http://foone.org/downloads/tas/dn1/rerun2.jrsr
Ok, I've completed my re-run of the game. I saved a bunch of (at minimum, 10s) off the previous run, but until I have a chance to reload the previous movie and get the timing of it, I'm not sure how many exactly.
Now before I can submit this, I'm not sure when to end the movie file. There's a bunch of choices:
0. The last input that will cause the boss to die without further input (you could always unpress the key or hit ESC and quit)
1. The last point at which you can't avoid ending the game. This is ~3s later because you can still quit during the first stage of the ending cinematic.
2. the end of the ending cinematic. (~10s later than 0)
3. the end of the post-boss fight conversation This is several static screens of talking heads you need to hit a key to advance through.
4. the "to be continued" screen
5. the ordering information screens (3 of them)
6. the "enter name" screen
7. the high score list
8. the main menu
Personally I'm leaning towards 4. The time for 0 (last in-game action) is 6m58s.
By the way, the question I had earlier about one game or three has been answered: It's three. In the ordering information screen, they list them separately for ordering. So it's entirely possible to legally own only episode 1, 2, or 3, and they're considered distinct games. So I can submit this without tacking on a run of episodes 2+3.
(By the way, I'd have to redo the whole run to attempt that! My current disk doesn't have episodes 2 or 3 on it, and adding them would desync the movie)
I'm encoding a video of it now. Any thoughts on the ending issue?
And here's the video.
PS: I did the following preprocessing on my full-game directory before generating the disk image:
1. Delete everything newer than 1991
2. Delete everything *.DN1 and *.DN3
3. Delete DN1.EXE and DN3.EXE
That should result in the minimum number of files required to play the game, so there'll be no problem with different versions of the full game. I bought my copy straight off 3drealms.com, but if you've a version on actual floppies this should be enough to get it in that form.
