com/user/thezzazzglitch ) and PM him. He is an experienced glitch hunter in RBY and GSC (he helped demonstrate an arbitrary execution glitch in gold with the coin case, for example) and knows his stuff
Extra bonus if it could be used as a regular gamepad as well (perhaps there could be a switch to select which mode it is in.)
Indeed, it would be a great feature which could make the device look more credible in the eyes of casual gamers.
Actually, it would be even more awesome if the gamepad could also log the buttons while in the "normal gamepad" mode, and then replay these while in the "TAS replay" mode (mode 3?). This would introduce even the most ignorant people to the concept of logging and replaying input (without needlessly bringing the next, complicated step: tools like savestates, etc). And no problem if these replays are going to be desync-prone - even a single successfull public attempt to replay World 1-1 of SMB should be enough to get the idea.
Rules for puzzle mode:
-You can only make one 'stroke' that can't overlap itself
-Every horizontal line must be made entirely black or entirely white
If you think the TAS is boring, try to solve each puzzle before playing the solution. It gets hard in the 30s etc :)
Are you sure that's true ? o_O
I don't know this site, I only uploaded my video over youtube, and 88k views in 4 days seams impossible...
Anyways, I put this in descision : canceled and will post new version when done.
It's true, anyone can see the view count. Nicovideo has a larger TAS watching community than youtube does, and I've seen entertaining enough TASes break 100k in a few days (for instance, TASeditor's lttp TAS broke 100k easily)
Of course nicovideo viewer count isn't a measure of TAS quality, just a novelty :)
Shaving frames off of an already contested, heavily optimized run is impressive. Even if it might not be a viewer-spectacular experience, it will improve your TASing skills a lot to do :)
Yes vote. I like how this arbitrary execution glitch is seemingly unlike any other in that it doesn't involve a single item or the inventory screen whatsoever.
IMO the timing used should be when 600k (or 500k) is hit, not when input ends, as that's what Sim City RTA uses. It also results in a wildly different strategy - wanting to make the perfect, fastest growing 600k (or 500k) city, not just the minimum required to eventually get 600k (or 500k). For example, what if you found an input that just baaaarely hits the population count and takes years to do so?
Sorry but i'll vote no. Stopped watching on first boss, even if the WR do any% and you 100% boss strategy MUST be the same.
Yours lose time between you and WR.
WR in NonTAS
Hi, here is the real time world record for Attack of the Killer Tomatos:
Link to video
Make sure to steal its strats and beat it by at least 3 seconds :)
I just thought of something else, for TASes that have 60Hz vibrations of movement it would be good to see if the stream can be capable of displaying what's going on (e.g. is there a good deblinking filter that works in real time?)
I'm like "Dafuq happend" right now. Let me pick up my jaw and mind up from the floor!
One strong yes from me, now I hope to see a TAS of the new Zelda 3DS in the very near future, I'm sure it will be good as well, tho there's still a possibility to get Skyward Sword TAS.
There is currently no emulator for 3DS. But maybe in the future...
After looking at the console verified videos, I think Marble Madness, SMB2 (warpless if there's time, warped otherwise) and Tetris "fastest 999999" would also be strong choices. Of course, I also think that if you're bringing a bunch of TAS bots to an event where everyone is bringing a bunch of games to play and speedgame, you should use this great opportunity to attempt to console verify as many TASes as possible (probably mostly NES given not many SNES runs being Bizhawk yet, but hey), and maybe the options will change at the marathon itself. That would be sweet~
If you're going to be talking about TASing during the block, I think you should be sure to emphasize that TASers and speedrunners help each other out, by proving glitches and tricks and routes are possible to each other and discovering new stuff about the game, and both 'sides' improve the times of the 'other side', and that many speedrunners also TAS. It might also be worth talking about a different kind of TAS which I hear called a theory TAS, which is to demonstrate a mistake-free real time route, not to go for full speed, but to show how good an RTA speedrun route can get.
