Aha! Yes, that's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about -- not situations where the odds are against you or the computer has an unfair advantage, but where the game actually forces a negative outcome in a situation where there's an illusion of randomness ("fixed" games of chance) or free choice (multiple paths, first choice always fails).
"time ends at last input" Well stinkers haha.. I'll have to change my inputs then? cause there is text after king boo, but 8:39 seems like such an odd place to call last input.
What is the latest WIP from power-on? I can try to console verify.
So far, the ingame-TASers have chosen to avoid using these tricks to the extreme, because they knew that a fully optimized ingame-run wouldn't be as entertaining. But as a result, the category has always been somewhat ill-defined, and I believe any of the ingame-runs could be made faster simply by making it look bad.
Playaround: Just screwing around with glitches/tricks/physics abuse!
I just found something... O_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeLRPuR5Luk
We now have two runs of Super Metroid with no branch name, this and the "X-Ray glitch" run. One of them needs to have one, so how about labeling the X-Ray run "low%", as Cpadolf suggested? Also, does saving the animals qualify this run for the "Best ending" tag?
short and vault
Respectfully, I am curious why this was selected for Moons. It seems like a perfect choice for the Vault. I'd like to hear why it was viewed to be suitable for a different tier.
[ Not on US version. and as Patashu said "Jp has the Crown Theft glitch but it does not beat the game so it won't be used." Another note would be my movie file for jp normal mode never saved to make a verification file. so whenever I tried to start a recording, it would start the game as a newgame. so i'm sticking with USA. when I get to King Boo, I'll try my hardest to crown theft on US.
Well keeping it as a "no arbitrary code execution any%" would seem a bit silly since it's still plenty glitched enough, and also it could still be beaten by ~4-5 minutes without any arbitrary code execution with the help of Space/Time beam. But I think its category could be changed to low% and be kept as that, because it does collect the fewest items possible to complete the game.
My thinking was that the latest Earthbound runs have finished the game quickly by triggering debug menus, so that's set a precedent for allowing those kinds of exploits.
Yes vote.
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thereby turning it into a low% run instead of an any% run
Ok.. so say I wanted to do this properly. Would it be ok to do it on the japanese version (since that one is the fastest)? Or is english preferred?
Nanashi no Game and it's sequel does this. I can reproduce it by going to the battery folder and deleting the .dsv file for the game.