I watched this one yesterday. Not my kind of game, but i managed to watch it without falling asleep anyways.
It was OK.
I have one question though (I've lost one word, so I'll try to express without it :) ):
Wouldn't you be able to save a little bit more time to use the speed you get (backwards) when using the rocket launcher (or whatever it is)? You use it one time after killing a boss to catch up with the other player.
A game like this should focus on time units. Slowing down would hurt the aesthetics badly.
OK, but isn't this site itself counting seconds from start to the end of the button-pressing? So it's not comparable to SMB1 (warpless)?
I agree it would be less impressing to just waste time, though.
EDIT: Btw... all movies works fine now except Prince of Persia 2 and LoZ: alttp (glitch version). I can see the first 10-20 secs with a very twitching image, than whatever program I use crashes.
It worked well on my Laptop with VLC 0.8.1, but still not with latest version of Mplayer (which was suggested).
Thanks... hope I'll be able to play the other 5 movies, at home that I haven't been able to watch, too.
Ok, your problem is a bit different than I thought then... what cpu speed do you have? (and haev you tried to look for a newer version of VLC?)
I'll try with the latest VLC in a couple of minutes (just downloading the movie again - at school).
I have a PowerMac Dual 2GHz G5 (2.5 GB RAM) at home, so that should be enough (QuickTime7 supports H.264, and plays 1920*1080 movies without lagging). My laptop (which I'm sitting with right now) is just an 1.2GHZ G4 (768 MB RAM), but also this one should be more than enough to play this kind of movie.
New applications?
Just install newest ffdshow and you can use windows media player? ...
I use a Mac, and this movie does not play in VLC, Windows Media Player, QuickTime 7 (with H264-support built in)... just in Mplayer, which I had to download = New Application. But this doesn't work either. I also have a computer with Linux and Windows, but this is too slow to even show the pictures right (i get 4 or 5 fps playing these movies... previous codec gave me watchable movies with this computer too).
EDIT: I can play it in VLC, but just for 4-5 seconds, then it crashes.
I've downloaded Mplayer to play this movie. It plays, but the sound is about 5 seconds ahead of the movie. I don't at all like what's become of the movie encoding and would like to know what is so much greater with this codec, since you abandoned the old one with ok quality and great compatibility, with this one?
I watched the first 4 levels, then became tired of the movie due to the sound vs. video desync. If this continues I'm leaving emulator-made movies and just follow the console-speedruns.
This also goes for the last few days of videos that's been published, and i really think that you loose some of you "fans" due to codecs and new applications to be installed.
Now, I'm going to shut up and listen to you.
(I love the Sonic series, but not like this)
Is there anything different with this movie compared to all other? This is the only movie I can't see in any of my movie-players. It crashes all of them. In VLC, I'm allowed to watch it for about 10 seconds, then it crash.
Is there any version of this game that's in color? I've only seen it in B&W, that is the only reason I've never played it. And I'm sorry to say this, but I wouldn't watch this in B&W if the gameplay itself isn't extremely entertaining. I watched a few minutes on the speedrun on SDA, but hardly managed to stay awake for the first few minutes.
Best to say this too, or I'll be attacked :P ; This is just my opinion.
And also: "I do, personally, accept B&W runs, but not this game"
Just a question about this: "I decided to tackle the any% run mainly because there isn't one anymore."
Doesn't killing the first boss count as a couple of % since it gives you more missiles?
Anyways... an undoubtful YES-vote.
Is there a way to capture video in Zelda Classic yet? If so, I can try it. The version I got it to work on was either 1.74 or 1.82. I know they are on 2.10.
Remember - ZC was hand coded...it's not the LoZ NES code verbatim. That is probably the difference right there. It would be cool to see this done faster, just to know there is still room to improve.
But ZC is still not right coded if I remember right. The glitch with entering/leaving/entering level one doesn't unlock the first door.
I could've sworn I had posted this earlier...
The zip file above has been updated. The movie file stops just before I enter Sector 2 (TRO). The second savestate in the zip file should skip to the battle with Arachnus. I am about 24-25 seconds faster than my trial run.
How may I watch your trial run? Its not the same type of files at your current run?!
I finally managed to watch all of it myself... too bad we aren't going to se a real speedrun on this game. Allthough this was a great movie, showing a lot of the game.
I just love the level with all those heaps of keys. Only one of those are the correct one, right?
The Big Boo's castle was just insane...
Thanks you, Viper7, both for this smv and the fact you made me check out this game.
VIper7: You may delete the "info" if you want to. I found a working version. Thanks! A little to long for me to watch right now (I've watched the first world), but will definitely watch the rest later. I had no idea that a hack this well done existed. The version I tried at first was the same size as the original SMW-ROM (about 400K) and only looked a little bit different, but still well done.
Thanks once again.
Hmmm. I've downloaded the patch and LIPS and tried to patch my SMW but it doesn't work for me at all. I've tried a couple of different versions. I use Snes9X v1.43+ (improved7) for windows. Any guidelines to a solution? I would really like to see it (it seems like a well made hack).
I assume it's free to post a link to the right patch, since this isn't a ROM request. :) Please?
- Zelda: ALttP
- Super Metroid
- Soul Blazer
- Super Mario World
- FF IV Mystical Quest (european name)
- Shadowrun
- Super Mario Kart
- Donkey Kong Country 1
- Uniracers
- Goof Troop
- NHL '94
- Theme Park
The first seven in my list is the absolute favourites.
I know this really isn't like me, but getting back on topic, if you go here you can find every emulator available for OS X...
http://emulation.net/
Enjoy.
Thanks, but I know about the ordinary versions and have had them for quite a long time. It was just the advanced re-recording utilities I was after. But I agree with you Emulation.net is the greatest place for emulators for mac's.
I was just trying to bring some humor into this pc/mac jihad topic.
OK, but the only thing that made me react is that someone who haven't used a mac comes and tell me that they are totally useless, I should have known that you weren't that serious and also to get some people to change their mind, it seems like an impossible thing to do, since most humans in the world are afraid of changes and always crawls to the secure corner in their home. :)
This is fact: The most people running mac have tested both OS'es and made a choise, most Windows users have only tested Windows and think "I can stand this".
Well, I would still love it if anyone decides to port the emulators to mac, but anyways, I'll manage, but just maybe without becoming a speedrunner (well, maybe on Metroid for the NES - real console playing - , the only game I'm quite close to the current World Record, my best game is only 47 seconds too slow for any %).