Posted: 2/13/2009 9:15 PM
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Post subject: Nintendo World Championships 1990 Speed run???
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NDS_Emil
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Super mario bros, 50 coins: 01:07,00 or faster. Rad Racer, Complete first race: 02:41,00 or faster. Tetris, Get Highscore: 03:29.67 or faster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRujmwf4S60
Posted: 2/13/2009 10:45 PM
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Dwedit
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That is some FAIL playing there. Didn't know about holding UP in Rad Racer to accelerate faster.
Posted: 2/13/2009 11:50 PM
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Derakon
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Dunno what you meant about the FAIL bit; looked pretty good to me for a single take on a game, unassisted. Sure, there were plenty of minor mistakes, but without rerecording or lots of takes that's going to happen. That said, this should probably go into the "Speedrun competitions" forum, since all of the console-specific forums are meant for tool-assisted runs. :)
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Posted: 2/14/2009 2:23 AM
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alden
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Derakon wrote:
looked pretty good to me for a single take on a game, unassisted
Probably better than I could do, but right in the related videos section is a dude on a console who gets over twice that score: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzQavDtwBCQ&feature=related I'd like to see a TAS, too bad it doesn't emulate well enough.
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Posted: 2/14/2009 9:57 AM
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Twelvepack
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Bad strategy in the mario segment too. Better to die to get all 50 coins in 1-1, save more time for tetris.
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Posted: 2/15/2009 12:51 AM
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Chamale
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It seems a good strategy could buy you at least 3 minutes of Tetris. In the A-type TAS, the score at that point is 800,000, so a TAS of this game could possibly get a score of 20,000,000. Of course, the pieces go slower in NWC, and I think the RNG is different, but I believe a score over 10,000,000 would be easily possible.
Posted: 2/15/2009 2:10 AM
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Derakon
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From what I've read, the piece generator for Tetris is fixed to one of a small handful of piece patterns, to reduce the effect of luck on the game (since NWC was intended for competitions).
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Posted: 2/15/2009 7:22 AM
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I have a WIP that manages to reach the Tetris stage in 3 minutes, 20 seconds, leaving 3 minutes for Tetris with the set series of blocks. I think one of the established Tetris experts should try to figure out a good way to go here.
Posted: 8/30/2010 11:21 PM
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I know of a few improvements. Make a fourth jump off the block to get to the exit pipe faster. get the 22nd coin and land in between two Goombas. the sweet spot is 10,400 points as the points in Super Mario Bros. affect which Tetrominoes appear in Tetris. Do not release up until speed reaches 255 Km/h. Crash into a palm tree at the right when the score is at 6,060. The game ends when time reaches around 5:24 on FCEUX. Since the WIP was used with FCEU 0.98.16 (also works with FCEU 0.98.12), it could be 6:21.