Happy New Year, TASVideos! To celebrate, here's my 2nd TAS submission.
Mickey's Safari in Letterland is an educational platformer released in March 1993 by Hi Tech Expressions. The clumsy Mickey Mouse has lost 6 letter moulds on his paid safari drive. He now must go back into the safari without permission, find the moulds and return them to Mickey's Magnificent Mould Museum. He has 4 minutes to return to his jeep before he gets arre- Okay, I must admit, the real story's probably a bit less dramatic then that. Anyways, here's some comments about the TAS.
Objectives:
- Emulator used: FCEUX 2.6.4
- Uses "Normal", the fastest difficulty
- Ha-huh! Ha-huh!
Level Loading Times:
The level loading times vary depending on a frame cycle. I delay starting the level for 1-3 frames to get the fastest loading times.
Loading times from pressing A to black screen:
Goofy Laugh - 101 frames
Oh Boy - 112 frames
Both sound effects - 162 frames
Other Game Physics:
The museum and end of level cutscenes can be skipped by pressing start.
Sliding on slopes is faster than walking. Slopes can only be found in level 1.
Collecting the letter crystals found in the levels is suboptimal as Mickey stops for a couple seconds to collect one.
If you fall from too high a distance, Mickey takes a few seconds to recover and continue walking.
A couple of surfaces make Mickey tiptoe instead of walk, which is obviously slower.
On the letter select screens, the game can only process input up to 20 times per second.
I don't have much else to say about this TAS. Any improvements would be much appreciated. Thanks for reading!
- Logan :)
EDIT: I have since improved this TAS by 44 frames - https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638093006864683461

feos: Claiming for judging.
feos: Replacing with the improvement.
feos: Thanks to EZGames69 for the review! The run looks okay indeed.

EZGames69: Processing...

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Optimization seems good. I wanted to check and make sure you didn't lose any time when jumping up some of the slopes near the beginning but they don't seem to slow you down, possibly because of the jumping, but the whole game seems to be very basic in general with very few things slowing down the player. I'm not sure how this game determines the letters you have to select after each level, but trying to manipulate faster levels may not be that easy without risking losing a few frames, and the letter selects are done very fast regardless.
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1. correct. slopes don’t make any difference in mickey’s speed. 2. saving time on the letter screens is next to impossible for that reason. thanks for the review, colin!
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do you think i should make tases of the other 2 difficulties as well?
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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. ---- [5068] NES Mickey's Safari in Letterland by LoganTheTASer in 03:43.95