Thanks to Brandon, BizHawk will open .fmv natively. I know you are a TASedit guy so I won't suggest you use bizhawk. But at least it would be a much better emulator to use for comparing than famtasia. And you could convert it to .fm2 from there without too much hassle (find and replace in notepad++ will do the trick) Also, the movie in question is likely to desync quickly in fceux or bizhawk. This page should make it painfully obvious why.
I think the death abuse should at least be tested, so that we may know the theoretical limit of the game in terms of speed. Hope it'll be less than 25 minutes. But, if you were practising traditional method of TASing, you'd quickly get used to redoing small and large chunks of input again and again.
I think it works fine without the death -- you can readily claim that it's a stylistic decision even though you're making that decision after the fact. :)
Nice run but sorry to ruin it saying you can improve almost 2 minutes abusing death. I am planning to do a non-tas run of this game and you can warp from desert Sittem to near king´s palace doing a game over. Before that you have to get a password in Gibea (the house near the king's palace). When you get game over the game sends you back to the password guy. Also 15 seconds saved in Lethe parth also abusing same trick (when you get the magic claw and other stuff). Mind that the fastest way is to die 2x in a easy part like the beginning of Gaza valley and when you destroy the sand frog just go back to the frogs palace and die there. For the Lethe part you can die 2x in the beginning of the level where to twins are so its easy to drop to the bottom spikes later in the cave and do a game over when you are going back to see Lethe.
I'm also really enjoying how incredibly fast the site is now. On every computer I've been on in the past few days, the site posts replies and loads even movie pages very quickly.
Couldn't a few frames be saved by ensuring the character is on the right side of the screen when a boss fight ends instead of breaking the blocks? Does Waldog handle differently?
goofydylan8, the link should be "tasvideos.org"
http://tasvideos.org/rating.exe/(insert movie number here)M/details Ta-da.
The numbers might look grim at a glance, but consider the following: 1. Many viewers thought that the game was a romhack. 2. I took feedback on the previous three submissons into consideration. Curiously, audience response got worse with each subsequent submission. Due to these concerns, I found the support% to be skewed and gave it less weight than normally.
turska, this submission had 56% of total votes being "Yes", and it still gets accepted? Makes me wonder what does reasons like: "Rejecting due to poor audience feed back. " even supposed to mean. :P Btw, your reason for acceptance seem to disregard the audience's opinions, but whatever. :P
You can keep your ellipses to yourself and you don't need to play a game before voting.
I was going to say Getsu Fuuma Den, but I saw there's already a 17:16 tas on nico.
Ok, so here is the first WIP: http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/1502061495/BLAZ1.fm2 It was made with TAS Editor in fceux 2.1.6. There are some subtitles to explain most things. I've started work on the next level, expect it soon, hopefully.
