Mega Man X2 TAS (all upgrades) in 31:24.93 (60.00fps). It is about 18 seconds faster than the published run.
You can watch this TAS movie below. (If you don't want to watch moving comments in this movie, push right bottom button.)
Note about encode: With same 60.00fps as Published TAS, this TAS is in 31:24.93. 31:21.83 (title says) is with 60.0988138974405fps.
Goals
Obtains all Heart Tanks, Sub-Tanks, X's Parts and Shoryuken
Does not get Zero's Parts
Aims for fastest time without password
Abuses programming errors in the game
Stage Info
I explain techniques and glitches to save frames in below movies.
Output of Lua script (hitboxes, ghost of Published TAS, random numbers, etc) is displayed in below movies.
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Samsara: Great run and audience response. Due to the feedback in the submission thread and on previous MMX2 submissions, I'm accepting this as a new category, with the caveat that both this run and the "best ending, no upgrades" run will be obsoleted by a true 100% run that achieves both the best ending and all upgrades.
"The guy was fatally injured and wants to be covered by God's tears (rain) before he dies. God is too busy to bother because it wastes frames."
Frames 16:26
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xnamkcor: I believe that's the plan. I think some post here said that when such a run is completed, it will probably obsolete both this run and the no-upgrades run.
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.
xnamkcor: I believe that's the plan. I think some post here said that when such a run is completed, it will probably obsolete both this run and the no-upgrades run.
Why would a 100% run obsolete an low% or any% run?
"The guy was fatally injured and wants to be covered by God's tears (rain) before he dies. God is too busy to bother because it wastes frames."
Frames 16:26
Joined: 8/14/2009
Posts: 4083
Location: The Netherlands
xnamkcor wrote:
mklip2001 wrote:
xnamkcor: I believe that's the plan. I think some post here said that when such a run is completed, it will probably obsolete both this run and the no-upgrades run.
Why would a 100% run obsolete an low% or any% run?
They are neither low% nor any%, strictly speaking. The no-upgrades run still collects the Zero parts.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
xnamkcor: I believe that's the plan. I think some post here said that when such a run is completed, it will probably obsolete both this run and the no-upgrades run.
Why would a 100% run obsolete an low% or any% run?
They are neither low% nor any%, strictly speaking. The no-upgrades run still collects the Zero parts.
Why would a 100% run obsolete special conditions run?
"The guy was fatally injured and wants to be covered by God's tears (rain) before he dies. God is too busy to bother because it wastes frames."
Frames 16:26
As for branches, I pushed for my v1 run to obsolete the shoryuken run to show the history of any% routes since obtaining the shoryuken was previously thought to be faster. But this was also done under the premise that FractalFusion and I were working on a true 100% run that collects both X's and Zero's parts to obsolete the current "best ending, no upgrades" run. That way all of the game's options for item acquisition(minimal X parts, all X parts, no Zero parts, all Zero parts) would still be represented in as few as two branches.
In my v1 thread, Mothrayas suggested having 3 branches("any%", "all upgrades", and "best ending, no upgrades") until such a run was completed, and that the "100%" run could obsolete both the "all upgrades" and "best ending, no upgrades" runs since it alone covers the two options for item acquisition in this game which "any%" does not. In agreement with this, I think that this run should be published as a separate "all upgrades" branch so that the site is not without a shoryuken run for the time being, but under the premise that it and the "best ending, no upgrades" run can be later obsoleted by a true "100%" run to eliminate redundancies between branches.
So, the No upgrades best ending, and the All upgrades no zero, were more like partial completions of the 100% runs and just happened to get published.
"The guy was fatally injured and wants to be covered by God's tears (rain) before he dies. God is too busy to bother because it wastes frames."
Frames 16:26
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They "happened to get published" because 100% upgrades with no Zero parts was formerly any%, and the other run was its polar opposite and made a nice change of pace (and also showed off an easter egg in the ending).
Nowadays, however, they are somewhat less important in the grand scheme of things, as 100% upgrades is not the fastest run anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa
<dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects.
<Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits
<adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
They "happened to get published" because 100% upgrades with no Zero parts was formerly any%, and the other run was its polar opposite and made a nice change of pace (and also showed off an easter egg in the ending).
Nowadays, however, they are somewhat less important in the grand scheme of things, as 100% upgrades is not the fastest run anymore.
I'm not even gonna try to imagine the combinations of runs for X3.
"The guy was fatally injured and wants to be covered by God's tears (rain) before he dies. God is too busy to bother because it wastes frames."
Frames 16:26
