While looking up the GBA version, I found out there's a GB version. There was also an attempt at this game, so I thought to give it a go.

Game objectives

  • Plays the last stage of Tournament
  • Fastest time
  • Get as high a score as possible without sacrificing above
  • Probably vaultable

Comments

This game is very difficult. The NPCs aren't just hard; they're on frictionless skateboards with a constant supply of steroids. Their speed regardless of their character choice tends to be a lot faster than if you were to choose the same character. The handicap that applies at the end is also ludicrous; Their score will get boosted up to FOUR THOUSAND points, so even if you did a ton of tricks, chances are, you will only rank 2nd or worse.
Given that this is a TAS, I sought to correct this, and end up with 13,378 points (and 15 more due to rank bonus) at the end. The HUD only displays up to 999, and the end maxes at 4,000, but it appears it still keeps track of it even above the "limit":
I'm rank 1 despite initially being 2nd place due to having over three times the score of the first NPC. I didn't chose Tony Hawk because despite him having the same speed, his acceleration made it a frame slower despite costing an extra frame to select Bucky. Your speed seems to be slower than the NPC's for some odd reason. Also any values above ~155 appears to be around the same speed.
Doing tricks constantly lag the game a bit, and that messes with the initial goal. So I had to delay my movements a bit every now and then to eliminate lag during the race. It resulted in rather....odd movements, so I to add some NPC assault without losing time.
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Thanks to fsvgm777 and Kurabupengin for encoding early WIP and commenting on the initial concept.
I thought about suggested screenshots, but the only time it turned out to be superhuman was the results screens. :/

Nahoc: Judging...
Nahoc: Accepting for the vault.
feos: Pub.

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Wasn't expecting this at all. Man, I never thought that rail trick could be done so fast... well done! Even then I'm a little pissed that you didn't told me you were going to submit it, since it's just a single level and I've worked on this game before. Even then... it looks weird that you didn't go 1st place, but overall it was entertaining, I will vote yes, but I prefer an all stages run while focusing on in-game time anyways. Maybe this can qualify for maximum score too.
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cool!kurabu if you done nothing,then you have no reason to stress urself at all,stay fresh.
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grassini wrote:
cool!kurabu if you done nothing,then you have no reason to stress urself at all,stay fresh.
I meant I have experience TASing this game, not that I worked on it, but I was going to soon enough. I've submitted a very crappy TAS of the game a longass while ago but it got cancelled and I got stuck because of the NPCs anyway.
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@kura I went and submitted this because given your history, you tend to create threads and generally don't finish them. Sorry about that. Also I actually do achieve 1st place, at the end of the run:
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jlun2 wrote:
@kura I went and submitted this because given your history, you tend to create threads and generally don't finish them. Sorry about that. Also I actually do achieve 1st place, at the end of the run:
that's what i meant,thanks for going deeper into the issue.
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As godawful as this game is, shouldn't it, as mentioned in the WIP thread, really be the entire tournament, not just the last stage?
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This was interesting to know about, but not actually interesting to watch. Since when are Tony Hawk games autoscrollers? It seems no other handheld made that drastic a change to the core gameplay. It's good to see that you put out a 1st-place run even when the computer is cheap, but the end result is not an interesting product. I'm voting No on entertainment.
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All of the extremely quick bouncing on the rails just isn't enough to entertain me. Meh vote.
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Tangent wrote:
As godawful as this game is, shouldn't it, as mentioned in the WIP thread, really be the entire tournament, not just the last stage?
Well, it let me chose any of the stages, and I can't seem to find any rule that disallows this assuming it doesn't use passwords whatsoever. Hence:
Probably vaultable
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jlun2 wrote:
Tangent wrote:
As godawful as this game is, shouldn't it, as mentioned in the WIP thread, really be the entire tournament, not just the last stage?
Well, it let me chose any of the stages, and I can't seem to find any rule that disallows this assuming it doesn't use passwords whatsoever. Hence:
Probably vaultable
Completely valid 4 me.
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jlun2 wrote:
Tangent wrote:
As godawful as this game is, shouldn't it, as mentioned in the WIP thread, really be the entire tournament, not just the last stage?
Well, it let me chose any of the stages, and I can't seem to find any rule that disallows this assuming it doesn't use passwords whatsoever. Hence:
Probably vaultable
Quite a blatant rule violation. I quote:
Movie Rules wrote:
It must beat the game (1-level movies are rejected).
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henke37 wrote:
Quite a blatant rule violation. I quote:
Movie Rules wrote:
It must beat the game (1-level movies are rejected).
Huh. This does beat the game though, but if it really is a problem, I guess I can try splicing in as much as possible. :P Notes: *Tournament mode is the only mode that shows credits *Speed seems fixed at 155-160, so I'm thinking of getting 50k+ score instead of going in a straight line.
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henke37 wrote:
Quite a blatant rule violation. I quote:
Movie Rules wrote:
It must beat the game (1-level movies are rejected).
It beats the game, doesn't it?
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henke37 wrote:
Quite a blatant rule violation. I quote:
Movie Rules wrote:
It must beat the game (1-level movies are rejected).
I guess everyone just hallucinated that credits sequence at the end of the encode, then. How strange that we all imagined the game being quite clearly beaten.
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Mothrayas wrote:
henke37 wrote:
Quite a blatant rule violation. I quote:
Movie Rules wrote:
It must beat the game (1-level movies are rejected).
It beats the game, doesn't it?
Sorry to hijack, but since you're a judge, what to do with a similar situation I encountered? :|
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Short and sweet. Yes vote!
Mothrayas wrote:
henke37 wrote:
Quite a blatant rule violation. I quote:
Movie Rules wrote:
It must beat the game (1-level movies are rejected).
It beats the game, doesn't it?
I believe the intent behind that rule is that 1-level movies that don't beat the game are rejected. Maybe the rules should be updated to clarify.
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jlun2 wrote:
Mothrayas wrote:
henke37 wrote:
Quite a blatant rule violation. I quote:
Movie Rules wrote:
It must beat the game (1-level movies are rejected).
It beats the game, doesn't it?
Sorry to hijack, but since you're a judge, what to do with a similar situation I encountered? :|
If it is just a menu function that does not require cheats, passwords or unlocks, then yes, it can be used for a run. This would go for both that run and this submission. At the end of the day, skipping levels like this is a game feature, so can be used to make runs faster. I also think it's similar to e.g. skipping tutorial levels. By the way, the quoted rule has been rewritten so as to hopefully be less ambiguous now.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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I think the rule was intended to block people doing things like singe course runs for race games.
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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. ---- [2865] GBC Tony Hawk's Pro Skater by jlun2 in 01:29.09