Nice so far. Really enjoyed it. But why wont you use the Gobbo duplication trick? It costs a life but you would get 7 Gobbos in 1-1 and wouldnt have to bother with the colored crystals at all. You still get the jigsaw peace in the end. Question is if it still counts as 100%, even tough you duplicate Gobbos and wont collect all the crystals
more info in this vid
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AFF1556Z
and here
http://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/croc_legend_of_the_gobbos_psx.html
Man, that was a long time ago... how times flies. That was nice of you to post that here :)
I understand perfectly why you've chosen not to use it. It does remove a lot of content from the game and it's a little cheap. I'm actually glad you decided against it, it's made it much more interesting!
I must say I am very impressed with your videos so far, RingRush. You demostrated a lot of things I didn't even know you could do (like using the float to bypass coloured crystals, that's one of the most interesting things I've seen thus far)
I'll definitely be following up on this, keep up the fantastic work!
Bump!
Just wanted to share some things about this game that could help you in your TAS of this game. I'm currently planning on doing a run of this for Speed Demos Archive, and I've found a few things.
The first has already been posted but I've found the optimised strategy, it should also make it a lot easier too;
Link to video
The second I don't think you know about, so here it is;
Link to video
To perform this, you must be running directly forward torwards the screen just as you're above the platform while it's in the wall. It takes some getting used to, since you have to make the sideways jump then quickly let go of all left/right movement and switch to only forward. The end of the video shows the best example of this.
I also watched your 100% TAS, turbofa... it was really good. It showed me quite a few things that I didn't know, which helped me a lot for my speedrunning, so I'd like to thank you for that :)
I have one question currently;
For "The Great Gate" (the 3rd level) you are able to skip backtracking to this level by jumping on the very edges of the warp exit to avoid the warp taking you back to the map, and use this as a platform to get to the other side to collect the remaining boxes.
Is this only possible on an emulator? I've tried this trick for about 2 to 3 hours total on different occassions and I'm finding it hard to come close... do you know of anyone who has done this on a console? How did you discover it? How long did it take you to perform it?
I hope your progress with this game is coming along fine, too. I look forward to the improved completed run!
