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dartht33bagger wrote:
Way too much Mega Man 3 for me, but still an awesome list :)
I'm getting a curious Lack of Mega Man 4 - 6 here, those games had awesome tunes as well. But some whine is inevitably gonna come up for everyone, so, whatever, I suppose.
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Question, did you check to see wether it's faster or slower to go diagonal? From the looks of it, your y-speed remains the same, but it doesn't hurt to make sure.
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Finally got to watch the run. Great work, considerably faster and smoother than the Mega Man version. I think I overall like the Mega Man run more because it had more time for fancy weapon usage, though this run had plenty of that as well. Also, the vanilla run took no damage, but, oh well. Great run, yes vote.
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Lupin rejected, out of spite, I decided to just improve some of nitro's old runs. Thankfully, it isn't very optimized, as I managed to save about 5 seconds already. On the first level.
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Out of my own experience, I found the drop in performance when using windowed mode to be completely negligible. I always used it for Team Fortress 2 because it made alt-tabbing a lot easier, even at a point where I had a computer that was less powerful than a bag of porridge.
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This was really awesome and quick. Please make a Shanoa run next!
Quite obviously, this going to be a yes vote, because I really think Order of Ecclesia didn't have a run on this site for far too long.
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Good gracious, is it just me, or does the glitching get more severe every time?
Anyway, great run, great improvement, and as insane as usual. Yes vote.
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FractalFusion wrote:
Just an update. We are now halfway through Boomer Kuwanger's stage.
I discovered that you can glitch the elevator part. You can climb up to the top, die, and warp to the next area. Only condition is that the screen must scroll up for it to work; but just touching the elevator platform once and then going up is enough. From testing, it appears to be about 30 frames faster.
Nice find, I'll be looking forward to seeing it in action
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Tim and Geoff Follin made a lot of use of Arps in their sound. Not sure how much it is in comparison to average in C64 music (seeing how they were C64 composers too), but it's not like no game at all had them.
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Masterjun wrote:
scrimpeh wrote:
You could use some of the mapper/map viewer tools here to find a seed in which you can reach diamond very quickly.
but with these programs you cant generate a seed, so you have to search
Those programs make it a lot easier to find diamonds though, so it allows you find a good seed more quickly. In all likeliness, 95% of work in an actual TAS would just be finding the proper seed (with a good nether too, to boot)
It's nothing unusual, there was this game where all luck manipulation I could do was limited to the title screen, and the latest Pokémon Ruby TAS also spent a lot of time just finding the best seed, I think.
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Masterjun wrote:
if TASing were possible in minecraft, and the goal were fastest diamon (or obsidian or...) maybe that strategy in my testspeedrun:
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The seed is "TAS" xD
You could use some of the mapper/map viewer tools here to find a seed in which you can reach diamond very quickly. Spawning next to a giant underground ravine or something along those likes.
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One possible goal for Minecraft I think might work would be "fastest glowstone", with the goal being simple as that. Build a Portal the nether, get glowstone, and assemble and place it in the normal world.
Depending on map generation, that might be over very quickly though.
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Even moreso, the massive carnage is what carries a lot of the run, especially early on. Without it, the run would likely feel very bland, and the slow pace early on would shine through a lot more.
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So lately, I've rediscovered the music of one of my favorite games of my (very, very screwed up) childhood: Tactical Ops
Next to the very Unreal Tournament-y Rock, the soundtrack mainly consists of very heavy, ambient tunes, the two crowning tracks of which are, in my opinion, Knight and Snowy
