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Game objectives

  • Emulator used: fba-rr-v007
  • 2 players
  • Hardest difficulty
  • Use damage/death to save time

Comments

After watching Nitrogenesis TAS i have been conquered by this game, so i decide to work on it with 2 players (to escape a current project that cost me lot of effort and patience) then i find it really nice to TAS

Stage by stage comments

Stage 1

Get the two lightening sword then beat bosses with hit damage, die but the game don't count it till it happened after bosses defeat

Stage 2

Use death to skip falling spikes(stuff) ascent waiting

Stage 3

Get fire sword,let 2p scroll skipping

Stage 4

Hit damage on boss, false death

Stage 5

Scroll skipping with 2p to reach the lamp faster

Stage 6

Get the bubble sword to keep the lightening one for bosses
Use death tho save time
Get the right position to skip vs fight positioning
Double death cause the princess can go f@"# herself or ask Mario if needed !

Other comments

Input can be ended sooner (at the last dragon damage input) but it will let the player watch them for 37sec so i decide to let them fight
feos: Fixed game name, judging...
feos: Changing the name back, to what we do to Japan-only releases.
As for branching this run, it looks nothing like the existing one, is way more entertaining, but can't be faster due to lack of the main speed trick and presence of an additional fight for 2 players. Accepting as another branch to Moons.
sheela901: I received a dump from feos. Thank you!

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Posted: 1/5/2015 12:00 AM
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TASVideoAgent
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #4538: mamuuuut's Arcade Dragon Unit "2 players" in 02:47.48
Posted: 1/5/2015 12:23 AM
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Post subject: 'cause it's not mentioned properly in the sub text.
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TAS that was mentioned: [2092] Arcade Dragon Unit "1 player" by NitroGenesis in 02:35.85
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Posted: 1/5/2015 12:23 AM
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Posted: 1/5/2015 12:27 AM
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This one is 2 player so basically i have no speed boot i click cancelled by inadvertence (i fall asleep) can a moderator do something to repare that mystake please
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Posted: 1/5/2015 4:15 AM
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Is this run slower only because of the Vs. fight at the end? Other than that, I'd say this is a much crazier run, and if we only had one publication of this game, I'd take this run.
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.
Posted: 1/5/2015 3:14 PM
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Two players mode don't allow boot speed up, so "normally" it can't be faster...but in the fact i'm faster than the previous run if i end input at the dragon defeat like it... (it will trigger credits anyway) So yes, this run is slower due to vs fight...
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Posted: 1/5/2015 5:05 PM
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i thnk this game has a NES port,but good run anyway!
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Posted: 1/5/2015 7:06 PM
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grassini wrote:
i thnk this game has a NES port,but good run anyway!
Yes, it does. There's a published TAS for it. That port is a lot slower, longer, and has worse graphics. (It also has no naked Medusa ;-) )
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.
Posted: 1/8/2015 3:37 PM
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Is this one recording more smoothly than neogeo games? I like this one.
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Posted: 1/13/2015 1:37 PM
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http://www.mobygames.com/game/arcade/castle-of-dragon/release-info Since this game was neither released outside Japan, nor was it allowed to, I'm pretty sure we can change the title to Dragon Unit JPN for this and the previous publication. As for comparing this run to the existing one, let's see... This one gets bad ending, this one beats the game faster, this one leaves no chances to the existing one entertainment-wise, but this one has an additional fight (between 2 players) that makes it longer. VS is a required fight, right? You can't just ignore it in 2P? Anyway, I think this run is so great that it deserves its own category, both being in Moons, they don't have much overlapping content, and this one looks better in all terms. Yes vote btw.
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Posted: 1/18/2015 10:05 PM
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feos wrote:
but this one has an additional fight (between 2 players) that makes it longer. VS is a required fight, right? You can't just ignore it in 2P?
Yep, it is required, you can't ignore it (but you are not forced to accomplish and can let the timer reach zero) for x2poet, you can't imagine ! no desync, no guru meditation, you also load movie file before the game without crash
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Posted: 1/22/2015 1:18 PM
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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. ---- [2765] Arcade Dragon Unit "2 players" by mamuuuut in 02:47.48
Posted: 1/22/2015 4:34 PM
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Wait, so, this was in gruefood and then got published later?
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Posted: 1/22/2015 7:33 PM
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zwataketa wrote:
Wait, so, this was in gruefood and then got published later?
The author had cancelled it by mistake, which sent it to Gruefood for a short time before it was uncancelled and judged as normal.