*sigh* Yet another bad game falls victim to the grue. Oh well. At least the Cheetahmen will have some company now. Edit: I am so to Wiki formatting.

I wonder if eg. SDA would refuse to publish a speedrun of this game... (If not, what's the difference?)

If the run is good relative to the game then there is no reason for SDA to reject it. Although beat em ups aren't accepted because its accepted that there likely to use repetive strategies which exploit a weakness in AI. The difficulty would come from finding verifiers.

The difficulty would come from finding verifiers.

AVGN FTW!

This submission is inspiring. It makes me want to get locked up in my evil scientist themed TAS lab and experiment with bad games.

Similar submissions (by title and categories where applicable): ... * #642: braceyj's Genesis Barney's Hide and Seek in 13:04.82

Bonus points for that one!

I actually found a glitch which can be used at least in the first level to save a few seconds (the playable character wraps around from the left and bottom sides of the screen to the right side of the screen, allowing then skipping the jumping game with the dogs). There are also additional strategies that can be used in the last level to save some additional seconds as well. All in all, my run could be improved by something like 20 seconds, give or take 10 seconds, probably. Still not enough to warrant a publication, though. (I assume a publication-worthy run of this game would have to be something like 5 minutes long at max.)

A little slower? If I'm not mistaken, getting the "good ending" requires you to reach the chapel as Mr Hyde, which effectively means playing the game through twice, once as Dr Jekyll and once as Mr Hyde. Basically they both play the same levels, and you can never pass Dr Jekyll as Mr Hyde, except in the last level (which means you have to reach the last level as Dr Jekyll, then convert to Mr Hyde and play all the levels as him, until you reach the chapel). Only in the last levels you are able to pass Dr Jekyll, reach the chapel, fight the "boss battle" (I read somewhere that the last "boss" takes something like 30 seconds to explode when it's defeated), and then you convert back to Dr Jekyll where you left him off, and have to reach the chapel with him, ie. play the last level with him (although this time there are no enemies). I have no idea how much this all would take, but my guess is that closer to 40 minutes. No thanks?-)

Yes, but at least that would add a lot of variety with the Hyde mode. Also, I think you should use the Japanese version (Houma ga Toki), which is a bit more difficult and has a greater variety in levels. Look out for special doors in that one that can let you hide or even refill your health meters. Anyway, I loved the last level in this movie. Jumping over barrels and bombs, the inexplicable speed-up, the glitches at the end... You gave the ending an earthquake! Ha ha ha!

om, nom, nom... blech, stale!

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"Completely in line with the game's quality, enemies featured among others are birds emitting turds upon Dr. Jekyll and naked statues attempting to douse him with urine."

Finally, after over 4 years, justice has prevailed!

Warp, planning on improving this with those glitches you mentioned?

I think this is exactly the type of movie that motivated the Vault. It has a lot of boring parts, but there is still a twisted interested from me in seeing this game destroyed. If nothing else, this TAS is justice against an angry weekend and a wasted $2 from my childhood.

This is perfect for the Vault. It's a famously bad game, and has good technical quality despite being boring. Wouldn't taking damage in the last level be faster though, or is there no invincibility time? If that could be checked out and the glitches Warp noted earlier could be factored in, it would help this get published.

This run does indeed have known improvements. For example, I'm ashamed to admit that in the last level I didn't know that you can go inside some of the doors, thus avoiding some of the required barrel jumping and potentially saving time (although whether it actually saves time is impossible to say without testing.) I would have actually understood if this had been rejected again for the reason "suboptimal, has known improvements". And yes, a bit after submitting this I tried finding glitches and found the one I mentioned in an earlier post: In some places you can fall through the floor on the lower left corner of the screen and you will appear on the upper right corner, falling to the ground again. Then you can continue as normal, but with the playable character on the right edge of the screen, which avoids many of the obstacles requiring back-and-forth jumping. However, manipulating the randomness and enemies in this game is a real b**ch and a pain in the a**. In that second attempt I got so stuck in one place where I just couldn't manipulate enemies that I got completely frustrated. I think I still have the movie file somewhere if someone is interested. (It goes about half-way through the game, IIRC.)

Wouldn't taking damage in the last level be faster though, or is there no invincibility time?

Whenever you take damage you are thrown towards the left (regardless of which way you were facing). I doubt that taking damage would save any time.

I run does not have to be known perfect to be published. It just needs to show itself as skillful. Does this movie meet that criteria?

This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [2155] NES Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Warp in 18:04.85

This game is hideously ugly.