@Mr. Kelly R. Flewin: The spin-jump flight can be performed by running fast and then pressing the A-button (instead of B-button for normal flying). The spin-jump flight is a bit slower than the normal flight, but therefore it maintains the running speed after landing, so Mario can directly lift off again (and some other advantages as well, for example you can continue flying when you bump into the ceiling)
@Highness: No idea why you can't download the movies, but we found a solution by sending it via IRC :) (if anybody else has these problems, just try to catch me in the nesvideos IRC chat or contact me on ICQ/MSN). And the movie is still far from done, so you'll still have to wait a bit until you can vote YES :P
I did Tubular tonight, and faced a serious problem: In a test I had been able to do this level in one go, without the help of Yoshi / Balloon / P-Block. I wanted to do this again, but then got stuck at the following passage:
These football chucks throw a new football every 128 frames. And this does NOT depend on when I enter the level, it's a set time.
Now the problem is: I need to jump off the football of the 2nd football chuck, otherwise I don't get enough height.
And now he threw the ball in the exact wrong moment, so that I had no chance to jump on it (or only with lots of slowing-down in the air). So, I had 2 possibilities: Either wait on the yellow pipe, or just enter the level a bit later. I chose the 2nd option, so now the run looks smoother and I finish the level in the fastest time possible. I tried to cut the waiting time down as much as possible, so now I enter the level 33 frames (= 1/2 second) later than it could have been done. Call it "luck manipulation" if you want :P
Who knows, maybe somebody still finds something to improve in one of the levels before, and then I can enter the level 128 frames earlier (or probably 110 would already be enough)
btw this level looks pretty easy now, not like it's one of the (if not THE) hardest levels in the game :D
I also added Way Cool. Lifted off to fly as soon as possible, entered the pipe as soon as possible, and I think I also got Yoshi in the fastest way possible. I do not yet know if I can use Yoshi in Awesome, so I kept him for now. Maybe I'll redo the bonus stage and jump off him like I already did in Cheese Bridge
You can download the new video
here
@Michael:
Guess I can finish the Special World tonight, as Outrageous and Funky will be mostly flying levels (of course I'll try to hit as many enemies as possible!)
