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Adventure Time, a show made by a guy who worked on Flapjack, Pendleton Ward.
This show has it all. Character development, humor, crazy adventures, and even its own gender swapped version.
Notable characters:
Finn the Human - A 15 year old human boy who loves adventures.
Jake the Dog - Finn's adoptive brother who can change his body into any shape.
Princess Bubblegum - Ruler of the candy kingdom, she tends to do a lot of science experiments.
BMO - An adorable video game robot who lives with Finn and Jake.
Marceline the Vampire Queen - A half demon vampire who enjoys playing music.
Lumpy Space Princess - The sarcastic princess of Lumpy Space who speaks in a valley girl accent.
Lady Rainicorn - the Korean speaking girlfriend of Jake's.
Flame Princess - The hot tempered ruler of the Fire Kingdom.
Ice King - The weirdo wizard who tends to kidnap princesses a lot.
Handy dandy links:Land of Ooo - Fairly large site dedicated to Adventure Time. Their store sucks though.
King of Ooo - Dev blog. They post storyboards and art stuff on here.
Bravest Warriors - Made by the same guy as this. It's free to watch.
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Oh, it's possible. It just doesn't save time. You can make it all the way to the control room and flip the switch, but the top door is locked. So it just leaves you stranded :/
Talking to the door before the Suto fight saves about 2 seconds.
Same deal with activating the fifth pillar. What you suggested saves 2-3 seconds.
I am now starting the Sand Zone.
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Yeah, it is hard to determine. Both upgrades take nearly 3 minutes to get, which means they would need to save me over 3 minutes. Which won't happen, really.
I say this because in nitsuja's TAS, just the super missile expansion saved about 30 seconds. And that was getting them roughly halfway through the game, roughly the same time you get them in Jenka's Nightmare. This equates to about 7-12 bosses he used Super missiles on, if you count multiple phase fights.
So taking over 3 minutes to get either of them probably won't really help in the long run. Unless I'm missing something, this means I'll only be using the Fireball and Missile Launcher.
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-I didn't know leaving did anything. I'll test it out tonight.
-It seems like it's possible to use that Mannan. Would really save a lot of backtracking if it's possible.
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Yeah, I just noticed the EXP collection is a bit slow. I'll revise it again, but I'll just put it as a part of WIP 2 instead of another video again.
Edit: Ok, done with revising the first section. Saved about 3 seconds.
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Link to video
Revised it with new stuff, now it's over a minute faster.
-One minute saved by skipping the opening.
-I figured out how to get Quote to higher speeds. Turning left a frame before hitting the ground makes Quote go 2 pixels faster, up to a max of 845. This even affects how he walks, surprisingly.
-Route change in the First Cave that's slightly faster.
-Saved a bit of time in the Blue Shirt Igor fight.
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Did some testing
-The Snake is still useless, mainly due to its slow recharge time and damage over time effect. Since you only have it for 3 battles anyway it's faster just to skip it. Saves ~8 seconds from picking it up and about 4 seconds of leveling.
-Damage boosting is pretty handy.
-Blue Shirt Igor dies in 3 seconds to the Level 3 Polar Star.
-There are tiny collision holes in -5 HP spikes that you can stand in. I'll be abusing this in grass town to save a tiny bit of time.
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Jenka's Nightmare is a popular Cave Story mod. It was originally developed to 75% completion, and then revived with a bad ending, until finally being completely redone and made way better.
I went ahead and made a TAS up to the first boss:
Link to video
Most of the info I use comes from nitsuja's original TAS. I'll go ahead and post all the relevant info from that:
He also luckily had plenty of memory addresses. The most important ones are:
0049E66C d s 0 X velocity
0049E670 d s 0 Y velocity
0049E6E8 d s 0 booster fuel
004A5B00 d s 0 wait length
004A5AFC d s 0 waited frames
d = 2 bytes
s = signed
The mod can be found here: http://www.cavestory.org/forums/index.php?/topic/5050-jenka-no-akumu-3rd-demo/
It's not completely finished yet, but it will be soon.
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I'm sorry, but you've been a part of these forums for almost 3 months now. That is more then enough time to 'get used' to the forums, considering how much you've posted in the past few months.
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