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I mean, they mastered RBO in the first place I think they can master spike sparking or whatever. It's important to keep in mind that a TAS is not RTA done fast, it's a TAS.
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I think if it the category should be revisited in the future it should be like Project Base RAMBO (Reverse Boss + Mini-Boss Order), since that creates the largest degree of variety compared to this.
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All right, going to address all the points he made.
Screwed up graphics =/= major glitch. That's at most a stereotype. The biggest glitch in Ocarina of Time, Wrong Warp, doesn't mess up the graphics at all.
The word you're looking for is clipping, not zipping. A zip would be like a warp from Brinstar to Tourian. In any other game, skipping a room or backtrack via a glitch wouldn't be considered very major. Moderate at best.
[1978] SNES Super Metroid "X-Ray glitch" by Cpadolf in 21:25.12
Whole point of this run is to beat all the bosses without the various ACES/clips to Tourian that have already been discovered. Doesn't mean X-Ray and its various utilities should be banned entirely. Here's a published example:
[1686] NES Mega Man by Shinryuu & finalfighter in 12:23.34[2601] NES Mega Man "game end glitch" by pirohiko & finalfighter in 00:32.11
Both runs exploit pausing to achieve different goals. Does that mean pausing should be entirely banned because it can lead to ACE? Obviously not. Both runs kill things to achieve different goals. Does that mean killing things should be entirely banned because it can lead to ACE? Obviously not.
That's assuming a new RBO TAS would be exactly the same to the old TAS, when in reality it would use the exact same glitches in Maridia and Norfair. It would end up being derivative, it's easier to just combine the categories if like 3/4 of the bosses are fought in the same order anyway.
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So I'm gonna go ahead and dispel one major gripe before it balloons. Sniq linked this on the discord: https://puu.sh/zsQYU/d846c4d687.mp4
No out of bounds, as you can see.
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Yeah no we're not making 'any% with medium glitches' a category. Please remember that the other any% also uses medium glitches, so arbitrarily splitting them like that to preserve a 'pure' movie is flawed from the start.
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1) To survive Mother Brain's rainbow beam, bare minimum you need 3 e-tanks and Varia to halve damage.
2) That's the standup glitch. Mother Brain won't actually fall to 0 HP until you shoot her with the beam you get from the baby metroid.
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Wait so RTA doing moonfalls is ok but a TAS using it in a better way isn't? Blue suit with a new method isn't ok here but it's ok in prior TASes with an older method? X-Raying to deal constant damage in RTA is ok but not here?
You can see the problems in your argument when everything you complain about is present in prior RTA runs and other TASes. It's very much in the spirit in a TAS to push limits, not restrict glitches because you don't like them.
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So obvious question, why are you constantly jumping instead of just holding right and B?
Also if you have access to an emulator do you know what savestating and rewinding is.
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Yeah no picking Pearl for long categories at this point is nothing but a detriment. Platinum has wayyy faster battles, I'm not sure why it wasn't chosen instead.
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This gets a No from me. I appreciate the enthusiasm, and for a first TAS it isn't terrible, but at the same time it needs to match or beat prior TAS runs, which this doesn't at multiple points.
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Definite no. It's one thing for a first time TAS to be accepted ([2590] Windows Ikachan "warp glitch" by arandomgameTASer in 03:31.56) and another thing entirely for a LOTAD to be accepted. When obvious improvements are found rather easily due to a lack of optimization that doesn't bode well.
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And that discredits his entire argument why exactly?
I understand being offended, sure, but it's hardly different then getting annoyed over other strong language, especially considering that the intent of that word has shifted more towards slang in recent years.
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