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Posted: 4/26/2015 5:27 PM
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johannhowitzer
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As anticipated, a marvelous display of the valor of the Norse. I was especially interested to see the last four levels, and was not disappointed, they were truly deserving of the legacy of this masterwork game. I have noticed many small tricks that would be difficult but perhaps possible for humans, and many routes through levels that I never thought of before. Because I am working on another game right now, I have not the time to look in detail, but I expect your work here will inspire better techniques in RTA. I hope eventually to perfect the human run to the best I possibly can, and give it another display at a future marathon! It certainly deserves an appearance that will do it more justice. You have also honored Mike, Chansey, and myself with mention in your notes. I bow low to you for this honor and hope to repay it someday.
Posted: 2/25/2015 12:49 AM
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johannhowitzer
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Theoretically double wall clip trick can be useful for RTA, but practically unlikely someone will able to train execute it consistently.
See, there you are. There's a trick I think can possibly be performed by a human. And before you say "unlikely," be advised we said "unlikely" many times ourselves and were wrong. There are setups for tricks like this. Though I doubt we can save all 12 seconds on that trick, more likely 4-6 seconds because setups cost time. It's possible we will be unable to do the trick, or at least to make it save time, but all we can do is try! :)
Posted: 2/22/2015 1:54 AM
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Mike and I are becoming increasingly excited at your progress. This is beautiful; I can't wait to pick apart your video and find things to ask about, so we can bring as many of these tricks as possible into the RTA world. It's a bit scary, though - a lot of these tricks look extremely dangerous, and it was already brutally difficult to avoid losing minutes to deaths; in a year of running the game I had only a single deathless run. I have a feeling a deathless run of this game with all the strats we can muster is going to be a dream within a dream.
Posted: 2/2/2015 3:07 PM
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I am also very interested if anything you know about or discover while making this TAS is useful for human play - but I'll wait until you are finished making the TAS, and look at it and ask you questions. :)
Posted: 2/2/2015 6:45 AM
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Patashu pointed me to this thread. Looks like you already know a lot about the tricks in this game, but if you need any information, feel free to ask, I've run this game 1p2c in RTA for over a year.
Posted: 10/2/2014 9:59 PM
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Necroposting because there have been a lot of new developments in the first Lost Vikings game in the last year! I ran the game in 2-player mode at this year's Summer Games Done Quick, and many of the strategies I used were gleaned from Ouzo's TAS. Between my own efforts as well as a lot of work by Miketheviewer and Chansey_NES and a little help from Yagamoth, we have discovered a lot of new tricks, glitches, and route possibilities for 2-player, and some of it can be applied to 3-player as well. I have contacted Ouzo to see if he's interested in resurrecting this project; if anyone else is interested, feel free to PM me for info - if you post in this thread I may miss it, as I don't frequent these boards... yet.