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#3000: Ryuto's SNES Kirby's Star Stacker in 05:06.65

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Kirby no Kirakira Kids, sometimes referred to as Kirby Super Star Stacker is a Japan-only remake of Kirby Star Stacker (GB). One of the primary enhancements is story mode, in which Kirby faces several opponents. The player will remove star blocks by placing matching friends at either end. Blocks which are no longer supported will fall down, and that allows the player to make chain-reactions.

Emulator details

Recorded on snes9x-1.43-improvement13-win32
Use WIP Timing - on
Left+Right/Up+Down - off
Volume Envelope Height Reading - off
Fake Mute desync workaround - on
Sync samples with sound CPU - on

Game objectives

Aims for fastest time
Manipulates luck

About the run

The run aims to see credits in story mode. As USA version of Kirby Star Stacker for GB doesn’t have the mode, I used Japanese version for SNES. No matter how I attack the opponent, it will mount a comeback quickly unless I give a finishing blow. So I prepared for chain-reactions and waited for the opponent to accumulate blocks. Also I used pauses to manipulate luck.

Thanks to…

Chino, for making his run. That inspired me to make the run.

Nahoc: Added YouTube module.

Mukki: Judging...

Mukki: The response in the thread seems generally enthusiastic about this run, though this doesn't seem to be well reflected in the votes. I find myself in the 'seen one, seen them all' camp, but the cute graphics push me above complete ambivalence and so viewer response tips the scales here. Accepted.

sgrunt: I'm on this one.

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Posted: 2/8/2011 11:53 PM

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Posted: 2/9/2011 12:03 AM

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Sonikkustar

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Meh, Its a nice little movie. Nice manipulation btw. Yes Vote.

Posted: 2/9/2011 12:10 AM

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zidanax

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It's a nice movie, but why aren't you using Snes9x 1.51 or 1.52?

Posted: 2/9/2011 12:16 AM

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Nahoc

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Starting SD + HD encode.

Posted: 2/9/2011 1:14 AM

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Ryuto

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zidanax wrote:

It's a nice movie, but why aren't you using Snes9x 1.51 or 1.52?

Because the game speed was faster than Snesx 1.51.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Ryuto138

Posted: 2/9/2011 1:21 AM

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Sir_VG

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No battle against Whispy Woods? What kind of Kirby game IS this? :(

Taking over the world, one game at a time. Currently TASing: Nothing

Posted: 2/9/2011 1:43 AM

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Ryuto

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Sir VG wrote:

No battle against Whispy Woods? What kind of Kirby game IS this? :(

I think the enemy was too big to appear in the game.

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Posted: 2/9/2011 1:50 AM

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DarkKobold

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I was pretty bored by this, sorry. No vote.

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Posted: 2/9/2011 3:15 AM

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Sir_VG

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Ryuto wrote:

Sir VG wrote:
No battle against Whispy Woods? What kind of Kirby game IS this? :(
I think the enemy was too big to appear in the game.

But he did appear! Look in the credits! :( Poor Whispy Woods...no love.

Taking over the world, one game at a time. Currently TASing: Nothing

Posted: 2/9/2011 3:29 AM
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SD encode YouTube HD

Posted: 2/9/2011 3:53 AM

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VanillaCoke

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Vote? Yes. Biased? I love Panel de Pon, so probably lol. Although this seems different than PdP.

Posted: 2/9/2011 4:23 AM

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miseiler

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Short. Great manipulation. Yep.

Posted: 2/9/2011 8:11 PM

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MarbleousDave

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This is the 3000th submission.

Posted: 2/9/2011 8:14 PM

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miseiler wrote:

Short. Great manipulation. Yep.

What he said. And has anyone noticed that this is SUBMISSION NUMBA 3000 OMG???? Isn't there going to be some kind of celebratory TAS party where we all get drunk and color dinosaurs?? EDIT:

PikachuMan wrote:

This is the 3000th submission.

GODDAMNIT! 3 minutes! you punk!!

Oh, play it cool. Play it cool. Here come the space cops.

Posted: 2/9/2011 9:11 PM

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henke37

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If you have seen one vs bin puzzle game tased you have seen them all. But it's still a decent run.

Posted: 2/9/2011 11:24 PM

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GabCM

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This one was fun to watch. Yes vote!

Posted: 2/10/2011 6:27 AM

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Zavalix

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Ehm don't get me wrong, I know making a TAS is hard most of the time but this kind of games (Tetris types) I find not suitable for "aiming for fastest time" because with just 4 or 5 moves you make a chain or a combo and the rest of the time is waiting for the opponent to lose and some cut scene and again, 3 or 4 seconds of moves and it gets repetitive. I really think Tetris based games are more funny when used to "play around" rather than trying to finish it as fast as possible. Just my opinion though, if voting, I'll go with "meh".

Posted: 2/10/2011 9:59 AM

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pepness

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Voted meh. Good run but got a little stale quick. =/

Posted: 2/10/2011 11:20 AM

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IsraeliRD

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Nicely done, short too. Yes vote.

Posted: 2/10/2011 3:55 PM

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I found this fairly amusing. The CPU looks pretty good in this game, so the quick victories are more impressive. Also, the finishing moves are pretty cute, as they should be in a Kirby game. I'd say this is good enough for a Yes vote.

Used to be a frequent submissions commenter. My new computer has had some issues running emulators, so I've been here more sporadically. Still haven't gotten around to actually TASing yet... I was going to improve Kid Dracula for GB. It seems I was beaten to it, though, with a recent awesome run by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. (http://tasvideos.org/2928M.html.) Thanks to goofydylan8 for running Gargoyle's Quest 2 because I mentioned the game! (http://tasvideos.org/2001M.html) Thanks to feos and MESHUGGAH for taking up runs of Duck Tales 2 because of my old signature! Thanks also to Samsara for finishing a Treasure Master run. From the submission comments:

Shoutouts and thanks to mklip2001 for arguably being the nicest and most supportive person on the forums.

Posted: 2/12/2011 10:43 AM

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Kuwaga

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The game looks way too easy and too child-oriented to make this run impressive imo.

Posted: 2/17/2011 6:39 PM

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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. ---- [1738] SNES Kirby's Star Stacker by Ryuto in 05:06.65

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