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Posted: 5/9/2006 8:16 PM
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Tailz
Former player
Joined: 7/2/2005
Posts: 309
Location: Baltimore, MD
HOLY POOP! AN UPDATE WITHIN 3 DAYS!?! NO WAY!! It's true, I've been re-re-motivated to work on this and I have completed 4-1 and 4-2. After stage 4-2 I am ahead of my previous attempt by 1881 frames. I also redid the 3-2 boss fight and managed to improve it by 6 frames. Here is the WIP. Here is a new savestate. The previous savestate will work too, so use it if you want. This one starts at the beginning of stage 4-1. This is turning out better and better. What do you guys think? With any luck I should be done with 5-1 and 5-2 sometime soon.
Guybrush: "I'm selling these fine leather jackets." Wally: "Really?" Guybrush: "No. I 'm lying." Wally: "In that case, I don't want one!" Currently working on: Nothing at the moment.
Posted: 5/18/2006 3:21 AM
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Tailz
Former player
Joined: 7/2/2005
Posts: 309
Location: Baltimore, MD
5-1 and 5-2 are done! Here's the WIP. I remembered these two stages being a lot harder than they were this time around. Maybe I was thinking of the next two stages, 6-1 and 6-2; I dunno. Anyway I finished 5-1 and 5-2. At the end of 5-2 I am 2264 frames ahead of my previous attempt. Here is a new savestate. This one starts at 5-1. Again, the previous state will work too. I saved so much time using the edgeboost and different tactics on some enemies. I want to know why some ledges let me boost and others don't because it's really annoying to boost off of 2 ledges and have the third not let me. I also saved time by NOT transforming into Megagon for the "boss" of 5-1. While Megagon can kill the enemies there quicker, the time it takes to transform takes more time than it would to kill them with Amagon. I am now just two stages away from finishing this run. The final two stages are the toughest of them all and I'm not looking forward to going through it again. But, sometimes you've got to do things that got to be did, and I'm going to do them again despite my hate for them. Hopefully they won't give me as much trouble as they did the first time.
Guybrush: "I'm selling these fine leather jackets." Wally: "Really?" Guybrush: "No. I 'm lying." Wally: "In that case, I don't want one!" Currently working on: Nothing at the moment.
Posted: 5/18/2006 2:35 PM
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Tailz
Former player
Joined: 7/2/2005
Posts: 309
Location: Baltimore, MD
Ladies and gentlemen, I have an announcement: IT'S DONE! THE RUN IS COMPLETE!! I finished 6-1 and 6-2 this morning and promptly submitted the run. I finished on frame 66456 whereas my previous attempt finished on frame 68772. I saved a grand total of 2316 frames due to better optimizing, edgeboosting everywhere and using Megagon less. I'm not going to give a savestate for the final two levels because that would be like turning to the last page of a mystery novel to see whodunit before you read the book. You'll see them when you watch the whole run. Enjoy!
Guybrush: "I'm selling these fine leather jackets." Wally: "Really?" Guybrush: "No. I 'm lying." Wally: "In that case, I don't want one!" Currently working on: Nothing at the moment.
Posted: 9/19/2010 1:59 AM
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scaryice
Joined: 7/24/2007
Posts: 74
3-1 can be improved for sure. You don't need to stop and shoot all those crocs.
Posted: 9/19/2010 3:29 PM
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Brushy
Former player
Joined: 11/13/2005
Posts: 1587
scaryice wrote:
3-1 can be improved for sure. You don't need to stop and shoot all those crocs.
The whole run can be improved, but this game is really tedious to optimize. Would you like to try though? :)
Posted: 9/19/2010 3:54 PM
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Randil
Skilled player (1886)
Joined: 4/20/2005
Posts: 2160
Location: Norrköping, Sweden
A noteworthy (and perhaps known, I don't know) and fun fact for anyone who's TASing or speedrunning this game: Megagon moves slightly faster than Amagon - while Amagon moves at 1.477 pixels/frame, Megagon moves at the speed of 1.5 pixels/frame. In practice, this means that every 63 frames, Megagon gains one frame over Amagon. This adds another dimension of difficulty for this game - it's usually better to transform to Megagon as soon as possible in the level since he moves a bit faster, but if you do this, you also need to have enough points at the beginning of the level in order to get enough shots to take out the boss. In order to have enough points at the beginning of the level you might have had to waste frames in the previous level, which in turn might cancel out any frames you gain by transforming to Megagon sooner. So this will have to be taken into consideration.
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