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Batman returns to stop the Joker's insane criminal plot in 4:02
  • Takes damage to save time
  • Uses hardest difficulty
  • Genre: Action
  • Genre: Platform
  • Used VBA re-recording v22
Look like I was wrong, last movie wasn't optimized well. I managed to save another 16 seconds from using bunnybathopping and slightly improved bosses fight. Thanks to Sonikkustar for pointing out the trick I didn't know of.
cpadolf: Accepting as an improvement over the published run.
cpadolf: Delaying until potential improving has been sorted out
adelikat: The improvement issue seems to have died, resetting to accepted.

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Posted: 1/4/2010 10:01 AM
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TASVideoAgent
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #2532: ventuz's GB Batman - Return of the Joker in 04:01.77
Posted: 1/5/2010 2:37 AM
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PCachu
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You Will Believe A Bat Can Fly. Very yes.
Posted: 1/7/2010 2:35 AM
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mklip2001
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Finally got to see this. Nice job minimizing lag at the end of Stage 1. I liked how you could build up momentum at the end of the tank in Stage 2. Also, the bunnyhopping was especially cool on the train stage. Good stuff!
Used to be a frequent submissions commenter. My new computer has had some issues running emulators, so I've been here more sporadically. Still haven't gotten around to actually TASing yet... I was going to improve Kid Dracula for GB. It seems I was beaten to it, though, with a recent awesome run by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. (http://tasvideos.org/2928M.html.) Thanks to goofydylan8 for running Gargoyle's Quest 2 because I mentioned the game! (http://tasvideos.org/2001M.html) Thanks to feos and MESHUGGAH for taking up runs of Duck Tales 2 because of my old signature! Thanks also to Samsara for finishing a Treasure Master run. From the submission comments:
Shoutouts and thanks to mklip2001 for arguably being the nicest and most supportive person on the forums.
Posted: 1/7/2010 1:03 PM
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As long as the previous movie has been published, this big improvement (% to the length of the previous movie) definitely deserves a Yes.
<klmz> it reminds me of that people used to keep quoting adelikat's IRC statements in the old good days <adelikat> no doubt <adelikat> klmz, they still do
Posted: 1/11/2010 8:16 PM
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By request, an encode: http://www.archive.org/download/Batman-ReturnOfTheJokerByVentuzIn0401.77/batmanreturnofthejoker-tasv2-ventuz.mkv ...and DM: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbtq7x_gb-batman-return-of-the-joker-by-ve_videogames Also a belated yes vote for an obvious improvement.
Posted: 1/11/2010 8:28 PM
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The game is fun, nice tricks with grapplin, thx for encode, voting yes for 15 seconds less torture *leave with ears bleeding*
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Posted: 1/11/2010 10:29 PM
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Bats really does move fast through this game. Yes vote here.
Posted: 1/12/2010 6:13 AM
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Zurreco
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Wow. This looked like one of the most fluid GB games I'd ever seen, so I went and played around with it. This run is really impressive compared to the actual game style. Everything was very fast, though the fluidity was a bit jerky from time to time. Yes vote.
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Posted: 1/12/2010 8:19 PM
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hopping yes vote on this one , realy nice game , great abuse of the rope velocity and a bit too short for my taste:) (also on a side note i never noticed that cpadolf became a judge, congrats man :) )
Posted: 1/12/2010 9:59 PM
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Thanks for the encode, sgrunt! Looked good to me. I agree that this is an impressively fluid-looking game considering the hardware involved.
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Posted: 1/13/2010 9:43 PM
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Here is an encode: http://www.archive.org/download/VentuzsGbBatman-ReturnOfTheJokerIn0401.77/batmanreturnofthejoker-tasv2-ventuz.mp4 http://www.archive.org/download/VentuzsGbBatman-ReturnOfTheJokerIn0401.77/batmanreturnofthejoker-tasv2-ventuz.mkv HQ Stream: http://aktan.site90.com/?vid=VentuzsGbBatman-ReturnOfTheJokerIn0401.77/batmanreturnofthejoker-tasv2-ventuz_512kb
Posted: 1/14/2010 12:57 PM
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http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/167366368/BROTJandymac.vbm I TASed a short segment of the first level before this TAS was made (link above) and it appears that I completed that segment faster, but some parts of this were slower than you TAS. I was wondering whether you would like to work with me on an improvement to this run.
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Posted: 1/14/2010 1:29 PM
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Image I'll used to publish with if this whole 'improvement fiasco' can be sorted out. I suck at screenshot finding in VLC (VDub can't open MP4s).
Posted: 1/14/2010 7:05 PM
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Heh, this game was also reviewed by the Angry Video Game Nerd. xD According to him, the game suffers from some really bad controls as far as the Grappling Hook. Anyway, enjoyed the run, so gave it a yes vote.
Posted: 1/25/2010 12:28 AM
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By the way, any news about whether an improvement is happening? Ventuz, did you and Andymac discuss WIPs or anything?
Used to be a frequent submissions commenter. My new computer has had some issues running emulators, so I've been here more sporadically. Still haven't gotten around to actually TASing yet... I was going to improve Kid Dracula for GB. It seems I was beaten to it, though, with a recent awesome run by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. (http://tasvideos.org/2928M.html.) Thanks to goofydylan8 for running Gargoyle's Quest 2 because I mentioned the game! (http://tasvideos.org/2001M.html) Thanks to feos and MESHUGGAH for taking up runs of Duck Tales 2 because of my old signature! Thanks also to Samsara for finishing a Treasure Master run. From the submission comments:
Shoutouts and thanks to mklip2001 for arguably being the nicest and most supportive person on the forums.
Posted: 1/25/2010 12:30 AM
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Actually, I've been waiting for a few weeks for a reply to a PM I sent him a while ago, so on my side, this project is definitely on hold.
Measure once. Cut twice.
Posted: 2/1/2010 12:44 AM
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ventuz: You alive? What's going on? Are you going to cancel this movie and work on an improvement? Are you going to team up with andymac?
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Posted: 2/1/2010 6:15 AM
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Yeah, i sent pm back to andymac. Haven't got response yet. I'm a little burnt out, no motivation to do another run. But I can try help out doing specific section in any 'slower' part I rather: 1 - cancel this run IF andy's (or anyone) run completed with faster time 2 - leave it here IF andy decides to ditch WIP run.
Posted: 2/10/2010 2:30 AM
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [1455] GB Batman: Return of the Joker by ventuz in 04:01.77