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Crazy Balloon is a port of an arcade game where you navigate a balloon through 20 levels of various paths and obstacles.
I found several new routes in this game as well as a significant shortcut in level 13. It turns out the giant faces don't have hit detection, so you can fly through them to the goal.
I verified that this behaviour also exists in Stella.
Also a quick note on difficulty. Getting a free hit is technically easy mode. On hard mode you only get one hit. This would make the TAS trivial though so I stuck with easy mode.
feos: Nice improvements. Accepting over [3700] A2600 Crazy Balloon by EZGames69 in 04:02.13.
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Posted: 12/24/2019 10:06 PM
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #6578: Alyosha's A2600 Crazy Balloon in 03:54.12
Posted: 12/25/2019 5:18 AM
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Not bad for a reduction of 480 frames. It is interesting that places could be clipped, like the area with the "face". Yes vote on furthering the optimization.
I recently discovered that if you haven't reached a level of frustration with TASing any game, then you haven't done your due diligence. ---- SOYZA: Are you playing a game? NYMX: I'm not playing a game, I'm TASing. SOYZA: Oh...so its not a game...Its for real? ---- Anybody got a Quantum computer I can borrow for 20 minutes? Nevermind...eien's 64 core machine will do. :) ---- BOTing will be the end of all games. --NYMX
Posted: 12/31/2019 5:10 PM
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [4097] A2600 Crazy Balloon by Alyosha in 03:54.12