This topic is for the purpose of discussing #1691: Flip's Genesis James Pond 3: Operation Starfish in 35:30.98

This pretty good for a first TAS. The game was a good choice as it was very fast paced at times. You also handled it very well. Although a couple of things stood out: you say that to preserve speed you can jump, however, during level 2 (?) Mr Pond decelerates quite noticably. Originally I thought it was to do with the terrain, but I thought I may as well ask. Also, around about frame 37000 (?) there is a situation where you drop dynamite on to TNT crates to collect something from the bottle shaped hole beneath. You didn't seem to jump into the hole as soon after the explosion as you did in other situations. Was there a reason for this? The ending doesn't bother me. I feel a movie of this game three times as long wouldn't be a good idea. I'll withhold my vote until you answer my above questions. EDIT - Well explained. I see no harm in voting yes. Good job!

I wanted to say the same, but Mukki beat me to it.^^ The game choice is good (nice graphics, not much lag, fast paced). And the run itself was quite entertaining (I didn't ff the levels, except overworld). However there were several moments, that looked dubious to me. Unfortunately, I can't remember them. Since I don't know that game, I will wait for someone to comment the run, who knows the game, until I vote. Still great run; if the first and second part are similar, I want to see them tased, too. The choice for the ending looks ok to me, though it would have started to get repetitive after 20 more minutes.

You'll not enjoy the movie because a judge ruled it should be a separate category? o_O (Read the poll question...)

You'll not enjoy the movie because a judge ruled it should be a separate category? o_O (Read the poll question...)

Good Ending Makaimura isn't a separate category, just an unnecesary goal. Makaimura counts as beaten even though you are required to play the game twice to get the proper ending. Some Mario game requires you to beat it 8 times to get to the secret world and (truly) beat the game. The judges ruled that, for these games, the game counted as "beaten" even though there were still things left to do. In this game, it seems that it's unclear if defeating the last boss alone would count as beating the game, as it shows a Game Over Screen. Showing a different screen (the "good ending") takes thrice the time, and doesn't count as a 100% run, either. It might be deemed an unnecessary goal. So, if it's unnecessary, it's clearly suboptimal, so I'll vote no on that principle. If the judges think that destroying the machines is the only method allowed*, that changes things and I might give it a try, as I liked James Pond II.

Well I really liked the health management and crazy speed obtained in some areas as well as the clever use of ceiling-waking for extra speed when you have to wait for something. I didn't really see any bad playing, so I vote yes because I enjoyed watching it.

I think the reason for the wait around 37000 was because he had no health left and had to wait for the explosion to clear? Anyway, Flip seemed to abuse the speed boosts very well, especially in the levels where he cleared all of it in one jump. Voting yes.

OK, looks like I did some pretty poor explaining there, I'll try and clear things up. First of all, forget about the 2 endings ordeal, there's really only 1, it was just my inexperience which lead me to believe there was 2. If you're not quite sure on it, just watch this quick video, you can skip nearly all of it anyway: http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/374583527/JP3.gmv For the first half I deliberately kill myself just for the sake of getting to the Game over screen. For the next bit I warp and defeat the final boss without the neccessary requirements, hence getting what I referred to as the bad ending; where as in fact it's actually just the exact same Game Over screen I got a few minutes earlier. No credits or "The End" gets shown, so doing it this way basically has the same effect as just dying; so I can't see how finishing the game in this manner could be considered completing it. That is what I was gonna do originally, but obviously changed it into what is currently being published. Ok, now the other issues. Jumping will maintain speed, but it doesn't last forever. Air will eventually slow you down too, it's just that it takes longer to do so, so I cant go through entire levels at sonic speed. Next, I've only got 1 health left at 37000, so jumping down into the hole would've killed me. I needed to wait for the TNT to finish exploding.

om, nom, nom... blech, stale!