The glitch itself isn't completely new, it was brought up about 8 months ago here, also explaining how it works.
As for the run, I'd vote yes on it, but it looks very improvable. Particularly the overhead stages and the second overhead stage's boss. I suggest redoing it (3.5 minutes won't take you much time) and resubmitting.
Nice to hear that; I'm keeping it on my to-check list because it can help in not skipping pumps on the four slopes in the mainstreet before jumping down the Torizo turf in preparation for the moozooh jump. How many pumps did you skip with a position of 0? IIRC, to save a frame, you can't skip pumping for more than two frames overall.
Also, in regards to your earlier question about my frame counts, I can't answer you right now, but if you're in a hurry, you can check the first low% test WIP and see the ingame frame value during the blackout before the gunship lands.
Probably due to new beta having different sound setting (same as 1.51 for the most part), while the previous didn't, IIRC.
Saturn, GREAT old Tourian escape shaft strategy. I need to put more thinking into segments like that when I'll do the final version of low%.
Also, while you did gain 17 frames on me in OTES alone (having an overall improvement of 30 frames, 20 of which were new to me), you managed to lose 18 (?!) by the moment your smv stopped. I see you have used the same strategy for pre-Torizo room catnap did in his old RBO WIP; I've tested this strategy during the production of NBMB WIP, and the one I used in it has proven to be much faster (16 of those 18 frames were lost on it).
It's not that sigs itself aren't allowed, it's distracting images and animations are. Such as your current avatar, unfortunately. :)
By the way, I still have yet to praise Taco and Kriole for Ceres improvements. Taco is insane, working on it all with such amazing perseverance, this is far more than what one would expect from any TASer. I bet the experience he gained from it all was immeasurable and fully enough to surpass the results of all the other players involved in TASing SM.
Also, nice to know that some of the ideas I've thrown out earlier in the thread have been used. I guess I'm not completely hopeless. :)
I'm eagerly awaiting Taco's progress on Zebes. I wonder just how many frames will he be able to save compared to my already severely outdated low% test run WIPs.
On that note, I'm getting sick of wasting so much time on nothing. :| I promise to return to TASing this week.
1. Just leave the ROM zipped in the "ROMS" folder.
2. You need BIOS files to play certain games. Those can usually be taken at the same place as ROMs themselves.
He's abusing the community you like by using everyone else's tricks while not contributing his own findings.
How can you badmouth Saturn so much? He's shown every one of his tricks after they got spoiled by other people, only so that I could rip him off and use them in my runs!
Hmm, I was pretty sure I tested this strategy before, and it was same fast! Congrats PJ, this is definitely the limit now. You have abused it to the fullest!
But you have to agree, my "legendary" movie was absolutely perfect if you don't count these weird optimizations people are talking about (wtf people).
The rerecord count got broken after I cut the Ceres bit from the sub-30 minutes any% run I have here since 1997.
Just wanted to clear up the confusion, that's all.
Hey guys, just dropped to tell you I just made a perfect Ceres.
Note that I made it in just five minutes! And I swear to god, it's abso-fucking-lutely perfect!
I might have got this wrong, but are you saying it is bad if people who get an advantage by voting are allowed to vote? And boredom and ethnical reasons are the only valid reasons to cast a vote? This would be what I would call perverting the majority rule. Sorry if I've misinterpreted you.
It's easier for me to illustrate what I mean. Imagine a contest, in which several teams participate to create a certain product, and the winner is to be decided by a poll between these teams. Team A has 10 members, team B has two. They create the products they're supposed to, and vote on them. All members of team A vote for their product. All members of team B vote for theirs. What does this poll show in regards to the products themselves? Nothing. It's obviously exaggerated to illustrate the weak spot without wasting a lot of paper, so I believe you get the idea.
And yes, democracy is perverted by design, but it's a thing easiest to agree upon between all members of pretty much any given community. I've always been towards a small circle of people who know their shit™ to make decisions, rather than having a large circle of people, most of which are absolutely unrelated to the subject at hand, do it. :)
That gives me an idea, why not hide the voting results until voting has closed and then display the results, that way it avoids people holding votes back till the very end and casting them in the most influencial way.
That's actually a good idea.
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Have you never heard of the secrecy of the ballot? ;)
Sure I have, my point was more about the fact that for authors, or generally any persons directly affiliated with a certain voting option, them voting for this option is effectively predefined (and thus known beforehand), which means any poll can theoretically be won just by having enough people directly affiliated with the option, perverting the majority rule and defeating the purpose of a poll in the first place. However, as AKA pointed out, this can be solved by a larger electorate. Indeed, voting for oneself is no big deal at all when the overall electorate is orders higher than amount of people affiliated with each particular option, but obviously, this is not the case here, as 2 out of 37 votes make 5.41%, which is pretty significant.
Of course, what's done is done, and I don't want to dispute nor discredit the voting results, but I think that for all future polls, the authors should be disqualified from voting for their own runs (I do believe this is fair) — at least until the voting audience grows, like, tenfold.
No, what I'm saying is, the author will always want to vote for their own run, due to the obvious bias involved. Which is why it's strictly prohibited in every possible voting system where the result is important for whatever reason. Not to say that it's just classless.
personally I thought Super Metroid was going to win, but I guess I could settle fairly for a tie. We can only debate what will be the likely contenders next year.
Well, in all honesty, it would have won if the authors were prohibited from voting on their own runs. :P
That would work, but the important thing is that there are gazillion routes in SMR, and an unoptimized run would take as much as ~4 hours realtime (to watch, not to do).
