Now that I got around to watching, this TAS was merely "OK" for me. I wish it wasn't possible to skip so much.
Something about the way the big '?' blocks are placed makes me think that Obitus (RIP) knew about the glitch with them. They're staggered vertically, and rooms often have several of them. Obviously you're intended to die a whole lot, right? And if you do, then no problem. But if you're using savestates then they'll never replenish. Trapped! And if you're reckless and hit more boxes than you need then you'll run out of them sooner. I wonder if Obitus ever knew there was a deathless solution to his puzzle? Probably. There were times in this TAS when you gave up the ability to fly to save time. Seems like there must be a more reasonable deathless route (that takes longer) where you fly more and switch suits less.
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L2 Leaf: X
L7 Frog: X
F2 Hmmr: X X
F2 Frog: X
11 Tnki: X X X X X X
18 Leaf: X
C Frog: X
C Hmmr: X X
C Tnki: X
The submission text speaks of closed captions, but the video does not have any.
Is there a simple way to enable/disable these new game modes and play through the entire game casually using them?
This is an incredible movie! This reminded me of my first days getting into crazy glitch stuff (the smw run with the fishes), as this is exactly the way how I got into assembly language and low-level shenanigans. I'm really happy to see another person that seems to have a lot of fun (and the abilities) to utterly destroy games and rebuild them solely to entertain other people, which was done exceptionally well.
Would it be possible to write the payload faster using subframe input?
Hi! I'm quite newbie to nesdev forum and in development in general. I'm trying to understand how super mario bros 3 collision works. Right now I'm using fceux hexedit to see RAM and ROM. My previous thoughts was collision map was embedded in the map info starting at 0x6000. But this seems not to be correct or something is missing. In world 1-1, one of the first boxes you can jump (address 0x6303) has the hex value 0xE3. In world 1-castle (not the ship one), the solid silver tiles are 0xE4. If I change it to 0XE3 if mario touches it, is killed. So obviously, the values does not mean the same thing. Is there any other table/address I should look at? thank you very much!
One thought/idea: In 5-4, would it be possible to get a speed boost from the spinning bars at the very start of the stage? The reason I mention it is because in Ultimate NES Remix, this can be used to save time (but as Mario 2's princess), which means I have no idea whether this actually would work in any successful way here. Just my 2 cents. Awesome run guys!
This run has some amazing moments, all of which will also be in a warpless improvement. This movie validates the original reasoning of doing warpless as opposed to 100%. The vast majority of the content added by this category are levels where the authors struggle to provide entertaining content (and give up and order a pizza <_<). This is a cool run, I enjoyed it, and we can publish it. But I think the warpless is more entertaining overall, and a better category choice, obsoleting it would be a bummer.
Yes! I was especially impressed with the world 2-fort p-wing trick. I hadn't seen that before. Also, I am curious as to what you are doing to catch the wand above the screen each time. That is, what is done after the initial walljump? Amazing work. I saw you working on this at AGDQ 14. :) Star material for sure!
My only question is, how do you "enter" a pipe... outside said pipe?