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Posted: 5/20/2004 5:48 PM
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Deviance
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replacing the forum logo won't cost any more bandwidth, provided the new one is the same filesize. There was a discussion about this when the forum first started, but nobody seemed to want to make one.
Posted: 5/19/2004 3:35 AM
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Deviance
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You definitely need to do something about the main page because I don't think 56k people want to have to wait for *insert number that I don't know how to count to* pictures to load.
The main page, including all the images, is over 700kb; That's 74 images which are responsible for around 80% of this size.
The only problem is that the site is French so if you're like me who doesn't know French then you might have trouble figuring out how to sign up.
I can speak French, there are also some users here who are from Quebec, right Phil? :)
Posted: 5/18/2004 10:54 PM
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mfried does the levels in their proper order
he doesn't, the route was the main difference between the two videos.
as well as picking up 10 hearts and the master sword..
There is no Master Sword in LoZ.
Posted: 5/18/2004 9:06 PM
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Deviance
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you can get hit by Gleeok sometimes and he won't take any damage from you. The same thing happened in my speedrun without using savestates. Seems to happen mostly when you are standing close to him.
Bonus question : can anyone tell me where I can find the previous time attack record for Zelda 1 ?
you need the video or just the time?
Posted: 5/18/2004 7:53 PM
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If SDA accepted an emulator run, they would be contradicting their own rules.
Posted: 5/18/2004 2:10 AM
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I tried it on ZSNES today, and to my surprise, here were the results I captured straight from the game: I was pretty sure it would work, yet it failed to do so when I tried; heh, looks like Magic Powder routes are out of the question.
Posted: 5/18/2004 12:39 AM
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did you try clearing all switches by pressing 6?
Posted: 5/17/2004 11:06 PM
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I have played the piano my whole life.
as have I, even composed. I didn't say he was bad, because like I said I realize that he wasn't being serious.
Posted: 5/17/2004 9:29 PM
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The piano dude is definitely very skilled. He does some pretty tricky stuff there.
The piece is simple really, nothing very tricky involved. But I suppose he wasn't trying to play seriously in the first place, he was just fooling around with it while his buddy filmed him.
Posted: 5/17/2004 8:10 PM
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interesting how his one post spurred so many replies in such a short period of time. Proves that the time attack debate is still a hot topic.
Posted: 5/17/2004 6:25 PM
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the guy on the piano could use a little more practice.
Posted: 5/17/2004 6:22 PM
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If he argued intelligently, his post may have been more worthy of looking at.
Doing this stuff out of sheer practice is what makes all of us grown-up NES kiddies go "Cooooooool!", but apparently, this pathetic reliance on re-recording is now commonplace.
Bottom line is, if you want to be known as one of the best at the game, a time attack won't do it for you. Everyone here knows that. Nobody here is going to be known as a skillful player by making time attacks so you don't have anything to worry about. The people here are instead devoted to showing you how entertaining these classic games can be, and their work should not be attacked by your irrational rants. I can say what others have been telling you repeatedly, but I won't; I sure hope you see thing clearer now by reading the posts before this one. In addition, go ask people who make pure speedruns without savestates what they think of time attacks. Many of them don't share your hostility. In fact, people making pure speedruns look at time attacks as a learning resource to assist them in further runs, myself included.
Posted: 5/17/2004 2:34 AM
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Deviance
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Shift is best because it's right next to the arrow keys
but not everyone uses the arrow keys for movements. I personally use A,S,W,D instead.
How would a speed run look if the character stopped moving every time the person pressed pause?
If you savestate before you pause there won't be any problems. Just load state after you resume.
Posted: 5/16/2004 11:02 PM
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Here's what TSA had to say about that run:
TSA wrote:
A run in which he dies and doesn't utilize the quick spin attack, and also does this rediculous Goron Roll for "short distances"...he has the path, but he's not "great". Good that he did it, though. Oh yeah - He did it segmented. I'm doing mine one run...show how it's really done.
Posted: 5/14/2004 7:51 PM
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good point Bladegash, this route doesn't work because you'll have to go back to death mountain anyway to reach Ganon's Tower when you have all the crystals.
Posted: 5/14/2004 7:47 PM
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takes about a 75 seconds to get from 1 to touching the warp tile. Takes about 25 seconds to get to the warp tile from where you get the Ether Medallion. 75-25=50 seconds. Getting the mushroom, giving it to the witch, getting the powder, and then the double magic should take less than 50 seconds otherwise it won't work. I'm just estimating of course, I'll play it out to get more accurate times.
Posted: 5/14/2004 7:19 PM
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Mushroom Master Sword Hyrule Castle 2 Palace of Darkness Get Flute Thieves’ Town 300 rupee house Get Bird Warp Warp to 2 Get Magic Powder Tempered Sword Double Magic Skull Woods Warp to Link’s House and go to Hyrule Castle Get Quake Warp to Light World Get Zora’s Flippers Ice Rod Cave Warp to Death Mountain to get Ether Turtle Rock Something like this?
Posted: 5/14/2004 6:31 PM
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I was thinking of a route that changed the order of getting the Ice Rod, but it turned out to be equally fast as the current route. What did your route involve?
Posted: 5/14/2004 5:07 PM
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The first Megaman I didn't play much, but the levels themselves are more challenging than the bosses, Fireman's stage has good music. Megaman 2 is my favourite, the music in the first Wily level is one of the best I've ever heard in an NES game; it also has the most useful weapon in the series, the cut blade you get from Metalman: powerful, shoots in all directions, takes long to run out. Megaman 3 was a good addition in terms of challenge, the final boss music is catchy. Megaman 4 is the transition game, after this one, the series changes a lot. Megaman 5 and 6 seem very childish in comparison to the earlier games: brighter colors, "cuter" bosses, even the tone of the music...
Posted: 5/14/2004 6:27 AM
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Twin Galaxies wrote:
0:06:14 - Reaches "sanctuary" (under 6 minutes...off to a great start !!) 0:07:48 - Enters 1st dungeon 0:11:35 - Gets 1st Pendant 0:13:44 - Gets "Book of Mudora" 0:15:09 - Enters 2nd dungeon 0:19:07 - Obtains 2nd pendant 0:20:41 - Meets old man in cave 0:21:50 - Sets foot in "Dark World" 0:22:06 - Enters 3rd dungeon 0:25:40 - Gets 3rd pendant (Note - Darren fell off the ledge not more than 3 seconds into the battle with the "boss" monster, thus approx 15 seconds were lost getting back to the "Boss" area) 0:27:07 - Unleashes the three pendants to get sword 0:31:37 - Enters room with "Zelda" 0:33:38 - Touchdown on Golden Pyramid
I just checked on TG and so far my Light World time is faster than the current world record for this game!
Posted: 5/14/2004 5:21 AM
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Are the ZMV files available for these movies?
Didn't use them, they kept breaking after 5 minutes so I gave them up. I changed my mind about publishing a movie at some point, because I wanted to wait until I did a run of the whole game, so bandwidth wasn't on my mind. But once I had the avi of a decent run, I decided to go ahead with the publishing anyway.
Posted: 5/14/2004 5:13 AM
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I tried a few more times and got 1:59.
You're getting closer :). Are you practising on famtasia or Nes console?
Posted: 5/14/2004 5:09 AM
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I'm taking a couple days off of this game to ease the mental strain. Then, I'll start this weekend by planning the routes within the Dark World dungeons screen-by-screen, then I'll practise running through them individually. I'm sure there are still some undiscovered tricks, so I'll do some experimenting as well. I haven't tested the general route in full detail as of yet, but I'll have a good idea by the time I run through the entire Dark World a few more times.
Posted: 5/14/2004 3:19 AM
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why didn't you just drop down and walk through the path in the middle instead of going around the long way?
because that's around when the big cannon is launched which you cannot dodge around.
By the way, are you still going to do a LoZ speed run? If so, which will you do first, LoZ or ALttP?
The Light World alone takes as much time as doing an entire LoZ speedrun, but LoZ is much harder to do overall. I'm a little out of practice with LoZ after spending so much time with ALttP, so I may do both eventually, but I think I'll focus on ALttP for now. Besides, it's one of my favourite games of all time. :)
Posted: 5/14/2004 3:08 AM
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Are you thinking about submitting your times to TG, and would SDA accept the glitch?
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