Post subject: A Boy and His Blob - The Rescue of Princess Blobette
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Here's a quick test run that uses the best known route: http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/5542/blob.vbm Hopefully someone is interested and makes a better movie someday. It's a very funny game.
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Well, here's another test run, 38 seconds shorter: http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/5559/blob2.vbm There's one part with 4 seconds of continuous lag and I have no idea how to avoid it. Otherwise I might even make a submission of this.
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Give me a minute and I'll check it out. SOMEONE cares, at least.
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I'm having ROM download troubles. Sorry.
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That was quite impressive. I'd say you could submit that.
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Thank you for watching it, LSK. I'm starting to think it may be an emulator failure, because I've never seen lag like that before. I've also found an in-game bug that freezes the VBA frame counter. Shouldn't that be impossible?
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No. I've had it happen in VBA (Pokémon Red). I used a glitch to get a level 0 pokémon, which had 0 defense. When it got attacked, VBA tried to divide by 0 forever, crashing the computer.
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I just watched the NES Boy and His Blob video and thought about this sequel. I know this thread is a few years old but I think what we've got here already is important. Are there any further plans for this game? Does it have the same bugs?
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SaxxonPike wrote:
I just watched the NES Boy and His Blob video and thought about this sequel. I know this thread is a few years old but I think what we've got here already is important. Are there any further plans for this game? Does it have the same bugs?
[1226] GB A Boy and His Blob by Aqfaq in 01:41.73
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Yes, it too can be improved! Looking forward to it! (Not doing it myself.)
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Lol - this and the NES run are of exactly the same length.
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Only Aglar can improve this now.
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Aglar wrote:
Lol - this and the NES run are of exactly the same length.
They also have the same overall rating at the moment: 7.1 It is the international standard for this game series. Because today... TAS means Tool-Assisted Standard. How about fixing the situation by improving the GB version?
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I would like to have a try. What improvemets do you have in mind Mr. Aqfaq?
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Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
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NitroGenesis wrote:
I would like to have a try. What improvemets do you have in mind Mr. Aqfaq?
Great to hear you're interested, Mr. NitroGenesis. I believe minor improvements are possible in the overall precision and lag-reduction. I am not aware of any major improvement, but the game has gotten very little attention compared to the NES game, which has seen 8 publications! The game is a bit more complex than the NES SMB. which has seen 16 warped run publications. Statistically, the probability of a major timesaver is very high here. You just need to find the right item to use in the right place. Or the wrong item in the wrong place. Good luck!