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This is a time-attack to complete the game Family Feud as fast as possible.
  • Aims for fastest time
  • Manipulates luck
  • Exploits glitches
I used Snes9x v1.43+ v9.
Basic rundown:
The first bit of luck manipulation was to force the game to pick the shortest family name for my opponent. "Hall" is the shortest name, which means less time was used during the name-typing process.
After that, each round was manipulated so that the fewest number of answers were available. Round 1 has five, round 2 has five, and round 3 has four. The fewest number of answers, the less waiting there is altogether.
And finally, the most fun part, was manipulating the word recognition program. It's possible to leave out certain letters and spaces, use alternative words, and so on to trick the game into recognizing words that are much smaller, saving time in punching them.
For the fast play round, the first family member needs to have a score of 200 or more, otherwise a second family member needs to go through the same process, meaning loads of wasted time. Aside from that, it needed to be manipulated so that all the answers could be as short as possible. Since one of the answers is a number, and the others are five letters or less, this seems to be the most optimal solution.


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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #2131: Heisanevilgenius's SNES Family Feud in 03:43.00
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I understand if this isn't the most entertaining run in the world, but thought it might make for an interesting concept demo. I'm working on another run meant to showcase how you can abuse the bizarre word recognition program.
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I had to give a low vote for the entertainment, purely because of the nature of the game. The short movie helped, though. As for the run, I think it was very well done. Much better than having to suffer through 30 minutes of Al from Home Improvement interlaced with commercials (or even worse, Lewie Anderson).
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Nicely done. I see the reason behind your comparison of this to Monopoly, and it's fairly impressive in its own right, but... yeah. Not terribly entertaining. 6|8
Hyena wrote:
I understand if this isn't the most entertaining run in the world, but thought it might make for an interesting concept demo. I'm working on another run meant to showcase how you can abuse the bizarre word recognition program.
it accepted "cocks" as "cooking" earlier. :D I'm very much looking forward to whatever insanity you can concoct for next run.
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I've cancelled this submission because I discovered room for improvement in the final round. Will resubmit improvement at a later time.