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I'm gonna have to agree that the run strikes me as belongings to a different category than the "no major glitches any%" on speedrun.com
The whole "take a door to one room, end up in a different room" doesn't fly for me.
The recent super Metroid tas was controversial and all it was doing was going backwards though doors in a way.
For this case though i think it's even worse.
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I intuitively understand some people's disappointment, but I'm not sure how exactly to define a category that would make them happy other than banning glitches completely arbitrarily.
For instance, some people are upset that you can superjump through locked doors. But keep in mind the Torizo door is locked kinda maybe sorta and speedruners never respect that, nevermind TASers.
That being said the aesthetic of superjumping is frankly awful. If you zip rather than dash, then rather than flying past segments of level you straight up don't get to see them. The graphics glitching out of the cherry on top.
But what is this new category that you'd like to see? "no superjumping" doesn't make any sense. That's way too specific to the game.
"no out of bounds" is sensible. For instance castlevania games use a similar category. "kills all bosses" is sensible too. "doesn't use cheats" is also reasonable. For instance Celeste.
If anything the name of the category needs to be changed. Rather than "no major glitches" it should be:
* No OOB
* Kills all bosses
* Foregoes cheat codes
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I believe this run should be accepted because it's a faster run without entertainment tradeoffs.
I think adelikat made a mature judgment in line with the site's philosophy rather than getting involved in this ugly dispute.
I hope that people who have insulted and flamed other users are banned from the forums.
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Lets wait until the tas is submitted to judge it. thefinalboss won't be convinced that he should not work on this tas, so all that's left to do is judge if it should be published or not. This will be judged when the tas is submitted.
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mmbossman: There's a lot more hopping in this one. Flags are always tagged at the bottom when possible instead of wherever. Sections where Mario does stuff like walk through walls are completely different.
I'd say this deserves publication for sure. Maybe later after both movies have been optimized more, if they can be proven to be nearly identical they can be merged.
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Cpadolf wrote:
In Super Metroid Snes9x 1.51 was shown to be less accurate than 1.43, right? I'm asking because I wonder if we should stick to 1.43 even though there has been a push to increase use of 1.51.
Saturn wrote:
I recommend to stick to 1.43+. Not only do you avoid a risk to experience annoying desyncs, it's emulation is also more accurate to the real SNES during door transitions, as JXQ proved a couple of years ago. That, and the direct realtime comparison to the previous run would also be possible, which is a good thing.
Anything about bsnes that makes it not ready for prime time?
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Hmm, judging from that youtube video, namespoofer could work together with Taco and Kriole and save at least 50 frames.
Obviously it's not that simple though.
EDIT: Wow mother brain is a frame eating monster :O