Maybe its searching for latest loaded games. it used to happen to me on gens. Try loading 10 roms from your hard disk to erase the history from old loaded cd-rom games.
Hey guys! I´m making my own megaman x speedrun and I have watched some megaman x speed runs and I don´t know how to do a fast shooting. I know that each time you press the fire button so many x busters shots will be shooted. But like in some speed runs they fire VERY fast. Is there some kind of trick or a glitch? It´s not possible to shoot so fast! Somebody please tell me how to do it! [Edited by Bisqwit: Changed the topic to better reflect the actual question.]
Any progress on this? and those leftover bombs... well you could kill some enemies in the stages with them. I still see you shooting enemies with your machine gun so there you could use the remaining bombs.
Yes it's the first one. I managed to find a different ROM (Jurassic Park v1.1) so I shouldn't have any more problems. I don't mind starting over because there were some things I wanted to do differently anyway. Thanks for the info though, I'll look into it.
I'll follow with the flow. Great! I'm gonna be a bit irritating though, wouldn't it be possible to spend all your specialweapons on the DesertStage so that you avoid the delay when the game counts the remaning weapons? You might save a few frames there.
Assuming you mean "space is not a problem" literally, use the FFV1 codec for video. FFV1 is lossless (no compression artifacts whatsoever). It encodes 1 minute of animation to 20-400 MB, depending on the video content (amount of motion and so on). The Zombies Ate My Neighbors movie (~60 minutes) for example went to about 5.8 gigabytes. FFV1 is the ffmpeg lossless codec. For Windows users, FFDshow probably contains it. But, the "choppiness" you apparently see is not caused by the codec. It's most likely caused by the method you record the movie. When you use an external program for recording the movie, the emulator won't wait for your recorder. If the recorder is not fast enough(*) to capture all frames, you'll see choppiness (bad framerate). We don't use external recorders at this site for this reason. If you didn't mean literally, then you should use the good ol' mpeg-4 (in whatever variant you like: divx, ffmpeg, xvid, envivo...) with a very small quantizer setting (high quality). In MEncoder, you would give the vqscale=2 parameter to libavcodec. This results in nearly no visible artifacts. Only if you do a screen capture and analyze it with an image editor, you'll notice the colors aren't as solid as in the original. *) Everything matters: Harddisk speed, CPU speed, memory speed, interprocess communication speed...
I'm currently in level 7: Dr. Tongues Castle of Terrer (I'm pretty sure that that's the levels name ;P). The tourists are saved and I don't have much left to do before I can proceed to level 8. And here is where my new problem kicks in. Level 8 is the boss level with the gigantic baby running around, crushing whoever comes in his way. So, for my concern. There is the usual 10 victims in this stage which I intend to save, however, when the baby is killed he will transform into a regular baby which can be saved. This means that there are 11 victims in this level and if I save it I will lose a fearsome 2 seconds or something due to the bonus I'll receive afterwards. My plan is however to kill him and get the 11:th victim because I'm going for a 100% run. One alternative is to let one victim get killed by the baby and then save the other 9 + 1 (the baby that appears after the boss is killed), but I think that the aesthic will suffer from this, even though it might be a few seconds faster. But then again, IMO it doesn't really matter since the run will be pretty long. Any suggestions or comments about this plan? If not I'll proceed later.
that Forest Fortress battle was MEAN. It always took me 2 passes when I played on a console. You think you're gonna do a one pass fight with Minks too ? :D Actually it's quite easy of you focus on the cannons... but perhaps by destroying the bridge? What's your route through the stages? My route is always: Base -> Ground Carrier -> Forest Fortress -> Enemy Airforce -> Enemy Airforce 2 (the 3 'lil stealths) -> Seavet -> Minks -> Canyon -> *this point I get money for eighter of the planes with Gunpod or if I played with the first plane here I usally get it without doing any moneyruns to Convoys* -> Mountain Base -> Last Base I hate the boss at Mountain Base, even with slowdown I managed to get hit because of those Flamethrower-cannons
I'll do a 1 player run beacuse then (as far as I know right now) I can skip the competing bonuses. I've read that if one of the players rescues a neighbour more or so in every stage that player will have a reward after the stage, which takes unnecessary time.
No WIP's so far. I might concider posting progress eventually though.
Any progress on this?
I remember another glitch when I played on console. I was playing through the sewers where you need the password to enter. There are some enemies that turns your character into a snow man. Can't remember if it was the girl or the sprite that was turned into a snow man. But anyways. As I was about to exit the sewer one of the two was frozen. When the next screen appeared, the character was gone. Never got it back. :D Kinda cool to be that late in the game with only two characters. I don't think there will be any use of this glitch, if someone can pull it off again. I have tried to re-make it but with out success.
Well, using that logic, this is the best case scenario: Frame 1 - Use gunpod Frame 3 - Fire cannon Frame 5 - Use gunpod Frame 7 - Use other subweapon Frame 9 - Use gunpod Frame 11- Fire cannon or something like that. If the gunpod fires every 4 and the cannon every 8, then simply spacing them 2 frames apart solves your problems. There will be some frames in between that might be wasted, and there seems to be a lame-duck frame at count 7. If you could incorporate another weapon, that would work. Also, if you could make a different weapon hit EVERY frame ... edit: scratch that, i must be blind
I can agree that the Cave boss is the far hardest boss in the entire game. I sugest that you atleast try taking out the boss without the Stealth since I would really like to see the Efret ;). Also, doesn't the Tiger support those napalm things? Wouldn't it be possible then to use them to take out the ground units while hammering the core with the cannon?
I guess it all depends on whether the Efreet will be able to own the final stage fast enough to make up for a "slow" cave boss. I personally don't mind either way, as long as it is done quickly. However, I wonder if it is possible to mix gunpod with your normal cannon on the cave boss using the B52.
If you decide to hex it, remember to change the offsets.