I am super excited to open this thread to document and explore the Super Famicom game, Ganpuru Gunman's Proof. It is essentially a link to the past clone set in the wild west with no puzzle elements.
From what I can gather, this little known title is currently un-TASed and has about 3 speedruns documented to youtube with the quickest time of 58:21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HViF4J79jc
This will be my first TAS movie that I have committed myself to and I think it would be a good starting point for me as a beginner. The obvious time savings that I can see are:
- movement optimisation
- after you kill the first boss you unlock an ability where if a monster drops a carrot you can ride your donkey friend with a great speed increase. If there is any way to manipulate this drop then an incredible amount of time can be cut off.
- death warps back to town.
- boss kills with manipulated bomb drops
- boss kills with efficient shooting and movement.
- once in the middle of the linked speedrun, the runner glitches the screen to scroll down into another area. if this can be used in any situation then the game could be broken but i will have to research more. (at around 25:30 in game time)