The Gutsman stage is now completed.
Next up: Cutman.
Status: 31 seconds ahead the previous movie.
If ignoring the improvements done in all levels with new learned tricks, 7 seconds of this improvement was caused by the route change (Elecman before Gutsman).
Because of the route change, I lost 21 seconds in Elecman boss, but won 26 seconds in the Gutsman level and won 2.5 seconds in Gutsman boss.
Ignoring the effects of the route change, I have improved all levels so far by 24 seconds in total with new tricks. I'm amazed.
WIP file updated. Link is at
http://tasvideos.org/Bisqwit/RockmanMovie.html.
Note: One who has seen the plan image may notice I did quite differently than I planned. First of all, the zipping in the level beginning was omitted because it only saved 20 frames (due to heavy lag) and it costs 3 beams.(*) In the end, it ended up costing more than it saved.
At the axe guy, I stop and wait, because the magnet beam has to die before I can switch weapons.
At Gutsman's outer door, I place a magnet beam. It is on right height, but the shutter is too close for the zipping to happen (I could only zip to the left).
So in other words, it may look like a mistake because nothing happens, but I had one excess beam and that's the best use I could think for it.
The axe guys' graphics are glitches because I zipped over the event that should have given them the proper graphics.
*) It costs 4 beams actually, but if I don't use them, the lifts will be so positioned that I will have to use one extra beam in the lift scene in order to do the zipping after the lifts. Therefore the difference is actually 3.
Yeah, it depends on game. In Super Mario Bros for example, some levels
were minorly tweaked. For instance, the death hole (shown in the image)
in the swimming levels above the last pipe was removed, and the stairs
in the beginning of 8-1 were somehow changed as well.
(This animation does not demonstrate the death hole, but the swim of death.)