I felt a bit awkward for beating Michael's movie with such small marginal - only 0.7 seconds is hardly an improvement in a 8 minute long movie.
But we started the movies for this game as a competition anyway - Michael and I were both making movies for this game and we kept beating each other. So now was my turn, and I'm not a newcomer to this serie...
There were some things I liked in this new movie.
- In 1-2, at time=388, I took a shortcut through the wall. I think it saved some frames, although it resulted in a slow acceleration delay.
- In 5-1, at time=337 and time=331, I stepped on two of three turtles. Some extra points this way. It's not easy.
- In 8-4, at time=358, jumping through the piranha plant was cool. Mario goes to the pipe before the plant does. It's actually the same thing as in 1-2 at time=344.
- In 8-4, at time=322, I finally managed to pass this point without any delays. Also, it was sort of cool to stomp a turtle with a hat.
- In 8-4, at time=312 and time=287, Mario jumps through the flow of hammers. Unless you watch it in slow motion, it looks impossible.
Other things:
- In 1-1, at time=377, I skipped one coin to prevent the game from lagging. It saved one or two frames.
- In 1-2, at time=323, I skipped one coin and did a walljump. I previously thought that it's slower than doing the regular way, but this time my experience proved otherwise. I tried something else here too, but it
didn't work.
- In 4-3, at time=365, we have previously always went the lower route, but this time I went the upper route. I got lots of more coins than usually.
- In 4-4, at time=278, I tried many different ways of doing a walljump and I picked the one that was fastest. I also tried the through-wall trick (as seen in 1-2) here, but it was too slow here.
- In 5-1, at time=317, I managed to do the walljump trick without any delays involved getting the favourable randomness. This is no news, but I was glad of having finally succeeded in it.
- In 8-1, at time=381, I finally managed to pass this point without any delays. Previously I've always delayed a bit to get the turtles in a good position.
- In 8-4, at time=392, I finally figured out how to get the fireball in a good tall position. Previously I always delayed a bit to avoid the ball.
To be honest, here's the list of things that I didn't like when I reviewed my movie:
- In 1-1, at the beginning, I perhaps should have gone the lower route instead, to get more coins.
- In 1-2, at time=354, I feel like I jumped too much.
- In 4-1, at time=375, the delay to get the spikeball in a better position was maybe a little too long.
- In 4-2, at time=367, a week ago I stomped both the turtle and the bullet. This time I couldn't stomp the bullet. I couldn't figure out why.
- In 4-3, at time=368, I'm not certain whether it was impossible to get those two coins while still going the upper route.
- In 4-4, at time=273, I feel like this wasn't as fast as in Michael's video. But the time was better due to the walljump trick.
- In 4-4, at time=268, I couldn't stomp the hammer brother, because Koopa (the castle boss) would have jumped to the opposite direction. I am not certain whether this is unavoidable.
- In 5-1, at time=397, I have a feeling that it would have been faster to jump a bit later, despite getting only one coin in that case.
- In 5-1, at time=324, I would have wanted to go the middle route, despite there's no gain in it.
- In 8-1, at time=372 and time=364 and time=360, I couldn't stomp the hammer brother.
- In 8-2, at time=368, braking disturbed me a lot.
- In 8-3, at time=357 and time=354, I couldn't stomp the hammer brothers.
- In 8-4, at time=396, I feel like my randomness control delay was too big. It's invisible though.
- In 8-4, at time=366, I feel like it would have been possible to go a few frames faster.
- In 8-4, at time=348, stomping the turtle would have gave a better score than displaying the hidden 1up.
Yes, this is what I mean by
being selfcritical.
Ps: For the jumping period that starts from 8-4 at time=338, I copypasted my movements in the FMV file with a binary-safe editor. It serves no purpose but I thought it was funny.
Edit: Fixed the time difference...
Ps: By once inputting a short name (like: C, L, M...) in a name entry dialog, you decrease the time used by all dialogs that display the name.