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Evan0512 wrote:
No vote.
I looked at this video. The movie stopped at least 60 frames before it reached a goal line of the ultimate race. There were some "negatives" I knew about this:
On the beginners race, you bump the black marble for at least 3-5 seconds, as I said it's not quick.
On the ultimate race, there is a pause button in the platform, as it appears within 60 frames. I don't think the pause button will help.
The screen hides the marble for at least 20% of the run. I don't know the region differences of the game.
I think a 2:36 or 2:37 run is good, with several issues.
I stopped the movie 37-38 frames before the Marble crosses the finish line. The previous submission also stops the movie a couple frames before hitting the finish line, so I opted to do the same.
Bumping the black marble loses no time since you gotta wait for the bridge at the middle of the level to go down anyways, so I used that knowledge to mess with the black marble at the start. That's what I changed over the previous TAS in that level pretty much, since I knew the beginning of that level is the one where I can do something. I did it with the objective of it being entertaining (At least I find the way I bounce on the marble funny). Plus if I was to just wait at the bridge it would be WAY more boring that what I did. This TAS ties Aglar's TAS in every single level, and it saves time in Ultimate.
The pause buffer is pretty much the ONE reason the TAS got improved in the first place. Each pause is 44 frames long and that is 57 frames faster than waiting for the normal cycle. It's not possible to do the skip without pause buffering as I stated in the submission.
About the screen hiding the marble 20% of the time in the run: I unfortunately can't do anything about that. The game was programmed that way, and there's no known glitch or exploit to circumvent that behaviour. If this was an actual big deal this game wouldn't even have been submitted here. I'll probably make a re-encode of this movie using the Camera Hack luascript so then whoever wants to understand whats happening can watch that.
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tormented wrote:
Nice to see a new trick pop up in a short and already well-TASed game. Yes vote.
Given that a large chunk of this run is the exact same as Aglar's, I think it would be fair to credit him as an author as well.
I'll add a bit where I talk about aglar's TAS saying that he is an author, since I can't reupload the .fm2 with the metadata changed (as far as I can tell). If at some point the moderators change the metadata on the file itself i'll remove that bit since there's already a paragraph talking about how this submission majorly relying on Aglar's submission.
