I'm not sure. It's a pretty monotonous game so far, especially the train part.
I'd definitely watch the next WIP if you controlled both players and, if possible, switched weapons from time to time.
I give it a weak yes. Meh-and-a-half, really. There are a few good surprises, but could have been more creative.
And also because it looks like he finished zangief by punching his scrotum.
Work the groin! :D
Awesome. I've seen the 120 star version a dozen times, but this game never ceases to entertain. Exceptional running, as always.
I'm voting something that starts with Y and rhymes with "undress."
It might have been slightly more interesting if no points were given to offensive power. Just so it wouldn't look too easy.
I thought he played well, all in all. He could have dodged stuff more, but the plane is too slow for that to look good, not like Gradius, or... dare I say it? A 'zig'.
Um... my only other criticism, aside from the lack of weapons, is that quotation marks are not for emphasis! *Asterisks* man, asterisks! :D
who can honestly say theyve seen the ending on their NES?
Hamburglar just can't keep his hands off Ronald's magic bag, so Ronald invites some 10 year old boys over to his house.
Pedophiles, all of 'em.
A good movie for an unbelievably weird and stupid game. If there are holes in the performance, they aren't showing. (Not to me, anyway.) Voted yes.
I was a bit disappointed that the end boss didn't actually fly around like a "retarded retard" but I didn't let that affect my judgment. :D
I'm voting meh, but that would probably be upgraded to yes if an improved movie were made.
Creativity in general would have made a difference, since this game isn't very entertaining on it's own, as others have noted. Pacifist style autoscroll (the astaroid area?) areas, shooting the jetpack guy only in the crotch, and shooting in time to the music, just to give you an idea of what I mean by creativity.
L+R glitches?
Hee hee hee...
The game is "ace wo nerae (J)"
Three minutes of doubles tennis. I make the US Open look like the Special Olympics.
Edit: I'm also trying to play through TMNT: turtles in time (U) using both controllers, and without tool-assistance, aside from being able to stop and pick it up again later. The boss fights looks like they desync but really, I just can't push jump and attack without getting confused.
This time, I make myself look like the special olympics.
Heh... I don't think there's any way to express "laziness" in this game. Though, tossing Ryan into the river for trying to help would probably make Alex look pretty "ornery." :D
I can't believe I never thought to do this sooner. My brother and I must have rented this game 50 times when we were kids, and we'd always spend a lot of time just screwing around until the NES overheated. Namely, trying to leap over that stupid partition in the warehouse, and hurling each other into the river.
I found an odd glitch during an epic struggle against a wooden box. Watch closely. The box is mightier than the sword. (Mightier than the pen-is, anyway.)
Technos games are too awesome for a straight speed run. I made a movie (on advanced, I think) of a brawl with the idiot twins.
I bring a garbage can. Insanity ensues.
HAHAHAH!!
I'm tempted to try running this with 2 players, despite the lag problem, but the emulator itself isn't quite friendly enough for my liking, so I'd want to fix a few things before getting started. Mind you, I've tried and failed at making the snes9x and fba sources compile.
Third time's lucky? :D
Sleepz' RCR run kicks ass. It's one of my all-time favorites, so I'm trying to do a 2 player run to obsolete it, but I've got too much on my plate with real life.
Argh.
I'll bet morpheus wanted to get in on some of that child pr0n action.
Aha... I figured out what you mean, delete. Grab onto the wall, then jump down through the floor! Nice find.
"Fit through"? I'm not sure what you mean. I'm saying he can go over the whole thing using the bee. He's gone through the top of the screen, but you get the idea.
I tested, and was able to use the bee to get over the kill-you-dead-spikes in that shot there, and the set of spikes after that. Looks like it could have saved a second or two, but I could be wrong.
Edit: It also looks like he might have been able to save some time by sticking to the right-side of the screen after the series of descending jumps following the spikes. (Kudos on that suicidal leap, by the way.)
Edit2: So, he met a girl in his dream who gave him a large phallus that fires an unidentified white substance when he clutches it. How Freudian.
Anyway, saw the whole thing. Looks pretty solid, and I enjoyed the parts where I wasn't bored. I'm going to reserve judgment for the time being, however.
Programming, learning Japanese, philosophy, and writing of the fiction variety. I try to mix the three now and then.
I've also been getting into ninja lore lately... not so much ninjutsu the martial art, but ninja sorcery and other such crazyness.
Yoga and pranayama, too. (I hate using sanskrit, but "breathing exercises" just doesn't sound as cool.)
Sweet. I really want to see a run of this, especially if Axel and Blaze are used.
I'd recommend the J version, Bare Knuckle 2, instead of SoR 2, because English versions are almost always censored in some way. I don't know of any differences that would affect speed, though.
Other than that... All I can really suggest is that you make sure to do your homework so you don't end up wasting a lot of time in the long run. (Pun intended.)
Make sure to read everything you can about the game on this site, on gamefaqs, and use google to learn about any programming errors that may have been documented.
I could tell you how stupid you are, but it would have very little to do with this essay.
Kidding!
I'll be commenting as I read through, and I'm assuming that this is a high school English assignment. (Because WTF else would it be, right?)
First off, keep it concise. Your teacher has to read a bazillion of these things every month, and they'll thank you to get to the point rather than punch it up with a lot of jokes. They tend to hate fluff, and the really smart teachers will tell you that a short essay/article/whatever isn't necessarily a bad thing as long as it have significant, well organized content... which this lacks, to be brutally honest.
You need to decide right off the bat what it is about TAS running is interesting or relevant to your friends, your parents, or anyone. And the answer to that undoubtedly lies in the fact that these movies are a form of entertainment.
I think you should start off by answering the most basic question, since there's a lot of jargon in this topic that laymen (E.G., your teacher) aren't going to understand without a little help.
"A 'tas run'? What's that?"
"A tool-assisted speedrun (or TAS) is a recording of a videogame being played as quickly and flawlessly as possible."
And then you could go into detail about why there are speedrunners, the appeal of perfection, the belief held by some in other communities that TAS running is "cheating", and things like that. Consider what exactly made you want to register at this forum, and then relate your interest to the reader.
In the old days, computers didn’t exist. Then they existed. Or something something to that effect, at least. This article will not cover the extremely long process from non-existense to existense, or even the relatively quick process from existense to whatever it is we have today. Instead, it will assume you already possess all that knowledge and dive right into present time. Which brings us back to the the title.
You should probably cut that whole paragraph, unless it fulfills a specific requirement for this assignment.
“A software emulator allows computer programs to run on a platform (computer architecture and/or operating system) other than the one for which they were originally written. Unlike a simulation, which only attempts to reproduce a program's behavior, an emulation attempts to precisely model the state of the device being emulated.” --Wikipedia
You might want to reconsider this; it doesn't seem entirely appropriate for most audiences. They won't necessarily understand the techno-jargon, like 'platform', which would make the quote a very glaring waste of space on the page.
Instead:
"An emulator is a program that enables gamers to play classic gaming consoles on their PCs."
It's shorter, and more readible this way IMO.
If you do decide to go technical, you might discuss the future of emulation, maybe the legality of it, and what the future holds for the TAS community. Try not to end on a question, though. That's usually really tacky. Be like David Suzuki; he kicks ass at that "on the horizon" kind of thing.
So we have now established that a speedrun is a play-through of a game, and that an emulator is a software program that pretends to be something other than it is, namely some crazy hardware.
I think what he did with teenage mutant ninja turtles ought to cinch it.
What does a ninja actually do, though? I mean, other than to flip out and kill people?
