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This was just as epic as I imagined. An instant classic! Have-my-babies vote for all of you, possibly at the same time ;)
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Yes vote.
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Voted yes. The ending actually made me laugh out loud.
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Voted no because this game is a shitty Guitar Hero ripoff >:(
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Voting no for being such a....tool.
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STOP! Dagger of Time! Voted yes for keeping POVERTY alive!!
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Perhaps it's a tad too obvious, but your run is really funny with this on in the background. Link to video It's as if the Katamari ball just decided one to day to fuck that stupid Prince and his stupid drunken dad, get a body of his own and roll around killing shit. Yes vote.
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Voted yes for the leopard dude's rather prominent crotch. It took me ten minutes to stop staring and hit reply.
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A few nights ago I had a really bizarre dream. I was in my 1000 business class at Trent, and for some reason our prof announced that Lloyd Robertson was going to be our guest speaker. He was going on about the business side of TV journalism when all of a sudden he pulled out a magnum and started shooting. It was pretty clear he wasn't trying to kill any of us, because he was firing deliberately at the ceiling. The students naturally panicked and stormed for the exits, but there was a whole gang of bouncers right outside the door keeping us in. I still have no fucking clue who they were supposed to be working for. Anyway, Lloyd eventually joked away his shooting spree as an addiction to the sound of a magnum ever since he'd lost his arms license due to the recent abolition of the long-gun registry bill (yes I know an S&W 500 magnum isn't a long-gun, but are you really expecting any sort of logic by this point?) He then continued his lecture as normal, and aside from looking a bit shifty the prof didn't do a single thing to disarm Lloyd or do anything to protect the students. Turns out Lloyd had one round left in his magnum and used it to shoot out the projector hanging overhead, and it fell (though I don't remember if any students actually died at that point). Not even an army of bouncers could stop the stampeding students now. No one was trying to call their parents or anything, just running for the exits and away from the veteran news anchor as fast as they could. We ran away from campus past the bridge that connects the two "banks", or halves, of each campus, when the Ontario Provincial Police were called in and shepherded us back to class. I don't remember what happened next because I woke up to use the bathroom. Long story short: yeah. I think I forgot to turn off my laptop overnight, maybe that was fucking with my head or something.
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There's something I just learned from watching Chip Cheezum's Let's Play of MGS1: Stinger missiles can be "curved" by firing it early and then locking on to a target. This could potentially save a lot of time on the Hind, Sniper Wolf 2 and REX.
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I don't know how much this run improves in terms of execution, but right away I can see all the little improvements in style and entertainment. Stuff like the frantic movements while waiting on moving platforms during levels like Upstream and The Lost City really spice up the run in a good way. I particularly enjoyed it when you died on the same frame you beat Ripper Roo, that was freakin' hilarious. Koala Kong was still a little weak in the entertainment department but then again, it's Koala Kong. He's a boring boss anyway. Overall, this gets a yes vote from me, on a purely entertainment perspective. No doubt Mukki might reject it because of suboptimal spins or whatnot, but you have my back turbofa! :)
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First of all, I want to welcome you to TASvideos. I'm sure you will be a great contributor to the site in time. As for the run, I agree with the other posters above me: this run looks like a practice run. The route looks solid, but this run does not show the high level of precision typical of the runs we publish on this site. It's very noticeable during levels where you use a checkpoint death to skip the end bonus screen; you often go out of your way to break boxes beforehand, as if you're trying to shorten the results screen, yet also deathskipping it later on. Additional entertainment is also critical in a run of this nature. If you have to wait for a platform or a scripted event (or ESPECIALLY during the extremely repetitive boss fights), why not dick around a bit and keep us entertained? The entire point of this site is to create runs that are entertaining to watch; superhuman play is only one part of the equation. That's not to say the whole run was bad. Many of the 2D sections were downright impressive with shortcuts that came out of nowhere. The gem skip at The Great Gate was also great too (I remember trying forever to get around that level-end gate as a kid, and I could never pull it off...grumble grumble...) I also seem to remember that beating Cortex might have been slightly faster than going through The Great Hall. I mean either way you finish the game with 100%, I don't think you're required to activate the secret ending. My favourite levels in the run were Sunset Vista and Heavy Machinery, hands down, but I guess it's one of those things where you can only fully appreciate how hard a level is if you've played it yourself. Despite the critique, this is not an insult directed again you, turbofa. I used to make some really sloppy runs when I was a newbie here, and it's part of the learning experience. I encourage you to go ahead and try to make a faster version of this run. I know you can get a run in this category published; the game deserves it. But alas, it deserves better than this. I'm giving this run a meh vote, borderline no, because despite the imprecision it was still entertaining to watch and a great nostalgia trip.
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The following is an approximate recreation of my reaction to the news that you're working on the Crash run again.
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This gets a belated have-my-babies vote from me. Excellent work.
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I am not going to encode this WIP because it is really just a placeholder. I'm at a loss as to what to do for the tank hangar. Through testing, I've determined that my strategy in my old video is the fastest (and most practical) but because I exit the air vents faster, the patrols aren't set up properly. Any suggestions for an alternative?
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mklip2001 wrote:
However, maybe I'm missing something. I thought movies in PCSX could be hexed to work with PSXjin. This would mean you wouldn't need to restart the run. Oh well, guess not.
Even if I could, I really should restart this run from scratch. There's a few subtle changes to the route (and many to execution) and I just think it'll be better this way.
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With the new update to PSXjin, I had to restart the hangar sequence, so now it looks something like this: Link to video
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My Metal Gear Solid 1 run desyncs right near the start in version 2.0.1, during the first codec conversation. The older emulator also suffered a desync with this movie, but it was a few minutes later.
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Here's my candidate for the hangar playaround. I spent quite a bit of time making sure it was hilarious as possible, showing all the AI exploits I know of and without being too repetitive. Have a looky!
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I've done some PSXjin testing, and it's good enough for me to start work on MGS again. I'll post a movie eventually.
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This was WAY more entertaining than I thought. I remember watching an older version of this run way back in high school or something, and this just blows it away. Definitely one of the best TAS's I've seen in a very long time. Consider this a "press-your-lips-on-mine-and-never-let-go" vote, which is a few steps up from the have-my-babies vote.
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Tough call between Azure and Aria, but I'll have to go with the latter. And I think it would be in poor taste to vote for Snood :P
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Voting no for lack of dinosaurs, coloured or otherwise.
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When attempting to save a state in the newest Mac build of Dolphin, the emulator crashes. Every single time. :/
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I just did about 45 minutes of testing on the very first Ganado you encounter in a fresh new game (albeit on my NTSC version rather than PAL). I was able to determine that, yes, the first ganado can drop a hand grenade, although he only dropped it once in my testing session. Thanks to this we now know that the quickest way to skip the first two waves on the village fight is to use two well-placed grenades. So we can take one grenade from the first Ganado, and the second one from the bird on the signpost. Getting a critical headshot in addition to the grenade is important obviously, reloading a frame before the cutscene triggers a la Derek's run.
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