Run Saber (SNES) beaten in 56087 frames, 15min 34.783sec Run Saber is a pretty blatant ripoff of Strider by Horisoft. It's a fun game, though, and rather more stylistic than Strider, I think. It has one of those dime-a-dozen plots, though; aliens are invading (or have conquered the planet already, the game's opening is not clear on this point,) and the two Run Sabers (genetically enhanced soldiers) are the world's only hope. This TAS uses the male Run Saber, Alow, and beats the game in 15min 34.783sec, delivering the final hit to the final boss at exactly frame 56067. In order of priority, my goals were: *Aims for fastest time **Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs (boss fights) *Takes no damage *Plays at hardest level *Manipulates luck (enemy positions) Recorded with ZSNES 1.51, primarily at 20% and 25% speed, no special options enabled. All of the stages are the same concept (Get from point A to B, kill or dodge everything in your way,) so I don't see any need to discuss them. Possible future optimizations: *Two players? IMO, this would only help at the last few bosses because of the long invulnerability timer. *Use bombs? Not likely; they take a full five seconds to go off, and you can't do anything during the animation. *Go for pure speed on bosses instead of trying to be entertaining? *Jump from ledges instead of running/sliding off more often? Thanks to: *Dromiceius, for telling me about dashing. *Dyce, for his Run Saber FAQ on GameFAQs
Run Saber (SNES) beaten in 56087 frames, 15min 34.783sec Run Saber is a pretty blatant ripoff of Strider by Horisoft. It's a fun game, though, and rather more stylistic than Strider, I think. It has one of those dime-a-dozen plots, though; aliens are invading (or have conquered the planet already, the game's opening is not clear on this point,) and the two Run Sabers (genetically enhanced soldiers) are the world's only hope. This TAS uses the male Run Saber, Alow, and beats the game in 15min 34.783sec, delivering the final hit to the final boss at exactly frame 56067. In order of priority, my goals were:Recorded with ZSNES 1.51, primarily at 20% and 25% speed, no special options enabled. All of the stages are the same concept (Get from point A to B, kill or dodge everything in your way,) so I don't see any need to discuss them. Possible future optimizations:
- Aims for fastest time**Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs (boss fights)
- Takes no damage *Plays at hardest level *Manipulates luck (enemy positions)
- Two players? IMO, this would only help at the last few bosses because of the long invulnerability timer.
- Use bombs? Not likely; they take a full five seconds to go off, and you can't do anything during the animation.
- Go for pure speed on bosses instead of trying to be entertaining?
- Jump from ledges instead of running/sliding off more often?Thanks to:
- Dromiceius, for telling me about dashing.
- Dyce, for his Run Saber FAQ on GameFAQs
Hex 9
Power:F5
SRAM :ED
Hex D
Power:04
SRAM :00
Hex 11
Power:88
SRAM :00
Hex 12
Power:02
SRAM :00
Hex 27
Power:80
SRAM :C0Is it possible that the ZMV that's trying to be submitted starts from power-on without SRAM clear? That gives 10 instead of 11 at 024x byte 0 and 1, which would fail in this source code, but might still say "starts from power-on" when loading the ZMV file.
Pretty good run up to date... some parts could be a bit more optimized it looks like though such as in stage 3 the wall plants, they stop flashing and you're still in the air... overall since I don't know the game I can't say much about improvements except that some parts look like you could hit the enemies faster or that you could probably save time by taking damage (unless damage sends you flying backwards far or stuns you).
There is this one part as well in the 1st stage where you are killing enemies that spawn from the wall, the last one takes a few hits and you let her leave and come back to deal the last hit... could it be possible to kill her before letting her go back in the wall? It seemed like you could of had another hit in there if you didn't play it safe and took damage.
ZSNES movies aren't accepted by the site, tend to desync for the viewer and even the player, and I think have a few other bugs I can't recall at the moment.