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I don't understand why so many people are voting yes. The mistakes are many and obvious.
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I think a glitch run like this would be worth publishing, though I have to agree that it's too sloppy in some places, so I'm voting no.
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TSA wrote: A bunch of other useful stuff farther along in the game. ;_; I love you so much. Actually you should be loving Madzombie whose post on TSA's forum seems to have been copied from: http://www.zhq2.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4059
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At frames 63xx, I think you could have saved a little time by starting to walk diagonally up and right sooner and going in between 2 of the fires.
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Someone on the SDA forum suggested doing YI1 and the yellow switch palace after star road special so you can use the cape in those levels. Are you going to change that, or is there some reason I'm not thinking of that it wouldn't save time?
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Speaking of Reciprocal, I heard he did an 11 exit SMW speed run. Do you know anything about this, and if so, where I could find the video? Edit: I noticed this topic is locked now, so if you happen to know whether Reciprocal's speed run is online anywhere, you can send me a pm with the link to the video. If not, can you ask him if he'd be willing to upload the run somewhere? I'd be interested in seeing it.
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Just talk about strategies, you don't have to mention the time attack.
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I forgot what the level was called, but in one of the levels you kept fighting hyenas that it looked like you didn't have to. Do you need to kill them to beat the level?
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I think most of the WRs can be significantly improved. I saw save state vids for a few of the races made by some Japanese guy that were quite a bit faster than the WRs. For example, I think the one for MC1 was something like 55 seconds. I'm not sure if he did all of the races or not, but I just have about 2 or 3 of them on my computer.
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Strats will be a problem if they're kept secret by the record holders. There are many WR videos and videos close to the WRs available. Do shortcut, because that's what people would be most interested in seeing. I think a lot of people would be interested in seeing non-shortcut also, since non-shortcut is the main thing that people compete in.
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Some people in the "Top games that haven't been done yet on SNES" topic said they'd like to see a time attack for this game, and I'd also like to see it, so I'm making this topic. Here are some things that can be discussed: 1. What should it be a movie of? I'd say a video going through all the races in time trials would be the most interesting. Do most of you agree, or would you rather see a time attack of all the cups in Mario GP mode? 2. Assuming that it'll be time trials, should there be just one video for every race, or one for each race? As far as I know there's no luck manipulation, so it shouldn't be a problem if you do them all in the same movie and then find a way to improve the first race. 3. Should the movie be non-shortcut, shortcut, or both? If both, should they be in the same movie where for each race with a shortcut it's just done twice, or different movies? 4. For races where you have to do something that you wouldn't normally do in a 5lap race to set up a fastlap, should the race be done another time for the fastlap, or should just the 5lap be done? 5. The most obvious thing to discuss is strategies of course. I'm not very good at this game so I probably can't be of much help, though you can find some videos here: http://www.geocities.com/smkplayerssite/smk_proof.htm Also, I think this topic has links to all the fastest vids: http://www.mariokart64.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=SMK;action=display;num=1103671937
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I've gotten lucky and had a 0 on beginner. The WR is 1. Do you have a different version of minesweeper where 0 is possible or was that a typo?
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I think jumping is only faster when you're on slopes, though I haven't done any proper tests.
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Why do you sometimes enter doors on the far side?
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Maybe you could email David Wonn about it to see if he can give you a better explanation than what's currently on his site.
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Well that's no excuse, you have to keep trying. I assume we do know for sure this glitch really works, correct? Have any of you ever done it? Edit: Oops, I missed what Bisqwit said about you doing some more tests about it.
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Why not? Was it determined that it didn't really save time?
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I thought there was some glitch called the deborah cliff glitch that saved time but I don't see it mentioned in the description. Was it used?
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How do you change the speed?
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something else to motivate me. It should have been more though, since DKC 101% no save is probably one of the hardest on that list. The bounty for GnG fast completion with NO CONTINUES is also insane. Maybe you could try to negotiate something with him. How about suggesting that he awards $50 if the winning time is 47 minutes, and an extra $10 for each minute faster.
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Deviance, check out this page, one of TG's 2005 bounties is DKC 101% completion and the prize is $50: http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=46&id=974
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Genisto, make sure you test out whether it's faster not to take the shortcut in 1-1.
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Remember it's a speedrun played in real time without any tools, I love it :D Just because it was done in real time doesn't automatically make all the mistakes excusable. I haven't watched it, but I've heard from people who have watched it that it was much less skillfully played than the 16 and 70 star runs, though I heard that the 100 coin routes were good. I'll be waiting for a faster run rather than downloading this one.
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I just tried it and that's pretty cool. You can also make huge jumps from the vine or ladder by doing this, so maybe there are shortcuts you can do by doing that. Would a run using this trick obselete the current run or would it be like Tiny Toons with 2 separate runs?
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(Is it too late to add a poll to your initial post, Itstoearly? You could have a number of suggestions, and we could vote on which one is the best/most popular.) I don't think non-mods can make polls, but if you tell me what you want the choices to be then I can add in the poll.