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The SMB run was a smaller improvement over the previous run than this was, had less yes votes, and was submitted later than this. I guess it just comes down to how much the encoders like the game, huh...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaOiohsZ9JE is this faster or does sometthing i haven't thought about make it slower?
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why did you delete it :/
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I have a feeling we won't be missing that run for long.
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z0MG wrote:
why did you delete it :/
SL acknowledged that he had seen it and that he would test it. i had the video uploaded only for that, so i deleted it to keep the surprise if it turns out to be faster. I'll reupload it if it turns out to be slower (or by some coincidence, the same).
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I didn't see your vid before it got deleted Mapler. What is so important that it's keeping SL's awesome run from being published? Myles
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Its a huge timesaver.
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yeah it saves about 3 seconds in BitS.
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Watch 24brianrules24's video if you want to see it
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http://www.youtube.com/v/x9TGGHoFmI8 i used it here. however, it can be done a lot better. btw, don't watch this for the quality of the tas. it's horrible.
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http://tasvideos.org/1897S.html Here's the the new run if anyone hasn't seen it.
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Thanks, who discovered this? Good to see that SL added it to his run already. Myles
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Swordless in his submission text wrote:
mapler90210, for discovering that route change towards the end of BitS. This saved a lot of time. I just wish he'd found it before I submitted the first version of this run. ;) But thanks a lot anyway.
I believe it was mapler90210. A nice little improvement. It's cool to see that there are (were) still unique optimisations in this game.
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Thanks for pointing that out to me :-) Good job mapler! Myles
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thanks! and in response to the "i just wish he'd found it..." part, sorry. i had meant to test that for a long time but i forgot until after i watched the first version of your run, sl.
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I actually tested that a bit 2 months ago :x
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mr_roberts_z: I just watched your current WIP once again. You completed JRB in one go and seemed to wanted to do BoB afterwards. Was this just to tease us on how you are doing the Mario wings to the sky star or are you planning on getting the red switch activated beforehand?
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ShinyDoofy wrote:
mr_roberts_z: I just watched your current WIP once again. You completed JRB in one go and seemed to wanted to do BoB afterwards.
Only if you watched the YouTube version, which cut off somewhat ambiguously; the "full" 12 star WIP version (which I wasn't able to encode, for some reason) includes TotWC, right before going into BoB. In any case, with another huge improvement found, it comes time to go back and redo old stuff before doing anything else, again.
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Shame on me. I just remembered you going for BoB, yet I thought that you went there directly after canceling the Aquarium. How are you redoing those parts? Hexedit? "Rewind" to those places and redo everything else just like it's in your current WIP?
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mr_roberts_z wrote:
In any case, with another huge improvement found, it comes time to go back and redo old stuff before doing anything else, again.
What are you redoing? the 1 frame improvement outside, and the few frame improvement from using a different staircase? How many stars were you at before this?
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and the few frame improvement from using a different staircase?
Over two seconds, almost as much time saved as the whole JRB improvement...Definitely worth it.
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If by "few frame" you mean "about 2 and a half seconds, therefore definitely worth it", then yes.
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mr_roberts_z wrote:
ShinyDoofy wrote:
mr_roberts_z: I just watched your current WIP once again. You completed JRB in one go and seemed to wanted to do BoB afterwards.
Only if you watched the YouTube version, which cut off somewhat ambiguously; the "full" 12 star WIP version (which I wasn't able to encode, for some reason) includes TotWC, right before going into BoB. In any case, with another huge improvement found, it comes time to go back and redo old stuff before doing anything else, again.
why does "huge" link back to SL's run? is the improvement on that?
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mapler90210 wrote:
mr_roberts_z wrote:
ShinyDoofy wrote:
mr_roberts_z: I just watched your current WIP once again. You completed JRB in one go and seemed to wanted to do BoB afterwards.
Only if you watched the YouTube version, which cut off somewhat ambiguously; the "full" 12 star WIP version (which I wasn't able to encode, for some reason) includes TotWC, right before going into BoB. In any case, with another huge improvement found, it comes time to go back and redo old stuff before doing anything else, again.
why does "huge" link back to SL's run? is the improvement on that?
Yep because SL used the other stairs for the blj and a slightly better strat outside i think.
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isn't there two BLJ's that can be improved? the one into BitDW and the one into PSS. that's 4-5 seconds.