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For this category, I like to imagine Shining Force as a marathon runner whose competitors keep randomly tripping on rocks, pebbles, curbs, and even their own shoelaces.
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Tough choice between Nitsuja's S3K, Arkiandruski's Gunstar Heroes, and mmbossman's Vectorman. I think I'm going to have to choose Vectorman simply because it was a new run, rather than an obsoletion, but even so this barely puts it ahead.
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Majora's Mask is the only run listed here that I really enjoyed. Super Mario 64 0-star is cool and all, but it is essentially just a small piece of a run we already saw many times before in various forms (16 star, 1 star).
Meanwhile Majora's Mask is both cool and totally new.
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Soulrivers wrote:
Most of you have at one time been thinking "I give up on this shit" and you find a new project. As the topic states, what is your hardest or most irritating part of TASing? For me I'd say luck manipulation, especially for the Zelda Oracle series.
I have to say that, for me, the most irritating part of any TAS project I've ever done was trying to live up to the standard Nitsuja set when he started his S3K (Sonic + Tail) TAS while I was working on my S3K Knuckles TAS.
Apart from that, I think the most irritating part of TASing is reproducing a glitch that you accidentally stumbled on, aren't really sure how it works, and recorded over in your own stupidity.
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SMS:
Wonderboy 3; the Dragon's Trap: Beach area
Wonderboy 3; the Dragon's Trap: Desert Area
NES:
Super Mario Bros 2: World 4
Super Mario Bros 3: World 2
Super Mario Bros 3: World 4
Super Mario Bros 3: World 5
Genesis:
Ecco 2: The Tides of Time: Tubes of Medusa
Sonic: Green Hill Zone
Sonic 2: Chemical Plant Zone
Sonic 2: Hill Top Zone
Sonic 3: Hydrocity Zone
Sonic 3: Carnival Night Zone
Sonic 3: Launch Base Zone
Sonic & Knuckles: Mushroom Hill Zone
Sonic & Knuckles: Sky Sanctuary Zone
Sonic & Knuckles: Death Egg Zone
Streets of Rage 2: Jungle
Streets of Rage 2: Factory
Saturn:
Bug!: Burrbs
Nights; Into Dreams: Splash Garden
Nights; Into Dreams: Mystic Forest
Nights; Into Dreams: Soft Museum
Nights; Into Dreams: Twin Seeds
Panzer Dragoon II Zwei: Episode IV
Panzer Dragoon II Zwei: Episode VI
Sonic 3D Blast: Special Stages
Dreamcast:
Sonic Adventure: Twinkle Park
Sonic Adventure: Speed Highway
Sonic Adventure: Red Mountain
Sonic Adventure: Lost World
Sonic Adventure 2: Green Forest
Sonic Adventure 2: White Jungle
Sonic Adventure 2: Final Rush
Gamecube:
Metroid Prime: Chozo Ruins
Metroid Prime: Phendrana Drifts
Zelda Twilight Princess: Arbiter Grounds
Zelda Twilight Princess: Temple of Time
DS:
Kirby's Canvas Curse: Bloo Hills
Kirby's Canvas Curse: Drawcia
Sonic Rush: Leaf Storm
Sonic Rush: Night Carnival
Sonic Rush Adventure: Plant Kingdom
Sonic Rush Adventure: Haunted Ship
Sonic Rush Adventure: Blizzard Peaks
Sonic Rush Adventure: Pirate's Island
PC (indie):
Cave Story: Grass Town
Cave Story: Labyrinth
Cave Story: Outer Wall
Aquaria: Energy Temple
Aquaria: Kelp Forest
Aquaria: The Veil
Can you tell I'm indecisive?
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This isn't bad but...
I wonder how much time, if any, picking up a second boomerang could have saved. Unlike most spells, you can have two boomerangs on screen at once. Two is the limit, though.
I'm also not totally convinced that it wasn't worth trying to manipulate arrows for the mummy dragon. The mummy dragon fight in the SDA video is a lot faster than this one.
On the Skeletal dragon, does your last swipe deal exactly 4 damage? I noticed that you manipulated 8 damage on every swing before it, but I wonder if it might have been faster to do a 4 on one of those and then an 8 on the end. Actually, a couple of the delays are so long I wonder if it might have been overall faster to go with a smaller hit for that round, even if it meant having to make more hits total.
Lastly, did you consider using death as a shortcut back from collecting the legendary sword? I know the continue screen takes a while, and you would still have to make your way back from town to the beach, but I'd like to know if you tested it, and what your results were.
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RT-55J wrote:
Although I haven't actually watched the run, I nominate "[1004] Genesis Shining Force (USA) by DarkKobold in 2:08:40.07" for Lucky TASes category.
I have watched this, and second the nomination -- every hit in the run is a double, critical, or double critical. Also, no damage is ever sustaned by any character except ones whose death is necessary for enhanced speed.
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klmz wrote:
Many SMS roms labeled as [U] or [E] are actually [UE].
All of them, in fact. SMS had no regional lockouts preventing U or E games from being played on E or U systems. Games would play a little slower on E systems, but I don't think there were any instances on SMS where a company actually changed the game for the E release.
[quote="zidanax"Is there a preference between using the prototype and the E version? (CRC 1B1D8CC2)[/quote]
This would have come out during the time when Ninja was a censored word in England, so if it says [E], is in English, and uses the word Ninja in its title, it is the [U] version, mislabeled.
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Bisqwit wrote:
I want also take the opportunity to stress carefulness to publishers.
In file naming, in game naming, in player naming and all.
...
BE MORE CAREFUL. PLEASE.
This might be a good time to write up some guidelines for file naming so that encoders and publishers can have something to reference and be certain that they have named the avi correctly.
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Man, this game looks weird. There's such a difference in quality between the sprites and the backdrops, it's kind of insane. Sound isn't bad, though. And the run is also decent, of course, so this falls pretty solidly into the yes category.
But, man, does this game look weird...
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Andypro wrote:
I'm not sure what version he's using.
I did figure out that he's probably using the sega cd US bios version 2.00. When I try to load his movie with the v1.1 bios it doesn't work at all.
I haven't gotten it to sync from the start still, but at least I got the good ol' US soundtrack working using a new cd image. Pretty happy about that.
For me it only worked at all with the v1.1 bios...
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