Post subject: Wave Race 64
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Given that there are many shortcuts and cool tricks in Wave Race 64, I think it would be nice to see a TAS run of htis game.
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i agree but the problem with race games are that there isn't much difference in a TAS and a speedrun usually so the best we can do is beat the world records by a few frames/seconds as opposed to finding cool glitches/ having really impressive play only possible in TAS with that said i would definitly love to see this since there isn't a speedrun of this as far as i know and i like this game
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I think this game really deserves to be on the lists here at least. Wasn't this game one of the first games released to N64?
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Highness wrote:
Wasn't this game one of the first games released to N64?
If that qualifies the game for runnability, then there are a lot of crappy games that should be shoe-ins!
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I personally would love to see more TASed racing games, but it's extremely hard to do. It's pretty easy to make a single frame-perfect turn, but it's really tough to make a frame-perfect route through a course. And yeah, this was one of the first N64 games IIRC. Doesn't mean it's good, but it is well-known.
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A stunt runthrough would also be rather lackluster as the player would just do the start trick to minimize points, although that could be forbidden in the rules or something.
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Here are some time attack/stunt videos of the PAL version which runs about 20% slower due to the 50/60Hz issue: http://www.superplayers.de/stefanmahrla/WaveRace64/
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the PAL WR on sunny beach, 1:16:885, is probably 'the most insane wr' on this game.
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uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuwwwwwwwwwww this video site kicked me off my chair.. i loved playing this game but there are some really sick stunts in the vids..
Joined: 4/3/2006
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Those time attacks and stunts videos are awesome. I wish someone could make TAS for this. BTW, is this game working in the current N64 emulator ?
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It works, but it runs quite slow on my computer. Don't know why because other games don't have this problem Edit: Ah, that's weird: Now, even other games run very slow... Edit2: New mupen installation -> speed problem solved. WaveRace is emulated correctly as fas as I can see, but only with Jabo's 1.6 video-plugin.
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I did some stunt mode stuff: http://www.savefile.com/files/1019579 Dolphin Park - 50018 (WR is 28337) Sunny Beach - 31296 (WR is 17642) Sunset Bay - 22653 (WR is 15613) About 52000 is possible on Dolphin Park.
Joined: 6/7/2006
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Nice vids. I have to try if these "saltos" on the sand are doable on a real console. As far as I remember, it was really hard to do saltos on the sand, because you easily got stuck and couldn't drive back to the water. So I hope you will do some TAS of levels like Marine Fortress or Port Blue, where there is no sand.
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The sand-stunt I do in the beginning of Sunset Bay is easy to do on console. The others are harder.
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Wow, these are cool. Are you going to do a full TAS of all courses in stunt mode and submit?
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Can someone record the wip of this game please ?
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comicalflop wrote:
Wow, these are cool. Are you going to do a full TAS of all courses in stunt mode and submit?
Don't know if this is possible, because not all tracks are unlocked at the beginning. So he had to use a save with all tracks unlocked and that isn't allowed as far as I know...
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Mahrla wrote:
Don't know if this is possible, because not all tracks are unlocked at the beginning. So he had to use a save with all tracks unlocked and that isn't allowed as far as I know...
I'm pretty sure it would be allowed, I can't do anything right now though.
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ZeXr0 wrote:
Can someone record the wip of this game please ?
I've uploaded them to my youtube channel now. Sorry it took me 3 years to record these, but thanks for waiting so patiently, lol
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Haha, frickin beach break dancing. That was awesome.
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Good Thanks for the encore :P I'll watch it right now :) I'm very patient :P
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Sucks that the Shindou edition still doesn't work on Bizhawk.
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nfq wrote:
Sucks that the Shindou edition still doesn't work on Bizhawk.
But I just tested the Shindou version on BizHawk, and it works... ._.
Here, my YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/dekutony
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Kurabupengin wrote:
But I just tested the Shindou version on BizHawk, and it works...[/url] ._.
Interesting. For me it just shows the N64 logo in the beginning and nothing else. Do I need to have some specific settings or something? I've never TASed on bizhawk before. I just downloaded the latest version and I didn't change any settings. Pretty much all other games work except this. Edit: When I try to play your movie, the "SHA" is red. Not sure what SHA is, but does it mean we have a different version of the game? I also tried the older bizhawk version you were using, but it didn't work; didn't even get the N64 logo.