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  • Aims for fastest time of two players
  • Genre:Shooting
  • Emulator FBA-rr 005a
  • Manipulate luck
  • 2 players
  • No death
  • Hardest mode

History of Metal Slug - Super Vehicle-001 (c) 1996 Nazca.

A scrolling 'run-and-gun' platform game for one or two players, Metal Slug is a humorous parody of war and specifically of World War II and the Nazis.
The game features six enemy-packed levels, referred to as 'missions'. Players start the game armed only with a pistol, but extra weapons can be picked up and used for greater firepower. Also, at certain points during a level players will find an unused 'Super Vehicle-001' - or Metal Slug - tank which can be entered and driven. The Metal Slug is slow-moving but has very powerful weapons. If the Slug takes too many hits it will break down and start to flash, the player must then quickly exit the vehicle before it explodes. The enemy troops also have vehicles at their disposal, such as tanks, boats and helicopters.
The levels are littered with bearded hostages who, when rescued, award players with either points bonuses (in the form of medals) or weapon power-ups. Available weapons are Heavy Machine Gun, Flame Shot, Rocket Launcher and Shotgun. Hand grenades are also available.
Each level ends with at least one large enemy 'Boss' vehicle that takes many hits to destroy. Once the boss has been destroyed, bonus points are awarded for each prisoner rescued. Further bonus points are awarded if the player's Metal Slug vehicle has survived the boss battle.

Yeah

I changed my tactics in the last stage. Because I ignore that piking up S must wait it turn to the pistal. So it can get the 30 S and keep it for the last boss. For most people who like no death,I take it in this one.Although level 5 was slower. It's faster than my past version.

At last,thanks to klmz's hint.


feos: Added YouTube module. Enjoy this time ;)

DarkKobold: Claimed.

DarkKobold: Yay, an acceptable version of Metal Slug! I think it is clear the audience prefers a no-death version.

Aktan: Processing...

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If you haven't noticed, x2poet, people have much stronger support for this version of the run.
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X2poet wrote:
This is my prediction that some of them will say: "Oh it is slower,why not use death to save time,no vote." Now,that get truth.
It's only two people saying that and one of them seems to be saying it out of spite. Check the vote counts for both movies. ^^
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yay for this, yes vote.
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Oh,thanks for your support. This give me motive power to complete Metal Slug 3.
Do the work.
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Fantastic work, X2poet. Gotta love shooting down aircraft with shotguns. :) Whenever you have to make a decision between entertainment and speed, someone out there is going to disagree with you. Don't let it bother you too much.
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Shotgun -noun A weapon of mass ass kicking. I love that weapon in Metal Slug. Not much can survive a single shot. Yes vote. I am glad to see it is now deathless.
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X2poet wrote:
Oh,thanks for your support. This give me motive power to complete Metal Slug 3.
I would talk with HappyLee about that. He made a nice short WIP which was really good.
Nitrogenesis wrote:
Guys I come from the DidyKnogRacist communite, and you are all wrong, tihs is the run of the mileniun and everyone who says otherwise dosnt know any bater! I found this run vary ease to masturbate too!!!! Don't fuck with me, I know this game so that mean I'm always right!StupedfackincommunityTASVideoz!!!!!!
Arc wrote:
I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
natt wrote:
I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
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X2poet wrote:
Oh,thanks for your support. This give me motive power to complete Metal Slug 3.
I love your runs X2poet. As soon as you have it, I'll encode it happily.
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ShadowWraith wrote:
Speed/Entertainment tradeoffs are commonplace on this site. Complaining that the author 'left out known improvements' when the point of this submission was obviously a no-death version of the previous movie, with improvements, is just plain dumb. >_>
ehrm, I'm not entertained by it, that makes me dumb? I think you are more for making such a post if anything everybody else who didn't complain for the death is being a hipocryte
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I voted Yes because this movie is faster than the previous one. I'd have voted Meh had it been slower.
<klmz> it reminds me of that people used to keep quoting adelikat's IRC statements in the old good days <adelikat> no doubt <adelikat> klmz, they still do
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Thank you for the encode, FerretFaucet. I liked this movie. There was so much action going on at certain points that I couldn't keep up!
jlun2 wrote:
Voted meh because it can't be "fastest time" if stage 5 was slower. .......... Don't hate me!
This is why sorting your goals by order of priority in the submission text is a good idea. In this case, that order would be: - Avoid death - Complete the game on the hardest difficulty - Complete the game as fast as possible
Zavalix wrote:
I really can't understand what are people complaining about now. This run is faster AND with NO deaths which was the biggest "NO" on the previous one... I want to believe some are just trolling around, really.
They are complaining because the author of this movie didn't take advantage of a trick that saves time. Some people find pure speedruns (which are movies where the author finishes the game as fast as possible using all the tricks at their disposal) more entertaining than anything else. I don't think that is hard to understand. Not sharing your opinion isn't trolling.
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Don't thank me, thank x2poet for the fantastic run. It's a pleasure to encode runs like these.
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The guys like ALAKTORN (bless him, he was awesome, really) are trying to imply that the previously rejected MS was rejected unfairly, aren't they?
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FerretFaucet wrote:
Don't thank me, thank x2poet for the fantastic run. It's a pleasure to encode runs like these.
I thanked you in the first sentence and praised the movie in the second and third sentences. I think that is fair enough. I feel that encoders should get more recognition for their great work. :P
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ALAKTORN wrote:
ehrm, I'm not entertained by it, that makes me dumb? I think you are more for making such a post if anything everybody else who didn't complain for the death is being a hipocryte
I'm not calling you dumb for not being entertained. I'm calling you dumb for implying that the author did something wrong by submitting this.
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ShadowWraith wrote:
ALAKTORN wrote:
ehrm, I'm not entertained by it, that makes me dumb? I think you are more for making such a post if anything everybody else who didn't complain for the death is being a hipocryte
I'm not calling you dumb for not being entertained. I'm calling you dumb for implying that the author did something wrong by submitting this.
I hope you realize that your post makes no sense @Zeupar: I think it should be separated in primary and secondary goals rather than ordered by importance
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Hey guys, let's argue about shit that doesn't matter!
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This time, you get a Yes Vote for you my friend, the run is really good. There's probably an improvement in this TAS though, in the boat part, giving the Metal Slug user a bomb set would make it a bit faster, since Metal Slug Cannon does double damage than Grenades. Anyways, keep doing a good work.
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I gave you a yes vote for the previous movie, but this one has just that bit more entertainment. Yes vote. Keep up the arcade TASing, you're awesome at it. Also, ALAKTORN, ShadowWraith's post does make sense. He said that it's silly to complain about the optimization of the movie, whereas it is already optimized within it's goal set and the suggested improvement would break that goal set. He never called you dumb.
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Rolanmen: the Slug requires a different pickup to get more shells. Picking up grenades when in the Slug just means you have more grenades when you get out of it. Actually, I don't think there are any shell pickups in MS1. So very very not getting involved in the nascent flamewar over when it's reasonable to vote no. It has precisely zero impact on whether or not the run will be published anyway.
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Rolanmen1 wrote:
giving the Metal Slug user a bomb set would make it a bit faster, since Metal Slug Cannon does double damage than Grenades.
No,Cannon is slower.The time Using 10 cannons can use 48 Grenades.
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If you duck in the Metal Slug, and press C, you should throw grenades instead of using the cannon.
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This is not the same problem.In the Metal Slug,getting the bomb must use as cannon. And if use grerades,1p and 2p are the same,because all the bombs would get 0 finally.
Do the work.
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nice run :D vote yes ofcourse!
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Ergh, I haven't judged this yet because I'm avoiding the fight - this needs to reach the credits, by entering names. I am obviously accepting it once that gets fixed - no need to resubmit, or anything. Technically, anyone could add it, but I'd prefer X2poet take care of it.
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