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All I can say is, when I played this years ago, the minecart level was EVIL and it will be a great joy to watch you speed through it as fast as possible.
(100 post! Woot!)
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There is, and you can still see the .gmv for it (click "view all submissions"). I cancelled it, mostly because it was boring:
*flip* There's an emerald. *flip* There's another emerald *flip* There's the boss *jump, bang bang bang bang bang* There goes the boss. Repeat four times.
Also, I'm convinced that, although the shots go where I need them, they could go a lot smoother (Sonic bounces around a *lot* especially going into funnels and such). I'm pretty sure I have the basic path down, though. The bonus stages don't help either.
A 100% run could be interesting, though (jackpot in all levels, passing the bonus stages instead of letting the ball bounce around 5-10 times before finding the bottom).
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Well, I got about halfway through the game (up to the North Pole) with something like a half-minute of improvement, when I found something very interesting: A way to go from sliding to standing on any slope while still keeping my speed at sliding speed. As a result, I'm restarting my run and I think I've already cut a second or two off the very first area of Mexico with this.
Long story short: Expecting improvements of over a minute, maybe even two. Now I just have to find time (which I have plenty of) and motiviation (which seems to come and go).
Update: Done done done! see the new and improved version in the submission queue.
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Steps for (re)recording Gens runs:
Step 1: Grab the movie-recording Gens here
Step 2: Open up the exe.
Step 3: Load up the ROM of your choice.
Step 4: In the menu, click on "CPU." You may record a new movie by clicking on "Record new movie."
Step 5: During recording, if you load a savestate (save with F5, load with F8 or defined keys), anything you have done after having saved the state is erased and you start from that savestate.
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Boco wrote:
GMail provides one gigabyte of storage, but there's a price involved: your e-mail is read (electronically), information about you is stored, and ads are inserted inline with your e-mail text. There is also no clause protecting your information in the privacy agreement, so your e-mail could be sold or a government warrant can retrieve all the e-mail you've ever received or sent.
Not to sound bitter, but how is that different from the other two big freemails?
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Gmail would be Google's freemail service, in a sort of not-really-open-but-not-really-closed-either beta right now. To sign up you need to be invited in by someone else.
Hotmail and Yahoo (I think) both expanded their storage in response to Gmail's free gig of email storage.
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I will post it when I'm done with it, which won't be anytime real soon.
That frame I was talking about finally got uploaded:
I'm thinking about restarting from there and doing a few more of those as I'm waiting.
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I've started work on a new version, which contains a number of improvements. I'm about three minutes in with about ten seconds shaved off (mostly thanks to the first temple, but some other improvements, too). There are some subtle "glitches" I wish I could abuse more.
(edit: Bah. Photobucket doesn't like me, Keenspace doesn't like me... Forget it. You may or may not notice it in the final run)
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Volkov wrote:
Yeah, what was I thinking...It's good to dream though. Anyways I've thought of a few, starting on genesis. I can't find a version of gens that has the movie support, how do you do it? What emu is it / what version?
- Volkov
Check this thread. You want Gens_Movie_Test9_exe.zip
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But some games don't have level timers (so we can't do it for *every* game), and it doesn't count when you make a half-second improvement.
Besides, Bisqwit's site automatically calculates the length based on the length of the .fmv or .gmv or whatnot file. No need to do it by hand.
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sean.brockest wrote:
When does the time start on Bisquit's?
Bisqwit's times start from "power on", since he bases it on the duration of the .fmv file (that is to say, when button presses have been recorded), which starts when the emulator starts up the Rom.
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http://tasvideos.org/WhyAndHow.html
I suggest you find out just how these movies are made.
Specifically: Games have been played by slowing down the emulator. It's entirely possible to simulate auto-fire by slowing down the emulator to the point where you can easily shoot every other frame.
Although I do think Famtasia has an autofire feature (Gens doesn't seem to).
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"Not an official record" sounds like it's a "legit" time attack but it's in the process of being evaluated by TG or whoever makes it an "official" record.
Just my two cents.
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*applauds* I am impressed. That is a crazy jump at the start of The Land Below, and you handle the evil evil stairs Beneath Twisted Hills much better than I thought was possible.
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This has been mentioned a couple of times, so I think I should comment on it: The reason "personal page?" looks the way it does is because the page the link should point to doesn't quite exist yet.
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AdmiralJonB wrote:
[Edit: Do you guys think I should fly to the right at the beginning of Hydrocity or go underwater? Underwater would be faster overall because of the time taken to fly (I think), but this would mean something not everybody does]
I would do a preliminary run of each and keep the one you like more.
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Is Bloody Swamp the one with the huge rooms of rubber blocks or the one with the really crazy cannon/rock walls in your way? I know it's a wall-of-death level... The former I remember killing me many-a-time in my youth, the latter killing me many-a-time when I did some playing around in the game before I started speedrunning.
Edit: Just checked, it's the one with the crazy cannon/ghost/rock walls. I hate it with a firey burning passion.
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Luck. Sheer, unadulterated luck, and a bit of patience (It took me a few different approaches to figure out just what I wanted to do). Try jumping out and pulling back; they seem to spawn about a screen away, as I noticed in the godawful waitfest that was Under Skull Mountain III. I'm gonna watch my vid again to see how I deal.
Edit: Yeah, for the second set of cannon blocks I jump out, hit the cannons, and jump back. Both sets have a little bit of intentional delay, too. Try waiting a little bit, and if you can't make that work, wait a little longer, and so forth.
I'm thinking about restarting from there and doing a few more of those as I'm waiting.