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Nice game. I'm currently at level 13 (level 10, 11 and 12 are super easy). The thing I find annoying is that every time I press up or down, the whole window scrolls up/down. Bleh.
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Science actually predicts the existance of a deity.
Actually, scientists go to great lengths to leave God out of the picture altogether. Ever heard of multiple universes? That's to explain why our universe happens to be perfectly fine-tuned to support life. I don't know if that counts as science or philosophy, but you get what I mean. Science doesn't predict a deity. Religious people's twisted version of science does.
Edit: Ok, I now realize I came off as more hostile than I intended to be. I don't want to get into a heated debate either. It will lead to nowhere. I just wanted to say that science doesn't predict a deity any more than it predict invisible pink unicorns. No, science doesn't know everything. Not being able to explain something doesn't mean "God must have done it", it just means it is unknown. I just hate it when religious people take something that 's unknown to science, slap on a "God did it" explanation and call it science. It's not science, it's bullshit.
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Hey, good run. One question, though. At 15:10, wouldn't it be a tiny bit faster to climb the left side instead of the right, and then jump from the ledge? Oh well, maybe in the next version. :)
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Well, geology seems to disprove the existense of the Volcano God. It depends on how you define "god", really. If you say "God is outside out time and space", it is impossible to disprove his/her/its existense. Then again, it's also impossible to disprove the existense of invisible pink unicorns.
I think the Flat Earth Society is most likely an elaborate joke, like landoverbaptist.org and others.
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Zurreco wrote:
Look at the submissions queue. Some movies have been there for months without having an encoder make a decision...
Yeah, I didn't realize that at the time. That's why I'm not whining now. The recently published "Out to Lunch" movie was submitted in january! So according to my estemations, my movie will be published or rejected sometime in late 2006.
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Argh, why did they have to change the music so much? The music in the Genesis version is COMPLETELY different from the NES version. :( Now I think I would prefer a NES run. Not that it's up to me...
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I think most of the time will be spent waiting for the stupid slow mice to walk to their doom. Not sure if it'll be too interesting. Unless there is some way to make the mice walk faster, that is.
I have no idea what the difference between those versions are, but I'm taking a wild guess that there are more glitches in the 1.0 version, so you should probably use that one.
I know only one trick, and that is jumping from a block and picking it up at the same time. It's so easy, it can be done on the console. Good luck. :)
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Well, if you haven't even played the game, of course it doesn't look as impressive. You should get a hold of a Nintendo 64 and a copy of this game. Play it all the way through, getting all 120 stars. Then watch this speedrun.
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Don't forget to jump up and down on the jet to save energy. Saves at least one energy pickup in the Needleman revisit stage. You might need to be at the top of the screen for it to work (so Megaman disappears every time he jumps). This makes the movie improvable by default, so it should definitely be redone.
Yeah, I know this is already known, I just didn't see it mentioned in this thread (at least not recently).
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It just wasn't very entertaining. That's partly the game's fault, but also because you used like 3 moves in the entire game.
I think there's a way to play as Shang Tsung in this game. Then you can transform into any character and use their moves and I think their fatalaties, too. If you did a different fatalaty every round, or almost any round, and used a good variety of moves, it would be much more fun to watch.
On the bright side, I finally got to see the ending of this game. The credits are a bit humorous.
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The any% movie was amazing, and what's done of the 100% one is even better. It has more action and is more fun to watch. If you keep up the same level of quality throughout the whole thing, it'll be one of the best runs on this whole site (just like the already published any% one).
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Oh, I totally forgot about this game. I haven't worked on this run at all, and probably never will. At least not in the forseeable future. Anyone else up to it? (Both 100% kills and 0% kills.)
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I think you should definitely use Bowser rather than DK. The reason? Well, he has been having his ass kicked on this site, and it's payback time! Or something like that.
Many of the shortcuts where you're supposed to use the feather, I think you can also use a mushroom and just jump with R (or L?).
Good luck. :)
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So pure dumb brute-forcing is out of the question. The only way I can even conceive doing this would to have the computer do just half a second at a time, then take the most progressed one and start again from that one. Yeah, there are 1237940039285380274899124224 possibilities in 30 frames with 8 buttons, but at least it's better than 4,096^36,000. :) Edit: of course, this wouldn't really work, for various reasons. Sometimes you need to slow down in one part to be able to go faster in another part, etc. It wouldn't work.
I think it would be easier and faster to just code an AI that can analyze the ROM and output a perfect movie.
Even easier than that would be to hire an army of software experts to analyze the ROM and build a perfect movie over several decades.
I don't understand that table. What do "GV, MC, DP, CI, VL, etc..." mean? Am I right in understanding you can never ever get a star on the first lap or when you're in 1st place, but you can get a mushroom?
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It would be very difficult to overlap the 2nd place AI in 150cc. I think you can only get green shells and banana peels (feel free to correct me, I'm too lazy to check) when you're in 1st place, and you'd have to use those extremely effectively. That is of course not a problem in a TAS but it would require a whole lot of optimizing. Plus the enemies get extra speed when you're ahead in order to catch up. (At least I think they do.)
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Hmm, I was never awarea you needed a permission to use a walkthrough, but anyway, I hope this game gets a timeattack done. If only beacause of how huge and mysterious it is. (The cave "theme" on the NES version gives me this "mystery" feeling I can't describe...)
