I don't think we should concern ourselves with ranks; 100% in Sonic games has always meant getting all the emeralds, AFAICT.
I also tried Blaze a bit.
Maybe the best place for Blaze is as part of a 100% TAS though? Or would it be better to put her in a separate movie, or tack it onto the end of an any%?
I upgrade FP each time except after the first Shadow Sirens fight, both times in Glitzville and from Chet Rippo.
I'd love to see a good TAS of Goomba Thumping
Furthermore, if you play the japanese original game, you may notice that her skirt does not cover well enough either.
Locating the items isn't really all that difficult.
Well would it be target scores, or highest possible scores?
I still think that there may be improvements here and there...
Only Doomsday zone remains. I am thinking of trying to collect all rings... Another possibility would be to finish with as few rings as possible;
I've heard that the firing rate with most weapons is faster when crouched.
(for example, renaming Squall into S would save some time)
God, I found this TAS exceptionally boring. It pales horribly against dedicated combo videos you can find on websites aimed at them. If you want to see XVSF at its fullest, try wathing the Shidousha No Hyouden video below. There's no comparison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHQ_eXFI7rM
The submission message follows:Additionally, I found an extra 2200 acquirable points at the expense of another 2200 points in choosing some faster level routes; the end result, as if by some cosmic coincidence, is that this run finishes with the same score as the other.
However, despite being shorter, this movie still racks up more points than the original.
So it isn't really that hard to collect the rupees needed, it's the upgrading that takes a long time, like 10 minutes.
Does not include to upgrade the amount of bombs and arrows. This will add up to at least 10 minutes of extra time and doesn't add anything neccesarsy.