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I think this is sweet, I'm all about real-time runs.
This route is taking me a while to digest, but it seems to be thorough. But please, don't wait for me to finish before starting! I haven't even started yet and the any% run is in bad need of some obsoleting.
Every idea I had, moozooh explain to me why it was wrong. So I have nothing to add at this point, except encouragement to get started :)
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Around frame 39000, after going down the stairs the first time, could you have went to the right, gotten that bone, turned around, gotten the bone under the stairs, then jump on the moving platform to the left and continue above the stairs? The way you do it now, you go down those stairs twice and up them once.
Also, boss re-fights are LAME. Stupid programmers.
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This guy either is a really fast walker, or a really slow runner.
The graphics and sound were surprisingly good for a GBC game. Though the alarm got quite annoying, I enjoyed the run overall, and think it would be a good addition to the current GBC library.
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All I could think while watching this run was "The music and sounds of this game are a disgrace to the Mega Man series." Spring Man's music is almost as gay as Double Dragon 2's Level 5 Train music. Everything about that level was atrocious. Is "Boyoyon" supposed to be onamatopeia for a spring noise? And did anyone else think Wily 2's music felt like it belonged in Michael Jackson's Moonwalker?
It's obviously well played. It's also somewhat repetitive, like most Mega Man games (especially boss fights are boring to me). Usually the pleasant quality of the game itself tips it to yes, but I'm voting meh on this one.
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Super Metroid keeps track of Samus's horizontal speed and her level of blue echoness seperately.
Any frame where dash is held while running will increase her horizontal speed (up to a certain maximum), but there are only specific frames in her running animation that will advance her to the next "level" toward getting blue echoes.
All that's required to get blue echoes is to make sure the level gets up to 4. During tool-assisted play, pressing dash on only these special frames will advance the level each press, and since the other frames don't have dash being held, Samus's speed isn't increasing during those frames.
If you use memory watch on the location of the speed booster level (7E0B3F), do a normal dash and watch the behavior of the speed boost level. This may explain it better than I can.
Lastly, this technique is possible on console as well, though not to the extreme that can be done with tools. The easiest application is to start holding dash slightly after beginning to run, instead of holding both at the same time. Here's an example of an application of that trick.
The answer to your other question was posted somewhere, but I wasn't able to find it. Try around pages 25-35 of this thread maybe?
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CtrlAltDestroy:
Though I disagree with your first sentence, I see your overall point.
Most of what I argued back against was people's perception that my article was flawed in some way - things like "complaining about [specific feature] is pointless." If you read through the more tedious argumentative of my posts, you'll notice that I stick to a group of points, which I finally outlined in this post. Then there are my other posts responding to people discussing varying opinions on some of the points I brought up in the article, such as the controls.
I just get the impression that you think the posts I've made and the posts that, for example, TixFrix has made, are equally justified. Maybe I am just reading too much into things, or maybe you do really think that. I disagree with that notion, though I obviously have a bias.
I enjoy discussing other people's opinions on issues. I also enjoy pointing out when people are doing what you were complaining about - arguing that my opinion is incorrect, for whatever reason. I don't respond by saying my opinion is right, I respond by saying that it's ridiculous to try and prove an opinion wrong.
I could have also not responded to any of the criticism here. Perhaps that would have been best to "keep the peace" or what have you, but I actually enjoy this kind of back and forth sometimes. I don't believe that arguing is automatically bad, even if it gets pretty heated.
Overall I think we are annoyed at the same thing, but handle it in very different ways, and the way I handle it also annoys you. If that's the case, I'm sorry you've been annoyed by me.
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It'd be neat to be able to select another submission that you are obsoleting when you submit (and then have an automatic link on the new submission page), but this feature would no doubt be abused to the point that we wouldn't be allowed to have it in the first place.
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I don't know much about this game but you certainly broke it. I also liked the music and most of the talking was goofy enough to keep me smiling like this :)
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Well there's http://tasvideos.org/SuperMetroidTricks.html if text is what you're looking for.
If you're looking for video demonstrations, you could check the current 100% TAS, the submission of Metroid Legacy 100%, or the video spoilers of Saturn's RBO run.
If you mean a section like on M2K2 where each type of trick has a corresponding video...there's nothing like that around here. M2K2's videos work, but they focus on real-time playing so some tricks will be absent.
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CtrlAltDestroy wrote:
Note that it actually would have accomplished nothing if n00b123 replied to me about the beam system, because it's actually not the beam system he dislikes, but the game- his dislike for the beam system most likely did not cause, but came from his dislike of the game.
This really isn't how I feel at all. I really like the Metroid franchise and I really wanted to like this game, too, even after some of the aspects I wrote about began affecting the gameplay. The things I listed about the game were just too much to overcome, for me. Note that this is different than not liking the game from the beginning, and then going and "finding" reasons (which is the view you take in this example, and accuse me of doing for this article). I'm listing the things that caused me to give up on the game.
You can't make somebody like or dislike the game just by arguing some points, all you'd be trying to do now is make yourself look good, and accomplishing nothing but insulting other peoples' taste in games and making everyone involved look like a noobish fanboy.
I'm not sure where you think you pulled my intentions from (thanks for assuming!), but I'm not trying to make anyone like or dislike the game. I don't like the game, I wanted to write about it, this is the style of writing that I chose.
On the other hand, several people have written comments that really seem like they are trying to get me to like the game via argument (or admit that what I wrote is "incorrect" or not justified writing). Is this what you are mad at? Or my response to them that their argument makes no sense (not that they shouldn't like the game)? Maybe we're actually saying the same thing in different ways.
CtrlAltDestroy, in really tiny print for no good reason, wrote:
P.S. Provoking fanboys is just as bad as being one.
Thanks for your wisdom (and assuming it applies to me). Let me know if you want to assume I'm doing anything else, thanks.
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Guanobowl, is it safe to say you've seen at least one of the warnings posted about hex-editing later rather than earlier? It could cause a lot of frustration down the road if your expectations are too high for it, especially knowing you could have found it out much earlier and redone the parts needed to include the timesaver.
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Opinion vs. preference is just semantic nonsense. It's perfectly valid for me to say "In my opinion, Metroid Prime is a shitty game."
As for me, I don't like Ocarina of Time, even though many people say that it's close to being the greatest game ever made. I have played almost every other Zelda released (FSA and MM are all I'm missing so far). I played through OoT only once, and I didn't like it. I just didn't like it. I just didn't.
So far, so good.
Something about the graphics, the world structure, and the dungeon design rubbed me the wrong way.
But now, do you realize that you proceeded to follow your reasons for not liking the game...
However, you're not going to see me going to try and find reasons why I didn't like it in order to back myself up and try to argue them like I'm arguing about an opinion.
...with a sentence about how you won't do exactly that?
I'm not finding fault in the action itself - it's natural to do that. Just like the article I wrote. I just took a different writing style. I am finding fault for doing this when you just called me down for doing the same thing.
Looking back, I never realized so many people would take offense to this article. Luckily, I could give a shit less what other people think of it. If I wanted my opinion to be supported by the majority, I wouldn't pick one of the most popular games of all time to write about in this manner. But it's fun to see people tell me in various ways that my opinion (preference, whatever the hell you want to call it today) is invalid.
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Is the 10,000 point bonus needed for this strategy? If not, maybe getting a non-perfect would save a tiny bit of time, that could be later nullified out by goofy luck anti-manipulation!
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Bummer it's so close to the beginning.
However, with the currenttheme being "Do the whole run, then hex-edit an improvement at the beginning and assume it will be fine!", you should have no problems. :D
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Vatchern, is the improvement you are referring to the same one that Brushy said he found after you submitted your latest version? Or not sure, maybe.
PS I don't understand that game at all, even after several watches, so congratulations on that run :D
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Fabian wrote:
Something else?
Perhaps the string "(HACK)" could be added to each thread subject that is about a hack, even if the word hack is already in the subject. This way, people could see the threads which are hacks, even if they don't want to read the thread they are clicking on!
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Does the link at the top show no screenshots for anyone else? It looks like this was abandoned or something, at least from the looks of that page.
(THIS IS A HACK?)
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With so many hacks being discussed, I wish it was easier to tell what games were hacks and what games weren't, because only non-hacked games are worth discussing without lots and lots of identifiers to point out that this is a hack and that serious gamers wouldn't dare waste their time. Perhaps adding (HACK) to the end of the thread subject (which already included the word "hack") would make this more clear in the future.
I mean, THIS IS A HACK?? THE WOOL HAS BEEN PULLED OVER MINE EYEBALLZ
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