Sorry I couldn’t work on this when you finished. I have yet to see the final project once an encode is provided but I’m excited to see it.

Very sick! The action was smooth and well coordinated, so I'm voting yes.

Some context: Cowlitz Gamers 2nd Adventure is a free NES homebrew game created in 2017 for Cowlitz Gamers for Kids Expo. It is a platformer where you collect coins to open up the path upward; there are 48 screens (not counting bonus screens) in this game. You can download the ROM from the game's main site. The only difference between difficulty levels is the number of lives you start out with and how many coins you need to get more lives. It is faster to complete the game with 2 players since they can both collect the coins necessary to open the path to the next screen. Deathwarps are abused a lot in this TAS. There are a couple endings depending on whether you finished with both players alive or with just one player. Note that there are collectible gems in each screen which allow you to access hidden bonus screens. Collecting all the gems (and coins) is a goal I would like to see as well. I uploaded an encode (will take some time before it is ready): Link to video Note that the ending music is a few minutes long before it ends. A button press is necessary to get to the "THE END" screen with all the stats; I included it in the encode.

Thank you for the information and the encode, FractalFusion!

Thank you for the encode FractalFusion. I didn't know about (or maybe forgot) there was a score screen at the end. I don't really consider it part of the run, but if it's necessary whatever. I also didn't test how different endings would change the time if I burned one of the players lives, but that seems pointless to me anyway, as I consider the run over once the top of the tower is reached regardless of the ending cutscene.

I mentioned the endings because it is possible to save time by killing one of the players in the last screen so they don't have to get to the rope to finish the game, but you would end with the 1-player ending. This is not a strat that I would use myself (because getting the 1-player ending in a 2-player run really does look like a bad ending) but it has been used before in this 2-player speedrun.

While I really enjoyed this run, I am somewhat dissapointed that you didnt add any sort of playaround during the downtime sections. if you had done that then I would have enjoyed this run alot more. here's a weak yes vote.

I tried to burn my lives but I only managed to get down to 7 in the time it would take to otherwise climb the rope. It would save time on hard mode, where I'd only have 3-4 lives, but you would have to have one less death abuse with player 2 at some point in the run. So I guess it's mainly a matter of taste, but saving time in this way is definitely possible. EDIT: actually even on easy mode there are points where player 1 is waiting long enough for player 2 that I could burn some lives. I could also give player 2 a couple extra gold without losing time to keep player one from getting another life. So it might save time there as well. But at any rate I don't like the idea.

http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/55639385766082321 Please replace the movie file with this one. I found a place where I could save one death abuse with player two (and save time since it was unnecessary) and a place where I could swap out player one to take a death abuse instead of player 2 without losing time. In this way I was able to play on hard mode instead of easy without sacrificing any time. Now both players end the game with zero lives and on hard mode. So if one wanted to end the game slightly earlier by killing off one player they could. I still don't like this though. So i didn't do it, at any rate it is trivial now. pretty cool it magically worked out this way.

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