Contrary to the Chameleon Twist 1 TAS , all 6 levels need to be played through in order to reach the end; Sky Land, Carnival Land, Ice Land, Great Edo Land, Toy Land and Pyramid Land.
Before you ask, there's no difference between the 4 chameleons apart from their look. I went with Fred because his depressed look makes me laugh.

Game objectives

  • Emulator used: Mupen64 0.5 re-recording v8
  • Aims for fastest time
  • Takes damage to save time
  • Uses death to save time
  • Manipulates luck
  • Genre: Action/Platformer

Comments

I had never played this game until I started TASing it last year. I had other projects at the time so I never really started a serious TAS attempt. I had a look at bobmario511 and Kyman’s WIP and found some improvements here and there.
On January 29th, a commentated non-TAS run by aleckermit was uploaded. I thought it was pretty good and that Chameleon Twist 2 would, like I thought, make a good TAS.
I then contacted aleckermit asking him some general advices about the game. He was really interested in helping me and had already uploaded a WIP. Funny enough, I didn’t even know about the speed power-ups present in the game (nor did bobmario511 and Kyman); aleckermit attempt was really fast paced and motivated me to start the project.
After countless retries in Sky Land, finding more and more improvements each time such as new death warps and insane momentum-sustaining techniques, we finally came up with a big skip and were finally able to finish Sky Land. Overall, we ended up saving 3 minutes and 10 seconds over bobmario511 and Kyman’s WIP.
I then pursued my work, doing each stage at the best of my capacities. Even if aleckermit doesn’t have any input in this movie, he helped a lot by giving me advices and making videos about stars locations and possible game-breaking strats:

Tricks used in this run

Too lazy.

Comparison table

Here I compare the times I got in each stage with aleckermit's times (taken from his non-TAS run). Since there weren't any better/TASed Chameleon Twist 2 run, those were my goals to beat.
LevelsNahoc's in-game timealeckermit’s in-game timeTime saved
Sky Land2 minutes and 33 seconds5 minutes and 50 seconds3 minutes and 17 seconds
Carnival Land3 minutes and 58 seconds6 minutes and 40 seconds2 minutes and 42 seconds
Ice Land 3 minutes and 18 seconds5 minutes and 25 seconds2 minutes and 7 seconds
Great Edo Land3 minutes and 53 seconds6 minutes and 58 seconds3 minutes and 5 seconds
Toy Land3 minutes 45 seconds5 minutes 44 seconds1 minute 59 seconds
Pyramid Land2 minutes and 22 seconds5 minutes and 17 seconds2 minutes and 55 seconds
Total19 minutes and 49 seconds35 minutes and 54 seconds16 minutes and 5 seconds

Special thanks

  • aleckermit: HUGE thanks to aleckermit for everything he did to help this run.
  • sonicpacker: he encouraged me and gave me feedback throughout the run.
  • bobmario511 and Kyman: I used their work for comparison.

Suggested screenshots

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Dooty: Fast paced, entertaining and optimized to the extreme! Accepting with gladness.
Nahoc: Processing...


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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #3468: Nahoc's N64 Chameleon Twist 2 in 21:57.27
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I watched all of the WIPs as you released them. Fantastic run and I can't believe how such a simple game could be so entertaining. Obvious yes vote.
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I also watched every level that you uploaded, and so I can definitely give this a Yes vote. This is an impressive and quite fast-paced run! I haven't watched aleckermit's speedrun, but I think the skips are really planned well.
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N64 TASer of the year award has already been decided in my books. Anyways this TAS is awesome and I am very glad that we didn't finish without knowing about the speed power up. Yes vote.
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Wow, That was an incredibly fast paced run. I dare say that this is even star worthy! Great job Nahoc! The different routes, the jumping abuse, the parachuting trick & the well planned death warps make this run extremely entertaining. A Strong Yes Vote from me.
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You just submitted 3 TAS in this 3 months?! Awesome...
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That was highly entertaining, I had no idea the game could be broken like that. Yes vote.
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Kyman wrote:
\ Anyways this TAS is awesome and I am very glad that we didn't finish without knowing about the speed power up. Yes vote.
I know right! Yes vote here, been awesome to see how entertaining this turned.
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Clearly a yes, as well as:
Kyman wrote:
N64 TASer of the year award has already been decided in my books.
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Very nice! I didn't know about this game, and I'm quite impressed, first of all, how much better it is than the original game. For instance, it has: Better music, better stages with less loading time, a character that actually looks like a chameleon, speed powerups, and boss fights with health meters! The run is very cool too. The manipulation of speed powerups was great, and some shortcuts were quite surprising (especially the one in Pyramid Land that looked like you were backtracking a lot). Great Edo Land was my favorite stage, up until the boss fight. Strong Yes vote. In fact, I'd say this is the N64 TAS of the year (at least so far). Screenshot suggestions: * Grabbing a bunch of little guys during the burger boss fight (Carnival Land) * Near the end of Great Edo land, when you make your tongue in a loop flying on the way to the boss platform * Most anything in Toy Land would probably work well, especially early in the stage.
Used to be a frequent submissions commenter. My new computer has had some issues running emulators, so I've been here more sporadically. Still haven't gotten around to actually TASing yet... I was going to improve Kid Dracula for GB. It seems I was beaten to it, though, with a recent awesome run by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. (http://tasvideos.org/2928M.html.) Thanks to goofydylan8 for running Gargoyle's Quest 2 because I mentioned the game! (http://tasvideos.org/2001M.html) Thanks to feos and MESHUGGAH for taking up runs of Duck Tales 2 because of my old signature! Thanks also to Samsara for finishing a Treasure Master run. From the submission comments:
Shoutouts and thanks to mklip2001 for arguably being the nicest and most supportive person on the forums.
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I honestly thought the comments in this thread where overblown. Then I watched the movie. Wow, that was pretty awesome. The psuedo-death abuse was interesting. Also, damn, he looks like the single most depressed hero this side of Final Fantasy.
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Yes vote from me too. Extremely entertaining run.
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Had never even heard of this game till I saw this. Excellent run Nahoc.
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Nice job mate
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Yay! I was with Nahoc through most of the process of making this run, he is truly a genius TASer. Very creative and never takes the easy way out of a complicated routing situation, he redid multiple parts of the just run to save small amounts of time. N64 TASer of the year IMO.
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alec kermit wrote:
N64 TASer of the year IMO.
I agree, and I think he should've won it last year.
Post subject: Screenshots
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Here are some screenshots; which one do you prefer?
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Nahoc wrote:
I like this one. It's funny how long the tongue is, and it also shows one of the many sequence breaks in this run.
Nahoc wrote:
This one also gets my attention. It shows what looks like a hard sequence break to perform. This is my second favorite of the ones you posted.
Post subject: Movie published
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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. ---- [1985] N64 Chameleon Twist 2 by Nahoc in 21:57.27