Posted: 1/1/2017 12:10 AM
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Post subject: Lucky TAS of 2016 - CV:AoS "all souls" by Fz-last, klmz,Pike
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Please nominate eligible TASes. Vote for the TASes that you found to show off the most realistically improbable turns of events with its abuse of luck and random events. Voting until 2016-01-14 23:59 UTC. Nominations Lucky TAS of 2016: [3134] GB Pokémon: Blue and Red Version "Coop Diploma" by MrWint in 3:48:04.10 [3184] NES Dragon Warrior IV by adelikat in 1:58:06.28 [3216] GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow "all souls" by Fz-Last, klmz & Pike in 17:06.41 [3243] N64 Mario Kart 64 by Weatherton in 20:33.32 The winner: [3216] GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow "all souls" by Fz-Last, klmz & Pike in 17:06.41
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.
Posted: 1/1/2017 12:56 AM
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[3216] GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow "all souls" by Fz-Last, klmz & Pike in 17:06.41 [3134] GB Pokémon: Blue and Red Version "Coop Diploma" by MrWint in 3:48:04.10 [3243] N64 Mario Kart 64 by Weatherton in 20:33.32
Posted: 1/1/2017 1:35 AM
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[3216] GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow "all souls" by Fz-Last, klmz & Pike in 17:06.41
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Posted: 1/1/2017 4:14 AM
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arandomgameTASer wrote:
[3216] GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow "all souls" by Fz-Last, klmz & Pike in 17:06.41
I second this.
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Posted: 1/1/2017 8:35 AM
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Nominating: [3134] GB Pokémon: Blue and Red Version "Coop Diploma" by MrWint in 3:48:04.10
Posted: 1/1/2017 10:42 AM
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[3184] NES Dragon Warrior IV by adelikat in 1:58:06.28
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.
Posted: 1/8/2017 1:56 AM
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Voting Dragon Warrior IV. Aria of Sorrow is impressive, but it required less luck manipulation overall by comparison.
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Posted: 1/8/2017 3:09 AM
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Here, voted for Castlevania. My favourite TAS from this list is Mario Kart, but Castlevania went further in the luck aspect.
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Posted: 1/10/2017 12:33 PM
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I'm not seeing how castlevania is luckier than Mario kart. Can someone explain?
Posted: 1/10/2017 12:48 PM
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Niamek wrote:
I'm not seeing how castlevania is luckier than Mario kart. Can someone explain?
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RNG (Random Number Generator) - A system which determines the souldrops, itemdrops or enemy actions. Enemy actions in turn garble up the loot tables, so when bruteforcing a soul it is important to always have it act the same. There are a ton of ways to manipulate RNG, but the most common ones used in this run are: Swinging, backdashing (including small changes in backdash pattern), using the Kicker Skeleton soul, wobbling with the Black Panther and using Guardian souls.
Posted: 1/10/2017 8:43 PM
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yup, that. See also my posts on castlevania's item drop algorithm and soul drop algorithm - some of the soul drops and item drops have rather low probabilities (eg final sword has a 0.5% chance of dropping, ectoplasm soul has a 0.57% chance of dropping).