Posted: 12/27/2009 11:52 PM
Post subject: Flight of the Falcon
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joel96
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Joined: 12/27/2009
Posts: 9
I wanted to make a speedrun of a fairly new Star Wars game, so I completed the first two levels of Flight of the Falcon for GBA. In the WIP, I take zero damage, and have 100% accuracy on all levels. The second level has the land speeder complete the level as fast as possible and since lateral movement doesn't affect it, there's a whole bunch of tricks: the speeder can run smack dab into a building and go straight through it and the edges of most buildings can be run through; the speeder almost goes as fast as lasers, so stormtroopers can be shot point blank; and lasers go through multiple buildings at really long range to hit stormtroopers. I made it with the 1282 build back in October of 2007! :O No one has made a speedrun of FoF since then, so at the moment I'm the most elite player of it in the universe. --_-- That said, I completely ruined the first level because I didn't realize there was acceleration for the Falcon until the third level. :( I hope someone else likes the game enough to redo the first level and finish the game, because I sure can't finish it. I'll get around to FRAPs-ing it so it can go up on YouTube anyway. Maybe. *-* The .vbm is over at dehacked. It's worth a look for the second level. :D EDIT: a low-fi video recording of it is available on Youtube.
Posted: 8/2/2015 9:14 AM
Post subject: Level 3 completed
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joel96
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Joined: 12/27/2009
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bULIboqe9DA&feature=youtu.be The movie file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5zIz1YSh_e7aEpUOGJnYnFLT2s/view?usp=sharing Recorded with Virtual Boy Advanced Re-Recording (480): https://code.google.com/p/vba-rerecording/downloads/list Recorded with Open Broadcaster Software: https://obsproject.com/download I've completed level 3. I used OBS with quality set to 10, max bitrate set to 3000, CBR disabled, 48kHz format in the AAC with a bitrate of 320 in stereo. There's still some compression artifacts visible in level 3. I didn't record the footage with VBA's built in AVI recorder. There's something wrong with the scaling; the resultant video ends up blurry, like it's trying to scale the original resolution rather than use the properly scaled image I see in fullscreen (close to what is visible in the YT video). I tried using ffdshow, x264, HuffyYUV, and ligrasomething lossless, but they all ended up blurry. x264 failed to render any video (I have K-Lite installed rather than ffdshow by itself, with priority set to LAV for most of the codecs that support it). Level 1 does not have acceleration; the R and L buttons lack functions. I wasn't able to hit droids behind pillars in level 3 while accelerating; the progress meter is based on droids hit--speeding past them would take longer to complete the mission. There are a few droids I think I could have hit with long-distance shots while moving diagonally towards the next droid, but I don't feel like it slows it down enough to make a difference when I finally get to that droid since the ones in the open don't require deceleration, and I have to slow down anyway to get the second droids behind the ones in the open (the second ones are behind pillars in some locations). Hopefully it makes it interesting to watch; the collisions are way less buggy than level 2 unfortunately; it makes running into things easier and makes shooting droids on the other side of pillars less likely. Feel free to improve on it, but until then, I'm the best there is at this game, and have been the reigning champion for eight years now. :D