Joined: 6/21/2004
Posts: 247
Location: New Hampshire
Wait, wait, what the hell? What's the point of not posting WIPs?
If you don't want to spoil the run for yourself, don't click the damn link; there's no need to set up a separate system for those who want to watch the WIPs. It's a completely unnecessary inconvenience for those who want to stay updated.
Alrighty. Warning - there's an update here - don't spoil it for yourself if you don't want to!
Wheeeeeeeeeee bleep
65% collection. The reason I posted is to get ideas about what I could possibly do for the next section, where I wait for the "special" robot to slow its way through the wall just before the spring ball. Any ideas? Also, questions/comments welcome.
Edit: The Draygon fight is my favorite part. Watching Draygon's life in memory was a huge help to this fight. The shinespark can be used to inflict much more damage than I thought (The shinespark in this battle hits Draygon for the equivalent of 3 Super Missles).
<Swordless> Go hug a tree, you vegetarian (I bet you really are one)
Is 100% going to include rescuing the critters during the escape? It will take extra time, and it doesn't count toward the game's % counter, but if your goal is to leave nothing behind, then animals should count. (Call it 101% if you like.)
No, those retarded animals can burn for all I care. (I'm so nice)
I'm just going for the screen at the end to say "your rate for collecting items is 100%", and for fastest time within that goal.
<Swordless> Go hug a tree, you vegetarian (I bet you really are one)
Joined: 4/21/2004
Posts: 3517
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Damnit its sooo hard not to view your WIPs even though I've promised myself NOT to watch them anymore :) But this was the last time and as always, solid run so far!
Maybe they escape anyway, just travelling off in another direction?
On topic: when you grab the first super missile in Maridia, wouldn't it be faster to use a regular bomb? You could drop a power bomb first and then a regular bomb for the climb.
Awesome run, especially the Draygon fight! You seem to work on this around 20 hours a day otherwise I just can't explain how you can progress that fast man. :-)
About the special robot pasage: I can't think of any other way to pass here except waiting for it, without X-Ray anyway.
About my RBO progress: I'm finally in lower Norfair in the serious recording and have a ton of work ahead to calculate the optimal way because my energy is so damn close and most likely I will be forced to use the Crystal Flash before even entering Ridleys room which wasn't planned like that because I lose alot of Energy in the waiting time before he appears and don't do 400 HP damage to him from my Crystal Power-Bomb.
After all the mindbreaking and countless lower norfair testings I also feel a bit sick of TAS'ing this game right now and need a small break to relax. I will continue it very soon again, just give me time.
As far as I know the power bomb lifts you up exactly same fast as a regular bomb and JXQ laid it down in the earliest possible frame, so I don't think this can be any faster. He should confirm that though.
JXQ is an absolute beast when it comes to speedrunning. We all knew this even before he started this run, and it's just becoming clearer and clearer :)
Fredrik: The bombs lift Samus at the same rate, etc., but compared to Teri's run, which uses this trick, I'm six frames slower due to a bit more lag. Frown. It also could be due to some random fadeout differences (which occasionally happens in this game).
Saturn: Thank you! I actually work on this run around an average of four hours a day.
Grambo: Fabian was being sarcastic in his first post.
Fabian: LOL I'm going to quote your first reply on my page.
<Swordless> Go hug a tree, you vegetarian (I bet you really are one)
Hey guys, I'm planning to give the any% TAS a go. I currently have lots of planning and testing to do before I start working on it seriously, so don't expect a WIP in a while. :P
I find it awesome that this game get's so much attention. And this game deservs it so well. Glad you are putting up with this guys! I know how frustrating it must be from time to time. :D
Well I just started working on Ceres to get used to the game for TASing and currently I am tied with JXQ for frames in the first room in Ceres. Hopefully I'll have an escape for you guys in a couple days. Depends how well the escape will go.