I was thinking that getting some luck items for tifa could really save a lot time depending on what level she is at when you fight the bosses and what level the bosses are at.
Then I had another idea of saving and loading the game to avoid random battles instead of pausing 3/4 times.
You have insinuated that watching the run would somehow affect my opinion on the subject matter that I have been writing about, but you have completely failed to explain why that would be so.
Discussing a rule of the website which applies to cheat codes supported by the game itself is invalid if I haven't watched a certain run? Exactly how does that make any sense? Exactly how would watching the run change anything I have written? Do runs get special exceptions of the rules if they look good enough or something? Could this be applied to other rules as well? Do, for example, using GameGenie codes become a valid form of TASing if the run looks cool enough?
When you reach the debug menu, what every person will see is that you open the debug menu, use it to warp to the end, and done, which is incredibly lame because instead of "superplaying" you are using a debug function to warp to the end of the game. Debug code is considered off-limits for that reason. Claiming it's not cheating when the main purpose of a debug menu is to cheat is laughable.
I'd rather just see a video showing the glitch, maybe it can be edited into the real video with an explanation, but I think the real run should just go for speed. Spending 4 seconds to gain a level for 3 characters could be worth it, just have to think of how it will let you go faster in the future. The faster time between actions should help at least, not sure what's going to be killing the bosses.
I won't work on this run for a long time.
Suppose that Konami had published a game where they intended to have their classic cheat-code, but then at the last minute they decided to disable it, so it would not be accessible via normal play (eg. by simply changing the jump opcode which is triggered by entering the cheat code into a nop instead of jumping to the cheat routine, or whatever). Also suppose that the cheat routine could nevertheless still be executed by abusing a glitch. Would it become acceptable? IMO it wouldn't become any more acceptable. It would still be the konami code, even though it's being triggered by unconventional means.
I wonder who would still care for this, for I'm sure almost everyone saw it on youtube already :P
Personally I think that using such a debug menu to "cheat" in the game is completely equivalent to using a cheat-key (such as the Konami code). It makes absolutely no difference how the cheat is entered (ie. whether there's legitimate support in the game or whether it's done via a glitch).
It is my opinion that the Earthbound categories should be something similar to the following: (1:) Run with memory corruption (2:) Run without memory corruption, but still major glitches (3:) Run satisfying some completionist conditions or perhaps just banning certain glitches in run (2:)
I'm not really sure what the goals should be, I just figured quickest, because it's easy to define. What do you think about having one person do all of a world, picking a goal and sticking too it for that world, and writing a description expiating the goal. That way we may have one world played for speed, a low par word, a glitch world, a beat everything with just an airvent, etc..
Then explain the Link's Awakening DX "Glitched" run ;) http://tasvideos.org/1292M.html That run had the same goal but used a different method of glitching via Wrong Dog Kennel entry as opposed to the Select Glitch.
u make it seem like a bad thing.
It is simple, I see TASvideos as a place to where questions are solved. The questions being "What is the fastest way to complete ___ game?" The solutions being our runs. Though the chance of that question being asked about Battle Chess in minuscule, it doesn't hurt to find a good solution for it just like anything else.
*) I seem to lack theEnglish vocabularywords to properly describe what exactly is wrong with it. It could be sketched with adjectives like "thickheaded", "insistant" or "arrogant", but that only gets half-way of it at most and also has wrong meanings.
If we were going to see a low% run, I think a low% all temples is a much better option.
Damn right.
As RingRush said, the only thing questionable is the Deku Stick icon that appears during RBA. It's unusable and you never acquire any actual Deku Sticks ("ammo"), so some wonder if it counts as an item.
