You did indeed use left+right after the miniboss, which caused Sparkster to stay put rather than to go left.
Shame you couldn't get the crystal reactor glitch to work.
The classic low% beats the game just like any other any% / 100% does: without skipping bosses etc., and thus it's accepted as the official low% in the SM community. Ask anybody else there if you need a confirmation. Oh, I believe you
adelikat wrote: The top 5% (as decided by Baxter) This seems a terrible idea. If I wanted to find out Baxter - or anyone else's - favourite movies, I seem to remember there being a way to look at previous ratings or nominated favourites already. I propose that instead, these 25 (or whatever) starred movies are intended to show the breadth of possible techniques, each showing a unique style of TAS and being there for a separate reason. Not just showing someone's favourites but als showing, "this is what is possible! This is all we have done!."
Manipulating single-drops, as you should know, is much simplier. The Elite Pirates drop 5 ones in one turn each though. I hope it's clear that a 50% and a 0,0000323% chance to get the desired result is not the same here, and "only" adding lag to doors wouldn't help you that much because of that as well.
Where a bot was used to manipulate that luck (who can probaly test millions of variations in a second). It's somewhat different compared to analyzing every variation by hand like I had to.
If that's not a very high luck manipulation that in fact costed me almost a week to get without slowdowns, then I don't know what is.
The reason I didn't do it is because of the excellent luck I got until then, so even including the tricks in the restarted run, there would still be a good chance that I would end up being slower due to worse refill drops in the end, so I didn't bother.
But anyway, there is still a yet not fully explored category left: The RBO run. Should I once again be the first to seriously TAS it from scratch knowing that fellow SM-TASer won't dare to do it on their own, just like it was with this run? And then receive similar shit for the true, original effort done on it? I just hope it won't continue this one-sided way where only one does the work while everybody else ends up copying it in the end.
I spent 40000 re-records on one enemy in one of my runs, it took me 4 weeks.
I can't really feel entertained by this one
Is this game friendly? I personally guess it's probably not.
how about proving anything I said wrong instead?
For starters, I restored the old star list, and upgraded what I could see to account for movies that have been improved since then.
WOW! What a dick!
As for technical, no need to exaggerate. It is, other than at the very beginning and the few skipped tricks, very high, and especially in the late run barely improvable (otherwise Cpadolf would already post his claimed 600 frame improvement smv from the later part already, which didn't happen as you see).
Well, since I skip every single menu entrance, even if it slows down the ingame time slightly (examples seen at the Tourian recharge station, or various opportunities where switching off Ice Beam would allow for slightly faster refills), I would say realtime. Luckily I managed to get the lowest possible game clock completion time nevertheless, so it basicly satisfies both goals in my eyes. But yeah, primary goal was realtime in that case.
Your submission text says that you aim for both in game time as well as real time, but in which order? In order to avoid another ugly, annoying discussion about this in the future, you should say which has been minimized.
And I don't think I rated your run (or any other)...