This topic is for the purpose of discussing #6724: KietTezend's PSX Ganbare Goemon: Ooedo Daikaiten in 1:12:17.88

An hour length TAS, with no encode. Great. Guess I'll break down the input then. There's mashing, so it's evident that this is RTA play and not TAS play... A lot of mashing, not even like sequenced, just long holds for no reason. So out of the gate I'm just going to assume the menuing at the start is poor. (The rerecord count can back this claim that you weren't using TAStudio to fine tune your input.) The only available video is your WIP from 2 days ago. There's a lot of stalling and what seems to be unnecessary killings as you stop dead in your tracks doing your moves. Please, go back to the drawing board and take your time with the next movie you create for this game. In a TAS world this can be easily improved on. And upload your movies to your user movies area until you're confident that it's optimal. > 2 player game Unless the AI has to take more damage, maybe make the movie 2 players next time. Edit: Provided an encode in the submission text. Replaced with Author's version. Edit 2: And this is why it's important to play in the 2 player mode:

31:30 couldn't that have been done cleaner? Just skimming through and I see other odd stops and such.

I think this game could make for a really good TAS, however I do not see much effort put into optimization here. The low re-record count really does explain why it feels so sub-optimal. I would honestly suggest you spend some more time understanding the tools you are working with to make a more optimized movie, and like spike said Mashing is not going to be optimal. Try to see if a different input pattern works faster for menus for example, turbo isnt always the best method. not only that but even some of the platform jumping like in the ice levels feel really sloppy. I dont know what kind of tools you were working with when making this, if you were not using TAStudio for this I would highly reccomend you try using that, especially since it makes 2 player tasing much more easier EDIT: I'd also like to add that if you need any help understanding the tools, There is an IRC and Discord chat server full of really good people who can assist you. you can find the links to them here: http://tasvideos.org/LiveChat.html

As usual, I need to preface that I don't do platformers. So consider where the video stops is where the work on it "dies". Link to video It completes practically all of world one except it doesn't do the Gundam/Mech fight because I have no idea what the hell I'm doing there. Yae has fastest movement from what I understand, and Goemon drops faster making him more important to switch to during vertical segments. This is roughly a minute faster than this submission at where this ends. On the boss I took 2 hits of damage on between the characters on cause I was an idiot and ended up figuring out what I need to do on the second phase. However it didn't affect my shooting so there's that at least.

om, nom, nom... 'twas dry