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#4311: solarplex's N64 Superman in 1:19:31.67

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Goals/Aims for Superman 64:

Fastest Time with Entertainment
Plays on Hardest Difficulty
Surviving the creation of this TAS
Abusing level design flaws

Describe the Game:

Oh God No!.. Superman is trapped in a virtual world by Lex Luthor. Lex Luthor is clearly the most evil villian in all the universes because the only way for Superman to be freed from the Virtual World.. is to fly through rings.. mostly.

"In short time your fate will be sealed, Superman.. .. Then there's no time to waste (besides flying through almost a thousand rings)!"

Describe Making the Movie:

The general TAS guidelines were incredibly simple for this game.

Ring Stages

You can miss a maximum of four rings in the beginning then later on it is a maximum of three rings. Due to the nature of a TAS, I didn't have to worry about missing any rings so I could use these rings to my advantage to save time by cutting corners and skipping the rings. In about 1-3 ring stages, I forget about missing some rings due to either being super far ahead to make any changes or time saved would have been minimal due to the monstrosity I have been dealing with to make this.

Indoor Missions

These were incredibly simple due to the routing that was already done thanks to *Alec Kermit*! Stay out of bounds to save time, try not to get hit by enemies. Some levels may be hard to see due to Superman flying in the darkness(it would be brighter/clearer but the Emulator Video Plugins are not up to par with the Console).

Other Stages

Help people by killing dark shadows or mine droppers (Very quick stages).

Improvements:

Lots of improvements can be made for those up to the task.

Better optimization of ring stages.
Minimizing lag frames(game/emulator core are super laggy).
Better speed handling with the use of ram watching.

Thanks:

Mothrayas, Spikestuff, CoolKirby, oblivionwalker, jlun2, Patashu Guga for encoding. Alec Kermit for routing and helping while creating this TAS.

feos: Accepting for Vault.

Guga: Processing...

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Posted: 5/17/2014 12:12 AM

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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #4311: solarplex's N64 Superman in 1:19:31.67

Posted: 5/17/2014 12:16 AM

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NitroGenesis

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Should the game be referred to as Superman 64 or its official name (Superman: The New Adventures)? Usually we go by official names, but in this case I think everybody knows this game as Superman 64. Dr. adelikat said superman so we're using that.

YoungJ1997lol wrote:

Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.

Posted: 5/17/2014 12:34 AM

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adelikat

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I think it should be superman, we shall troll people by using the correct name ^_^ As for the tas, I watched about 60k frames, and I liked what i saw, and I am voting yes. And thanks for sparing my the misery of making this TAS (after ET and Cheetamen II I felt like I had to lol)

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Posted: 5/17/2014 12:39 AM

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I haven't watched, but I just wanna say that in high school, I knew someone who actually loved this game. I think he was being sincere about it. That is all.

NitroGenesis wrote:

Should the game be referred to as Superman 64 or its official name (Superman: The New Adventures)?

I'm reading that the title is The New Superman Aventures. No 'd'.

A hundred years from now, they will gaze upon my work and marvel at my skills but never know my name. And that will be good enough for me.

Posted: 5/17/2014 1:17 AM

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Samsara

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Watched the WIPs, voting yes. I was hoping to have the GB Superman run submitted at the same time as this one but I wasn't expecting this run to be finished so quickly. Oh well!

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You shouldn't need a degree in computer science to get into this hobby.

Posted: 5/17/2014 1:30 AM

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Spikestuff

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NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYES vote. Something shit was something interesting.

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Posted: 5/17/2014 2:31 AM

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YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES...

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Posted: 5/17/2014 4:59 AM

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Link to video For download. NOTE: This encode won't be used for publication since I messed up something in the subtitles, this will be only up so it can be viewed by anyone.

Posted: 5/17/2014 5:08 AM

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solarplex

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Guga wrote:

NOTE: This encode won't be used for publication since I messed up something in the subtitles, this will be only up so it can be viewed by anyone.

5:01 15:25 26:45 37:10 50:55 62:18 75:53 These are times in the movie you should watch. For the love of all that is pure, do not watch the full movie. You've been warned.

Posted: 5/17/2014 7:42 AM

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Oh my, now things are getting interesting. Will watch this later.

Posted: 5/17/2014 11:27 AM

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Ferret_Warlord

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Here's a fun challenge. Skip to a random point in the encode. See how many times you don't end up in a ring challenge. It's a lot harder than you think.

A hundred years from now, they will gaze upon my work and marvel at my skills but never know my name. And that will be good enough for me.

Posted: 5/17/2014 11:30 AM

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No vote. Yes Vote.

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Posted: 5/17/2014 1:10 PM

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Guga wrote:

http://www.archive.org/download/SolarplexsN64SupermanIn11931.67/superman.mp4 For download. NOTE: This encode won't be used for publication since I messed up something in the subtitles, this will be only up so it can be viewed by anyone.

Shouldn't it be on Youtube then rather than Archive.org?

LLCoolDave wrote:

This seems to be competing for the "Worst looking TAS of 2011" Award.

Posted: 5/17/2014 1:11 PM

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I hate YouTube.

Posted: 5/17/2014 1:42 PM

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This game is terrible. It bores you with the ring stages and makes you want to see something different, but then when something different DOES occur it lags like hell to the point of annoyance; making you want to go back to the ring stages to kill off more brain cells. No vote, sorry.

LLCoolDave wrote:

This seems to be competing for the "Worst looking TAS of 2011" Award.

Posted: 5/17/2014 2:28 PM

Post subject: Re: #4311: solarplex's N64 Superman in 1:19:31.67

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morningpee

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I think you made it as entertaining as it could be, by flying upside down after complete objectives, talking to NPCs from inside the floor, and falling over after defeating Dark Seid.

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Goals/Aims for Superman 64: • Surviving the creation of this TAS

I commend you, yes vote.

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Posted: 5/17/2014 2:57 PM

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scrimpeh

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It is games like these that make me wonder what the the color averaged out of all the frames in the encode would be. Yes vote in all its horrible glory.

Posted: 5/17/2014 3:26 PM

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Flip

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And people think S3&K had a lot of rings.

Posted: 5/17/2014 3:49 PM

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jlun2

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After some thinking, I wonder if the run would work on console? It lags like hell at times, but otherwise it's quite straight forward.

LLCoolDave wrote:

This seems to be competing for the "Worst looking TAS of 2011" Award.

Posted: 5/17/2014 5:07 PM

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solarplex

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jlun2 wrote:

After some thinking, I wonder if the run would work on console? It lags like hell at times, but otherwise it's quite straight forward.

There is a lot less lag on console. Maybe it would be better running with pure interpreter n64 core but I was already 200k frames done when bizhawk switched.

Posted: 5/17/2014 6:51 PM

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ForgoneMoose

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Everything about this is awful. No thought was put in whatsoever to making the experience not be boring as hell, no effort was put into optimization whatsoever, and slowdown is apparently no object here. The TAS was fine though, yes vote.

Posted: 5/17/2014 9:10 PM

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ForgoneMoose wrote:

Everything about this is awful. No thought was put in whatsoever to making the experience not be boring as hell, no effort was put into optimization whatsoever, and slowdown is apparently no object here.

I thought you meant the TAS, not the game. :o) I agree with you. Nice work Solarplex, what is your next plan between? :)

Posted: 5/17/2014 9:22 PM

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niamek wrote:

ForgoneMoose wrote:
Everything about this is awful. No thought was put in whatsoever to making the experience not be boring as hell, no effort was put into optimization whatsoever, and slowdown is apparently no object here.
I thought you meant the TAS, not the game. :o) I agree with you. Nice work Solarplex, what is your next plan between? :)

Next TAS I wanna see if people like the idea of it: "Hey hey hey! it's time to make some crazy money! Are you ready? Here! We! Go!" Crazy Taxi! on hardest mode with shortest amount of time. try to see if it's possible to get the Crazy license and maybe even 1st Rank (to get Crazy license, you need to rake in 20,000$ in taxi fares). Shortest amount of time you can start with is a mere 35 seconds.

Posted: 5/17/2014 10:14 PM

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Enjoyed watching your WIPs. I didn't think it was possible, but the ring stages are actually somewhat entertaining when TASed, and the indoor levels definitely are. It's too bad about the excess lag, but it doesn't hurt the run that much. Yes vote!

NitroGenesis wrote:

Should the game be referred to as Superman 64 or its official name (Superman: The New Adventures)?

Probably its official name. We can refer to it as Superman 64 in the movie description.

solarplex wrote:

Next TAS I wanna see if people like the idea of it: "Hey hey hey! it's time to make some crazy money! Are you ready? Here! We! Go!" Crazy Taxi! on hardest mode with shortest amount of time.

YES. That would make a great run!

Posted: 5/17/2014 10:16 PM

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solarplex wrote:

5:01 15:25 26:45 37:10 50:55 62:18 75:53 These are times in the movie you should watch. For the love of all that is pure, do not watch the full movie. You've been warned.

Thanks for this. Voted yes.

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