Posted: 11/9/2006 9:46 AM
Post subject: Antarctic Adventure
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EscapePlan9
Joined: 12/29/2005
Posts: 119
If I do a TAS again, I'm considering doing it with an esoteric NES game my friend Jon showed me last semester. It's called Antarctic Adventure. You're a penguin racing to the finish before time runs out and avoiding obstacles along the way. The game never officially ends, there's just progressively more and more obstacles as the levels progress. I've been playing it without tool-assists and made it up to level 45 (except for saving at the start of the level since there is no continue feature - and you really don't want to go through 44 consecutive levels again! I don't use save-states in the midst of the level. With some of these levels if you make more than 3 mistakes, you won't be able to finish in time, so you need some skills yo). I think this would be interesting to TAS a few levels - it would be a very short run. Just the first few levels. If any of you haven't heard of the game, do yourself a favor and play it now. So much fun and such a simple game! I'm not doing this run with the intent of it being published here. I just think it'll be a fun run to do. If it gets published, awesome! I've never TAS'd with FCEU yet, so it'll take me a while to get used to everything. And this week won't be a great time to start this due to college constraints (two tests coming up). Any suggestions are welcome.
Posted: 11/9/2006 9:58 AM
(Edited: 11/9/2006 10:04 AM)
Post subject: Re: Antarctic Adventure
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Bisqwit
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Joined: 3/8/2004
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Antarctic Adventure has been done at least once, on this site. It was not published. However, I cannot find it anywhere; even the Search yields nothing useful. I don't know why. Anyway, unless you can do something unexpected in this game, I don't recommend TASing it. It is quite a boring game. However, it's a cool game especially in that it's completely non-violent (if you don't count eating fish as violent).
Posted: 11/9/2006 10:02 AM
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Baxter
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TAS of 2013 SNES TAS of 2013 Speedy TAS of 2007 Innovative TAS of 2007
If you can show something cool, which wouldn't be possible with normal playing (like in practically every published TAS), you can give it a try. However... at this point, I can't imagine the TAS not being boring, or being publishable.
http://tasvideos.org/Baxter.html
Posted: 11/9/2006 10:45 AM
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EscapePlan9
Joined: 12/29/2005
Posts: 119
If there's a way for me to start from a save-state, I know it goes against the rules though, I could start on level 99 or whatever and collect all the flags in the shortest time possible. I have no idea how ridiculous level 99 would be or even if it's acheivable to grab all the flags and have enough time to finish the stage. It would take insane human reflexes and perfect timing definitely! I think one difficult stage would be enough for this "just for kicks" run. I just finished a bunch more stages and am up to level 58 (I keep getting better at the game). I would never play 20 levels consecutively or whatever, this is just a game I occasionally donk around in for twenty minutes or so. So let's say I do one complicated stage. Any specific suggestions on how to make it the most entertaining two minutes possible?