Improved precision and a couple of obvious improvements bring down Tails' quest by 2 seconds, 50 frames.
This run uses the 2.1.1 version of Pu7o's Miles 'Tails' Prower in Sonic the Hedgehog hack. [Moderator Edit: Do not link to websites that host copyright protected materials (e.g. game ROMs)]

Game objectives

  • Emulator used: Gens 11a + S3KCamhack + SolidityViewer + (partial)HitboxDisplay + LUA HUD for Genesis Sonic games
  • Aims for fastest time
  • Takes no damage
  • Abuses programming errors
  • Ignores delays caused by bonus effects

Comments

Green Hill Zone (all acts) and Spring Yard Zone 1 have all been improved to the follwing times:
ActNew timeOld timeSavings
Green Hill Zone 10:15::310:16::3463
Green Hill Zone 20:14::540:15::1521
Green Hill Zone 30:28::150:28::2510
Spring Yard Zone 10:17::250:18::4176
Total improvement in in-game time: 170 frames, or 2 seconds and 50 frames.
The times given are the in-game timer values. The value after the final colon pair indicates the in-game frame counter, and is restricted to the 0-59 range. It is updated every frame (except during lag frames), and increments the in-game second when resetting to zero.

Stage by stage comments

Green Hill Zone 1

An obvious slope jump, using flight to avoid breaking the monitor, combine to a large speed boost. Improved precision until the end carry the day.

Green Hill Zone 2 & 3

More precise play in the beginning of the acts. That is it.

Spring Yard Zone 1

The most obvious improvement -- who needs speed shoes when you can abuse the enforced screen boundaries of flight to get nearly the same speed?

Other Comments

Possible improvements: If one were to accept damage in the run, Scrap Brain 2 might be improvable by 6 frames by getting hurt at the saw. There are no other improvements of which I am aware of at this time, and all my attempts at improving the other levels failed.

GabCM: Added YouTube module.

FractalFusion: Judging.
FractalFusion: Accepting as an improvement to the published run.


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very good improvement, and had seen improvements in the discussion. Vote YES
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well done. the only thing that is a little boring by game design is the final zone. voting yes.
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Im suprised this hasnt gotten any more feedback yet. O_O Anyways, It is a great improvement. Do we have to say anything else? Yes Vote.
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Indeed, I guess it was lost in the wake of the Simpsons.
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Still nobody to encode this? I will do it then, SD and HD.
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HD encode here. It's on YouTube but I may upload it to Dailymotion as well. Playlist Part 1 Part 2 And I won't do the SD encode, as long as my encoding problem isn't fixed.
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Is it just me or am I missing the meaning of these NN-scaled "HD" encodes?
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they're good for youtube, but other then that I really don't see the point.
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FuzZerd wrote:
they're good for youtube, but other then that I really don't see the point.
That's exactly for YouTube and Dailymotion we are encoding in "HD". To give people more eye candy, my next HD encode's going to use HQ3X+HQ2X. That means the pictures are going to be less pixelated, like OmnipotentEntity's HD encode for the recently published Sonic 3 & Knuckles NewGame+ run.
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Post subject: Movie published
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [1623] Genesis Tails in Sonic The Hedgehog by marzojr in 14:13.70
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So, what do you think of my second publication?
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It is good, but your screenshot isn't optimised once again. Yours: 4185 bytes. This one: 4118 bytes.
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Noob Irdoh wrote:
It is good, but your screenshot isn't optimised once again. Yours: 4185 bytes. This one: 4118 bytes.
What option did you use after pngout /c2?
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Hm, with a 67-byte difference, the page would have to be loaded 15650 times to add up to an extra megabyte of data downloaded. :) (Not that I'm arguing against optimizing screenshots; I'm just amused.)
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