After dampening TASing I decided I like to do a platformer that doesn't have a current run up on TASvideos. I decided on
Densetsu No Stafy (aka Legend of Stafy/Legendary Stafy). I actually own the game, imported it back in 2007. It's a rather simple platformer which has a large amount of water. The story is really simple to follow, Stafy is up in the Sky Castle and clumsily drops a magical jar which holds some evil guy named Ogura. He is released from the jar and wrecks havoc on the Sky Castle knocking Stafy into the sea below. So its up to you to fix everything.
The game is divided up into 9 stages, with the first stage serving as a tutorial (thus the shortest stage). Along the way there are a few power ups/techniques you can get. I'm aiming for an any percent run, going for the quickest time possible avoiding anything I don't need. In order to even consider doing a 100% run one has to complete the game at least once anyways.
I like to thank
Chamale for his topic on the game (which hasn't seen any posts since 2007). His WIP .vbm showed me quit a few tricks. Such as allowing Left+Right at the same time to shave some frames at in the first stage. Unfortunately for his run, he was running it on a intro hacked rom (Eurasia I think) which adds an unnecessary 27 additional frames to his run. I also like to note while following his excellent run, I managed to shave off an additional 54 frames (along with the 27 frames from the intro) off his run by the end of stage 3 (a grand total of 84 frames).
I've just finished the 4th stage which you can see
HERE(obselete)
I like to note the following:
VBA 1.7.2 v19.3 is used
Taking damage at certain parts actually saves time
Left+Right inputs are used
Luck Manipulation is used
I'll keep you all informed on progress, I'm hard at work at it.
Tell me what you think.
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Progress: 4th stage finished, planning for 5th. (Taking a break for the time being)