Thank you for showing your support. I really do think this is worth putting the effort in to do, and since I'm of the philosophy if I think it's worth the effort, then it's worth it to me to show as much and get the effort started, I made a start on research for what would be the first movie. Once that gets done, I believe I have the equipment to record narration and do some rudimentary editing, though there are people who would probably be better at editing than I am.
Anyway, the game I've chosen as the first in the series is Super Mario Bros. I chose it for a few reasons. The biggest of which is that on the surface it seems to be a really simple game to run. I mean all you have to do is hold right and jump at the right times, right? The history of this game will help show that we can't take things like that for granted, especially considering some of the timesavers found, which may seem contradictory at first.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1avQ4zNczd-t9Ce1g4ZkfK5sPGS5jL3QnHj94u6WAZJ8/edit
That is my working document. I am currently going through the history of runs published on the site and reading the SMB thread on this forum. I really believe the interest here is the story behind the runs and the mechanics of the game, so I am using the TAS history as a stepping stone for covering those things. This may be easier to see when I make my script.
Could some people from the early days of the site and people in the SMB TASing community please fact check what I have so far. Some of the dates on the early runs seems suspect. I'd like to verify.
Also, for anybody that would like to help, I do know that I will need at least one thing that I won't be able to pull from the videos of runs from the site. I need two videos, which look identical to each other and start in the same place, except one video hits the 21 frame rule perfectly and the other one misses it by one frame. The time difference there is like half a second and should be visible in real time.
I really would like for this to be available on an official TASVideos channel if possible. Think we can make that happen?
Also I would very much appreciate if I could have pronunciation guides for some of the names (besides the obvious, like HappyLee and Phil *and now someone's going to tell me that "phil" is pronounced like "file"))
