Next TAS I wanna see if people like the idea of it: "Hey hey hey! it's time to make some crazy money! Are you ready? Here! We! Go!" Crazy Taxi! on hardest mode with shortest amount of time. try to see if it's possible to get the Crazy license and maybe even 1st Rank (to get Crazy license, you need to rake in 20,000$ in taxi fares). Shortest amount of time you can start with is a mere 35 seconds.

After some thinking, I wonder if the run would work on console? It lags like hell at times, but otherwise it's quite straight forward.

There is a lot less lag on console. Maybe it would be better running with pure interpreter n64 core but I was already 200k frames done when bizhawk switched.

God, those rings really drag this down. This TAS does its best to make them more entertaining, but they still take up over half of the viewing time. They are easily the worst thing about this game or at least near the top. My favorite part: The portion where Superman picks up Darkseid like a hunk of wood over his head, flies around for a munite before throwing him, Darkseid then taunts Superman as if nothing happen, he goes down after some punches, gets Ko'd, then Superman "dies" while the screen flashes "Superman Wins!" As an aside, is it possible for the beta rom to be a contender for a future TAS? It's a much more brief game and there's quite a bit of differences between the finished game and the prototype. Most significant is that there are no rings, which strongly suggest they were tacked on at the last minute to pad out the game length and possibly to forgo programming any map/mission markers in the final product.

This game is incredibly long and repetitive. The creators really lacked any kind of inspiration or motivation.

This game is incredibly long and repetitive. The creators really lacked any kind of inspiration or motivation.

I might actually disagree with this one. If you look closely, you can tell there was some degree of ambition on the part of the developers. There's the entire cityscape of Metropolis sitting in the cartridge, for crying out loud! It's almost as if the developers were trying to go for a more open, free roaming game, but either got in over their heads or had to keep beating the WB executives back, and as such their dream wasn't fully realized until the "sandbox" genre of videogames became more popular in later generations. So I would argue it's not lack of motivation or inspiration that killed the game, but a troubled development cycle.

This game is incredibly long and repetitive. The creators really lacked any kind of inspiration or motivation.

I might actually disagree with this one. If you look closely, you can tell there was some degree of ambition on the part of the developers. There's the entire cityscape of Metropolis sitting in the cartridge, for crying out loud! It's almost as if the developers were trying to go for a more open, free roaming game, but either got in over their heads or had to keep beating the WB executives back, and as such their dream wasn't fully realized until the "sandbox" genre of videogames became more popular in later generations. So I would argue it's not lack of motivation or inspiration that killed the game, but a troubled development cycle.

What I've heard from interviews is that WB made them throw out huge parts of the game, which their contract still prevents them from releasing.