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Very well played. I really enjoyed how fluid everything was, and I'm glad that you took Forte of Rawkman. I sure hope this is published before I wake up in 6 hours.
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It would seem that every trick attack level would be using the lien air++ trick scheme to get huge bonuses off of nothing. That would be really really boring.
I wouldn't mind seeing some time attack mode with Pandaman on the Penguin board, though.
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The warps I will take are as follows:
The castle entrance to the warp room in the lower chapel.
--This takes me from right before meeting Graham to the room right after the first Manticore
The floating garden to the arena.
--This takes me from the upper part of the main room in the garden (where the Red Crow is) to the vertical shaft in the arena before the Gladiators.
From the arena to the top floor.
--This takes me from the vertical shaft in the arena mentioned above to the lowest part of the top floor. I will not venture any higher up.
The upper chapel to the chaotic realm.
--This goes from the area in the chapel with the wooden sword directly to the door to chaos.
Every other warp either sets me back or can't be done effectively. For example, I could go straight from the castle entrance to the shaft right before the arena, which is a huge jump, but I won't have malphas or hippogriff, so I'd be stuck there.
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You can try to do better than my current work if you want to. I guarantee that you will lose time compared to me, though, and you'll have a pretty rough time getting the proper souls.
The only reasons that my work is on hold is because I can't comfortably earn the Skeleton Knight soul and because I'm fairly busy with school. I don't think there will ever be "too much discussion" for a short run like a warp movie for Aria of Sorrow.
Also, why didn't you just post in the old topic?
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Sir VG wrote:
Total Carnage! I LOVE IT!
Interesting fact: there is a game that is almost exactly like Smash TV called Total Carnage.
Voting yes. 99% for making an awesome movie, and 1% for not using the term 'TAS'.
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Youtube is very unreliable compared to Google Video. Also, the Google server used at video.google.com is probably a lot faster, both at uploading and displaying.
Therefore, I'll say that integrating Google Video for small things, like advertisements or really short runs, would be a good idea, as it is basically free hosting for us.
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As dan's council for this run, I will say this.
For 99% of all nonboss scenarios in this game, the keystrokes is pretty much formulaic based on the elevation difference between jumps and how far you need to go. Once you have mastered the backflip and the normal jump, this game is 50 times easier to do.
For the other 1% of the nonboss scenarios, you will need to pull off insanely difficult boosts and evasions in order to keep your pace. This is the run stopping part of this game, but it will translate into a lot of glorious segments if they can be completed.
For most bosses, item crashing with the cross is all you will really need, give or take a few slashes here and there.
So, anyone who takes the time to look at how dan did his first set of levels will find it easy to pick up where he left off, excluding the merman jump that he had been trying since forever and a day.
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Voted yes. I liked your routes in the latter half of the game. It would have never crossed my mind to use invulnerability time anywhere near as much as you did.
My only question is this: Why did you take damage around frame 70000? It seems like you would have been fine without it.
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This game wasn't as bad as, say, MMX8, but it's surely nothing to run home to.
Either way, I would watch this run simply for the Boss fights and 'dash' routes.
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nitsuja wrote:
Bisqwit wrote:
Now, there are two players, and I'm not sure what to do.
I don't see why the number of players that made the movie should make a difference about what the movie obsoletes. The number of characters, maybe, but how many players there were shouldn't matter.
I thought that Battletoads set the precedent that using 2 players with 2 controllers was enough to create a new category. Either this should obsolete the older run and the Battletoads movie count should be halved (warp and nonwarp), or this movie should be published in a second category. I would say that the former is a better idea. If we can't come to a decision on this, then how should 1 person controlling 2 characters fare against a 1 person controls 1 character movie? That is, to say, how nitsuja's Kirby Super Star that controlled both players obsoleted my old one player run.
So, umm, deliberate or something. I should have watched and voted on this earlier, but I put it off for tomorrow.
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1) Active form is the only one you'll really use, and you get it pretty quickly along your path, too.
2) As far as I can tell you, the single slash glitch from MMZ1 is gone, but there is still probably something you can exploit from the myriad of moves you have.
3) For boss order, I feel that mike uyama's speedrun has the best route. If you can find any serious reasons to deviate, that's cool, but otherwise I think his order serves your needs fairly quickly.
Also, take care to visciously rape Panter Fauclaus for me. It seems that every time I fight him, I kill him when I am midair between the cars. In case you didn't know, that equates to an instant death.
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dawnshadow wrote:
Nice job so far-- not quite ten minutes in-- but I've already noticed one thing that could speed up your run quite a bit. IIRC, if you press start you can skip dialogue. If I'm right you could probably shave off a minute or so....
Let me dig up my AoS cart and try it. I'll edit this post when I find out. ^^;
Only works from a cart that has game completion. Since we start emulated movies with a clear SRAM, no dialogs can be skipped.
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Bisqwit wrote:
Why's that?
The short version of this tirade would be that Greek is a slowly dying language, namely due to the fact that native Greeks are either too ethnocentric to learn anything else/spread the word or that native Greeks try to be as unGreek as they can be. Coupling that with the fact that Greek is actually two languages in one, and also that Greek is one of the hardest languages to learn/understand/master, it's better to not worry about it. Learning Greek will only help you with learning etymology. Take it from someone who speaks Greek fluently; you will never find a use for this language unless you want to sound like you are always angry or confused. Also, here is to hoping that Greek will go the way of Sanscrit within the next 100 years.
That was the short version.
moozooh wrote:
And that's pretty unusual since Russian is extremely unpopular, well, almost everywhere on the planet. :)
Russian may not be the most popular language, but that doesn't make it any less desirable. I learned the alphabet conversion for it ~5 years ago and was pretty intrigued from there. However, I doubt I'll ever seriously learn Russian, since I hear it is terribly hard to learn.
