There are some videos from Stefan Mahrla here. Check out the "Sky Diving - Fast Landing" video for an example of how corners can be cut quite drastically--and it's probably possible to open your chute even later!
This game would be good for a TAS because you can eliminate having to slowly align things such as the cannon and just go to the perfect coordinates instantly, making the challenges go by in a very short time.
Another thing you should look at is ROM size. The larger the ROM the more likely it is to desync. I assume that this is because desyncs are caused by savestates not recording the last few frames when it is made. If the ROM is larger then one could argue that the savestate has more data to save and hence there is more chance of final frames being lost. Working on my experience: the SM64 ROM is only ~5Mb (very stable), Majora's Mask ~30Mb (very unstable). This idea has been reasonably consistent across all ROMs I've researched.
I was gonna ask this now its been published. What has to be done in order to obselete this run? would you have to do optimal boosting while attaining 100%, or would you have to do something which makes it better on more subjective terms, which would simply be impossible becuase it would be unfair to produce a run thats gets that achives the same goals and obseletes the other one because its "more entertaining", just a thought.
Rail games = suxxors. Period.
As unpromising as this sounds, I'll take up StarFox 64 again.. and Tsumi to Batsu. :/ Gee, I sound like a broken record player. ;-; Anyone wanna take bets on how long it takes for me to burn out? =P I'll probably redo the first level on SnP (no.. not Snakes n Planes..) then fiddle with Meteo, go back to second level of SnP, and stuff. I'll try to go back to where I am on Meteo if I ever manage to redo Corneria.. having some extra bombs and some extra points would make me waaaay happy. ^^; P.S. GAUNTLET LEGENDS 4P NETPLAY WITH DEHACKED GOGOGOGO Edit: wait im stupid :( sry
I think it helps if you save and load an extra time after the last frame! But maybe not.
Would an all-perfect run be more entertaining? Or should I just do an any%?
Ya, its around 3:50. I was estimating from the fact that I was at the ranch at 3:25. I had slowed down time in my head when i made that estimate, I forgot how much faster regular time is. Edit: Can someone tell me what order to shoot the aliens? I thought I took care of them all and they still took the barn.
It would be really neat if you could manipulate them to stay away long enough so that you don't have to shoot any.
I skipped replaying Huffers WIP and tested playing myself. Surprise surprise, the game freezes now and then, I couldnt even start racing. Am I cursed?