This topic is for the purpose of discussing #1339: INfintido's NES Felix the Cat in 25:29.90

have you seen this?

I tried to make sure I was ahead, or atleast tied with the current times of the previous speedrun at the end of every level. I ended up beating the last boss ~ 10 seconds faster than the previous run.

um, then why are you 2 minutes slower?

there's no way that can be the official time though. I was going by the clock on the bottom, and I was atleast tied with the previous times for each stage, or better. most of the time 1 second faster. I beat the last boss by about 10 seconds faster than the previous run. Plus I didn't know when to stop the video, so it keeps going longer than it should.

Watching your movie, you seem to collect some bonuses at the end of the level that the previous author didn't. Going by level time is not how you do it, you gotta go frame by frame. In game time won't show you how many frames you gain/lost due to lag, for example. Watching both movies at the same time, you get behind pretty quickly and stay there. All in all, though, it's not a bad attempt, though I think the game itself might be a little boring. Good luck with future endeavors --your path through that flying level with the ballons and byplanes about and such was five whole time-units behind-and then there were those weird bonuses again that the previous author seemed to avoid, costing you large amounts of time. Oh and if your movie does end early, well, that's one of the easiest things to fix before submitting. You did do better in a couple parts, though, I did notice! --aahh, I think that that mysterious bonus that's killing your time is the bonus you get for having Magic hearts or whatever (on the top left) remaining when you exit a stage. The previous author took damage to intentionally lose this 'bonus' and thus save a lot of time. I think that right there was what you missed causing this large time difference. --err, that and waiting several hundred frames after you should've ended the movie! If you 'don't know when to stop recording the movie,' find it out and fix it before you submit it! Waiting all the way through the THE END screen and then starting a new game shows you weren't trying very hard at that point to give us a good movie. Try to not let kind of silliness creep into any further TASes, please, if possible.

There seem to be some significant differences in the blackout between levels. When I play the published avi and this submission side-by-side, the levels are fairly easy to compare but the blackout in the avi is significantly shorter than in FCEU. If you can press a button to shorten the blackout, it'd make the times much easier to compare. You did better in some places but worse in others. This is fine on the condition that you were making a deliberate trade-off, but I don't think that was the case here. A submission that attempts to obselete an existing movie should be faster or equivalent in every way, barring intentional trade-offs. I'm voting no, but don't get discouraged. You clearly found some improvements. There are just some places that need cleaning up.

ahh. ok. thanks for the feedback guys.

If you realize your submission is not good enough, or if you are making an improvement on your submission, it is good form to set it to "Cancelled". (Go to the page for your submission and click Edit.) It lowers the work load for the judges, and makes the forum less populated. Good luck if you decide to improve this.

Yes, good luck on the improved run.

I wanted to give him the chance to cancel it, but if that doesn't happen I will reject it later today. Or someone else can do it sooner if they really feel like it.