Looks a bit repetitive for my taste, specially for being >40 minutes (ok, so maybe around 30 minutes without the bonus stuff thats actually varied).
Refraining from voting since I don't actually know if this is a cult franchise or something.
The movie goes on even after the Hard level is cleared, idling on the menu for sometime and then showing the story. Is this on purpose? Without that the video would be half as long.
Not enough juice in here. I really wanted to say yes.
EDIT: I mean, maybe if it was shorter or the glitches were varied enough. I really REALLY want to see this a bit polished.
I guess some people just have an irrational hatred of moonspeak.
I know you're trolling, but JUST IN CASE: People prefer english because it is spoken by a wider audience than Japanese. No one has any issues with Japan or Japanese or people from Japan or all things Japanese. If anything, we all love Shigeru Miyamoto.
I haven't seen the whole run but what I've seen I've liked. I honestly understand why TASVideos would prefer if runs where submitted in english versions, but I also understand there's no real conflict in accepting a run in Japanese if that's what's available.
I don't think an english run should obsolete this one if it contains the same input either. Obsoletion itself is complicated, and someone should really get frame-by-frame differences between both roms.
EDIT: Frame by frame differences between cutscenes I meant, sorry.
Game Genie et al. are third-party items. The disc tray of a console is not.
Neither is a crooked cartridge or a scratched game disc. Where do we put a line on hardware abuse?
I sort of see what you're getting at, although I can't think of any situation where cartridge-tilting or a damaged ROM would be a benefit. The first is a moot point too, though, since cartridge tilting is impossible to emulate. Don't know if there's any reliable way to create a damaged ROM, although the existence of the ROM tag implies there is.
Not sure why you think cartridge-tilting can't be emulated. Figure out which lines on the cartridge connector fall out first, and how that will change rom read results, and then emulate that. Might be tricky to get exact, but saying impossible without testing? As far as usefulness, tilting at the appropriate time is quite useful in F-ZERO X, and I'm sure there are others.
The only hardware oriented emulator I've ever seen is bsnes, and I'm not even sure you could do that there.
On Topic: Have to check this out.
This is probably the worst game I played on real NES hardware when I was a kid. Not even TASing makes it look interesting.
Voting meh because I can see you put a lot of work into it.
I used the stated rom and had no issues.
As far as goals are concerned, the author kept his word on what the run does, and it does well. I see no reason to question what the author has not said his run is supposed to do.
Really cool light glitching. The two last levels have some head scratchers, but the run itself I think is worthy enough to be published.
EDIT: Yes vote of course.
I'm going to vote no because I've never played the game and that made it hard to see anything super human or interesting, and that made it quite boring. Sorry
Stop the movie at frame 11300 and attempt to kill that boss yourself, and you'll see why this needed to be a TAS.
The guy isn't impossible. To kill the mexican you grab the pistol and start jumping behind him while shooting him in order to keep up. When he turns arpund he doesn't hit you since you're "shooting", so you keep jumping and running behind him.
I'm surprised he dies so quickly in this TAS. I could spend 5-10 minutes killing the guy normally.
That same technique (jump and shoot/hit) was used to kill pretty much any boss in the game EXCEPT for the clam. That's why so few people made it past there.
