After I saw morimoto and FinalFighter's Rockman 2 run somewhere around the spring of 2005. Firstly I though some crazy Japaneses played everything in real time and I was curious to know more about it. Later on I realized it was done by tools and I was more than impressed by my find.
I just found out about TASes a year and a half ago, but it started for me in mid-2010 with YouTube videos of Super Smash Bros. (one of my first games on an emulator) and a 16 star run of Super Mario 64 (hadn't played the game yet). Eventually I watched some of webnations' videos, looked at speedruns.net and this site, and eventually started coming here every day (as I still do). I started lurking in August 2010 and didn't see the need to register until I realized I wanted to contribute something, and signed up in November 2010.
I never thought I would have the time or skill to make a TAS, but when I read Groudon177's suggestion of Legend of the Lost Spatula in the GBx forum, I was instantly motivated to make my first TAS.
I found this site via YouTube. The links to TASvideos on every publication really do help! (Strangely, it was a while before I found the site after learning of the existence of TASes, because most non-tasvideos TASes don't link here.)
Joined: 10/28/2007
Posts: 1360
Location: The dark horror in the back of your mind
I swear I've posted this story at some point previously, but whatever.
I'm fairly sure my first exposure to TASing was seeing Morimoto's SMB3 in the wild back when it was first making the rounds, but that may have predated the existence of the site.
What first brought my attention to the site was one of the early SM64 runs (quite possibly [794] N64 Super Mario 64 "16 stars" by Rikku in 15:24.08). It took me several months after that to realise there were forums here too.
I swear I've posted this story at some point previously, but whatever.
I'm fairly sure my first exposure to TASing was seeing Morimoto's SMB3 in the wild back when it was first making the rounds, but that may have predated the existence of the site.
What first brought my attention to the site was one of the early SM64 runs (quite possibly [794] N64 Super Mario 64 "16 stars" by Rikku in 15:24.08). It took me several months after that to realise there were forums here too.
nearly the same here but combined with lurking for several years
How should I know what I think before I read what I post?
Joined: 3/2/2010
Posts: 2174
Location: A little to the left of nowhere (Sweden)
I thought I already had posted in this topic, guess not...
I found this place through Kaz's Soul Blaser TAS somewhere back in 2008, I've always been interested in beating games as quickly as possible and I decided to lurk around for a while. When I felt I had most things figured out and that I had things to add, I decided to register.
I was google searching for super mario bros. glitches. It had the super mario bros. game resources page, and after looking at it I started looking at other things on the site.
Let's see, kind of a list here:
Unknown time: Watched Morimoto's SMB3 TAS
Unknown time: Stumbled across Saturn's WIP of Super Metroid Redesign and a clip from his RBO that featured the Ridley fight.
A few summers back: Stumbled across Hero of the Day's Super Metroid any% TAS v2, which subsequently led to watching Cpadolf's any%'s on his youtube channel and Saturn's 14% run on his channel and eventually led to coming and lurking around the site for some time.
3rd time's the charm when it comes to how I found the site.
My user name is rather long, feel free to call me by htwt or tape.
Everything started with Speedruns. When I searched in mid 2008 for a Super Mario 64 Speedrun on YouTube, I found AKA and Swordlesslink's 0 star TAS. It took me a while to decide to visit TASVideos, Before I just watched TASes on YouTube. I did myself a simply TAS of Super Mario Bros. After a few months I registriered on TASVideos to learn more about TASing.
Through the annotations on encodes. They're there for a reason!
More indirectly, I discovered TASing itself through the famous Item Abuse TAS on YouTube (it was on the YouTube homepage for a while). Then I searched for more TASes, and it was inevitable I'd come across one of TASvideos' TASes eventually.
After watching nintendodsg's "How to Beat Super Mario 64", I stumbled upon one of SwordlessLink's old TASes of SM64. Either that, or one of the first SMB TASes back in the day. Ah, nostalgia...
After watching nintendodsg's "How to Beat Super Mario 64", I stumbled upon one of SwordlessLink's old TASes of SM64. Either that, or one of the first SMB TASes back in the day. Ah, nostalgia...
Hey, I knew that guy. Hosted / helped run his SMBZ fan-site. Cool guy.
The first TAS I've ever seen, like many other people, was Morimoto's Super Mario Bros. 3 run on albinoblacksheep.com. I also knew about SwordlessLink for a long time. I'm not sure how I actually ended up on this site. Where am I?
oh, i forget how i got here. i probably saw Poms mario in 4:59.93 first, and about 2 years later i started getting emulators and then i signed up for Speedruns.net (obsolete site, btw) and scored mario 1 (pal) in 5:20, and mario 3 in 11:03.
and the smb recources page led me here, too.
I had just discovered youtube and decided to search for Super Metroid to see if there was something. I found Red Scarlet's realtime run and was blown away. Imagine how i was after watching just 10min of JXQ's Super Metroid 100% run!! Well, i had a bad time trying to watch the rest, cause there was only 10 min of it on a video on youtube. I started searching for that run but i was too noob to find something even on google and when i found it, don't know why but i couldn't downlad the Mirror option and didn't know anything about smv or torrent. It took me a lot of time to watch the run even after i managed to download it because of codecs problem.
Funny thing is i used to only look for movies on the Movies page, where the new movies appear after beeing published. It took a lot of time for me to understand that the runs were submited before going to that page and it took me more time to find the forums.
I actually don't remember how I found the site, but it was early enough that when I registered the Super Metroid thread had only 17 pages.
Looking at the profiles it was 42 days after michael flatley registered and 76 days before his last post...
