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  • Aims for fastest time
  • 2 players
  • Manipulate luck
  • Hardest Difficulty
  • Best Ending
  • No death
  • Abusing Glitch

Improvement

The last boss,I have a great miss in the previous run that I ignored the small robot can drop items just like C H L Bomb..
When L hits the boss, the other items and pistal cannot hit it. So I must throw bombs when L stopped
The bomb can only hit the first 2 bosses and Metal "See you in the hell" 50 HP. But it can hit the last boss 100 damage.However,the fire would not change.
So manipulate luck to get 1 L and 3 bombs to hit the last boss.
This saved about 1 minute.
Have fun.I will continue MS5.
Nach: Now the final boss doesn't seem like a long bore (other than the avoidance part). Nice improvement. Accepting.

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Posted: 8/12/2011 9:37 AM
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #3257: X2poet's Arcade Metal Slug 4 in 17:11.97
Posted: 8/12/2011 11:50 AM
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Encode requested.
Posted: 8/12/2011 2:13 PM
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henke37 wrote:
Encode requested.
Yeah, we need encode :) Nice improvement, btw! I really wanna watch this run!
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Posted: 8/12/2011 2:34 PM
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I can't even get the game to sync beyond the first screen lock.
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Posted: 8/15/2011 3:40 AM
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Woah, Good thing you told me about this improvement before hand. The final boss is much more enjoyable to watch now. Heres your Yes vote x2poet, and good luck with MS5!
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Posted: 8/16/2011 3:43 AM
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Suggested Screenshot: The 1st one showes the the boss's MAX damage and attack style. This second showes the luck manipulation of 1L and 3 bombs.
Do the work.
Posted: 8/21/2011 1:28 AM
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X2poet: Did you have any special settings enabled in the emulator? I get a desynch while fighting the helicopters in level 5.
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Posted: 8/21/2011 1:30 AM
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No. You get desync? Restart the emulator.
Do the work.
Posted: 8/25/2011 10:32 AM
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [1867] Arcade Metal Slug 4 "2 players" by X2poet in 17:11.97
Posted: 8/26/2011 3:09 PM
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Finally I can watch the Published movie! This is really awesome improvement! Thanks for the TAS :D:D:D
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Posted: 8/26/2011 9:55 PM
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How did this get published so fast? There's basically no feedback beyond yes votes.
Posted: 8/26/2011 10:23 PM
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It's a very straightforward improvement of an existing published movie -- all that changed was the final boss fight, which is markedly faster. Discussion isn't really needed in this case. Also, Metal Slug games tend to be popular, which means that people are more willing to do the work involved in pushing a movie through the publication process. I'm actually surprised this was on the workbench as long as it was.
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Posted: 8/27/2011 12:42 AM
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I am getting some audio desync on the youtube encode.
Posted: 8/27/2011 12:51 AM
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Are you sure that's not just due to Metal Slug characteristically having delayed sound effects when a lot's going on? I noticed there's a lot of "bullet hit" effects that play after one of the boss phases, but frankly that's just a fact of the engine, not a problem with the encode.
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