Okay, I can't stand still.
Yes I know there is a Dick Tracy topic here, but since there is only 3 posts in it, I decided not to bump a more-than-a-year-old topic.
First of all, I'm not having holidays for a long period of time, so I won't have a lot of spare time for now, but I still wanted to ask questions to everybody.
Now second of all, this game is one I played long long ago, and it means a lot to me to complete a run of it. I would like some people to see it, so I wonder if you can call that egocentrism, playing to get famous or whatever, but I want everybody (I mean everybody) to have fun watching it no matter how it will be rated and I swear I'm going to do it as entertaing as perfect.
I just found too bad Dick Tracy had been forgotten by everybody, I didn't find any tips about it, not too many people know about that game although it was revolutionary and nobody knows it in France (The only one that wants to do it real-time is zfunk007 at sda, I congrat him because he will do it on hard mode. This game, being cool, is also hard to finish, so a real-time run is more conveinient.). The point is : All the tricks I had to get have been discoverd by myself, except for the shooting and punching while jumping.
Then my first question : If you have any tips about the game, anything, let me know. I found about jumping right while facing left, about jumping over a crouching person. I don't know anything about the game, so I'm just playing with instinct. Don't worry, my stunts are still pixel-perfect, I just use a lot of savestates twice or more for the same thing.
I didn't finish the first scene, but anyway it is useless if no one find the challenge I set for the game entertaining. I kill people at the background, but it might be too hard to understand (You don't see the guy getting hit, he just dies). I kill more people than needed, this delaying me of some frames, but I don't kill everybody, which is not really entertaining.
So my second question : Do you think I should do a 100% kill/destroy? One that has not played the game will find Tracy especially slow, so I should better aim for the real fastest time. And seeing him redundantly jumping to destroy everything on earth can be fun, as it can be boring. But I still like a 100% a little bit better.
It's okay if you can't answer for now, I'll finish quickly multiple vids of the different categories, so I could get more accurate opinions.
But if you played that game, do not hold back. I'm doing the thing slowly (around half a minute every day), but I have no reason to say I might stop it.
So?
Repost edit with major update : I finished a flawless and an entertaining one. The flawless aims for fastest time as possible with no break bonus (I don't destroy anything, no phone booth and all) whereas the entertaining is not well-made (problems with frame advance, it is 1 sec slower than a flawless one), but kills almost every enemies on screen.
The fastest is
here, the older one is
here (omg I even put authors comments in the old one O_o). Tell me what you noticed. Some may be what I already know, and these scenes are way not definitive, so just put your comments here.