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Commoner Reiko's husband died the day after their wedding, and now she has to face his aristocratic family who just won't accept her as one of them. Help poor, yet very determined Reiko in her quest to claim what rightfully belongs to her!
Game:http://nigoro.jp/game/rosecamellia/rosecamellia.php?lang=enHow to play.
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Once again, I find myself wondering why this game was never released (no, I don't think shelving it to make Star Fox 64 look better was a good reason.) ...or why they aren't releasing it now via the Virtual Console or something. Such a waste of a good, finished game, Nintendo.
Oh, yeah. Nice run, I liked it. I would vote Yes, but I don't understand this new voting system.
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Things I spotted that may be improved:
- Falling stone platforms: in Pharaoh Man's level they were handled really well. However, in later stages, the author just stopped jumping right before the platform dropped to the desired level, therefore losing some frames for each platform.
- 1st Ballade fight: At the end of the battle, Mega Man auto-walks to the left side of the screen. Maybe it could have been faster if Mega Man was already there before Ballade was defeated?
- Napalm Man refight: At the end of the battle, Mega Man seems to take longer to teleport out of the room. Maybe that was because of the Crystal Eyes still bouncing around on screen? If so, could that be avoided by switching to the regular Buster to deliver the finishing blow to Napalm Man?
Oh, by the way, Rush Coil standing in mid-air was funny.
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More Protoman details surface!
- Has slide, charge shot and protoshield.
- No E-Tanks.
- Takes double damage.
- Is knocked back farther when hit.
- No bolts, no item shop.
- No story.
- Is its own mode: you can't time attack or get achievements with Protoman.
Source:
http://wii.ign.com/articles/913/913727p1.html
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CtrlAltDestroy wrote:
Whoa, looks like NesVideoAgent had some problems...
Not the first time. I noticed the same thing in Monster in my Pocket (there's a game over screen at the bottom!), and my own Chack 'n Pop movie! (all screencaps are from stage 1, and the guy is in his last life somehow).
Well, massive improvement of a short, glitched game. Obvious Yes, etc.
Note: my Chack 'n Pop movie was awesome, but everyone knows that:
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Bag of Magic Food wrote:
I could be happier. They don't need to be so low-tech.
The sprite-flickering option is... well, it's optional. It can be enabled/disabled at will.
Also, more stuff was revealed recently. Namely, the list of achievements and the items from Auto's Shop.
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What a pity.
This little game is actually quite fun once you know the controls. It's a shame it's so underappreciated around here (around here being the entire world minus Japan).
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KDR_11k wrote:
In maze 8, I suppose it wasn't possiblwe to drop a bomb down the left hole and have it open the cage without going down there?
That's right, it can't be done. The bomb explodes in mid-air, and it doesn't even get close to the heart. Then again, you must eventually go down the left hole in order to make it to the goal.
KDR_11k wrote:
In maze 3, would it have saved time to open the left cage first and open the right on the way back so the left heart gets to the goal earlier? Or do enemies or the right heart make that slower?
I tried that, and the enemies all moved into very inconvenient places, which killed any gained time. Also, whether you get one heart or the other first, the total distance you have to walk is the same.
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nineko wrote:
GeminiSaint wrote:
In fact, it just looks like a regular, unassisted play with turbo-firing.
I didn't use turbo fire, I'm just pressing A and C very quickly.
Yes, sure, I was just stating what it looked like.
There's no problem with using turbo firing. It's, after all, another tool that might or might not be useful for TASes, depending on the game and stuff. The problem is that your movie is way too unoptimized. I'm very familiar with this game, so I can tell these things:
- You didn't press start in the first available frame at game start and then again when choosing 1P mode.
- You didn't skip the looong intro cutscene (it's skippable).
- You take too long (for TAS standards) in clearing stages, and I could see several missed opportunities in clearing them faster, while still keeping the clear-stages-in-a-single-move objective.
- Even in the first stage, you could have easily manipulated an item drop to get the red potion much earlier, but you didn't.
- Normal human gameplay errors are everywhere, and are very easy to spot.
All in all, I think this movie could have been around 20 minutes long if it was fully optimized.
I fully recommend you watching the NES Snow Bros. TAS here:
http://tasvideos.org/1718S.html
It will give you a more complete idea about how an optimized Snow Bros. TAS should look like.
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The Genesis version of Snow Bros. far surpasses the NES version in quality and fidelity to the original arcade version. In fact, save for a few added things here and there, the Genesis version of Snow Bros. is an almost pixel-perfect recreation of the original arcade game. The NES version just pales in comparison to it, in all respects.
That said, I can't vote yes in this particular case for the following reasons:
1) It hardly qualifies as a TAS. The game is being played way, way sub-optimally. And I can't stress that enough. In fact, it just looks like a regular, unassisted play with turbo-firing.
2) A game like Snow Bros. just has to be TASed in 2-player mode. Anything less would hardly cut it.
So, yeah. I vote NO.
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I have to wonder why the game uses hitboxes for coins that jump out of blocks, since they don't interact with anything at all.
Oh, and there's also this: what's with the rotating fireball barriers having no hitboxes?
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@Bisqwit
Oh, you must mean the part in the water area.
Well, in Mega Man 3, shooting any weapon (including the regular buster) cancels the blinking animation. So, yeah, he shot the Metal Blade to kill the fish enemies, canceling the blinking, but the invencibility period was still in place.
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upthorn wrote:
wouldn't you rather see something new?
Old, new, I don't care as long as it entertains me.
Also, did I read that right? You didn't like Mario 64?
Uh, nevermind. I suppose no game can please absolutely everyone, even if they're masterfully made.
