I haven't played much super r-type. I'll play through it a few times before anything else.
I didn't take it the wrong way or anything. The first run we try is never perfect, and can usually be improved upon in so many ways.
Actually, I stopped watching it shortly after you stalled on the right side of the screen without doing anything. Seriously, TASing autoscrolling games does not really mean "do what a normal human can't because they're limited", it's more like "do what no human would ever think of doing". adelikat's Gradius run shows it really well. As far as I know R-Type series, they don't allow for such freedom in movement (and movement is, by far, the main aspect of TASing an autoscroller), and thus isn't really suited for a TAS. Anyone can stand in place after they figure out where that place is, you don't need superhuman precision for something like that.
If you still want to TAS an autoscroller, I suggest first improving the autoscrollers already existing on the site, mainly Warp's Gradius 3 100% kill rate run. And also, don't post WIPs on YouTube. YouTube sucks for so many reasons. Use Microstorage to upload your SMVs, then post the links here.
Blunt is good, but not if it makes you out to be a jerk.
You've already made me regret even taking the time start out this. I thank you, seriously.
But I'll take the advice and use Microstorage and just upload .smvs instead.
I use the NTSC [U] rom.
As cool as Gradius is, I'm far more interested in R-Type.
ElectroSpecter wrote:
I'm going to agree with Moozooh and request that you not just find a spot and sit there. I'm sure you can find something to do (kill as many enemies as possible? all of them? I've never played this game, so I don't know how versatile and capable the spaceship is).
I'm also going to agree and say that Microstorage is the way to go when uploading WIPs, but I disagree with not using YouTube at all. ROMs are insanely difficult to find (or I just suck at it and there's some crazy treasure trove of ROMs out there and I'm just not in on the secret), and spyware infested ROM sites scare me, so finding some game I haven't heard much about sounds daunting.
Heh roms are very easy to find.. so long as you know the right places.
Yeah watching the video again, I agree that standing in one place is a poor for entertainment value, but that video was just me screwing around learning how to use snes9x.. so yeah.
I've become interested in creating a TAS run of this game, seeing as how it has yet to be covered here on Tasvideos.
Would anyone else be interested in contributing to this?
R-type3 might be somewhat slow paced, which could defeat the purpose of a tas run of it,
but seeing as how you can pull of ridiculous stunts that no sane
player bent on surviving would pull, it holds a lot of potential to be good.
edit: video deleted, no point leaving up.