About me
Hi I'm Comicalflop, I'm 18 years old, I live in Massachusetts and I go to UMD college. I joined this site 2006-06-13, after spending months looking at these amazing videos. I first got into TASing when early last year my brother showed me Morimoto's SMB3 TAS (back when nobody knew it was a TAS) and I started thinking about speedrunning videogames. Through my initial feeble attempts I offhandedly discovered this site, and dove right into making a Donkey Kong Country 2 TAS. I was recently made an editor as of 2006-12-04.
Published Runs
Next Projects, in no particular order
- Improving DKC2 102% DKC2 102% Improvement
- Kirby 64 and the Crystal Shards 100% Kirby 64 100%
- Super Smash Bros. Kirby High Score Run SSB Fastest Completion + High Score. Because I'm such a good Pacifist.
Progress with current projects
Super Smash Bros Kirby High Score
| Stage | in game timer end | Score to beat | final score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Link | 4:52 | 110550 | 110600 |
| Yoshi Team | 4:26 | 247770 | 266000 |
| Fox | 4:52 | 368420 | 386700 |
| Break the Target | 1:46 | 428220 | 447900* |
| Mario Bros. | - | 521371 | |
| Pikachu | - | 652171 | |
| Giant DK | - | 895121 | |
| Board the Platforms | - | 895121 | |
| Kirby Team | - | 1020581 | |
| Samus | - | 1118932 | |
| Metal Mario | - | 1269731 | |
| Race to the Finish | - | 1302231 | |
| Polygon Team | - | 1412462 | |
| Master Hand | - | 2419243 |
*Test run, not finished stage **Notes on most recent stage:
Mario Bros.... dear god was it tough!!! Had to make sure Pikachu didn't get hit, I didn't get hit, and Luigi to die first without Mario getting hit. getting these goals, and 10 seconds.... yeah I'm proud of the result.
Donkey Kong Country 2 102% Improvement
| Stage | Frames Saved |
|---|---|
| Pirate Panic | 38 frames saved |
| Mainbrace Mayhem | 164 frames saved |
| Gangplank Galley | 16 frames saved |
| Lockjaw's Locker | 29 frames saved |
| Topsail Trouble | 43 frames saved |
| Krow's Nest | 75 frames saved |
| Hothead Hop | 77 frames saved |
| Kannon's Klaim | 38 frames saved |
| Jungle Jinx | 78 frames saved |
| Lava Lagoon | 251 frames saved |
| Total Frames saved | 809 frames |
Favorite Movies
- Castlevania: CotM by OgreSlayeR
- Donkey Kong Country any% + 101% by Arne_the_Great
- Donkey Kong Country 2 any% by Sami
- Super Mario 64 16 Star by AKA
- Super Mario 64 120 Star by FODA
- Super Mario Bros. 3 by Genisto
- Super Mario World 96 Exit by Fabian
- Super Mario World 11 Exit by JXQ and Fabian
- Super Demo World 120 Exit by JXQ and Fabian
- Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island any% by Spezzafer
- Megaman 1, 2, 3 by Bisqwit, Angerfist, Shinryuu, Vatcher
- Megaman X by Fractal Fusion
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2, 3 by Nitsuja
- Zelda: Ocarina of Time by Guanobowl
- Gradius by Adelikat
Runs that I'm dying to see
- Arne_the_great's Donkey Kong Country 2 any%
- I will gladly pick this up if he discontinues
- Sami's Banjo Kazooie 100%
- One of the top N64 games, with great glitches and action
- Vidar's Starfox 64 High Score
- this is just too intense.
- Spezzafer's Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island 100%
- I pray that he'll finish this, the WIP lacks the english words to describe
- Nibelung's Donkey Kong Country 3 105%
- Nibelung is tearing this game apart, making a consistent speed that normally isn't expected of this slowest of the DKC series.
- Fabian's Super Mario World 96 Exit Improvement
- C'mon, the first one is the highest ranking movie here, his improvement is going to need a new rating system going beyond 10/10
- thegreginator + skamastaG's Super Mario World small only 86 Exit
- I had a taste of one of the castle levels, and overcoming the obstacles of being short makes me proud since I'm only 5'6"
- OgreSlayeR's Megaman X 100%
- slow progress, but looks very promising
- Angerfist + Baxter's Megaman 3, 4, 5, 6 Quad Run
- The dual X X2 was amazing, and this quad run just causes mind explosions. It might have to be hidden, or else the number of people rushing to hospital in shock or switching to the Baxter/Angerfist Cult will be overwhelming.
- The Rising Tempests's Goldeneye
- when applying to work for the master bad guy, go for the white labcoat job so that when the TASing James Bond bursts in and out of the door in 2 seconds he won't give you a Tool Assisted perfectly aimed head shot.
- Mukki's Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
- we shalt prevail the desynchs, and an amazing run shalt be born!
- Guanobowl's Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Improved
- once the guards problem is fixed, get ready for even more extreme sequence breaking!
- Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Erokky's any%
- dezbeats's 100%
- these just look damn promising, and incredibly optmized- check out their rerecord # for barely 10 minutes of play
- antd's Super Smash Bros Fox Fastest Completion
- With luck antd and I can bring Super Smash Bros TASing to this community, and show what fast paced cartoon mischeif looks like.
- Any Fast action N64 game that emulates well and doesn't desynch.
Runs that I've tried and failed/put on hold
I tend to frantically search for different TASes to work on, since I get TAS withdrawl if I'm not working on runs. I'll pick up and drop runs left and right, though thankfully as of now I have 3 strong runs that I'm going to see to completion.
- Kirby Dreamland 3: 100%
- It's faster than Kirby 64 100%, but I lost interest, the possibility of 2 player was daungting to me, but mostly I lost interest.
- Rayman 2: The Great Escape any%
- Mega huge/frequent desynchs, a four hour long projected movie, but biggest of all the boss consistently disappears in the 7th level, so I can't beat him.
- Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island 100%
- good thing I gave up after barely 2 days of trying it
- Starcraft 64
- Quite simply an RPS like this is going to be difficult, but the biggest problems were desynching and the fact that units did not know how to speedrun, and stopped to attack enemy units in range.
- Donkey Kong Country series Tri run
- This was a bad idea to even suggest
Contact me
You can PM me, AIM me at comicalflop, email me at [mailto:joshnfrostburn@yahoo.com], however I will not be on the IRC since I cannot connect. Arg.