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Psychic World is a sidescrolling action game with some novel mechanics. The present run in an improvement of only ~24 frames over the current, highly optimizaed publication by Dammit.
Dammit's original submission notes explain most of the important points of the game mechanics, so I won't bother repeating them here. Sufficed to say that Dammit had heavily optimized this game which left me with little to improve in terms of overall strategy and enemy manipulation. I ultimately only found 2 spots where some improvements were overlooked. It's still longer overall though due to BIOS time and increased lag in BizHawk.
Level 1: Some lag frames were saved (at about frame 4900)
Level 4: Improved strategy to destroy some blocks (about frame 24700)
Aside from that, this game was notably difficult to work with for it's very random lag generation. Most of the time was spent just trying to sync up the original run as close as possible.
Noxxa: Judging.
Noxxa: It's a small improvement, but an improvement nonetheless. Accepting as an improvement to the published movie.
feos: Pub.

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Posted: 4/25/2018 4:25 PM
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #5944: Dammit, Alyosha's SMS Psychic World in 13:13.97
Posted: 4/25/2018 5:05 PM
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Though I watched the published run sometimes, I'm surprised how that run was much solid to beat. But now, another dega run bites dust! Yes vote. My net speed slowed so much on the last 2 weeks, so I can't provide an encode :(
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Posted: 4/27/2018 5:35 AM
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Nice run and improvements, yes vote
Posted: 4/29/2018 4:38 PM
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Any chance at an encode? I really like this game, but I haven't been able to get emulators set up. No hurry though.
Used to be a frequent submissions commenter. My new computer has had some issues running emulators, so I've been here more sporadically. Still haven't gotten around to actually TASing yet... I was going to improve Kid Dracula for GB. It seems I was beaten to it, though, with a recent awesome run by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. (http://tasvideos.org/2928M.html.) Thanks to goofydylan8 for running Gargoyle's Quest 2 because I mentioned the game! (http://tasvideos.org/2001M.html) Thanks to feos and MESHUGGAH for taking up runs of Duck Tales 2 because of my old signature! Thanks also to Samsara for finishing a Treasure Master run. From the submission comments:
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Posted: 4/30/2018 9:18 PM
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mklip2001 wrote:
Any chance at an encode? I really like this game, but I haven't been able to get emulators set up. No hurry though.
Sorry but my net right now is too slow to upload this long of an encode. Although, it's visually almost identical to the original, so there isn't much point really.
Posted: 5/1/2018 6:57 PM
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I'm not getting the movie file to sync, using BizHawk 2.2.2 and the same ROM MD5 as in the movie header. The movie file has no sync settings. Is there anything in there I may be missing?
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Posted: 5/1/2018 8:43 PM
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Mothrayas wrote:
I'm not getting the movie file to sync, using BizHawk 2.2.2 and the same ROM MD5 as in the movie header. The movie file has no sync settings. Is there anything in there I may be missing?
SMS -> Display Type -> NTSC I supposed to fix that for 2.2.2 but never got around to it.
Posted: 5/3/2018 5:29 PM
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The thing that needs to be fixed is proper movie header and sync settings being generated for imported movies.
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Posted: 5/4/2018 3:50 PM
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [3697] SMS Psychic World by Dammit, Alyosha in 13:13.97