I did listen to mmbossman and i come back with a faster run of this game, that doesnt miss shoots, and look less sloppy than last time.
Main improvements come from 2 shortcut i did oversight in last movie, and overall better movements.

Summary

  • Aims for fastest time
  • Takes damage to save time
  • Manipulate Luck
  • Color a dynosaur in white
  • Official Encodes [1]
  • System : SuperGrafx
  • Emulator used: PCEjin (revision 76)
  • Download Package contain this movie, old movie, frames spreadsheet, lua and savestates (Drag&Drop)
  • Frames:31473 Lag:1257 Re-records:4938


Notes


Granzort is a cute little plateformer inspired from a manga with robots, all religious implications of somes signs are purely coincidential (i think...).
Apparently the game was made just to demonstrate that the extra hardware in Supergrafx is worthy, it use 2 independant background (wohooo!), its one of the rare game made for that system (7 in total, japan only).
The game mechanisms are pretty basic, you either can shoot/swing at ennemys or jump on their head like in mario, any hit will kill you but you can take get a silver armor to take damage 1 time (work like mushrooms...), there are also gold armor that give you short time of invulnerability (see stars...).
There is 3 robots at your disposal, with different abilitys/weapons, green can fly/shoot at range, red and blue have hand weapons plus heavy attack abilitys.
Stages are cleared with the green robot (abusing fly ability) and bosses are taken down with blue most generaly.
I didnt finded any glitches, well, on that matter it will probably look a bit dull for some viewers, this game have nothing heavly interresting, yet i like it (probably something to do with nostalgia).

Important notice: the old submision (2230S.mc2) included in the download package doesnt actually fully beat the game, a bug in the mcm translator prevented a full convertion, the movie end at final boss.
Also, i couldnt find bosses hp except for first stage, any help on that matter would be greatly appreciate.


Official Encodes[1]

Closings

Thanks to Aktan for encodes, and pcejin team for one of the best tasing emu around :p

adelikat: After subtracting 2 troll no votes, the viewer response & votes were positive. The movie seems decent. Accepting for publication.
sgrunt: Processing.

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Nice step from your first submission. All the problems from the previous run were gone. Yes Vote
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It's oddly hypnotic, despite this being the sort of game that normally doesn't hold my attention. (Perhaps it's the floating, or the different weapon mechanics?) In any case, yes vote.
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Okay, so I enjoyed this run. The game had a nice aesthetic, the gameplay was entertaining, and it had some...interesting uses of religious symbolism :P I know it's based on an anime, but I made up my own plot that you were fighting a crazed Hasidic Jew who was trying to take over the world with robots (thus explaining the rather large Star of David in the background of every boss fight). Voting yes.
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Good enough for me. I love Japanese mecha anime.
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Congrats on a much improved run! It looks like there might be some places to shave time, but this is certainly worthy of being accepted as is.
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Stage 6 looked really hard, and there were some slowdowns, but I imagine you did the best you could with them. This game looks really good now. Yes vote.
Used to be a frequent submissions commenter. My new computer has had some issues running emulators, so I've been here more sporadically. Still haven't gotten around to actually TASing yet... I was going to improve Kid Dracula for GB. It seems I was beaten to it, though, with a recent awesome run by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. (http://tasvideos.org/2928M.html.) Thanks to goofydylan8 for running Gargoyle's Quest 2 because I mentioned the game! (http://tasvideos.org/2001M.html) Thanks to feos and MESHUGGAH for taking up runs of Duck Tales 2 because of my old signature! Thanks also to Samsara for finishing a Treasure Master run. From the submission comments:
Shoutouts and thanks to mklip2001 for arguably being the nicest and most supportive person on the forums.
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I don't see any problem preventing me from voting Yes right now. And let alone that we have to accept this because this site politically deserves more PCE movies.
<klmz> it reminds me of that people used to keep quoting adelikat's IRC statements in the old good days <adelikat> no doubt <adelikat> klmz, they still do
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [1432] SGX Madou King Granzort by arukAdo in 08:46.07