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This game is an epic casino game which features Mario Fortran.
Here is more information about that little guy, from http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fortran.
Fortran is a Mario look-alike with a pale face, red teeth, and odd-looking feet from the Chinese bootleg “Dian Shi Ma Li” or Mario Lottery. Fortran was originally part of a dead fad started by an artist at DeviantART named “TheMarioBrother” but has since broken away from Weegee and now has it’s own fad. The fad involves taking a sprite from a pirated game or creepy piece of official artwork, revamping it, giving it a name, and powers. Fortran’s signature catchphrase is “PUSH START TO RICH”, an engrish saying in the game, ! some versions of Dian Shi Ma Li have the phrase “PUSH START TO GET RICH” instead. Fortran is joked about because of his scary appearance.

Game objectives

  • Emulator used: FCEUX 2.1.4a
  • Genre: Sport
  • Aims for the highest score
  • Heavy Luck Manipulation
  • Introduces TASVideos to an Internet meme
  • Colors a Mario wannabe
  • Pushes A, not START, to RICH
  • Plays music
  • Fills that empty Workbench
  • Did something out of his boredom.
  • Is a serious joke

Comments

It was fun to make. I've abused the random icon selecting system to RICH!!! And I've played a little music by inserting money. I'm sure it will be accepted due to an epic Internet meme.
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GabCM Added YouTube module.

DarkKobold: Let me tell you a story. Once, a man walked six hundred miles. Then, he walked six hundred more.He had reached the ocean, and continued walking. He drowned approximately 5 minutes later. His body washed ashore about 10 miles downstream. The moral of the story is that if you shave on Wednesday, don't eat bread on Thursday. Also, walking is dumb.
Oh yeah, claiming for judging.
DarkKobold: You damn kids and your electronic typewriters, making you lazy rapscallion delinquents. Now-a-days, you just have to press 'start' or 'A' to rich! Back in my day, we had to walk 6 miles in 10 feet of snow, up hills both ways, if we wanted to rich. We'd get to Johnny's Convenience Store, and only have 3 nickels to spend to rich. Ol' Johnny would come see us, and tell us about his time in the War, and then he'd chase us off with a broom. I tell you, those were the simple times, before electronic typewriters, or that bannana myphone. If we wanted to make a phone call, we had to walk down to the only phone in town, which was usually in use by Maudy. Man, that woman would talk for ages about anything and everything. If you needed the town gossip, she was the one to go to. She knew the whole town's business, down to the last...
... what? huh? Where was I? Oh yeah, you young-ins and your pressing start to rich. I'm rejecting your rich, now get off my lawn!

adelikat: This was unrejected for consideration of publication to the Vault, however it does not meet vault requirements (such as clearly completing a game, and aiming for fastest time)

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Mazzic wrote:
This is bad.... so so bad...
Agreed. Voting no. ... Wait. I've already voted no!
NitroGenesis wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP4HtyGih5Y no.
Wow! That was unexpected! Anyway, it seems we didn't have the same goal.
True wrote:
My only real problem is that it is "encoded in HD" when the console had no such thing. Fix your damn terminology, encoders.
One word: Resizing
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I can't grasp the true form of this TAS.
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HOLY SHIT! What is this? That is about how you would feel on LSD I suppose, or at least the programmers did take a great deal of this substance when making and planning this game. Or did they even plan it? It was entertainment from the very beginning and still, more than five minutes after watching. This is a YES-vote, but there should be a "WTF VOTE" somehow. Cheers!
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It was entertaining also about 3 hours before watching this movie. And all because I RICH! RICH OR DIE!!!
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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This tool-assisted speedrun presents many moral dilemmas and ethical problems. The red color of Fortran's cap is no doubt meant to represent the communist hordes. This must be a conspiracy, because Mister Epic's avatar is the Heavy, who is Russian and thus ZOMG EXTREME COMMUNISM. Expert scholars have argued that this very TAS is meant to bring back Stalin from the grave. The necromancy in this horrible Famicom witchcraft shall not be tolerated by humanity. However, Mister Epic is indeed epic; I'll never forget that time I was starving to death and he encoded that Castlevania run that saved my life from the multiple sclerosis I mean food deficiency. Also, thousands of years ago into the future, PUSH START TO RICH has been found to contrast greatly with the Communist ideal! In short, my internal struggle over this work - is it divine, or demonic? - can be summed up by this masterful video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9i0axpPcbM BIGGEST YES* VOTE EVER *WHERE YES = NO LOLZORZ
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dukhsan wrote:
BIGGEST YES* VOTE EVER *WHERE YES = NO LOLZORZ
http://objection.mrdictionary.net/go.php?n=4582858 Just kidding.
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Here. Have a really glitchy objection, which was done by analyzing the swf's code and looking at the variables it couldn't accept. http://objection.mrdictionary.net/go.php?n=4582886 :P spam.
YoungJ1997lol wrote:
Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
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I'm not sure I agree with the goals of this run. I mean shouldn't one of the goals be PUSHES START TO RICH?
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Sometimes, when I lay asleep, I will dream of an arcade filled with games. However, these games are of such make and quality as makes me feel kind of ill. They are a special kind of bad that I can feel it in my stomach. This game is like unto those games I play in Dreamland. Please, can you keep my nightmares contained in the Land of Dreams?
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So you're saying you only want pirate hacks of Kirby games?
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Mister Epic wrote:
http://objection.mrdictionary.net/go.php?n=4582858
BUT I LIKE NOT GOING TO HELL >:(
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errror1 wrote:
I'm not sure I agree with the goals of this run. I mean shouldn't one of the goals be PUSHES START TO RICH?
Contrary to popular belief, Mister Epic does not PUSH START TO RICH. Rather, he does the unthinkable: PUSH A TO RICH! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Kyi0WNg40 Looking at the FM2, start is indeed autofired at the beginning and then pressed once later (probably while messing with those counters, whatever they are), but A is what is pressed rapidly to make Fortran is jump. Also, Mister Epic does say "Pushes A, not START, to RICH" in the objectives
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VOTED YES TO RICH
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself. It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success." - Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.
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Mister Epic wrote:
One word: Resizing
Again, fix your terminology.
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I like to rich. Voting absof*ckinglutely-yes.
Contra Force deserves a TAS. D':
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Hm, a very entertaining run, but it does not color enough Dinosaurs for my tastes. Voting meh
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True wrote:
Mister Epic wrote:
One word: Resizing
Again, fix your terminology.
The only reason why we use the term HD, it's because the final resolution is a bit more than 1080p, and we used parameters for a better quality.
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blahmoomoo wrote:
Contrary to popular belief, Mister Epic does not PUSH START TO RICH. Rather, he does the unthinkable: PUSH A TO RICH! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Kyi0WNg40 Looking at the FM2, start is indeed autofired at the beginning and then pressed once later (probably while messing with those counters, whatever they are), but A is what is pressed rapidly to make Fortran is jump. Also, Mister Epic does say "Pushes A, not START, to RICH" in the objectives
yah that was my point, I think one of the goals should be "PUSHES START TO RICH", Can it really be considered a "PUSH START TO RICH" path without it
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sgrunt wrote:
I don't get it.
Commando125 wrote:
what is this I don't even
Peffse wrote:
what did I just watch?
Captain Picard wrote:
WTF IS THIS SHIT?
MUGG wrote:
I can't grasp the true form of this TAS.
dukhsan wrote:
The red color of Fortran's cap is no doubt meant to represent the communist hordes.
My sentiments exactly, especially dukhsan. NO.
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Thank you Mister Epic, you just gave me nightmare material for a week. This made me laugh a little, and it was very short, so I'll vote yes on this.
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Voting no for lack of dinosaurs, coloured or otherwise.
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sameasusual wrote:
So you're saying you only want pirate hacks of Kirby games?
I dunno, but I do find this to be relevant. Last night, part of my dreams involved Kirby. Except he was made entirely of colored marshmallow and was swimming around in a pool of hot chocolate. That a bunch of other people were drinking out of. It was kind of grotesque, but he seemed to enjoy himself well enough. Certainly more fun than trying to play the arcade games that inhabit my dreams.
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ugh. No vote. You didn't even abuse the riching bug. where you rich a lot. and can break the game.
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om, nom, nom... sweet!
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The most epic rejection essay I've ever seen!
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.