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A free vrsion of this game is kept here. It features a gameplay interesting because of a layout switch option (eversion), that allows to collect all gems and open the last level in order to get the Best Ending.
v1.5.2 provides the last level different from the later releases. It keeps randomly everting and you shall walk your way to the end considering that.
The last level in v1.7.3 allows different routes, that depend on the evertion point you use. The rooms get looped if you skip the necessary evertion point.
Tricks:
- If the evertion occurs when you are behind a platform, that was invisible in the previous layer, but becomes active now, you get warped up.
- If you jump and bump the corner of the platform that is right above you, you fly as long as you hold Jump button. The similar thing seems to happen if you bump the lateral face of a platform and slide down along it.
- You can knock out a gem from an outermost block by bumping it's corner and instantly resume flying onto it, no need to jump again (SMB style).
- Some strange death-evertion trick, used by Acmlm. Explanation needed.
- After you pick the last gem in level 7 you may press Escape button and skip the rest way to the flagpole, then start level 7 again and evert it to the last layer.
Acmlm wrote:
There's actually 3 possible goals for this game: (my vote would go to 100% too)
- Any%, bad ending (the shortest, but doesn't even finish the game)
- Any%, good ending (you can use another glitch to evert to 6-8 and 7-8, then access world 8 without all gems)
- 100%, good ending (much more planning and running around yet still short)
The evert glitch also makes world 8 much shorter and more interesting.
I had test runs for both good endings (any% in 4:01, 100% in 9:27), and an unfinished improvement for 100% that would have been under 9 minutes ...
Now here are Acmlm's cool WIPs:
Link to videoLink to videoLink to video
EDIT: The Glitched branch is definetely publication worty, Bad Ending is not at all, 100% is pleasant because of all the strategic decisions needed to make that long 7th level fast.
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That's why we have forums to post WIPs.
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natt seems to have pretty powerful computer. Both Camstudio (9, GZip) and MLC slow my emulator down ~twice or more.
EDIT: CPU usage with MLC is insane, while it's not noticeable with CamStudio. You should add such info too I think.
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XTREMAL93 wrote:
feos. у меня в виртуалдабе нет Filter mode Nearest neighbour
Есть.
Xvid MPEG 4 ставится вместе в k-lite codec pack.
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I was positively shocked, even though the sound of Kotinaky is truely negative. Thanks for that stuff. I even decided to share it via torrent for Russians. Don't you mind?
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I voted Yes. While this isn't the most exciting TAS due to boring sections with mines stuff, I was interested in seeing a TAS of this game and the rest of the run is pretty much okay and nice. Fighting so much enemies also promised long and boring first level, but now it looks okay as well. The game is rather good for LJN, it's somehow pleasant for me, who tried to play it in childhood, but couldn't pass level 2 (I didn't know what to do there). It's not highly entertaining, but isn't distracting either (and my eye and ear do notice when the game is distracting).
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I will if it's accepted.
But only HD for youtube.
EDIT: About the run. Is there vertical and horizontal acceleration? You have weird placement on elevators, you walk further on them and then have to leave them later than it looks possible. Also sometimes you don't jump before leaving the upper platform, but just walk off it. Normally it causes to reach the lower floor later due to lack of vertical acceleration. Is it the case here? Isn't it faster to start walking before the electric wall disappears, do you gain any speed so?
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I've read 2 posts by gamedirector so far and I feel exactly like this:
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Warp wrote:
(And as I said earlier, a keyboard might be confusing if we one day start TASing C64, Amiga, Amstrad, Spectrum...)
I guess for those we may use their logos, while we can't use Windows logo. I suggest to use that for this year and think about future computers when they get the award, not now.
EDIT: DOS games use mouse too.
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Ah, no, there's no point except the flagpole to start the next level from.
EDIT: Versions 1.52 and 1.72 (along with Steam version) have totally different 8th levels. In older version it keeps everting randomly by itself, in later versions you evert and the level itself is different. And it loops the rooms if not everted properly.
EDIT 2:
Bobo the King wrote:
There's a very short "warp" at around 5:54 in this LP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A39emCaAG14
You should see if you can reproduce it and find out whether there are any other uses for it.
You get warped up if you are at the point where some obstacle block appears after eversion. Reproduced each time you place yourself well and get good randomness.
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Can anyone please encode these movies? The game crashed when I tried to play them back. May that be caused by another Hourglass version?
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go back to the title and re-select level
Oh, this shall work in EVERY level!
I don't know what you mean by "letters", so I'm guessing that's a new feature in the paid version.
Yes, and watch the vid I posted.
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Improving the current run of a game without reading it's topic - LOLWUT?
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Ахаха, почему ты думаешь, что нам "охота" переводить?
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Yeah, the quasi-randomness in level 8 means there are different ways to finish each room, and that affects the room you see next. You change the forthcoming room by using different eversion points. Also, collecting all gems and letters might be interesting to challenge, the last letter appears only on a recent layer on level 8. And to access level 8 you need all gems.
EDIT: Hmmm, I think after you finish level 7 the game window closes or something like that. Is it correct?
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Тот тред для нубов создан и полезен. И для большинства систем все еще будет актуален.
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О! Можешь это здесь повторить? На странице Wiki: GenericTips есть ссылка на тот полезный тред.
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Переименуй ЭТУ в "Общие вопросы".
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Ты без тасэдита работаешь чтоль? В нем и удобнее, и назад можно отматывать. В нем ты сохраняешь проект и потом просто открываешь его снова.
А старым способом вот: запустил мувик свой вчерашний, домотел до места, с которого хочешь продолжить запись, поставил на паузу, сделал сэйв. Переключился в режим Read+Write (кнопка Q) и загрузил этот сэйв. Все, ты продолжаешь запись.
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Ну убили тебя и ты возрождаешься неуязвимым временно. И мигаешь. Частота разная. В виртуалдабе смотришь, какая частота мигания. Если через кадр, то при конвертации в 30 фпс у тебя пропадет мигание. Как здесь
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwCyfZyAUH8
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Video - Filters - Add - Resize: выбираешь Filter mode Nearest neighbour и коэфициэнт растяжения 300% или 400%.
Потом Video - Frame rate - Conver to fps: 30 (если в видео есть мелькания через кадр, то выставляй 24).
Video - Compression - Xvid MPEG 4; Configure - Target quantizer влево.
File - Save as AVI.
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for this year and think about future computers when they get the award, not now.
EDIT: DOS games use mouse too.