The past few days I've been working on a run of this; in particular, Skull Man's stage, which would be the base for an any% run. (A 100% would do Dust before Skull in order to get the Skull Amulet, and I also skip Beat here).
Actually, for 100%, you can still get the Skull Amulet in Wily 3 (refights) if you use Dust on Skull Man there.
That means either NOT giving Dust to Copy-Rockman (Snatchman), or if you DID, then refighting Dust Man before refighting Skull Man.
Can now finally say this. I'm out from the hospital and it feels really good! The breastbone hurts and takeing alot of painkillers. Stronger stuff then morphin. Sick-listed in 3 month due to healing of the breastbone. Funny thing is. Should not lift more then 1kg in each arms. But the recovery has started. Will update more info soon.
//Regards DMTM
Movies that actually use passwords (not this one) should be judged on a case-by-case basis. If a TAS were to start Mega Man 2 with nine e-tanks, and those tanks somehow allowed the game to be played faster, then I might vote yes or no, but leaning towards no. However, if entering a password in MM2 allowed you to skip some long cut scene when choosing "New Game" then I'd vote yes for the e-tanks password, even if they're not used. As long as the password has some merit and isn't just a free advantage.
I know this is the least important part of your example, but the maximum number of E-tanks you can carry in Megaman 2 is four.
It doesn't become nine until games 3-6, and later 9 and 10.
It's fast, I like the explosions and amusing BGM, but I feel this pirate game doesn't actually offer much that the legit game doesn't.
Outside of the infinite corridor scrolling (reminds me of Cheetahman), so I guess it's a MEH vote from me.
Is anyone else hearing a brief but noticeable music cut-out @27:58-28:00?
For reference, it's after Alice uses Rolling Slash right before challenging Shikieiki in Patchouli Castle Stage 3 (Alice Branch).
I'm pretty sure it's not just the music looping, since the same section in cstrakm's older Megamari TAS (http://nicoviewer.net/sm17337019) doesn't experience this sound glitch(?).
Why does Zero perform a Rakuhoha (ground flash attack) at around 21:10 in Slash Beast's stage?
It's not an auto-scrolling segment at that part, so I'm scratching my head as to why it occurs.
It is an useless action, but it seems that I am wasting time. In fact no time wasted and no time saved.
I did many tests about that and I found that however I get to the head of the truck as fast as I can, or pause a few time, it stops at the same time! I am definitely sure that it is not luck manipulation can change that, but I don't actually know how.
Thanks for the answer. I had considered the train running on a timer, but I just wanted to make sure.
Why does Zero perform a Rakuhoha (ground flash attack) at around 21:10 in Slash Beast's stage?
It's not an auto-scrolling segment at that part, so I'm scratching my head as to why it occurs.
I find it hilarious that one of Strider's abilities in this game is WARP (30 energy).
Of course, being a ninja, he disregards the limits of mere mortals and warps directly to the end, never confronting that traitor, Matic.
In the normal encode, there are a few places where Bass disappears from a frame or two in Commando Man's stage.
All instances seem to be after landing from a jump and immediately dashing on quicksand.
The youtube encode doesn't seem to show this, probably becuase it encodes at 30fps.
I'm using mpc; is anyone else seeing (or not seeing) the same thing?
Somewhere in 2004/2005.
Cousin showed me Morimoto's SMB3 TAS, labelled as a "Time Attack".
Found "Mock", Morimoto's Rockman 2 TAS.
Arc' site -----> NESvideos, later TASvideos.
I think it was Bisqwit's Rockman TAS, the 18:21.xx "ninjas must think beyond normal", that really caught my eye.
Nice and quick! Funny, I don't remember the stages being THAT short.
For the intro stage boss (Skullhead), I recall that X can hit him with two uncharged buster shots per jump, for a total of 4 damage (invincibility isn't triggered for the first hit, I believe.)
This means that X only needs 8 cycles (2x2=4 damage, x8=32 HP gone), which has 7 invincibility cycles, compared to Zero's 11 cycles (3x11=33 damage), and has 10 invincibility cycles.
Feel free to correct me if I'm completely wrong, as it's been a while since I've played this game, back when there was an real-time speedrun being considered on SDA.
