Yeah, I know, I post way too many topics in a way too short span, but hey that's me. At least, my topics have a purpose. :P
Anyway, on to the, well, topic of this topic. As most of you know by my low post count and other posts, I'm a newbie at superplays. I've done a few speedruns though, but nothing actually published or even finished. Partly because I'm too much of a perfectionnist and partly because I didn't have the dedication to finish any of them. Superplays give me the chance to do things to perfection however, and that's probably what makes me like them so much.
So for the last 9 hours or so, I've been playing Splatter House 2 non-stop, finding ways to go faster and kill enemies as fast as possible, as well as find where collision boxes end. I'm starting to get the hang of it, and I manage to do some pretty good stuff by jumping around and abusing Rick's ridiculously small collision box, compared to his enemies at least. The game is pretty challenging, even at 50% speed, and some levels seem like obstacles are completely unavoidable (level 4-2 for example, features ghosts that hook up to Rick and makes your d-pad the opposite of what it originally is, those ghosts are almost indestructible and are not worth trying to kill in a run where speed is the focus). Bosses are a joke once you figure out their patterns however, and I can take out most of them without even breaking a sweat. The only exception to this would be the second boss, where I tend to do some reckless stuff to abuse his pattern and possibly make him a faster kill then when I take my time.
Anyway, enough talking, here is the run, the AVI file does not have any sound due to some technical problems when encoding the audio file into the video file (desyncing, bad frame placement, etc.), however the .GMV file is clean of those problems and features the full sound. The ROM I used is
Splatterhouse 2 (u) [c][!].bin, if you want to see the .GMV movie file, you'll have to find that ROM by yourself:
GMV file for Gens (requires ROM, 38kb):
Here
AVI file (no sound due to technical problems, requires XviD codec, 6.7 mb):
Here
So far, these two levels have 13096 frames put together, for a total of 3min 38.27sec (my current replay stops at the level 3 opening scene, which is somewhat longer than the .AVI file I recorded, which itself is clocked at 3min 32secs). I had to rerecord over 114 times for those two levels only, and from what I can judge of the other levels I've played, I'll probably end up with around 1,400 rerecords when this will be finished.
Hope you guys enjoy the run as much as I enjoyed making it so far. :D
