Posted: 6/10/2014 7:09 PM
Post subject: Pitfall II - Lost Caverns
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solarplex
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Link to video Time: 4:07:018 TASed with Bizhawk 1.7.0! Any pauses were to manipulate the birds to start from a higher position so that I could easily move under them. And I made sure by testing what the difference of moving into the level and attempting to dodge the birds and it was usually around 30-50 frames slower.
Posted: 6/10/2014 10:35 PM
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Patashu
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You should get a hold of cak from the speeddemosarchive forums. He's really good at speedrunning this game.
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Posted: 6/10/2014 10:40 PM
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Patashu wrote:
You should get a hold of cak from the speeddemosarchive forums. He's really good at speedrunning this game.
cak posts here sometimes. It might also be possible to PM him.
Posted: 6/10/2014 10:53 PM
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solarplex
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I'm almost done with the 100% run, it's pretty identical in terms of route besides one area due to it bein a lot faster cause of where the bats were located at the time. [s]I did see cak's videos and saw he did find a early balloon glitch. I don't know if that was due to Stella emulator or not. I attempted but could not reproduce[/s] I Just wasn't trying hard enough. Waiting for RAM Address "27" to hit 159 and then attempting to walk to the next room causes that balloon to appear right away.
Posted: 7/16/2014 9:45 PM
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You can also get an early balloon in the highest room with the scorpions, saving probably 4 seconds. Also, this looks like a case where the TAS loses a bit of time compared to a RTA, due to recording from power-on.
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