the actual movie uses 4 controllers and 2 mem cards
i managed to resync this MAX SCORE SHIN AKUMA TAS that plays survival mode to get the ultimate high score, i do a lot of combos and parries to achieve that.
if the goal was only to beat survival mode only for speed, it could be much faster with some other chars and ex groove disregarding such lengthy combos, maybe haohmaru would be the char for that goal.
if the goal was to get max score on survival mode only, it's the first TAS to get max high score but i believe it could be faster with both shin akuma itself or maybe some other character with infinites.
my suggestion is to evaluate this as the only max score survival mode so far, and if someone comes along and wants to obsolete this for bein faster, go ahead.
The fact is I tried to make this more entertaining than just using the same 40hits combo all the time.
The goal of survival mode, which is winning all opponents one by one, restricts the entertainment value a little, because you can't switch your character in-between battles.
The choice of character decreases it a little more by reducing the challenge, since Shin Akuma deals more damage than his usual alter ego, making the fights easier.
The tactic of hitting opponents while they're holding a block is a little dubious in terms of optimization, because it takes quite long to earn "+20 guard crush" bonus.
It also would be beneficial to do the superpower attack of 30+ combo hits when your opponent has little to none health, to earn more points.
Anyway, I didn't do the calculations to confirm the most optimal tactic. After all, the run focuses on entertainment too. The battles are variative, and they don't feel boring.
Yes vote
TASing is like making a film: only the best takes are shown in the final movie.
The goal of survival mode, which is winning all opponents one by one, restricts the entertainment value a little, because you can't switch your character in-between battles.
The choice of character decreases it a little more by reducing the challenge, since Shin Akuma deals more damage than his usual alter ego, making the fights easier.
The tactic of hitting opponents while they're holding a block is a little dubious in terms of optimization, because it takes quite long to earn "+20 guard crush" bonus.
It also would be beneficial to do the superpower attack of 30+ combo hits when your opponent has little to none health, to earn more points.
Anyway, I didn't do the calculations to confirm the most optimal tactic. After all, the run focuses on entertainment too. The battles are variative, and they don't feel boring.
Yes vote
shin akuma takes more damage as well he has lowest HP in the game, so his capabilities are balanced by his health, but in tas we only get hit to show off interactions, if i want to.
it's like you said, the TAS already has the merit of reaching highest score possible, which is something i hadn't seen previously but if i went exclusively for that i know it would be more repetitive and i got a little tired of TASing only speed related goals, the high score seemed like a better to allow variations that still entertain. I wouldn't be able to Misogi super "teleport chop from the sky" if i went exclusively for speed wouldn't be able to show off some parrying and weird trades and hit interactions with pure speed for the high score.
I've been trying some combos exclusive to TAS in order to create a playaround but I don't have enough content so far.
TAS i'm interested:
Megaman series, specially the RPGs! Where is the mmbn1 all chips TAS we deserve? Where is the Command Mission TAS?
i'm slowly moving away from TASing fighting games for speed, maybe it's time to start finding some entertainment value in TASing.
