Waluigi decides he's done being neglected by Nintendo, so he decides to conquer some kingdoms with his newfound ability to enter walls and use psychic powers.
Game objectives
Emulator used: Hourglass r81
Does not take damage.
Real time.
In game time.
Score
Comments
I will add more comments and encode later, but one very importen thing has to be said about the rerecord count.
See, there is This bug in hourglass r81 that makes the rerecord count lowball of the real number. My estimate is 11000 rerecords.
Stage by stage comments
<Put the name of the first stage here>
<Explain the first stage here>
<Put the name of the second stage here>
<Explain the second stage here>
<And so on>
Other comments
<Explain here things the audience would probably like to see>
<Explain also things that could be improved in your movie>
<You may also suggest screenshots.>
I think this game has so much more potential for an entertaining TAS.
The excessive clipping makes for a less entertaining run from the aesthetic perspective, and also makes the TAS so much easier that it's not nearly as impressive to me (and thus I am less entertained).
Each level gives a gold/silver/bronze crown at the end depending on how much coinage you got. This takes into account coins collected, diamonds collected, time remaining, and I think life remaining as well. When you get lots of golds, you open up some secret levels which are different from the rest of the game (this may also change the ending? I can remember).
I think a no-clip all-golds all-levels run would show off this game the best. Perhaps even "high score" ahead of fastest time (remember that a high score still encourages fast play)? Either way it would require a lot of planning.
Also, if I skip the score countdown, I don't get the points.
And there is secret levels. They don't change the end.
You can also buy the gold crown for a level at the shop.
Does buying gold crowns from the shop count for a level completion, or does that just get rid of the need to collect tons of riches in a level?
You need to complete the level, but it makes that level gold chrown
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I think if you are going for something like all gold crowns or all max scores, no-clip is redundant (because by definition you can't use it to skip important parts of the stage where you need to get points!)
I think if you are going for something like all gold crowns or all max scores, no-clip is redundant (because by definition you can't use it to skip important parts of the stage where you need to get points!)
I suppose one could argue that clipping could still be useful for all gold crowns or max scores, since that could open up some time saving shortcuts for collecting gems/coins without using the intended path to them.
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I think the score countdown being in the first stages and not the later is a bit too much of a quality hit, when combined with the tendency to skip the stages by going over them via some clip or other. (Home Hardware Kingdom, we hardly knew ye.)
Similarly, early stages you seem to use enemies' powers in the way that minimizes any understanding by the viewer of what they do.
The autoscrollers ...are varied. At least one was boring.
Vote: Meh.
So how does one skip the score countdown? Does one just zip to a killzone for being out-of-bounds at the right time?
I think the score countdown being in the first stages and not the later is a bit too much of a quality hit, when combined with the tendency to skip the stages by going over them via some clip or other. (Home Hardware Kingdom, we hardly knew ye.)
Similarly, early stages you seem to use enemies' powers in the way that minimizes any understanding by the viewer of what they do.
The autoscrollers ...are varied. At least one was boring.
Vote: Meh.
So how does one skip the score countdown? Does one just zip to a killzone for being out-of-bounds at the right time?
Skipping the score countdown is being in a killzone after killing the king of the level, but before the game stops you in your tracks.
The game seems to check if you have health before checking if you are out of time.
Language: pesudocode
while life != 0
{
while time != 0
{
time --
wait(1)
}
life--
wait(25)
}
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Is your code directly from the source (do you have a link?) or is it your rewriting? As it is written, the thread is stuck in the while time != 0 loop, then when the player runs out of time every 25 time unit (I suppose it's seconds? Seems huge), the player loses a heart until the KO.
Is your code directly from the source (do you have a link?) or is it your rewriting? As it is written, the thread is stuck in the while time != 0 loop, then when the player runs out of time every 25 time unit (I suppose it's seconds? Seems huge), the player loses a heart until the KO.
The time units are frames.
It's not lifted from source. It's a hypothesis of how the code works to produce the results seen in testing.
also, the game runs at 50 fps, so each life unit ticks down a 1/2 second.
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My bad, sorry.
I runned the game 100 times slower, it seems that Waluigi's life is set at 0 immediately when time is up. No loop with progressive HP decreasing.
EDIT: as mentioned below, I though it was about when Waluigi dies. My bad.
My bad, sorry.
I runned the game 100 times slower, it seems that Waluigi's life is set at 0 immediately when time is up. No loop with progressive HP decreasing.
Something more like:
