On the one hand, I agree with Cpadolf that the new route in conjunction with the ammo rollover glitch was wonderfully entertaining. [/i]
2. Personally to me, as a TAS enthusiast, underflow, while cool, removes some entertainment, for exactly the same reasons it's cool to as a casual.
Stopping the timer with the well known pause-abuse trick (or other nonsense resulting from it) was never the point of an ingame-oriented run. It is to provide maximal pace by focusing on gameplay quality in normal conditions rather than some weird moves to lower emulator-dependent lag, using an as accurate and reliable timer as possible.
The 0 HP timer stopping glitch shouldn't be taken into account IMO, as it's simply a form of cheating that has nothing to do with optimization, since one could delay the run infinitely in most places without affecting the timer.
Ingame time has its benefits, especially for TASes where limits can be reached and emulators can differ: * more precise overall movement * greater mobility, more variety, faster boss fights (in legit conditions for any%) * universal timing independent of emulator choice (in 10 years there might be an even more accurate emulator developed, after which all actual realtime-runs could be off again) Stopping the timer with the well known pause-abuse trick (or other nonsense resulting from it) was never the point of an ingame-oriented run. It is to provide maximal pace by focusing on gameplay quality in normal conditions rather than some weird moves to lower emulator-dependent lag, using an as accurate and reliable timer as possible. Obviously lowering realtime is still a secondary goal to avoid pace interruptions, as is in most TASes.
All in all, I feel uneven about as far as I could tell having unlimited amount of ammunition. For lack of better word, it feels like cheating. In this community, we explore unknown territories like back when Masterjun blew up the internet with his ace runs. I don't reminisce we have seen other type of tases exploring games like this. I bet I will get bombarded with links showing we have loads of runs similar to this :) Anyway, I truly appreciate the effort and time spent on this run but in the end, I feel the premise is not the same as the previous any% and thus cannot obsolete current any%. I have to vote no.
Yeah, if you submit an underflow any% run first, you'll be immediately institutionalizing it in the branch. An any% that avoids this glitch will never be accepted over it once the glitched run is there, so keep that in mind.
I suppose you won't be taking any more Energy Tanks other than the High Jump one, or will you be skipping the HJB in this route?
Have you considered doing a new 100% run?
There is also a more than one second improvement possible in this route: In the Green Brinstar elevator room, it's faster to refill the 5 Missiles back immediately after opening the red door and go straight to the Reserve Tank instead of the double detour to the Supers and back.
Saw the rest of it. Highly entertaining run for the majority of the running time, looks very well researched and optimized, and displays a lot of new techniques and unique challenges that make the run seem fresh even as the game has to be one of the most submitted on the whole site. Underwater walljumping does get old, and Motherbrain and Ridley run long, but those are fairly minor parts of an otherwise excellent run, and it does a far better job at making those two boss battles entertaining and interesting than previous runs with similar equipment restraints. So a clear yes from an entertainment standpoint, and obsoleting two outdated runs from a retired category is a major bonus.
Ah, I see. Another question, how come some boss rooms with downtime at the start are entered with a walljump check(Ridley 2, Draygon, etc...) while others aren't(Ridley 1, Botwoon, Kraid, etc...)?
Please elaborate on why this TAS uses certain glitches but does not use certain other glitches?
How does the Mach ball at the end of the Terminator room save time(and how much does it save)?
Is it really faster to boost into the door after the elevator in upper norfair?
Okay, yeah, that's alright too. As long as there's only one category.