I lost 2 frames in 9-3 due to boss room start manipulation. And in 9-5 due to the same thing (probably I also bumped a box to avoid the icon). As for losses after Dylan's run, it was the lag I missed at the first time, and synced the levels so, after I noticed it was too late to resync. The only thing I don't understand yet is shorter Ball 1 room. Dylan made a lower jump there and it finished faster. In Ghost room 2 I bumped the solid platform and also didn't notice that. Also, the second boss has no randomness. I saved time only thanks to better optimisation of the last hit. It would be cool if someone dumps all patterns of bosses behaviour.
goofydylan8, still waiting for your comment on the run. What was new for you? http://feos-theos.narod.ru/ChipDale2_comparison.htm
At first we translated what we were saying to fisker and what he posted. But as it was his own submission, and as he knows nothing in English, and keeps writing in Russian, we just thought it would be too much work to translate everything. These 2 threads are directly related to him. There's no other thread where we do that. Dylan, I never posted in Russian when I was talking to you directly. You could just remind me to tell you, what's being discussed by us. But you just left the thread, while I posted rather interesting stuff after that.
First... why the hell is there a bonus stage after the final boss... and secondly, why does the input end at the final boss and not finishing off the bonus stage? Mr. Kelly R. Flewin
Any submissions in particular? I also recommend you add an auto translation extension to your browser. Since the world wide web is world wide after all, being able to read all languages in your browser is a must.
Have you tried asking people to post a translation along with their post?
if you are doing a revision of this, I would be willing to help on a few fights as far as style goes. I have a few funny ideas because I know quite a bit about this game.
39 frames saved on just a single fight means my vote is changed to no.
It occurs to me that this is a fighting game. Typically we don't go for the fastest possible result in fighting games, in the interests of variety. Perhaps this game would be better suited to a playaround?
A couple things in that level or would you like me to do stuff elsewhere? I can't imagine there are improvements in other levels. I could just try to redo the last level for style and match / beat the time if that's what you'd like, sure.
Rough real-time improvement of 39 frames. Only final fight is modified. I'd improve it stylistic wise and resubmit it, but I doubt that you'd consider this enough work to warrant a co-authorship. Then again, this game's publishability is questionable to begin with. In the end, the important thing is I've proven that you make mistakes, and perhaps this is enough to slow down your NES reign of terror! >_<
I liked the game choice and the run overall, but one thing bugged me: couldn't you send the opponent running across the entire screen at least once? Also, couldn't you get back on the ring as soon as possible and go deep back in the ring as a show off move on one of the rounds? It seems that you used the "get in the ring as late as possible" way too many times, but I'd like to see the opposite. Getting in the ring as early as possible is probably what Brandon did on his fmv :)
I think you mean in-game time of 5:52. It's not a very interesting TAS, but it's as interesting as it can be really. The reason I did a real-time speedrun of it was because it was interesting to me how you could really exploit this game. I've always thought that there should be runs on TASes of popular/well known games, even if they aren't the most entertaining runs ever. It's always interesting to me to see the absolute limits for games I've played. Voting yes. EDIT: A no ring-out run could be interesting. I'm guessing that would involve a lot of repetition as well though.
As great as this run is, it's pretty annoying that we're making yet another SM64 category here. We may as well just open a special section of the site completely dedicated to every type and combination of SM64 run possible.
Please, stop TASing NES games!!!!1 I'll wait for an encode since I'm too lazy to find the ROM.
Another WIP: http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/1301389782/Gargoyle%27s%20Quest%20-%20Ghosts%27n%20Goblins.vbm Here I show what I was talking about earlier, skipping the dialogue in the town and crossing the bridge without needing the Fingernail. I'll need to get it later though. This ends in the middle of the 2nd dungeon. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to manipulate the movement of the floating platforms.
Don't feel so doleful, your WIP really helped me with that purple butterfly, that was used to doost by me too, but taking damage from spikes and starting scrolling faster jumping from below came out faster too. You remember, when you boost of that butterfly, you reach the top of the screen sooner than intended and have to wait some time. The same can be said about each room with such corner. Fridge for example.
feos, if you're talking about openness, you have to share something too! ;) goofydylan8, do you use Branches to compare alternative strategies, or you still cater to old habits? Also, this XLS looks cool, but it only compares old run with new. You should use same thoroughness when comparing your own strategies (like: whether to enter boss room at frame 10000 or 10002), but instead of making Excel tables you can simply branch your movie here and there, using Bookmarks. BTW, I hope you guys all use OldPPU.
I'm surprised that you posted the WIP, I thought you wouldn't want to share your decisions. For now I am at the end of second floor of the refregerator. When the screen scrolls left and reaches the left end. Well, I reach it 164 frames faster than you. I mentioned about the openness, but didn't force anyone to share what he came up with. I find it more interesting to invent everything yourself. Also I'm paranoid and think that if you know the exact amount of frames I'm ahead, you'd TAS the shit out of that game just to match my time. Surely I hope you wouldn't and my movie would appear still faster, but whatever XD Anyway, you know my time now.
I have done a test til the beginning of level 2. I saved something about 90 frames.
Going to participate. I mean, in teh war. Pity this game can't provide Y subpixel tricks the first version can, because it doesn't alter the Y subpixel while you're on the foor. And there's no X subpixels either. That means it's gonna be all about manipulation and route.