This topic is for the purpose of discussing #2179: Lord_of_Olympia's NES Contra in 09:32.87

Soooo this is Contra right? Why did you use the J version? Why is this slower than the existing movie?

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Did not read this. I will write on english

The last known 1-player version was played on the U ROM, and it's only a second slower. While switching to J ROM saves about 22 seconds by itself. That's not to say that the current published run uses 2 players and is about 35 seconds faster.

I will try to edit Gryzor _ (J).fm2 on fceux-2.0.3.

There is no NES Gryzor. Only Contra or Probotector.

It will be made!

There is no NES Gryzor. Only Contra or Probotector.

um... filename is "Gryzor (J).nes"

There is no NES Gryzor. Only Contra or Probotector.

There should be. From the three names, "Gryzor" is the coolest. "Contra" is just banal and mundane. It's like "opposing force" or similar unimaginative names. "Probovector" starts having that cool cyberpunkish sound. However, it's maybe a bit too bombastic, even to the point that it sounds a bit ridiculous. However, "Gryzor" is exotic and cool-sounding, without trying to be too over-the-top (like "Probovector").

There is no NES Gryzor. Only Contra or Probotector.

If you want to split hairs, you're correct. There's a Famicom version of Gryzor.

http://www.geocities.com/murdererofhoofedmammals/gryzor.txt filename is "Gryzor (J).nes"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't those kanji read as "kon" "to" and "ra" respectively?

Wow, way to repeat a three year old argument.

Nuh uh, it was called DMG in japan

http://www.geocities.com/murdererofhoofedmammals/gryzor.txt filename is "Gryzor (J).nes"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't those kanji read as "kon" "to" and "ra" respectively?

That is correct. The Japanese version appears to have been named Contra... but with kanji to make it cooler!!

So are we all in agreement that GoodNES's label is incorrect?

A better question would be, "Has anybody bothered watching this movie?"

Actually, yes, I have. Given that I haven't seen the old version, I found this to be fairly entertaining. A few pointless shots here are there not hitting any targets, but oh well.

Given that we have a 2-player any% and a 1-player pacifist, I don't really see why we would need a 1-player any% of this game. Similarly we had a rejected Super C 1-player movie as well: http://tasvideos.org/1660S.html Note: This movie was as well optimized as the published 2-player. Its rejection was purely based on being a less entertaining rehash of the 2-player version. Also, since no one has linked it, 1-Player pacifist: http://tasvideos.org/756M.html Only about 13 seconds slower than this submission. A lot more than 13 seconds were sacrificed for the sake of the pacifist goal. Also, he uses the J-ROM presumably for the same reasons I did in both published movies so I don't think that argument needs to be raised. Yes it is called gryzor but shouldn't, again we already discussed that. And moozooh's calculation are pretty accurate, this movie is at least 22 seconds slower than it could be, so I think it needs to be rejected on those grounds.

So I watched the run until level 4 and there are several glaring errors. 1) In level 2 you fail to get the single stream from the spread gun in order to kill the turrets faster, carefully watch the published movie or genisto's 1-player movie. You lose a lot of time here 2) In level 3 you don't do the "Jump glitch". In the published movie you will see at least 4 opportunities to do this. Each one saves approx 60 frames. 3) The spread gun use on the bosses could be a lot more accurate, you waste a lot of bullets, again watch the published movies carefully. It's a good start, but this movie fails to at least match previous movies.

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