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Posted: 5/29/2006 12:05 AM

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Haha, I'd be happy to, but my play is pretty poor in most places. I'm better at thinking up strategies than I am at actually executing them. Nitrodon could doubtless record a movie worth watching, though.

Posted: 5/28/2006 8:39 AM

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Use the forum search :) . http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=435

Posted: 5/28/2006 7:22 AM

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Nitrodon has also issued a challenge (http://withinadeepforest.ni2.se/forum/viewtopic.php?t=126) which I can't believe I just finished. Everyone should try to do this, it's pure insanity. If you do Nitrodon's challenge without doing mine, you should do mine, too, because getting balls 6 and 8 without balls 2 and 4 is not trivial :) .

Posted: 5/28/2006 2:27 AM

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Boco wrote:

It's supposedly possible to get into and complete the tower with ball #1, making ball 2 useless. 1 -> 3 -> 5, then use 5 for everything that you need to jump high.

Of course it's possible, see my previous post. However, for a speed run, it's probably faster just to collect the pink ball to make the yoga ball level easier. Remember, the pink ball isn't just used for "jump[ing] high" ... it's pink, too.

Posted: 5/28/2006 12:06 AM

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I have issued a new challenge! http://www.ni2.se/withinadeepforest/forum/viewtopic.php?t=123

Posted: 5/27/2006 9:12 PM

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Flag, I don't understand your crystal maps. You have a free ball passing through lasers, unless there is some way to disable them that I don't know about. Could you make them less confusing?

Posted: 5/27/2006 10:13 AM

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I've worked out what I think the fastest path is: 1. From start, head right and activate the warp point under the tower. 2. Head all the way east and get the pink ball without hitting another warp point. 3. Warp to the tower and switch to the pink ball. 4. Climb the tower and get the iron ball. 5. Switch to the iron ball. Go to the cart ride and get the glass ball. 6. (If only we didn't need to stupid yoga ball to open the portal to the cheese factory ...) Climb to the warp at the top of the mountain, switch to the iron ball, then proceed through the windy chamber and the lava jumps to the next breakaway platform to get the yoga ball. 7. Using the bounce sequence given above, get to the warp above the portal to the cheese factory with the glass ball, then switch to the yoga ball and enter the cheese factory. 8. Get the rubber ball, go to the shadowlands. The best shadowlands path I've found is to use the rubber ball and fall straight down at the beginning, then after you catch the sparkly, bounce straight up on the invisible blocks to the warp point at the top. Switch to iron and float across the air stream to the exit. 9. I think the best path back to the time machine is with the rubber ball, anyways, go to the time machine, get the ascender. 10. Get the weak red ball, go to the underwater lab, and finish the game. I'm not really sure how long that route would be if played perfectly, but it's the best I've got right now.

Posted: 5/27/2006 7:18 AM

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You can actually combo the jumps all the way up, mostly never letting go of jump, and never having to stop to set anything up:

My nomenclature is slightly different than yours, Blublu. 5+1 means you are going to hit the ceiling between the 5 and the 1 and you need to let go of bounce just when hitting the ceiling. 2+1 means you are going to hit the cieling between the 2 and the 1 and you need to let go of bounce just when hitting the ceiling. Sometimes you can clear the lip of the 5+1 platform so well that it turns into a 4+1, though this is rare, and it's easy to tell when it happens. Even if does, the rest of the jumps stay the same. One more important note: on the very first 5-jump, do not start holding bounce at the peak of your idle bouncing, or you will break on the third 1-jump.

Posted: 5/26/2006 10:50 AM

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A fool and his money are soon parted.

Posted: 5/25/2006 10:34 PM

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Truncated: JXQ only collects 42 rings. It remains to be seen if you can get 8 more rings without losing too many frames. AKA: You miss Robotnik because you aren't moving fast enough and you didn't bounce high enough. Try never pressing back in this level. You do it a number of times for no reason I can discern. Also, make sure you bounce as high as possible off your last bounce by holding the jump button.

Posted: 5/25/2006 7:26 AM

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I'm sure Bisqwit will fix it all in due time. Have faith in our Finnish overlord.

Posted: 5/25/2006 6:24 AM

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No it's not ...

Posted: 5/25/2006 5:52 AM

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My guess is it has something to do with the domain change. I don't know why that should make any difference at all, but it seems BBCode is disabled on all posts because of it.

Posted: 5/25/2006 4:55 AM

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mwl, just use preview until you get what you want. Or if you have to go in and add a bunch of stuff afterwards, just use minor edit. A message is broadcast in #nesvideos every time you edit something, which means every time you make a post, we get told about it seven (7!) times. I think you set a new record for that one. Moral of the story is just use minor edit, mmkay?

Posted: 5/25/2006 3:51 AM

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Hey SprintGod, how about a new Tetris mode? How about when a piece locks into place, it turns invisible? You could have a nice looking fadeout effect over the course of 0.25-0.5 seconds or so. XKeeper has suggested you call this mode "Suicide" though I'm not convinced that's the best name for it.

Posted: 5/25/2006 1:02 AM

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The maneuver might have been completely unexpected if it wasn't a known trick. As it is, your run just looks ... really, really bad. Many people can play more convincingly on the actual console. I apologize if that sounds harsh, but it's true. I'm not a judge here, but I am very confident when I say a run of the quality you are making will never be published. If you are just making this for fun and don't care if it is ever published, then by all means continue having fun. I think your idea of making a run with all the chaos emeralds has merit, though most people probably think it's unnecessary and unentertaining because the bonus stages are boring, gathering 50 rings detracts from the levels, and you get nothing to show for your troubles. So far, I don't see you proving them wrong.

Posted: 5/25/2006 12:01 AM

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Listen to you babbling about your purple-layer discs when they can't even hold 1% of a quad. Maybe you should go to that link you provided and find some forums where people care so much about storage capacities they will get down on the floor and worship you when you bring your irrelevant knowledge into play. I'm sure you can come across as more of an asshole, too, why don't you give it a try?

Posted: 5/24/2006 9:23 PM

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They are pseudo-random but completely deterministic, which basically means hard to predict in most cases, but the same input will always produce the same output. He probably should have been more accurate and said he needed to make the RNG "deterministic" instead of "predictable."

Posted: 5/24/2006 7:05 PM

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AKA, to bounce off that bee in GH2 you don't need luck, you need timing. You just have to get up to it at a particular time. You may have noticed that in his run, JXQ does not traverse the first portion of the level as fast as possible (he could be a few frames faster) because if he was faster, the bee would not be in the right spot. If you are having trouble with the timing, you could probably hexedit that portion of JXQ's run into yours and it would probably work.

Posted: 5/24/2006 6:46 PM

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OpTicaL wrote:

Guybrush wrote:
Yes there is, there are even 800Gb HDDs and even bigger but they're externa.l
Do some research before arguing with me. Show me a manufacturer that makes SINGLE 800GB hdds. There is no manufacturer that makes SINGLE 800GB hdds. The externel hdds you are talking about are a combination of SINGLE hdds that add up to 800GB, not a single 3.5inch 800GB

Umm, get off your high horse, son. Not only are you arguing about utterly meaningless semantics that no one, I repeat, no one cares about, but Data has a storage capacity of 800 quadrillion bits. That's 88 petabytes, son.

Posted: 5/24/2006 4:31 AM

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Make sure you check out http://tasvideos.org/DesiredEmulatorFeatures.html. It won't give you any help on the programming side of things, but it might be helpful to give you a better picture of what you are aiming for.