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Toki Tori is a puzzle video game for the Game Boy Color. The game follows a young chick, Toki Tori, and his quest to rescue his younger siblings, still in their eggs.

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050ADirectionsIf reaches 8 and Toki Tori stop move
or stop spin around, he becomes dizzy
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Noxxa: This is a decent effort for a first TAS, but the discussion topic shows that it still needs a bit more work - the fact that 119 frames can be saved in the first level alone, plus other minor errors given in the topic that could be improved, shows me that a second pass is needed to make a TAS that truly pushes this game to the limit. I'm rejecting this movie, but I do look forward to seeing an improved version.

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Posted: 8/14/2017 10:07 AM
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #5635: Bluely's GBC Toki Tori in 46:37.69
Posted: 8/14/2017 1:15 PM
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Well made run on a well made game. Yes vote! I'm encoding it in HD since the current temporary encode hides the beauty of this game. By the way, why didn't you clear the extra levels?...
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Posted: 8/14/2017 9:07 PM
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Wow, I didn't even know there was a GBC port of this! Also, rescuing his brothers?? This is what he does with the eggs in the PC version :D And yeah, please (also) make a 100% run that includes the hard levels.
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Posted: 8/14/2017 9:11 PM
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Radiant wrote:
Wow, I didn't even know there was a GBC port of this!
GBC is actually the original version (released in 2001). WiiWare, Windows etc. came several years later (2008 and 2010 respectively, other releases even later).
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Posted: 8/15/2017 12:08 PM
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First levels have pretty primitive design, but later they become more and more complicated = interesting. Good TAS for good game. Yes vote!
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Posted: 8/15/2017 1:17 PM
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HD encode is up. By the way, the run feels really uncomplete without the extra levels...
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Posted: 8/18/2017 12:45 AM
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Pretty sure there's a minor mistake in Bubble Barrage level 9. When the in-game timer reaches 3:58, Toki Tori makes a seemingly-useless 360 degrees between placing the 2x2 box and transforming into a bubble. You can see it in the encode at 43:23. Also, voted No. I played Toki Tori a lot on PC, including the Potato ARG and community levels (even made my own). This run just looks like a normal walkthrough of someone with a very good memory. Not that it's the author's fault: the game is designed with a fixed movement set preventing superhuman play, and the level design emphasizes tortuous fixed paths not leaving much room for route optimization.
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Posted: 8/18/2017 9:45 AM
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SmashManiac wrote:
Also, voted No. I played Toki Tori a lot on PC, including the Potato ARG and community levels (even made my own). This run just looks like a normal walkthrough of someone with a very good memory. Not that it's the author's fault: the game is designed with a fixed movement set preventing superhuman play, and the level design emphasizes tortuous fixed paths not leaving much room for route optimization.
I also had the impression, at first, that due to how this game is made, it could be rejected due to trivial game play, that is because of the run being too easily reproduced in a real time run. But I was wrong. I've done a quick check and found that depending on the point in which Toki Tori is when A button is pressed when close to an edge, the jump lenght is different, while the jump duration is still the same. So with frame-perfect inputs, the overall travel speed can be optimized. So I've TASed the first level and finished it 119 frames faster than this submission.
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Posted: 8/18/2017 9:47 AM
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SmashManiac wrote:
Pretty sure there's a minor mistake in Bubble Barrage level 9. When the in-game timer reaches 3:58, Toki Tori makes a seemingly-useless 360 degrees between placing the 2x2 box and transforming into a bubble. You can see it in the encode at 43:23. Also, voted No. I played Toki Tori a lot on PC, including the Potato ARG and community levels (even made my own). This run just looks like a normal walkthrough of someone with a very good memory. Not that it's the author's fault: the game is designed with a fixed movement set preventing superhuman play, and the level design emphasizes tortuous fixed paths not leaving much room for route optimization.
Seriously? You need to learn Toki Tori (GBC) Mechanics So. Let's see the image of what happends if i don't do 360 degrees https://image.ibb.co/ibT6hQ/20.png
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Posted: 8/18/2017 1:56 PM
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ThunderAxe31 wrote:
I've TASed the first level and finished it 119 frames faster than this submission.
Sad to hear about such terrible suboptimality... Game itself is very nice. So i hope that author do not gave up after inevitable rejection and will make new much better optimised run in future. Good luck next time!
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Posted: 8/19/2017 6:19 PM
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ThunderAxe31 wrote:
I've done a quick check and found that depending on the point in which Toki Tori is when A button is pressed when close to an edge, the jump lenght is different, while the jump duration is still the same. So with frame-perfect inputs, the overall travel speed can be optimized.
I didn't realize that. Still, it doesn't LOOK superhuman, which is a major entertainment factor to me.
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Let's see the image of what happends if i don't do 360 degrees https://image.ibb.co/ibT6hQ/20.png
Spinning more prevents dizziness on the GBC version? That's super weird... but in that case, I would think a 180 degrees would be sufficient and more optimal to overflow the counter, considering you are bubbling immediately afterwards. Is there something else I'm missing?
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Posted: 8/20/2017 9:55 AM
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