Since you guys clearly can't get enough of this game I made this. It beats nitrogenesis's submission by 59 frames and Wak017's non-submitted run by 48 frames (I made the whole run after he posted it in the submission thread and compared my progress to it, so it wasn't done in vain), all from better optimized movement.
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Would have been more interesting if you took the water path in any other levels, by jumping constantly to survive.
Game sucks in general and a TAS isn't that interesting really.
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Jungon wrote:
So it WILL be faster than 2 minutes .. =P
Well, the situation here could be interpreted so that the idling teamplayer controller is actually delivering input, so that "playing the game" does not end any sooner than what we see in aglar's run. It would not make the AVI any different either. But hallelujah, the normal controller input would be under 2 minutes. I see no point in getting under some specific time limit, though.
I wish TASes were measured in days, so that each time there was a major earthquake, shortening the day on Earth, some TASes would get longer in the process. OMG! EARTHQUAKE! SMB TAS RECORD TIME JUST INCREASED FROM 0,0034375 DAYS TO 0,0034376 DAYS! UNPUBLISH IT, IT IS TOO SLOW NOW!
Well, the situation here could be interpreted so that the idling teamplayer controller is actually delivering input....
The other issue is that this may very well just be an error in the emulation of the team-player attachment. Without testing this on a console, requiring a genesis, team player adapter, and a copy of bible adventures, I'd be hard pressed to believe in the legitimacy of it.
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Well, the situation here could be interpreted so that the idling teamplayer controller is actually delivering input....
The other issue is that this may very well just be an error in the emulation of the team-player attachment. Without testing this on a console, requiring a genesis, team player adapter, and a copy of bible adventures, I'd be hard pressed to believe in the legitimacy of it.
It is not an emulation bug. The teamplayer attachments have specific communication protocols to work around the fact that there is a limited number of input pins and ports for the controllers in the Genesis (Sega's teamplayer and EA's teamplayer are different, but the Sega teamplayer MKII can work in compatibility mode with EA's protocol). Without going into details about the way the teamplayers work (this is not the thread for it anyway), it suffices to say that there is a lot of chatter going on which the game misinterprets as input, since it is not designed to handle the teamplayer attachment.
I don't think it's been explicitly stated what happens when you plug the teamplayer controller in -- does the game basically receive erroneous input that causes the level to be completed? In that case, it seems like allowing this approach would open a big can of worms; I wouldn't be surprised if many games would lend themselves to this approach.
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Heh, now I know what happens. The idling teamplayer produces the same input as start button. So, Bible Adventures didn't crash, it was just paused. So, the improvement is pointless.
All jokes aside, This run was really boring. Sorry Aglar, but running from left to right without doing anything interesting inbetween makes my vote No.
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Sonikkustar wrote:
All jokes aside, This run was really boring. Sorry Aglar, but running from left to right without doing anything interesting inbetween makes my vote No.
NO!!!
Absolute NO!!!
I can't take much more of this stupid music!!
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude, just turn it off.
Relax.
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As someone who's just learning about all the fun drama behind this game, I'd have to give a yes vote. Though I'm tempted to vote no so the quest to validate this game lives on.
Unlike many boring platformers, this one is short and moves quickly. Moreover, it's hilariously bugged and has all the trademark humorous qualities of unlicensed games. The sound is annoying, but in a slightly entertaining way, unlike most Genesis games which just have sound that is annoyingly bad.
Obvious yes vote.
NES Donkey Kong got published after it was done absolutely flawless. But this one has two big disatvantages: It's two times as long, and the game isn't as popular...
Maybe you can find one more bug. I don't really know this game too well, but have you tried throwing Moses into the exit of the level? Or throw him on top of the spikes, or put him somewhere in a way you can repeat the bug of level 4?
According to Seanbaby's review, not having Moses at the end just changes the ending message. So why pick him up at all?
In any event, throwing him into the endzone doesn't seem like it'd work since the level-end is triggered by the player's position, not Moses's.
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The message changes and you don't get to see the end sequence. Note that that's an end-of-level message, not an end-of-game message. It causes you to lose the level.
Or throw him on top of the spikes, or put him somewhere in a way you can repeat the bug of level 4?
The underwater bug of level 4 can actually be replicated on every level by constant jumping. Here's level one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLyHBqs4NI
Unfortunately, it doesn't save any time, as far as we know. This is because there's no reason to stop at all in any level after picking up the baby.
I actually think this is almost accept-worthy, but I'd like to see one level replaced with the jumping underwater.
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