The game came out in 1998, 3 years before Salary Man Champ and with more levels than that, 46 levels to be exact.

Game objectives

  • Emulator used: PSXjin v2.0.2 svn0
  • To get a score of 10 throught the whole game
  • Do it all on Hard difficulty
  • something along the lines of Salary Man

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This was going to be up on April 1st 2013 (also my secret project) but I thought I'll leave it for another game (one I'm improving right now that just got mentioned on the first line), so instead I'm uploading it on the 5th of December for reasons that you can look into. :P
So yeah another random Japanese type arcade game, it's kinda shown as a demonstration as I look over it on what you can do with the psx tas emulator. The idea did come from Salary Man Champ as I looked over information on that game and stumbled onto this, I was interested to find out what made this game different to Salary Man Champ... 46 levels that range from popping a balloon and making a guy do cartwheels while avoiding things.

Possible Improvements

  • There is a level were you look at the car top down might be improvable probably by a couple of frames
  • Elephant one is confusing you need to loose 2 in order to get max score, so something to manipulate the level (it's possible) and the AI
  • Men and Platforms... this game makes no sense.

Other stuff

  • Thanks FractalFusion for keeping it quiet for one day.
  • If Salary Man got accepted why not this?
  • I don't know what levels could be improved so if you spot one point it out, but it may be only afew frames (like 1 or 3)
  • Gather your own screenshot ideas

feos: The rules of some mini-games were extremely esoteric. Some had a time limit, and were strictly played to get a 10 score. Others allowed time improvements, but gave a lower score then.
This TAS was not proven to have any huge improvements. And the people seemed to like the game, which was played rather super-humanly and is itself very odd and funny. It was not aiming for minimum possible time, and can't go to Vault. Accepting for the Moons.

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Umm... wow, that's... quite a game. Thanks for the encode, though. I wish I actually understood the goal of more of these stages (especially the one with the girl squatting in the middle lane and racking up a lot of points). Parts of it are fairly entertaining. I especially liked these games: * killing the cockroaches * the Arkanoid-type game * using your red car to knock the yellow cars off the building * car slalom * the game which flips the man's picture a lot Some games looked suboptimal though: * the car on the racetrack didn't look very optimized * the elephant stage with the 9 targets * the car tumbling down the platforms collecting stars looked ok but seemed improvable * in the game where you catch a lot of musclemen on a plate, it seems that you miss a bunch which you could have collected I think that the game is just too long and repetitive to get a Yes. I'd say No outweighs Meh here in terms of entertainment. The next question this raises is: is this run different enough from realtime records? Most of the games can't actually be sped up. I suppose that the ridiculously high score on some stages would make this worthwhile for publication. In fact, I'd say the main goal of this run is "maximum score" more so than "perfect 10"... you could do a little worse than you do on some stages and still get 10's, saving a little time (such as the stage with the cola rocket). Screenshot suggestion: the muscled guy on the pogo stick biting the meat (Stage 29, I think). That's just too darn funny.
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.
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mklip2001 wrote:
Some games looked suboptimal though: * the car on the racetrack didn't look very optimized * the elephant stage with the 9 targets * the car tumbling down the platforms collecting stars looked ok but seemed improvable * in the game where you catch a lot of musclemen on a plate, it seems that you miss a bunch which you could have collected I think that the game is just too long and repetitive to get a Yes. I'd say No outweighs Meh here in terms of entertainment. The next question this raises is: is this run different enough from realtime records? Most of the games can't actually be sped up. I suppose that the ridiculously high score on some stages would make this worthwhile for publication. In fact, I'd say the main goal of this run is "maximum score" more so than "perfect 10"... you could do a little worse than you do on some stages and still get 10's, saving a little time (such as the stage with the cola rocket). Screenshot suggestion: the muscled guy on the pogo stick biting the meat (Stage 29, I think). That's just too darn funny.
* (figured out which level) Honestly that level is a bitch, I made sure I had basically mostly speed I did again being cautious and it was actually slower (it was a copy .pjm file I wasted about 7 hours on that level trying with carefulness so it was speed most of the way). * If I allowed myself to get more I always got a 9 and not a 10 which defeats the purpose. so I had to bump AI elephant into some spots, which was a pain. * Set time so I was like meh, get a good score, parts of it was when I got a flag AI gets +3/+5 one which made me ticked so I "dicked" around having fun with it. * IRC knew my rage. Possible improvement I know but set time again. They wouldn't land so I was like I will do this till I get a high enough score. Fact I got a higher one (about 4 or so higher) and it gave me 8. I missed less too >:(. If any parts are improvable I say "go for it" start one from fresh on hard. Hope that you don't get the car level last. But it's like you wrote suboptimal, only a-few improvements. - I'll change it to "maximum score" - Agree
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Alright, thanks for answering. Those concerns about optimization aren't really all that big. The bigger question is really how entertaining the movie is, and I think you did about the best you could.
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:
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mklip2001 wrote:
The bigger question is really how entertaining the movie is, and I think you did about the best you could.
Thank you very much.
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I like It, i hope someone also make Bishi Bashi Special 2 Japanese version which is the Best, Most Bizarre and Fun to watch/play of the 4 Games on PSX (Bishibashi 1, 2, 3, Salary Man) It's nice to find it published :D
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I think the stages which produce horrible barrages of sound are 7 and 9, not 8 and 10, since after the first game it says "stage 2" and after those two stages it says "stage 8" and "stage 10". Anyway, I found it quite entertaining... I'm a big fan of these "barrage of minigames" games, and the assortment in this game is... very diverse. If I could understand it I'd love to actually play this with some friends. :)
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For me, it seems good at first, but it gets old quickly. Spikestuff, I have a couple questions. - Is it possible to choose a mode with less stages? - Is it possible to manipulate the stages to get the better (mostly shorter) minigames? Also, it might be a good idea to do two players. That might be more interesting.
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FractalFusion wrote:
For me, it seems good at first, but it gets old quickly. Spikestuff, I have a couple questions. - Is it possible to choose a mode with less stages? - Is it possible to manipulate the stages to get the better (mostly shorter) minigames? Also, it might be a good idea to do two players. That might be more interesting.
- Maybe, these are all the stages in the game and the mode I chose when I was doing it was the arcade one. (There is a PAL version but the version I actually own is NTSC-J at home so I was unable to translate anything.) Edit: Bishi Bashi Champ, Super Bishi Bashi Champ and Handle Champ (thanks wikipedia) I did Bishi Bashi Champ - I did that to some of them because it was possible to do it to those ones (Elephant stage for example). The 2 player one is a good idea but for what I was trying to accomplish doesn't benefit me especially on the difficulty I was playing on (There is a party type mode).
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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. ---- [2310] PSX Bishi Bashi Special "Marathon Challenge, maximum score" by Spikestuff in 33:53.43
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I liked the enthusiastic announcer voice. Thank to him, I watched this entirely.