About

  • Aims for fastest time of two players
  • Genre:Action Platform
  • Emulator FBA-rr 005a
  • Manipulate luck
  • Take damage to save time
  • No death and need not
  • 2 players
  • Hardest mode

Game

An unique action platform game that feature Roddy & Cathy, 2 powerful bounty hunters that are determined to wipe out the space pirate army! Features excellent 2-D graphics & plenty of secrets to find!
Hadouken:↓↘→+A take the largest damage
Syouryuken: →↓↘+A hit high enemies
Wave:→↑↗+A
Crash:Hold↙-→+A
Sliding:↓↘→+B
Rolling jump:Hold↓-↑+B
Fast hitting:AAAAAAAA
Getting 3 stars can use super skill and it cannot show in this movie.

For encoders

This game has randomness.If you get some desync,download this savestate. [dead link removed] Load this before change the fbm file name to "tophuntr.fbm"

Summary

Stage 1

Get 1 power star to fight with the boss and enemies.Sliding is faster than walking.

Stage 2

Manipulate boss's route

Stage 3

There may take a desync at the blue T-shirt enemy.He has two ways to move by randomness.So the "Hadouken" cannot hit him sometime. I tried many times to avoid the desync here.But it is always possible to show 2 different situations. I ignore a star because one is enough.

Stage 4

Get 2 stars,hit the boss only in one wave of attack. Dropping from some wall is faster than jumping. Sometime jumping is faster.So there are many comparation in this stage,and I take the best one.

Final Mission

Take damage to save time.If two players crash the iron soldiers together,only one of them take damage. It can't jump out before the wall rolls up. Find a best way to fight with the last boss.
I signed my name at last because the score need not cost long time.
Somewhere I cost some frames to avoid desync,just like the sliding on the chain in Stage 3.

feos: HD encode done.
Mukki: Judging...
Mukki: As a fan of this game I was expecting an enjoyable run. I was not disappointed. Accepted.
sgrunt: Since nobody else seems to be working on this...

TASVideoAgent
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #3059: X2poet's Arcade Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy in 12:49.10
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will vote after encode
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Will encode (HD) after x2poet says how much time does he spend for each submitted TAS.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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8 hours each days for TAS.This was made for 2 weeks. I also work on Metal Slug 3 and some games together.I'll change game when I get some trouble in one game.
Do the work.
NitroGenesis
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8 hours? I'd get headaches and die if I TASed for 8 hours each day.
YoungJ1997lol wrote:
Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
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NitroGenesis wrote:
8 hours? I'd get headaches and die if I TASed for 8 hours each day.
Depends on game & on your mental efforts, spent on it. I can TAS for all the day, but if much power was spent, I need a rest for weeks sometimes, doing something different (not less interesting). [/offtopic]
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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Sometime I get tired I will have a rest.In entertaining time I will play Arcade and Breakin' Dance. I can't stop when I start TAS.When I stop for few days,I will not do it for a long time. If I do a shitty game TAS,I may not stick on it for 1 hour a day.
Do the work.
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I remember playing this. Wasn't as much fun as Metal Slug (not much is) but it was fun. Any plans on doing Waku Waku 7?
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Waku Waku 7? That is a nice fighting game. It that suitable for TAS?Mortal Combat and Street Fighters are both famous fighting game in USA.So there is no doubt to accept these games. But Waku Waku 7,I don't think I can TAS well. I have a p1 file to get the rom that can using BONUS KUN and FINAL BOSS. I am not familiar with that game,I know SNK's The King Of Fighters,Samurai Spirit,Fatal Fury. PS Guity Gears,铁拳,and many other similar fighting games. And these games are popular in China.
Do the work.
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I vote yes mostly for the very fast boss kills at the hardest difficulty. Keep up the good work x2poet!
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another YES for me
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...Wow. I was just thinking the other day if this game will make for a good TAS. Then I saw this and it was much better than I expected. Yes Vote for fast beat em up action. Nice job x2poet! Could you do Blue's Journey next? :3
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My Metal Slug 3 will complete soon Blue' Journey Would be put in the next with Metal Slug X.
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X2poet wrote:
Waku Waku 7? That is a nice fighting game. It that suitable for TAS?Mortal Combat and Street Fighters are both famous fighting game in USA.So there is no doubt to accept these games. But Waku Waku 7,I don't think I can TAS well. I have a p1 file to get the rom that can using BONUS KUN and FINAL BOSS. I am not familiar with that game,I know SNK's The King Of Fighters,Samurai Spirit,Fatal Fury. PS Guity Gears,铁拳,and many other similar fighting games. And these games are popular in China.
Might give it a go for Bloodstorm otherwise. Seems pretty cool, and it has fatalities as well, which are pretty gory. Nice TAS btw. Another YES from me.
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A lot of sliding and then a boss, repeat about eight times and then you are done.
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henke37 wrote:
A lot of sliding and then a boss, repeat about eight times and then you are done.
Oh,everygame has its own method to fast walk. If this is a problem. "Running and kill boss,repeat about any times and then accomplished." Every platform games are the same.
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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. ---- [1773] Arcade Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy "2 players" by X2poet in 12:49.10
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For reference's sake (and because the only FAQ for the game doesn't list it), what's the command for the super and exactly what do you mean by 3 stars? I haven't really played the game that much but I don't recall being able to get more than 1 powerup at a time.
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There is a hidden bonus stage in each stage,and all of them has 2 or more stars.If you get them,3 stars is easy.
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like it very much!