In order to set free teh castlevania from a horrible curse, we vanquish da terrible count once again, hopefully the 7 next years will be more sunny (erh wait wha...?)
Here is the longest awaited obsoletion on the site, it took 7 years to brake the curse, and 4 talented tasers; arukAdo, Cardboard, Bablo and scrimpeh.
Originally started by Cardboard and Bablo, they tased up to Stage 3-3 and then lacked interrest/time (pretty much like all preceding attempts), thats where the two of us took over.
We end up beating Phil and Genisto's old movie by 01:37.62 (~20 seconds are from removing the dance after beating dracula).
Bablo and Cardboard did decide to use the jap rom, the stage8 is red(blood) instead green and some other small details are uncensored in this version (boobs for exemple), the timing have near no difference, I believe this rom choice should not be an issue.
Im not sure if the run sync on others version of snes9x, we tryed to beat their movie but with not much success so we decided to just keep going with what we got.
For a list of tricks, both old and new, please refer the Game Resources page
Improvements
A little table to recap the improvements over last movie, first collumn is the total frames won in the stage, second show how many lag frames was removed, third is the difference for bosses.
Full excel spreadsheet is available on google, it detail any rooms and lag as well.
Stages
Total
Lag
Bosses
Stage1
212
4
74
Stage2
219
44
30
Stage3
879
62
104
Stage4
742
47
-31/2
Stage5
22
-2
no boss
Stage6
226
23
-24
Stage7
32
5
-31
Stage8
130
69
-60
Stage9
298
27
10
StageA
596
28
-54
StageB
2561
74
0/102/84/283
Worthy to mention that the biggest improvement in a single room is 4-4 with 660 frames, second place goes to A-1D with 526 frames.
That was incredible. The new whip tricks, the use of subweapons (or rather, just the cross), the overall optimizations...and it's less than two minutes of improvement? Phil and Genisto must have done a HELL of a job back in '04.
Enthusiastic YES vote.
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Awesome! I've been looking forward to this for quite some time (I can't believe that such a popular game has had only one run, and from way back in 2004). Easy yes vote.
Some of my favourite parts:
Freezeframe after the first bossThe shortcuts in 3-2The playaround in 4-24-4 goes without saying
All I can say is wow, it's about time. That said, I haven't watched it yet. Looking forward to NitroGenesis' encode (And if he doesn't provide it in 3 seconds, I will start encoding it myself. Mwahahaha).
All I can say is wow, it's about time. That said, I haven't watched it yet. Looking forward to NitroGenesis' encode (And if he doesn't provide it in 3 seconds, I will start encoding it myself. Mwahahaha).
You're so mean, I started encoding in Hd but the ETA is 3 hr 22 min, I lose ;_;
YoungJ1997lol wrote:
Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
Yes, Yes, and Yes. Its so nice to see the other run finally obsoleted after 7 years. I watched all the WIPs and was very impressed with all of them. Congratulations!
Now what run is next that needs serious updating?
I'm sciencing as fast as I can !
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<adelikat> once more balls enter the picture, everything gets a lot more entertraining
<adelikat> mmmmm yummy penises
I hope encoders know that SMVs can run in fast forward without it appearing FF'd in the AVI! (Whether or not quality drops as a result, I dunno. Doesn't seem so, though I don't do HD.)
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Maybe some of this will be answered in the submission text when it arrives, but I would like to know how much time was saved/lost in boss battles by using the cross instead of holy water.
Also, when the mummy at the top of the clocktower was defeated, you still had one heart left. Did that add any time?
Nice work on the Grim Reaper!
Maybe some of this will be answered in the submission text when it arrives, but I would like to know how much time was saved/lost in boss battles by using the cross instead of holy water.
Also, when the mummy at the top of the clocktower was defeated, you still had one heart left. Did that add any time?
Nice work on the Grim Reaper!
Hey thanks.
I remember it varied. The boss fights were all done by arukAdo, so he can answer it better than I can, but on some bosses, it definitely saved time, whereas we lost some time on others. Overall, the cross proved useful enough though.
As for the extra heart, arukAdo checked that, it doesn't add any time.
For amusement, I wanted to see how long it would sync with the US version. You desync shortly after the wall zip in Block 1-2 and die right at the bone pillar right in the middle of the door. :)
Voting no cause Cardboard wont come on IRC anymore
I'm sciencing as fast as I can !
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<adelikat> once more balls enter the picture, everything gets a lot more entertraining
<adelikat> mmmmm yummy penises
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Here's an encode: http://lex.clansfx.co.uk/media/video/sc4tas-lossy-hq.mkv
Note that a flag for 4:3 aspect ratio (like a 1990s CRT TV) is not in this encode, so the video uses an 8:7 aspect ratio. Feel free to set your video player to stretch to 4:3 if desired. In Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (which is what I use), it's "View" -> "Video Frame" -> "Override Aspect Ratio" -> "4:3".
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The morning TAS has vanquished the horrible TAS!
*cough*
...Yes, this is a worthy and entertaining improvement. I'm skeptical about the use of the J ROM, given the reason cited for its use, but I don't think that that should have any strong weight in the decision.
Thus, yes vote.
