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Happy New Year!
We improved our previous pacifist TAS in 57 frames this time. The main improvement is let 2P game over at the last of stage 4, and start stage 5 with 1 player. The first truck can bring us more extra scroll drag, which makes 1p not need to jump up and hit the truck, and the corpse can disappear earlier and resurrect earlier.
Compared with the previous TAS, this TAS appropriately increased the ornamental value. In this TAS, there is no need to shake the muzzle up and down to control luck, which makes the TAS look smoother, and the 1p and 2p actions are more synchronized. In the fifth and sixth boss, we have controlled the picture error of the enemy to show more glitch. Like the previous any% TAS, we control the muzzle and bullets to match the game BGM, making TAS more interesting.
The improvement of each stage is shown in the table below:
StageFrame SavedTotal
100
2-1-1
365
4-6-1
54443
6447
7653
8457
Because of the eight frame rule of the third boss, we have no improvement before the third boss. We readjusted 2p's score so that 2p got 18700 points after the fourth boss. We improved 5 frames at the 3rd boss, including 2 real frames and 3 lag frames. If the lag frame is deleted, the speed of the third boss is the same as any% TAS. We have proved its optimal solution in the submission of any% TAS.
In the fourth stage, we control the bullets in a new way, saved 1 frame in the first tunnel, and saved a total of 4 frames of lag in this stage. The fourth boss is the same as any% TAS, which wastes some time for 2p to die, but the fifth level can be much faster.
In the fifth stage, one player mode can save more frames at the first truck. When we let 1p die at the second truck, we spent a lot of time controlling luck, got the perfect position of the enemy, and avoided a jump in the previous TAS, which was saved 1 frame. The fifth boss is same as the previous TAS, because we need to wait for the bullet of boss to kill 2p.
In the sixth stage, for the jump before the first flame, we saved 2 frames by better jumping height control. Good luck in this pass, saved one pause, which saved 2 frames. The sixth boss is same as previous.
In the 7th stage, we made 1p jump one more time at 24845 frame, so it would be 1 frame slower. But in this way, the jumping height of frame 25404 and 25503 is reduced. Each jumping saves one frame, which is faster as a whole. This technique may be used to upgrade any% TAS, but because there is only one frame improvement, we do not consider modifying the previous TAS for now. We saved 2 frames at 7th boss, the boss fighting is 2 frames slow by any% TAS.
In the 8th stage, better luck control is achieved in the process, 2p is only 2 pixels behind 1p. The final BOSS improved 4 frames.

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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #6583: Mars608 & aiqiyou's NES Contra "pacifist" in 08:48.61
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Nice improvement. Voting yes.
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I have never been a fan of "let's shoot weapon containers and then not pick them up" in Contra series pacifist runs.
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Post subject: Movie published
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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. ---- [4121] NES Contra (Japan) "pacifist" by Mars608 & aiqiyou in 08:48.61
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I am personally not a fan of the screenshot used for publication. There isnt much going on in it and it doesnt show off the run that much. I would rather see a screenshot that shows off how much the TAS avoids killing enemies. here is my suggestion for a screenshot, located at frame 13162: I think this is a good screenshot because the bullets are just nearly missing the enemy here, and I think it's a good representation of the pacifist elements in this movie.
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't 12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!" Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish [Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing