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(EDIT 2: Dan's making much better runs of this game, head to the last page for his ones ^^) Altered Beast Rev 02 in 07:40 Well, continuing my trend of putting my scrolling-beat-em-up skills to recordings, I just attacked Altered Beast, with a final result of 7 minutes and 40 seconds. Seeing how Altered Beast is pretty empty of features, there's not much more I can say, except that I killed every enemy that appeared on-screen. An interesting note: There's a cheat code in Altered Beast, which lets you select which beast you will transform into on each level. Personally, I regard this as a cheat, so didn't bother with it. However, for someone with more imagination and less morals, you could likely get a MUCH better time by choosing beasts that compliment bosses perfectly. ^_^
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I am in the process of making a better version. Here are my times, with the improvement over your time next to them. The times were measured when the words "100000 pts" disappear from the screen." level 1 - 1:25 - 10 sec. faster level 2 - 2:38 - 15 sec. faster level 3 - 3:58 - 30 sec. faster level 4 - 5:40 - 47 sec. faster
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Very impressive ^_^ How did you gain 15 seconds on the second level though? Considering it auto-scrolls, and the boss practically dies instantly, I'm not sure how you can speed up the pace.
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i think that when there are no enemies on the screen it scrolls faster. at least for level 1 it works that way
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Yup, that's the ticket to a faster time, killing enemies faster.
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Final time = 6:44.33, which is an improvement of about 56 seconds. If anybody knows a good website where I can put my movies on so you can download them, I would appreciate it if you let me know. It's a lot easier for you to download them than for me to email them to you.
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Well, I found webspace anyways :P http://dannyfowler.150m.com/gens_movies/altered_beast_v1_dan_.gmv This is also with the (REV 02) rom.
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ha! u did the same mistake i did on the mickey movie! there is a pause at the end of the movie! fix it!
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Actually, I'm pretty sure Gens presses pause once the movie ends for no reason. Just unpause it and it'll work fine.
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it's because you pause gens using the quickpause button... you must play the movie, and start re-recording be fore the pause and stop movie before the pause so you can remove it
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I just watched both movies. Nice work, but there's room for improvement. Dan's movie is much faster (especially against the bosses) but there's too much frantic movement; excessive punching and kicking that hit no one. With a little more economy of offense, this movie will be better.
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Compared to his run time, my movie was pathetic.. oh well :P
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Cherry wrote:
Compared to his run time, my movie was pathetic.. oh well :P
Don't despair. I know how it feels to be beaten... >_< Seriously though, here is my big suggestion to ANYONE doing this game, based on the two movies so far: Only attack when you have to. Don't jump and kick 4 times to hit one guy...just time it right and kick once. Likewise, while you're waiting for the boss to transform, please don't attack repeatedly at nothing. It's very noisy!
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Yeah, the only reason I do that is so that I can hit them at the earliest possible time. I don't play with sound on, so the noise factor doesn't effect me at all :)
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Time for version 2!! Level 1 - 4459 frames - 673 faster Level 2 - 8779 frames - 746 faster Level 3 - 13464 frames - 849 faster Level 4 - 19153 frames - 1297 faster
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Finished with a time of 6:21.58, which is 22.73 seconds faster than the previous version. http://dannyfowler.150m.com/gens_movies/altered_beast_v2_dan_.gmv Enjoy!
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Holy moly, this is the oldest thread to not be bumped in the genesis forums. anyway, I WAS going to improve the current publication, however I found out the current pub doesnt use hard mode, so that means I'll have to make a movie from scratch. Luckily NESRocks had some memory addresses for all the bosses, and I found one that has the amount of enemies on screen, that address will be really important to optimize screen srolling. here's the first level I have so far: Link to video
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't 12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!" Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish [Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing
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I have finished the game, but it's far from being optimized. I made some changes to the first stage and kinda blasted through the rest of the game. I will spend time thinking of different routes and things that can kill enemies faster. Link to video
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't 12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!" Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish [Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing
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I saved 5 seconds from the last WIP, I think this is good enough to submit a this point, but I want to find a few more improvements before I do that: Link to video
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't 12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!" Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish [Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing