Slide Boy in Maze Land is a homebrew released in 2021 by Vladimir Zuniga, the same person that made Peril, for the Atari 2600 and 7800 systems. You play as Slide Boy, who navigates through a collection of mazes while avoiding a vast variety of foes.
The Atari 7800 version already has a TAS made by Darkman425. This TAS plays through the Atari 2600 version.
Information:
- Emulator used: BizHawk 2.8
- Genres: Puzzle, Homebrew
This is an 86 frame improvement over https://tasvideos.org/5173M.
New strategies:
Room 24
Instead of going up and down with the blocks to get to the exit, I instead went left, up and then right for a much more straightforward route.
Room 30
I intentionally delayed crashing into the right arrow box for the 2nd time to hit the block above where I stop and get to the exit more quickly.
Room 38
At the beginning, I went straight up instead of going L, U, R, U.
Room 41
I found out you only have to bump the down arrow box once instead of twice.
Other Timesaves
I added another Quick Score trick in Room 38 to save 2 additional frames.
The rest of the time is saved from fixing delayed movements, saving 1-2 frames in ~10 rooms.
Conclusion:
Thanks for reading. If you find any improvements, I’ll be happy to add you as a co-author.
nymx: Claiming for judging.
nymx: I'm going to re-iterate my irritation, in regards to not seeing these cuts in your previous submission. This means, if I had found them before...the submission would still have been good for acceptance, because they are not obvious. With this submission, the same situation exists.
This movie continues the same classification of "No Major Skips". Good job on the new cuts.
Accepting to "Standard" for publication.
fsvgm777: Processing. CloakTheLurker is handling the encodes for this one.