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So I have been working on S-Hard TAS for quite some time now, the latest WIP can be seen here:
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I also have a Normal - Zipless TAS that I will not submit, which can be seen here:
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mklip2001 wrote:
Oh man, it's this game again! I never really understood how the boss fights work, where you seem to be forced to give away some of your life in this kind of "sucking" animation they do. Also, you part with a bit of your life to help out your buddies at some points. Captain Lips is strange :/
I am definitely in favor of fewer autoscrollers, so I'm fine with having a Beginner run. I also have no issues with version or language choices here. Given the higher play quality, I would recommend using this to obsolete our current Expert run, and this could in turn be obsoleted by an updated Expert run. (Though separate categories would be fine by me... we have at least a few platformers which are played at Easy difficulty level on this site.)
Also, there is one main reason I prefer Beginner level: the final boss fight is WAY shorter. That fight is torturously long in Expert difficulty.
Yeah, for some reason you do have to give your health to the bosses to be able to damage them. This reason is explained by the hamburlar before the first boss, saying it gives them a stomachache and makes them vulnerable, I don't get it either. The bosses were actually pretty easy to optimize. Captain Lips was fun because i was able to manipulate RNG to get more fun results on the drops, nothing too big though. I will eventually be working on a new expert TAS with sonikkustar. The hardest thing to optimize was actually the miniboss in the room right before the final boss.
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Radiant wrote:
This is less entertaining than the current run, so voting no.
Also, if you're going to use a cheat code to swap the language, why not simply take the international ROM instead?
(edit) Also, non-TAS speedrunners do this on Expert level just fine.
The Japanese ROM has more levels so it is slower in the end. This is why all the runs on src are done using the US rom, with the option to change to Japanese
The reason I did the run on beginner is because it is the most run version of the game. I am aware people are able to do the Expert version, I run this game. The expert version TAS is also very outdated and the strats are not anywhere near as RTA viable as the ones for beginner.
This run was done because the community wanted to see the run, and it has been very useful in discovering new strats.