That's a dirty little trick you found there! Getting tetrises without a long piece, cheater! ;) Interesting that dropping down to level 18 actually results in a faster time due to this trick. I love when the counter intuitive prevails.
*203706 <BagOfMagicFood> Battle Chess isn't officially controversial until Xkeeper posts some sarcasm about how it shouldn't be
Unfortunately if this run is accepted it would set a precedent for obsoleting a very optimized (U)/(J) version with an unknown level of optimization on the (E) version.
While "CCC" may be a common unassisted playing goal, it fails to be an impressive TAS goal. If anything, because the goal itself is doable unassisted.
The truth is that'll hardly be a problem because we don't reject bad submissions because we don't have enough room for them. We reject them because they're bad. The goal is keep accepting submissions that are good. We know such submissions because entertaining ones will remain entertaining, and technically competent ones will remain technically competent. There is no particular reason nor need to restrict the amount of either of them on the site explaining that with lack of room.
No. As a long-time SMB player, I disagree to play Super Mario Bros in PAL mode, if the glitch doesn't work on NTSC mode, it shouldn't be called a glitch, I'm not sure if that's cheating. Edit: I've discussed this with Chinese best SMB players (including GAP, MFGI), we all think that the E version is a terrible version, it shouldn't be allowed here. I'd like to hear what klmz thinks.
Also, the "use the USA version where possible" rule started, I think, because there was an assumption that the vast majority of visitors to the site would be English speakers who would find games in other languages confusing and not interesting to watch. If that rule really is still in effect to any degree, it should probably be reevaluated.
Searching by stroke count sucks; don't do it. Search by parts/radicals instead. This is the best one I've seen: http://jlex.org/search/parts Once you have the kanji (or if you already have it), dump it into here: http://www.manythings.org/kanji/search/ This will give you the meaning of Japanese words with this kanji. It might save you from searching another kanji.
In case anybody is wondering, the game is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. We had problems getting the graphics to decompress properly for a long time.On the other hand, the X1/X2 dual TAS has had a star for quite some time; it might be time to switch out to a different movie.
I'm wondering if part of the reason could be something like "it has had the star for so long that it's about time to recycle the star and give it to something newer and fresher". We have to remember that the stars are a guideline to first-time viewers. They usually don't care when a run has been made or how long it has had a star. The important thing is to offer them a good sample of what TASing is all about. The age of a star doesn't matter in this.
That and there's already a shitton of discovered stuff in Goldeneye and Perfect Dark that has already been discovered. I'm kind of surprised that hasn't gotten posted up there yet, truthfully. Though then again, I speak now and haven't done much at all with those games...
I remember Rick making a similar wiki inspired by the site yours is the continuation of: http://debugunused.wikia.com/wiki/Debug_Modes_and_Unused_Stuff
