I think I'll remove my plan to speedrun without getting hit. There seems to be too many things it's helpful for (Oddly enough).
But at least I found out how to jump through a ladder. I didn't when I first started the run. :D
I wasn't gonna submit it. But thanks for the criticism.
There's a lot of things you listed that I knew I could've done better (Hopefully) with a little more practice.
Particularly the mini-boss in Toxic Seahorse.
Unlike FractalFusion, I didn't make the last few hits delayed so that I could get over by the door to reduce* time. Honestly, that part is just hard to do. There's a few things to keep track of.
I'll try to keep the run going. And fix a few things with the test run along the way. And polish it up before I make an actual run with it.
*Said increase rather than reduce.
Oh good.
I'll remember the steps from now on.
This game takes so long frame by frame. Argh.
Oh yeah, I apparently only saved the video itself from to the half of the stage. So when I continued, I forgot to record. And thus, when I got to the boss, and saved it, it only saved a state, not the movie. Aw well. At least now I don't have to take an unavoidable hit.
Sorry for the bad playing.
I could. If you could wait for me to finish the current stage I'm on. I should be done with that reeeeally soon. But I'd hate to just post my progress and have it cut off in the middle of a stage when you're watching it.
It's the number of times you've loaded a savestate over the course of creating your run, i.e. the number of times you've resumed recording from an intermediate point in your run.
It's largely a 'just for fun' statistic, but many people take it as a measure of how much time and effort has been put into the run.
Cool! I'll do that as soon as I finish it.
P.S. On an unrelated note, if I make a savestate during a movie, and then I turn off the emulator, and then I turn it back on again and record, and then load the savestate, will it load the whole recorded movie? Or am I gonna have to do it all over again?
'Cuz I would... Rather like to turn my computer off tonight.
It will load the whole movie. TASers keeping their computers turned on for several months or even years would be a major energy consumption problem in the world :)
I lol'd.
So far, I'm in the middle of Tunnel Rhino's stage.
It's 9:30 minutes long.
34183 frames.
Rerecord count: 961.
What's rerecord?
Cool! I'll do that as soon as I finish it.
P.S. On an unrelated note, if I make a savestate during a movie, and then I turn off the emulator, and then I turn it back on again and record, and then load the savestate, will it load the whole recorded movie? Or am I gonna have to do it all over again?
'Cuz I would... Rather like to turn my computer off tonight.
Oh yeah, I don't know how to post it to the forums before actually attempting to submit it. I started last night, though I should be done sometime tomorrow. MAYBE even later today. (It's 10:12 am for me)
It's a run of Megaman X3, and I take no damage throughout the game.
I do all the fancy tricks, such as climbing through ladders without actually grabbing onto them. Same as FractalFusion. I rapid fire most of the time.
I basically in general use frames cues.
Which, if you're confused on that, means I go by the number of frame as a signal to move or do something.
I heard it can take months to do a TAS. Wow.
That same run that FractalFusion did took him 2 and a half months (I think) And I'm hopefully going to be done tomorrow.
Anyway, could anyone tell me how to post it to the forums before submitting it?
So, would they deny submission if you went to submit a tas run that was slower than the current fastest run of that game?
For example, I am currently in the process of making a speed run of Megaman X3. It's a no damage speed run, but it's turning out a little slower (About 5 or 10 seconds) than FractalFusion's run. Because he's pro. And I'm not. xD
Thanks in advance.
Aw well. I understand.
I'll work on a speedrun, sometime. Though, unfortunately, I don't know all the tools commonly used for TAS. I just slow-mo it most of the time.
'lo and welcome to TASvideos, enjoy your stay!
As for your avatar, you really should shrink it down. In general, 100x100 pixels is allowed here.
Since fighting bosses perfectly is already a part of speedrunning, there really is no point in submitting videos in which you only fight bosses. There are playarounds (such as the SNES Super Mario Bros 3 run), but those mostly show glitches and other neat bits that you won't see in a regular run.
Ah, but in most speedruns, boss fights are avoided (if possible) or beaten in one or two hits by some glitch or super weapon, that's for the speed of the whole run.
Now what I mean is, I don't want speed for the whole run to be a priority, I want speed, while playing entertainingly against a boss for about a minute before killing it. Especially bosses people love.
I guess the MAIN thing I'm after is to entertain, in a different way, though.
Besides, I don't think I could play any faster than FractalFusion. At least, not for a while.
I prefer to do speedruns on my playstation. And toy around with bosses with flawless skill in TAS.
For example: In Megaman X2, the fastest way to beat the game is to get all of Zero's parts, so that Black Zero appears, and then the real Zero destroys the false Zero, and then you don't have to fight that boss, but get go advance in the game for better speed.
But I don't think any TAS run shows a fight against Zero in MMX2.
Which is who I am in the process of fighting.
Btw, how DO you submit a video to the forums?
Hey, people. Never seen me before, eh? I've been a lurking around the forums and general site until an hour or two ago.
So I decided to register. I love forums. And I like Tool-assisting. xD
Anyway, in the future I'm gonna be making Megaman X, 1, 2, or 3 TAS videos. I'm not really much of a speed-runner in Tool-assist. I mean I can do it, but I don't really like speed-running a whole game. I prefer perfect playing. And I like going fast, like in speed-runs, but I don't like speed being the main priority. Perfection is my main priority. Thus, superplaying. TAS.
I might do a few speed-runs here and there in the future, but I much prefer actually fighting bosses, with perfection. Or near-perfection. xD
Sooo.... Is this site restricted to only speed-running, or can I submit videos of me fighting bosses perfectly?
That being said, I don't actually know how to post a video in the forums.
P.S. I don't really know all the great tools used in Emulators, I just use frame advance most of the time, and use framenumber-cues, (Which I keep track of prior to playing) To know when to do something.
It takes forever, but I don't think there's any better way to play so good.
*Edit* Whoa, that avatar is huge. I thought it was gonna like, shrink it down or something, lol. I'll fix it in a bit. What a pain.
