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bahamete wrote:
I do, however, think that if the bug could be exploited in smw any%, then it should be done. My reasoning for this is that smw any% is the one run whereby entertainment can be traded off for speed; its intention is to show the game pushed to its limits.
I agree. Runs of hacks are for showing off the hack and showing more of an entertaining superplay than a pure speed run. If this glitch can save time in SMW any%, then by all means, implement it!
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I finally had time to look at the link Truncated posted, and I agree that it's unbelievable that someone would spend their time writing that, either as a joke or actually believing it. The author never explains how we are "cheating" or what makes the videos "fake and cheated". He just keeps throwing the terms around. Also, the Bisqwit and Hitler page doesn't even include anything like a REAL similarity between the two. That site cannot be real.
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Thanks! It's fast-paced and entertaining. It's exciting to watch the progress on this game. I especially liked the fast upward floating in 1-3, 2-4, and 3-1 and the fast Whispy battle.
When you don't have the Burn ability, is running slower than jumping? In 1-1 and 1-2, you jump through the level until you inhale a fire enemy, but you run through about half of 3-2.
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That's a good idea, jlun2. I should be able to manipulate that when I get to the Shadow Queen.
AKheon, I managed to pause right as I step onto a space that triggers a cutscene (saving Goombella cutscene, Zess T.'s "Freeze!") but it doesn't seem to skip any part of the cutscene. Once I unpause, the cutscene plays out in full. Is there something I'm not doing right?
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This is really neat. I haven't heard of so many of these, since I just learned that the system existed 1-2 years ago.
The NES has some truly awesome music.
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I'm pretty sure the English name of this game is "Asterix & Obelix - Bash Them All!" And the ROM name appears to be "Asterix & Obelix - Bash Them All! (E).gba".
EDIT: This run is entertaining and looks nicely optimized. Voting Yes.
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I just finished watching it, and I'm voting Yes to this submission too.
I didn't watch the old full run, but I did enjoy watching this new full run and seeing the whole game TASed like the last level. Also, the glitches were still entertaining.
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MUGG's comparison encode is cool but I like amaurea's comparison video a lot. Seeing all the different Marios running on one screen with all the differences (with/without Yoshi, small/big/fire) is really cool.
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C13 wrote:
@CoolKirby: Have you set up a goal time for your run yet?
Miles said in the SDA forum for this game that a real-time speedrun would take about 6:20 for in-game time. My goal, with perfect luck manipulation and precise movements, is under 6 hours. I really hope it's possible.
I really want to run this game, so I am going to try my best to finish. I can't wait to see the final product. It's a fairly easy 3D game to run, but it's still a very long game.
Thanks for everyone's support! If anyone has any helpful glitches that could save time, please post them here. I'll post an encode of the Prologue once I've finished it.
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RedGreenSonic wrote:
Patashu wrote:
The main reason why the music sounds worse on GBA is because its smaller speakers mean it couldn't produce any bass. (Or at least I think that's why)
I disagree. If you listen to Kirby Amazing Mirror tracks, the bass is EVERYWHERE.
The whole Game Boy line seems to play less bass than the NES or SNES, which I think is why most GBx/GBA music is made of higher notes (Kirby music, Pokémon music, etc.)
One example I can think of in Kirby and the Amazing Mirror is the Candy Constellation music, which starts with bass.
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What about playing with 4 players for the whole game? Then they could break blocks and defeat enemies that are ahead and everyone can go through the levels faster.
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AKheon wrote:
By the way, I noticed something small in this game the last time I played that might save time. If you go to the menu at the same time you enter a cutscene that starts with Mario walking to a certain spot (like the first cutscene after gaining control, meeting Goombella), after closing the menu Mario just appears at the spot, skipping walking there.
Also, here's a vid of some small glitches me and Kazooie found. None of it has been tested in a frame-precise environment, so who knows if something good could still come out of 'em. Buffering entering a pipe was something especially interesting to us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZi-Rak9qUY
Thanks! That angled ledge trick might be useful somewhere else where you have to climb up (maybe to get to Bobbery's chimney faster). The paper effect glitch and walk backwards glitches would be nice if I were going for entertainment, but they don't appear to save time.
That's a cool cutscene trick. I tested for about an hour on every one of those cutscenes to try and get Mario as close to Goombella as possible, but now I don't have to. I also tried pausing before I talk to Zess T. for the first time, but I can't skip her text boxes (I didn't try pausing before the contact lens though).
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THE GRAPHICAL PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN FIXED! The X-Nauts and more importantly, the Punies, are visible! Pipe animations and paper animations all look perfect! Finally the run won't be annoying to watch anymore (which it would have been with the graphical glitches in previous revisions)!
I'll redo the run on this new revision once I finish up some schoolwork.
The revision is the latest Dolphin from 6.5 hours ago, 3.0-188:
32-bit (x86) download64-bit (x64) download
Since you mostly have to sprint in the run, it will be slower. With hopping glitch with luigi, he will lose 2 pixel per 4 frames...
He appears to be faster at everything except sprinting. Maybe his other abilities would be useful in a 100% run, as Mistralet said.
I would like to see a Luigi run better than a Mario run too, especially since you can play as either character for Player 1 only in this remake (not in the original).
