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Posted: 3/16/2024 1:38 PM
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So happy to see this tas'd! sadly, you grab the spars so quickly we don't see much gameplay. You'll do "maximum score" and get 99999999 next, right?
Posted: 2/18/2024 3:08 PM
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A silly question: you mention getting every possible level skip which means you play all the odd numbered levels. Did you consider investigating whether missing a level skip & doing even numbered levels could save time? It seems unlikely, because you'd not only have to wait for a skip timer to expire but you'd also end up doing 31 levels instead of 30, so if you didn't give it much (any) consideration I don't blame you.
Posted: 9/5/2023 9:35 PM
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any insight into what allows the power-up to spawn?
Posted: 7/26/2023 2:07 PM
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the vertical scrolling is especially painful!
Posted: 7/20/2023 9:16 PM
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having watched both I preferred the un-glitched run, for whatever that's worth. it got a bit long, especially with the monotonous scenery and lack of music, but at least I had a sense of how the game was supposed to be played.
Posted: 6/28/2023 11:49 PM
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"the acid is too high" you don't say
Posted: 4/27/2023 11:05 PM
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I had no idea such a solid Omega Race clone was published in that magazine!
Posted: 4/25/2023 3:41 AM
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I remember this one! I assume the mismatch between the video length (~20) and the play time is due to some loading time not present in the preview video? vs input at the end that needs to be trimmed.
Posted: 3/31/2023 4:23 PM
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enjoyed watching all the near-misses.
Posted: 3/27/2023 8:14 PM
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I love bot optimization but understand if it doesn't fit other site rules. Does eating a pill 'out of the way' (one instance around frame 1550) or the occasional 1-pixel forays into a side tunnel (e.g., one around frame 486) not lose frames? The frame 1550 pill-eating seems especially surprising as that part of the maze is traversed again a little bit later, so the pill would be eaten anyhow.
Posted: 3/22/2023 8:12 PM
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can you explain why you died once in the minefield level?
Posted: 2/24/2023 10:06 PM
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full video is marked private
Posted: 11/17/2022 8:01 PM
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ah yes but which car constitutes the "best ending"?
Posted: 10/18/2022 1:17 AM
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I think you had someone else secretly sending you the moves to make. https://learn.adafruit.com/cheekmate-wireless-haptic-communication
Posted: 9/3/2022 6:24 PM
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so the computer (if you can call a 2600 a "computer") blanks the screen and thinks for up to 2 minutes between moves?? wow that's terrible.
Posted: 7/31/2022 6:58 PM
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I noticed that pieces would spawn even if some of the four positions they occupy are already filled. This seems different than the 'best' technical description (https://meatfighter.com/nintendotetrisai/#Spawning_Tetriminos) I found in a few minutes searching, which (sadly, without calling out the code that implements it) describes the algorithm as follows:
In fact, normally, we think of game over as when the pile reaches the top. But, this is not entirely correct. The game actually ends when it is no longer possible to spawn the next piece. That is, all four cells of the playfield corresponding to the spawned Tetrimino's square positions must be empty before the piece can be introduced.
Rather, it looks like the piece is successfully spawning when a single square is empty. Is that right?
Posted: 7/18/2022 1:46 PM
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I was entertained by just how broken the game is, but I can see how not everyone would be. There's not a lot of actual gameplay as originally intended.
Posted: 6/3/2022 5:21 AM
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just wondering if, for entertainment factor, the player's canon can be left "wide" for longer periods of time, or if that affects gameplay when not actively shooting. For instance, if the canon is "wide" from just after the previous shot until just before the next shot, it would be more apparent to viewers.
Posted: 5/29/2022 7:10 PM
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What's going on with the encode at about 5m30? https://youtu.be/A6pz_hhARNY?t=330 some debugging?
Posted: 5/11/2022 12:18 PM
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I wish this speedrun was 6:66 long
Posted: 4/17/2022 3:09 PM
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Post subject: Can't you complete the game without going into the R-world?
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I was puzzled why after solving (+) using only set theory you went to R world. It was a nice sequence break to skip Z and Q worlds, but wouldn't it be faster to define subtraction (and the rest) in terms of the natural numbers N?
Posted: 4/7/2022 6:43 PM
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I played a lot of the c64 version back in the day. now I wonder why I always used to teleport the piece I'd use to attack the light wizard over one of the other light pieces, leading to an extra fight. silly me.
Posted: 12/20/2021 9:48 PM
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so the new trick is a mid-game reset? I didn't know that was a technique on the 2600.
Posted: 4/28/2021 4:37 PM
Post subject: Re: Original version as published on companion diskette
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nymx wrote:
Unfortunately, if I use this version...I would have to start all over again. The rng for the frame of the start of each level will be dramatically different.
I was worried this would be the case.
Posted: 4/28/2021 1:10 PM
Post subject: Original version as published on companion diskette
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https://www.commodoreserver.com/PublicDiskDetails.asp?DID=EC3C999F08BE45659E138B0081F8D58B This appears to be a copy of the companion diskette for the magazine, so it should have the original unmodified game on it. To start it, LOAD"A*",8,1 SYS49152 the disk's menu system (if you use x64 -autostart) didn't seem to work for me, not sure why. You'd want to avoid it to reduce loading time anyway.
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