Done watching this. I got a question though. Why does sometimes, in the encode, the bottom screen flickers a bit? Most of the time, it's barely noticeable, but there's levels like 232 where it constantly flickers for some reason.
Edit: I almost forgot, since at the end screen, it shows 100% completion, I think it needs a 100% tag.
Oh, I've done some TASing of this game. Very little, mind you. Let's see how my small WIP compares to this run.
EDIT: Ok, here's my WIP. It's faster by a bit. I think it mostly comes from instantly jumping on the bedpost.
http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/15164847337259233
You should see if you can implement the improvements in mine. It's only like 20 seconds. Or maybe I'll just have to TAS this game again.
It appears the judge forgot that "maximum score" or similar is not a vaultable category.
As we don't do unpublications on this site, this run has instead been 'corrected' to Moons.
Just putting this here for clarification.
I think it's vaultable, since it was mentioned in that the game "ends" at max score:
After a few seconds, the seaQuest will collide with a fish, "Copyright 1983" will be shown, and the seaQuest does not despawn.
To summarize, this max score TAS of Seaquest is different from Virtual Pinball because there is a clear ending point here. It is also different from Tetris because you don't need to die to win.
Therefore, this run gets one ending displayed, what is usually considered by players to be the last ending (The Arena doesn't have a special ending), yet completes nothing, and doesn't show all the appropriate endings. As usual, this kind of run is problematic with its objectives and completions, and I dislike calling it game-end glitch. However it is interesting, and therefore accepting as whatever this branch ends up being called.
Well, since this is arbitrary code execution, can the input be extended for a frame or 2 to make it unlock everything?
1. NES?
2. If no damage only means a couple frames wasted, does that really need a new branch? Having an entertainment/speed tradeoff seems more sensible.
Edit: Also VicoV should be listed as co-author in the submission itself rather than just in the notes.
1. Agreed, although it would also be nice to update someexistingplayarounds.
2. It's really hard to make a good playaround that keeps the viewers entertained/interested all the way until the end. Even if a game allows many things to do, it can only work for so long before it gets dull.
It's obviously improvable (and I think Kirby might be faster), but that sounds really fun. I think I will try to make a TAS of this !
Also, do we still need an A/V hack to encode audio ?
1. Is choosing Kirby faster for the long term? Is there any battles later that make choosing mario faster?
2. Unfortunately, seems so. That or editing the video.
Then submit a play-around that gets as high score as possible. I say play-around because watching the same route over and over for a very long time is going to be VERY boring. To counter that, add the speed/entertainment tradeoff that you take different destinations, and try to drive different + do different tricks to keep the entertainment.
By the way: Loving the progress so far. Keep up the great work.
What is the max score for this game? Does it stop at $99,999, $2,147,483,647, or what?
