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This run beats the previous one by about 1 minutes and 36 seconds.
  • I used Snes9x 1.43+ v15.4
  • Aims for fastest time
  • Abuses programming errors
  • Manipulates Luck
  • Takes damage to save time

Differences

Bowser's Keep
Unchanged.
0 frames saved.(Total 0)
Mushroom Way
I optimized the with Hammer Bros.
I took 2 coins from tersure box.
3 frames slower.(-3)
Mushroom Kingdom (First time)
I optimized movement.
I bought "Jump Shoes",not take 2 flowers.
548 frames slower.(-551)
Bandit's way
I optimized movement,the battle with Croco.
513 frames saved.(-38)
Mushroom Kingdom (second time)
I optimized movement,entered from south.
85 frames saved. (47)
Kero Sewers
I optimized movement,the battle with Belome.
I didn't get 1 flower,use a "Flower Tub"
1386 frames saved.(1433)
EMidas River
I optimezed movement.
45 frames saved.(1478)
Tadpole Pond (first time)
I optimized movement.
4 frames saved.(1482)
Rose Way
I optimized movement.
3 frames saved.(1485)
Rose Town
I optimized movement.
21 frames saved.(1506)
Forest Maze
I optimized movement,the battle with Bowyer.
I got extra frog coin instead of Marrymore's.
172 frames slower.(1334)
Moleville
I optimized movement,the battle with Croco,Punchinello,and the mine cart ride(1:53:75→1:51:40).
210 frames saved.(1544)
Booster pass
I optimized movement.
2 frames saved.(1546)
Booster Tower
I optimized movement,the battle with Knife Guy.
I got "Zoom shoes",not "Amulet"
I used Mallow instead of Geno.Because Mallow's motion(use item,victory pose) is faster than Geno.
Mallow's LVUP screen appeared.
747 frames saved.(2293)
Booster Hill
I optimized movement.
Got 10 flowers. No real reason for this.
1 frames saved.(2294)
Marrymore
I optimized tha battle with Bundt.
I didn't get a Frog coin.
995 frames saved.(3289)
Mushroom Kingdom (third time)
I optimized movement.
11 frames saved.(3300)
Tadpole Pond (second time)
Unchanged.
0 frame saved.(3300)
Star Hill
I optimized movement.
6 frames saved.(3306)
Seaside Town (first time)
I optimized movement.
I bought extra "Fire Bomb".
3 frames slower.(3303)
Sea
I optimized movement.
Geno didn't LVUP.
236 frames saved.(3539)
Sunken ship
I optimized movement, and the battles with Tentacles, Pirates and Johnny.
I skipped All the Vandana Blues' attack.So and used "Lucky Juel" here.
I used Peach instead of Geno.(Same reason as Mallow)
652 frames saved.()
Seaside Town (second time)
I optimized movement, and equipping.
I didn't open the menu window.
392 frames saved.(4583)
Land's End (first time)
I optimized movement,the battle with Belome.
I used "Lucky Juel"once.
208 frames saved.(4791)
Monstro Town
I optimized movement.
5 frames saved.(4796)
Land's End (second time)
I optimized movement,Sergent Flutter's mission(8:66→7:23).
93 frames saved.(4889)
Bean Valley
I optimized movement,the battle with Megasmilax.
But Smilaxs use magic attack once.
59 frames saved.(4948)
Nimbus Land (first time)
I optimized movement, and the battles with Birdo and Valentina.
I didn't get "Feather".
582 frames saved.(5530)
Barrel Volcano
I optimized movement,normal enemy fights and the Axem Rangers fight.
But because Peach's attack is weak,the fight with Czar Dragon and Zombone.
34 frames slower.(5496)
Nimbus Land (second time)
Unchanged.But it's slower.I don't know what happened.
1 frame slower.(5495)
Bowser's Keep (second time)
I optimized movement,and the fight with Boomer.
I got "Super Slap".
I used Geno for Geno Whirl.And I used "Lucky Juel"in the battle with Exor.
Peach's LVUP screen appeared.
1063 frames slower.(4432)
Gate
I optimized movement,the battle with Count Down,Machine Made,Gunyork and other enemies.
I only opened the menu window once.In order to change Geno and Peach and equip "Super Slap" and "Zoom shoes".
1317 frames saved. (5749)

Thanks to

spezzafer:New entering Mushroom Kingdom.
gocha:Memory addresses for mine cart ride and planning to use mushrooms.
pirohiko and gstick:Advised this run.
Enjoy! (＞ヮ＜)
NesVideoAgent: Hi! I am a robot. I took a few screenshots of this movie and placed them here. Here goes! Feel free to clean up the list.
adelikat: Accepting as an improvement to the published movie.
ShinyDoofy: Processing...

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Posted: 12/8/2008 10:25 AM
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TASVideoAgent
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #2152: illayaya's SNES Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars in 2:33:51.55
Posted: 12/8/2008 10:35 AM
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Congratulations on your work. I recommend Encoder to encode the video by using Snes9x WIP on googlecode, with Sync Sound on, because sound quality is much better than older version. http://code.google.com/p/snes9x143-rerecording/
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Posted: 12/8/2008 7:02 PM
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this_is_me
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props being the first to vote, i just now noticed the overall rating is weighted in favor of entertainment did not know that
Posted: 12/8/2008 8:10 PM
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this is me wrote:
props being the first to vote, i just now noticed the overall rating is weighted in favor of entertainment did not know that
Maybe the "average" rating is really the geometric or hyperbolic mean, both of which are closer to the smaller elements in a data set than the arithmetic mean. Of a set {x_1,...,x_n}, here are some means: arithmetic: (x_1+...+x_n)/n geometric: (x_1*...*x_n)^(1/n) harmonic: n/(1/x_1+...+1/x_n) quadratic: sqrt((x_1^2+...+x_n^2)/n), a.k.a. root-mean-square generalized, of order p: (x_1^p+...+x_n^p)^(1/p) For arithmetic, p=1; harmonic, p=-1; quadratic, p=2; geometric, limit as p->0; infimum, limit as p->-infinity; supremum, limit as p->infinity. Also, the generalized mean strictly increases with increasing p as long as the set contains at least two distinct elements; otherwise all of the means equal the unique element. Oh, if you want to generalize the notion of "mean" even more, then if f is continuous and injective on some subset of the real numbers, the generalized f-mean is f^-1((f(x_1)+...+f(x_n))/n), but this does not in general have some desirable properties of a mean, like if you double all the elements on the set you don't necessarily double their mean.
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Posted: 12/8/2008 8:31 PM
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Actually, I believe it's just that the overall rating is 2/3rds entertainment and 1/3rd technical.
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Posted: 12/8/2008 11:58 PM
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this_is_me
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Derakon wrote:
Actually, I believe it's just that the overall rating is 2/3rds entertainment and 1/3rd technical.
that was what i worked out quickly in my head so i would go with this
Posted: 12/9/2008 4:44 AM
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Really nice, I liked the use of red essence at the end, was that required, or just for fun?
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Posted: 12/9/2008 3:07 PM
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Twelvepack wrote:
Really nice, I liked the use of red essence at the end, was that required, or just for fun?
Bowser and Peach weren't wearing Super Suits, so they would've eaten it to successive Arrow Rains otherwise.
Posted: 12/12/2008 4:08 AM
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I'm a little ignorant of the specifics, but it looked well done, and some little tidbits of stuff kept me occupied, like how they avoided some of the stuff one normally goes out of their way to get, like the volcano frog coins, but even in the spots I'd watched and done before, there were little surprises, so it kept me interested in tactics.
Posted: 12/15/2008 6:55 AM
(Edited: 12/16/2008 2:46 AM)
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Of what I have seen in this run so far, I have been quite impressed. Lots of little tricks that an average gamer wouldn't think of. I'll give some more comments when I finish watching (at Boosters Tower right now). Edit: Finished it, and I really enjoyed it. This is actually the first SMRPG run I've watched due to the others intimidating length so older tricks like skipping Mack blew me away. Anyways, the item luck manipulation was also great. 8/9
Posted: 12/15/2008 9:16 AM
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omg lol this is so fake!!!1 the nes cant produce music like this!
Posted: 12/16/2008 2:16 AM
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eternaljwh
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Watched, was...well...I like the game, but it seems like it's still a "more of the same" TAS. Optimizations and some route fiddling without any serious added tricks from last version 8/9
Posted: 12/16/2008 2:23 PM
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I was going to say something positive about the improvement, but then I read two posts in this thread that made me fall on the floor laughing. You guys really created a gem here... Immortalized in a screenshot: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v469/drybes/wow.gif "I would go with this" ;)
Posted: 1/22/2009 10:53 PM
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [1245] SNES Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars by illayaya in 2:33:51.55
Posted: 1/26/2009 9:15 AM
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It's kind of surprising this hasn't been caught already (this being the 4th published run), but when going up to Nimbus Land you can climb a lot faster by jumping up the vines. It saves at least 450 frames and looks more impressive.
Posted: 1/30/2009 1:10 AM
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Spike approves. Also:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v469/drybes/wow.gif
I lol'd a bit :)
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Posted: 2/4/2009 2:25 PM
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>nitsuja I didn't notice that.But I won't make nextrun because of no new strategy. Anyway,I found another improve point in Bowser's Keep,Two rolling floors. About 250 frames saved.
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Posted: 2/5/2009 5:27 AM
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arflech
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SaxxonPike wrote:
Spike approves. Also:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v469/drybes/wow.gif
I lol'd a bit :)
It made me rofl.
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Posted: 2/5/2009 5:57 PM
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Reminds me of that anecdote where NASA spent thousands developing pens that worked in zero gravity, only to realize the Russians used pencils.
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Posted: 2/5/2009 9:26 PM
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Twelvepack wrote:
Reminds me of that anecdote where NASA spent thousands developing pens that worked in zero gravity, only to realize the Russians used pencils.
That's only partially true. The spending for those zero-gravity pens came from a single employee that was obsessed with the idea, and after spending so much, he sold 5 of those pens to NASA for I think it was 50$. Also, both NASA and Russians used pencils until then, but pencils had to be used with special care because if the tip breaks at zero gravity you get a mess.
No.