This topic is for the purpose of discussing #466: gather's Genesis Mercs in 10:36.57

Getting a lot better every time. This one only has some minor stuff, most of it questions: Level 1, when you cross the bridge, I don't think you have to go on the middle of it. Stay on the bottom and you'll save some walking distance. Water level: the boat is a lot faster than walking obviously. Can you shoot the other boat so that you won't have the torpedoes after you later and be forced to exit the boat early? On level 5, you could have walked more diagonally left in the beginning. Now you are forced to walk straight left later on instead. Later on you have to kill a tank to pass, can you be further up the screen when it dies? Also you finish this level with two bombs, are there really no use at all for them? The boss here is very slow... do any of the other weapons have more reach, so you can shoot him more often? (probably not but I'm gonna ask anyway.) You seem to take a little too long way to the elevator on level 6. Go upwards earlier. Same thing with some corners on upper floor. Use the frame advance if you have to and test which frame you can start moving diagonally upward without hitting the wall. You could end the movie as soon as you blow up the last engine (I think). No need to wait. Good luck with it. Don't be afraid to use a lot of rerecords. Try every possibility and every frame.

well I was a littl laxist I guess. now I made a new run where I cut every angle when possible. thanx for your advices : level 1, true, I corrected that mistake level 4 : also true. now I go straght to the bridge and dont take the other bomb level 5 : I corrected that mistake and move left diagonnaly only. about the weapon, the others have more reach but are 2-3 times weakers, and It take something like 15 sec more too kill the boss. the rocket launcher is far much stronger that any other weapon. I finally found where I can get rid of the bombs level 6 there's nothing I can do with the elevator. It move by itself, I can't speed up it, and whe I disembark, I move left immediatly because I need to take the power up. thanx to all your remarkes I win something like 15 secs. it's here : mercs run #4

>level 6 there's nothing I can do with the elevator. I meant that you took a path that was too long when walking to the elevator, same thing when you disembarked. But if you now cut every corner as close as possible as you wrote, this problem should have disappeared anyway. I'll watch the new one when I get home.

Looking slick. The level with the train boss. After you destroy a tank, but before you destroy a small barrier to access the elevator, there is a corridor. You go straight up this corridor and then turn left - is it possible to go diagonally? Or does the tank thing on the left slow you down if you go that way? On level 6 with the corridor up to the missile launcher boss. After blasting the gates to the corridor you go left - why not stay on the right side? On the electric barriers you only take one hit to go trough, in the last version you took two. Why not in this version? Was there no enemy to shoot at you? (That's what it looks like.) If so is it possible to manipulate randomness to get one? All in all a big improvement, especially in style.

in level five, I can t go diagonal because the tank and the truck block the way. I 'd have to destroy them which takes too much time. but I think there is a way by destroying the second vehicle (the troop truck) it's kinda weird, but if I stay in the right side, the scrolling get messed up, the tank after is budged with distored elements, something very weird. and the boss after is completely messed up. of course I can beat it but the graphics are completly messed up. It's a very weird thing, but in the cartridge version I remember I had this kind of bug. so I replace myself in thge middle. yeat, when I arrived to that point, thins time, there arent a single enemi, nobody had appeard yet. was I too fast? were they having lunch ? dunno. ^^ I ll try to manipulate luck as you say. thanks

I think the best way to thank you for all your advice is to use them in an improved run. So this is the new mercs arcade run ! . 10 mins and 19 sec. I think I ll cancel soon the current one and submit this one . new mercs