Snailiad is a Flash metroidvania developed by Auriplane. It follows the story of Snaily Snail, who's on a quest to save his friend Moon Snail and turn him into the legendary Sun Snail.

This movie aims to complete the "Boss Rush" mode as fast as possible, while optimizing for in-game time. It achieves that goal 1 minute and 38 seconds faster than the RTA WR by ActiveUnique.

This movie requires a specific version of the game that caps the framerate at 60fps. This is required due to the fact that the base game runs internally at 120fps, but when playing casually, it'll never run faster than 60fps. Running the base game at 60fps caused some glitches to become impossible, and running it at 120fps caused desync issues, so that's why this mod is needed, it's the most accurate way of TASing this game. The mod was developed by Dimuslv, and is available on the link I provided up there on the "Movie information" section.

There are two movie versions: The one I submitted, which includes some playaround (that doesn't lose in-game time), and the fast one, which erases all that amazing playaround. You can download the shorter version here. The encode I'm showing uses the shorter version.

Unfortunately, I don't know how to make movies that start from preexisting save files in libTAS, so part of this movie is just doing what's needed to get to the boss rush mode, without actually being in the boss rush mode.

The strategies I use in the bosses are relatively simple, so I don't feel like I need to explain everything. You can just see and understand. If you're confused about any movement tricks, just check the submission text of the 100% TAS.

Special thanks to Dimuslv for making the necessary mods for the game, the 60fps mod and the position variables mod.

Frame 2237

ikuyo: Claiming for judging.

ikuyo: Hey mike! Sorry this took me a bit.

As usual with your work, it was fun to watch and a technical delight. As such, it is embarrasing a bit to admit that the hardest part of processing this movie was deciding how to branch it.

For those not familiar with the game, the Boss Rush mode can be unlocked after getting certain upgrades, and the most popular Boss Rush category is Glitchless, as the game has several zips and out of bounds shenanigans that make skipping all the way to the end of Boss Rush possible. This exactly what this movie uses to enter the very end of the Boss rush mode from the main gameplay mode. As such, We needed to understand how a movie that enters Boss Rush and uses glitches to skip to the end would differ from this one, and well, the answer was staring at us the whole time!

Accepting to Alternative as "Boss Rush, glitched in game time".

r3gamerz: Processing...