[TAS] Track&Field(USA) 8:45.78
We're always glad to have new members showing an interest in our hobby.
Our site strives to show off the best of what Tool Assistance in gaming has to offer; typically (but not always) from a speed optimization standpoint. Even when there is an additional goal besides simply going for speed (i.e. Maximum Score), such runs are generally still expected to meet the stated goal as optimally as possible.
It appears you may have misunderstood the submission process and/or movie rules before submitting your run. Strictly considering speed, this submission is clearly not optimal when compared to
our current best. Out of curiosity, I also compared the score attained in this submission with the
current "max score" run; again this submission fall short. Our rules require that new submissions must either meet or beat known records. Since you submtitted a run that does not beat the currently published ones, I'm going to guess that you didn't realize that your run needed to do so in order to be accepted. We do not operate on a leaderboard system like speedrun.com (where the best any one individual can attain is accepted); we only publish the best single run of a category for any given game.
It is not my intent to discourage you when it comes to TASing, but this submission must be rejected for the above reasons.
There are many in our community who would be wiling help give pointers and suggestions on how to improve your skills. This will allow you to create higher quality and more highly optimized TASes in the future. Please reach out to other members via the
forums or via
Discord for such help.
For starters, I can offer a few points for ways to improve your TASing:
- First, fully read through and understand the movie rules, the movie making guidelines, and submission instructions.
- Use other available tools besides just using savestates/slowdown.
- TAStudio: BizHawk contains this tool which is an input roll feature that allows you to specify which buttons are pressed on which specific frames. This allows for very precise timing of button presses for the most optimal play.
- End your movie on the last input necessary to get to the credits/endgame.
- In conjunction with the previous point, don't have any empty frames of input at the end of your movie.
- Due to the way our site parses input files, blank inputs at the end of a run will artficially increase the displayed time of the run.
I hope these suggestions encourage you to continue TASing in the future. You are also welcome to use
userfiles to store your runs that aren't being officially submitted for judgement.
Once again, welcome! We look forward to see what TASes you can produce as your skills improve!
