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Posted: 3/24/2006 12:49 AM
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Blublu
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Bag of Magic Food wrote:
Doesn't Quattro Adventure also have a Dizzy game?
Yes, it's Treasure Island Dizzy. Very short and easy compared with the other one on the NES. Actually, all the games on that cartridge could be TAS-ed. They are: Linus Spacehead - a platform game with controls from hell. Super Robin Hood - a very hard platform game with delightful controls and some nice level design. Boomerang Kid - an arcade-y game where you collect boomerangs with level design from hell Treasure Island Dizzy - a very unforgiving puzzle adventure thing....
Posted: 3/23/2006 11:36 PM
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Blublu
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Shouldn't a two-player run be faster than a one-player run? Or does the lag cancel out the additional firepower? The one-player pure speed movie is 09:34. Are you sure it's not faster to use the spread gun for both players instead of lasers? I'm thinking there might be something to double lasers, but I'm not convinced it's faster. Did you do some testing on this? I'm thinking it's an aesthetic choice, which is not a very good idea in my opinion. You should go with whatever is fastest. Anyway, I haven't watched yet so I'm not voting yet.
Posted: 3/23/2006 11:09 PM
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Blublu
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There's also the thing of making a subtitle file with the button presses. I'm not sure if there is a program that can do that yet, though.
Posted: 3/23/2006 11:07 PM
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Blublu
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How about Super Robin Hood? It's on an unlicenced cart called "Quattro adventure" or something like that. Super Robin Hood is one of the games on it.
Posted: 3/21/2006 10:40 PM
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Truncated wrote:
So it's the fact that this movie has no clear goals and could not be obsoleted that makes you think it shouldn't be published April 1:st or any other day?
That's right.
No. Nobody has a clue about what you mean.
He meant don't make a movie file (avi, ogm, mkv) of the emulator automatically playing the game by using the button press file. But I'm sure you already knew that.
Posted: 3/21/2006 7:50 PM
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Blublu
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I disagree, the "side-stroller" movie does have a clear goal and could theoretically be beaten.
Posted: 3/12/2006 12:13 AM
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Famtasia hates me, so I'll just wait for the AVI. I don't see how this movie could possibly be rejected. My only concern is that if someone wanted to improve this, he would be pretty much forced to use Famtasia, right? :(
Posted: 3/9/2006 10:38 AM
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It's not that I mind my name being in there (as long as it's spelled correctly), I just haven't seen this done in any other video and I was wondering what gives. Thanks for the quick response. :D
Posted: 3/8/2006 11:23 PM
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Blublu
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Hey! My name is spelled extremely wrong in the avi! Why would you need to put it in there anyway?
Posted: 3/8/2006 9:56 PM
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Wow, that was fast. Didn't expect it to go up so soon. :) Thanks for the comments, everyone.
Posted: 3/6/2006 4:34 PM
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Blublu
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This looked very fast and accurate. Well done! Possibly a star candidate, even.
Posted: 3/6/2006 2:45 AM
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Movie is finished and submitted. http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3469
Posted: 3/4/2006 7:05 PM
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I agree with Baxter. Better yet, why not make two runs - one using as many cheesy instant-win glitches as possible, and another that doesn't use them.
Posted: 3/3/2006 3:00 PM
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Blublu
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chyren wrote:
Might as well TAS MS Paint...
MS Paint doesn't have re-recording cababilities.
Posted: 3/2/2006 8:49 PM
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Bisqwit wrote:
http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/snap/solarbobman.gif (420 kB)
I don't know what to say. That is beautiful. Just beautiful. :D
Posted: 3/2/2006 6:54 PM
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Blublu
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That's actually a good idea, to re-make some famous painting. Maybe even add some NES elements into it, like making Mona Lisa be holding a NES pad or something... Of course this would hardly count as a speedrun, but it would be nice to see anyway. If someone wanted to "improve" it, he/she would need to make a better painting faster.
Posted: 3/2/2006 1:04 AM
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Blublu
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So all it does is play the movie with the emulator, right? Mmmm, nice, I guess....
Posted: 3/1/2006 11:25 PM
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Blublu
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Slotermeyer wrote:
Oh, one thing on watching this WIP: I didn't learn this until after I did my first run, but try to make sure your pod is facing downwards when you finish the bonus stage. It puts you back above your ship facing the same direction, so by doing so you can save the time it takes to turn around.
Thanks, this helps. There's no way I'm doing level 2 again for 12 frames, though.
Posted: 3/1/2006 7:39 PM
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Blublu
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Thanks. :) Yeah, I noticed that getting the crystals doesn't actually affect time at all. It just kinda looks like it does. So I decided to get ALL the crystals in the first cyberzone and then try to do the others in interesting ways, even if it means I can't get all the crystals. I'm thinking I will do the next one same as #2, only diagonally...
Posted: 3/1/2006 4:01 PM
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Blublu
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Yes, the ONLY place where you need Shades is that big jump right after the ice cave. There is no other place where he is required. The really annoying part is that the gap is precisely one pixel too big. To gain that one pixel, you need a huge detour down into the mines to get that stupid character.
Posted: 3/1/2006 12:25 AM
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Here's a map (copied from GameFAQs without permission): 
                     .-----------.---.
                     |           |   |
                     |           v   v
 1-->2-->3-->4-->5-->6-->7-->8-->9-->10-->11-->12-->Boss
         |       ^   ^   ^   |                 ^
         |       |   |   |   |                 |
         .-------.---.---.   .------>13--------.
The possible paths are: 01 -> 02 -> 03 w> 07 -> 08 w> 13 -> 12 -> end 01 -> 02 -> 03 w> 06 w> 10 -> 11 -> 12 -> end The former one looks to be faster because level 11 has so many detours. The others (except 13) can be run almost straight through without deviating much. Of course, the only way to know for sure is to make two runs... Edit: I finished up the first level, 10 seconds faster total. http://fast.filespace.org/blublu/SolarJetman_U_level1_finished.fcm Edit: Level 2 done, now the total improvement is 22.95 seconds. :D fast.filespace.org/blublu/SolarJetman_U_level2_finished.fcm (obsolete) Edit: Re-did part of level 2, improving the time by 1.38 seconds. http://fast.filespace.org/blublu/SolarJetman_U_level2_finished_again.fcm
Posted: 2/28/2006 7:51 PM
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Okay... that sounds uncomfortable. So that's why this is in the Gens forum, hmm?
Posted: 2/28/2006 7:27 PM
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That's exactly what I do, though I use OpenOffice and I don't bother with the hours-minutes-seconds thing, I deal in frames only. It's pretty simple to do this and it makes comparing movies so much easier and more fun.
Posted: 2/28/2006 12:21 PM
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Wow, I had totally forgotten this thread. No. I lost my motivation when I learned that it's actually not possible to skip Shades (the ghost) at all. The "trick" I discovered was simply a result of running the PAL cart at NTSC speeds, or something like that. I don't think this is a legit "trick". I think I tried the japanese version (called Hebereke) but it didn't work there either. (I don't think there is a US version). I tried for a while to get through the ice area without the lizard guy, but that didn't work out either. This game isn't really well suited for a good TAS unless someone finds a nice glitch that allows one to go through walls or something similar.
Posted: 2/28/2006 1:03 AM
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The current run can be improved. Here's level 1, done 9.35 seconds faster (561 frames): http://fast.filespace.org/blublu/SolarJetman_U_level1.fcm More later if I have time / am motivated enough. I'm not sure if I want to keep going to level 2 or re-do level 1 again (it can most likely be improved a little bit further).
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