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Fortranm wrote:
What would the category be? "No charge glitch"?
The path where Red Falcon is revived done on non-Japanese version will be very interesting since it resembles early Contra games.
Have you ever considered using the PAL release? The European release of this game received the most changes of all Probotector games. The cutscenes are much shorter in PAL version, especially on the Chase/Fight path since the intro of final stage is entirely removed.
"Chase/Fight, 2 players", I would assume, since that's the name of the path.
Characters besides Fang do not have the charge glitch that Fang does.
I wouldn't do this on PAL. It runs at 50FPS and lacks content that other versions have aside from the robot graphic changes.
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Oh, is this just a LOTAD? That makes more sense.
Also, two months late with this next reply:
InfamousKnight wrote:
Um, I'm thinking about finishing this up, without worrying about getting teleport items, and just avoiding random battles. As well as doing some grinding with the Eye. Should beat the RTA record for sure.
Don't touch my input unless you're completely serious on optimizing it properly.
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Working on doing the Chase/Fight path with Ray and Sheena, which I feel fits because it takes you through an alien area. Have to redo a few battles to preserve my nuke for the (Un)manned robot.
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Well I did Level 1 as Goblin.
Link to video
Optimizing his glider is incredibly difficult. Also note that I cut out the minute of setup it takes to actually GET goblin (Would a simple unlock code be so hard?).
Edit: saved another 2-3 seconds fixing some movement.
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Flip wrote:
And finally, are you doing this on Easy? If so, what are the differences between difficulties?
Did this on Easy. Harder difficulties just make enemies take more hits I believe.
Also, your vid's private :p
Edit: Oh wow, that's much faster! I'll have to do that if I redo this WIP.
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Joe wrote:
I honestly didn't know you maintained control over the monkey when the screen shifted. That makes the boss speed run much faster
Well, that would be the glitch with using a Monkey Claw to stop the brief 2-frame delay Monkey has with jumping. The game automatically freezes Monkey if he pauses movement at all.
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So I came up with a dumb idea for a discussion. What if the authors of a bunch of runs personally ranked their own TASes? I think it would be an interesting insight in, well, people's opinions on their work.
I'll start since, whatever. This will be from worst to best, and I'll be only doing current runs. No YHTBTR today, sorry.
(Note that I'm not saying to RATE your own TASes, although you can certainly do that too.)
[*] Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro[3213] PSX Spider-Man 2: Enter: Electro by arandomgameTASer in 22:00.52
Oh joyous day, I get to talk about this game again. I don't regret doing Enter Electro, but this run wasn't the best. Too much downtime and a lack of optimization due to PSXHawk messing up analog input. I mean, SOME of the run is really good, Gangland being a highlight, but the rest of the game is not very interesting.
[*] Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back[3137] SNES Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back by arandomgameTASer, Exonym & Samsara in 30:11.80
Another game with too much downtime and a lack of optimization, yay. This is by far the worst SSW game in terms of speedrunning, with lengthy boring 3D stages everywhere. This took a very long time to do, and I wouldn't do it again.
[*] Ikachan[2590] Windows Ikachan "warp glitch" by arandomgameTASer in 03:31.56
My first run! Probably my worst optimized one, since I didn't know what a RAM address was when I did it. It was obsoleted by a nicovideo TASer, which is good. Not much else to say, I'm ambivalent towards it.
[*] Super Aladdin[2934] NES Super Aladdin by arandomgameTASer in 05:23.37
Hey-hey! Everyone's favorite game. All jokes aside, this run isn't horrible. There's plenty of glitches and the game doesn't make my eyes bleed like most bootlegs. It does feel redundent though, since so many other Aladdin runs have already been published.
[*] Pop'n Twinbee: Rainbow Bell Adventure
[2807] SNES Pop'n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures "1 player" by arandomgameTASer in 21:48.71
My fastest run, but not my best run. Once you get past how fast the game is, there's not a lot of entertainment value to it. I might redo it sometime with 2 players to try and fix that, but for now it's just ok.
[*] Shantae "any%"[2685] GBC Shantae by arandomgameTASer in 1:05:26.00
My third run! This one sucks though. It lays a foundation for a better improvement, certainly, but it's clear to see that I didn't understand what I was doing when I made it. Still, it's decently fast and entertaining. I don't hate it.
[*] Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse "Grant path, warp glitch"[3224] NES Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse "Grant path, warp glitch" by arandomgameTASer, Samsara & Noxxa in 15:22.01
Now we're getting to the good stuff. This run is pretty much the RTA route with TAS stuff thrown in, but whatever. It's pretty fast and has a game-destroying glitch, so I like it.
[*] Mickey no Tokyo Disneyland Daibouken[2960] SNES Mickey no Tokyo Disneyland Daibouken by arandomgameTASer in 20:35.47
An advertisement game for Japan's Disneyland I guess. It's most closely related to Rocket Knight Adventures, and it shows with its balloon mechanics. I like this one a lot, but I can recognize that it's a bit annoying.
[*] The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night[2826] GBA The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night by arandomgameTASer in 25:57.76
A Spikestuff nag game. Out of all the Spyro games, this is probably the best one outside the original three, and it shows in the TAS with all the routing choices I made. Still, the game is a bit weirdly designed with the little pause every time you hit an enemy, so it feels slower paced then it actually is.
[*] Spider-Man N64[3051] N64 Spider-Man by arandomgameTASer in 25:51.70
Yeah, Spider-Man!!!! This first attempt has some flaws, but it's fast and shows how fun and broken this game can be.
[*] Castlevania: Symphony of the Night "Maria Mode"[3130] Saturn Castlevania: Symphony of the Night "Maria Mode" by arandomgameTASer in 06:45.72
Despite how absolutely horrendous SaturnHawk is, I still like this movie. Maybe it's just because I like Symphony of the Night, who knows?
[*] Spider-Man 3[3158] GBA Spider-Man 3 by arandomgameTASer in 13:44.01
An improvement of 2 minutes over someone else's movie, how 'bout that? This is probably the fastest 2D Spidey, and the only one I can honestly say is a good game.
[*] Shantae 100%
Hey-hey, 20 minutes shaved off a really long run! I enjoy this one a lot because it cuts down on a lot of boring crap and just gets to the good stuff, like those sick nasty Spiral Kick stratz.
[*] Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions "any%"[3021] DS Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions by arandomgameTASer in 26:15.10
A beat-em-up metroidvania, essentially. Any% isn't horrible, it's still incredibly fast and cool like all items is, but it's weighed down a bit by a lack of combo variety.
[*] Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days[2937] DS Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days by arandomgameTASer in 2:33:37.01
A yearlong project right here. The individual missions are pretty fun to optimize, but this is definitely a game that should be watched in parts instead of all at once. The final 10 minutes are great at least.
[*] Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi[2953] SNES Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi by arandomgameTASer in 23:17.12
Oh look, another ssw game. Unlike ESB, they put all the bullshit boring autoscrolling in the last 6 minutes. This run could be optimized better, but what exists now is still very fast and entertaining.
[*] Kingdom Hearts Re:coded[2698] DS Kingdom Hearts Re:coded by arandomgameTASer in 1:41:02.94
My second run, and ironically my second longest one. Despite the many flaws with this run's optimization, I still enjoy it. Maybe it's just because it's Kingdom Hearts.
[*] Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!![2942] DS Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d You Steal Our Garbage?!! by arandomgameTASer in 48:44.36
What do you take when you combine Zelda II with the guys who made Shantae? This game! This game is fun, fast, and has a lot of interesting routing choices you can take. Its placement is very funny, since when I first finished it I absolutely despised it due to how long it took to make. Now, clearly, I like it a lot more.
[*] Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions "all items"[3034] DS Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions "all items" by arandomgameTASer in 34:20.91
The crown jewel of all my runs, really. This is by far the best TAS I've ever done. It's fast, interesting, and funny, with a route that doesn't drag the game to a crawl like a lot of 100% TASes. This and Hey Ice King are the only TASes I can say I'm proud of.
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Link to video
All Comics thingy, saves about 40 seconds.
Reposted from my desc.:
'To do the glitch, you need to find a surface that Spidey can attach to, but can't climb on (for example, a door). All you need to do from there is hold forward and keep pressing the jump button to detach him from the wall. Continuously doing this will slowly sink Spidey into the surface he's in.
Once you have the comic, just reset to get out. The comic will stay collected.'
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Saturn wrote:
The seconds will differ with NTSC being faster, the frames not. That's why a pure frame comparison is possible between NTSC and PAL as long as text differences and lag are not involved.
You realize that PAL LOSES frames compared to NTSC? They're not directly comparable at all really, so saying that if you ignore the PAL differences and just compare the frames is kind of stupid and dumb.
But assuming this completely wrong claim is right, this would be far easier to compare if we had your input file and not a dumb video. Not to harp the same point even though I said I wouldn't, but uh........yeah.
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