This topic is for the purpose of discussing #2641: Felipe's Genesis Gunstar Heroes "1P" in 37:07.40

The existing 2P run is faster than this, despite the fact that in 2P, weapons deal less damage, each player can only harm bosses on every other frame, and there's more lag. The existing 1P run is also faster, though it uses Normal mode. Why should this run be published, given these facts?

I don't see the need to have this published alongside the 2P run, which flows significantly faster than this despite the disadvantages iherent in 2P gameplay (and the fact that the 2P run itself does not aim for speed at all costs). Further, the author of said run provided some criticism of one of your WIPs which seems to have gone unaddressed. I'm not well-versed enough in the game to point to many specific technical criticisms of my own (it inherently flows far too quickly for me to keep detailed track of what's going on) other then there are occasions when it doesn't seem like you are killing enemies as quickly as possible. Also, in the autoscrolling spaceship stage (I don't know which stage numbers are which or if they have proper names) you're making no effort to be entertaining; a very large number of enemies pass by without being touched. That having been said, the factors above, in particular being significantly slower than the 2P run, lead me to believe that substantially stronger optimisation could be done in this run. If you are intent on having a run published here, please take the time to respond to criticism and incorporate suggestions into your run so that your run can be optimised to the greatest extent possible; that's part of what we aim for on the site here. In the meantime, I will vote no.

Should I encode this? I doubt it will be published.

Up to you. I personally prefer only to encode runs which I think are likely publishable (which isn't to say if I don't encode something I don't think it'll be published; runs that I encode are a subset of runs that I think are publishable).

Sorry Kregorio, but this just isn't as good as the currently published run. It seems like bosses are not manipulated, which is most apparent during the Seven Force fight of Stage 2 and the boss fights after the spaceship stage. I see that you had some entertaining bits (like shooting Black after the dice palace and writing TAS in Stage 3), but a 2-player run can do so much more to be entertaining. 1535 rerecords also doesn't really seem like enough rerecords to be able to do a game this big precisely. For these reasons, I vote No.

Voting NO because there wasn't enough effort put into this. Improvements are obvious even watching at standard speed. I also don't agree with your weapon choices.

om, nom, nom... crunchy!

I really do not understand.

Felipe, if you don't understand why the run was rejected, hopefully the comments in this discussion have mentioned why. See Derakon's questions at the beginning, for instance. You also had plenty of comments from arkiandruski that were unanswered in the old thread. If you don't understand how to get better, then I don't know what to suggest. However, there are some very good TASers on this site who I think would be happy to help you with technique. You should also probably look through the Why & How section of the site, if you haven't yet done that. Good luck on future runs!