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Complete run on HARD difficulty with no damage taken (which is very difficult to avoid especially in the overhead sections). Not 100% kills but with the overhead stages this isn't possible due to respawning. Overhead stages are therefore done with speed in mind. Side scrolling stages are done with as many kills as poss in mind, and beating the bosses ASAP.
UPDATED TO BETA9 GMV.
Comments from TXT with additions:
Run lasts around 18:39 seconds (take off 15 for the title screen), recorded using and requires v8 of Jyzero's modified Gens (since converted to v9). Be sure to select 44100 hz sample rate audio output, otherwise synchronisation may be compromised.
Improvements? Maybe you can gain seconds by ignoring the weapon dropships in the overhead levels, but then said levels become MUCH harder to cope with later on. I miss the odd missile here and there on the side-scrolling levels. Without hunter these are impossible to kill. There is no way to get hunter earlier in the game, and weapons from top-view levels don't carry over to side-view levels. After this movie finishes, you'll eventually get back to the title screen. Press A+START to get to the options. You will then be able to select and start on ANY level from 1 to 9. Good luck trying 9. ;P

Bisqwit: Your comments on this submission were quite brief. I see you had some kind of .txt file inside the .zip file, but I didn't read it because the zip should only contain your movie, and all the comments should be written here.

Chis: Added comments.

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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #285: chis's Genesis Thunder Force 2 in 18:39.97
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The menus in the beginning are S-L-O-W. Did you even use any slo-mo when doing them? You should. Also, the title screen after choosing the options stays there for quite a while. Can it not be skipped? At some bosses (at least the worm-thingie with the red brain) you do nothing while the boss lunges forward. Couldn't you get over them and use the side beam? Or use the Mega blaster from afar? One other thing that bothere me was that in one of the overhead stages you destroy three of the four cannons (or whatever they are) using the wide (might be mistaken) beam and then you destroy the final cannon with the laser beam. What's up with that? Overall I think the overhead stages and the boss battles could be done more effectively. With only 300ish rerecords in 18:40 it's hard to really perfect anything.
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I recall him saying that he left it at the title screen so as to give us a chance to hear the music for awhile. But yes, this could definitely stand to have quite a few more rerecords.
but then you take my 75 perchance chance of winning, if we was to go one-on-one, and then add 66 and two-thirds ch...percents...i got a 141 and two-thirds chance of winning at sacrifice
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This is a damned good run. However. . .the title screen destroyed this run. I'm sorry. My Vote: No. Reasons: He was extremely slow in the menus, and he left the title screen go for fifteen seconds. This is a bad thing to do. Otherwise it's a top-notch no-hit run. Advice: Forget the damned title screen music, man. And use slow-motion in the menus, perhaps.
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