Post subject: Thundrios non game specific TAS Competition!
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EDIT:new goal, i am looking for someone to create compilation videos though. welcome to my tas competition where you complete the goal i set you with as much efficiency as you can. my competition will not be focusing on a single game, but it will span multiple games and consoles, with a variety of tasks to keep it fresh. here are some basic rules. -at 10:00 PST (1 EST) on or before the specified due date, you must send a zip of the required movie files to TAScompetition@gmail.com(original i know). at that date i will start making the movie compilation and so late submissions will in most cases be accepted. -please compress the files and name them along the lines of "TASchallenge#xbyNAME" E.X. TASchallenge#1byThundrio.zip -do not talk strategy or show WIP's/Finished products with other people, even if they are not competing in the current challenge. -you may not CO-author with anyone for a given task unless otherwise specified -timing is done by me, the timing starts and ends at the point i specify. -any violation of the rules makes you viable for DISQUALIFICATION and further action if neccessary. most of all have fun! i will try to make the tasks interesting and varied. any questions/comments/suggestions/clarifications can be posted here, pm'ed to me or emailed. i am not sure what to do on scoring yet, but i will decide by the due date of the first task. _________________________________________________________________ Tas Task 4. game title: sonic the hedgehog 2 (gen) goal:enter carnival night zone 1 (2 player), and do the following. 1)get 50 rings as sonic 2)get 50 rings as tails 3)have sonic bounce off 5 circular bumpers (see picture below) 4)have tails bounce off 5 green flippers (see picture) 5)have both sonic and tails end on either a slot, or spring (See picture below). sonic and tails CAN NOT be on the same slot/flipper at the end. start recording: from reset start timing: the first all black frame after selecting carnival night zone end timing: the first frame that sonic/tails are both in there respective spots (if on spring than spring has to be yellow, if on slot then slot has to be yellow) due date:sunday, october 17 reason for choosing goal:my selection method includes not doing a system twice (until all of them have been done), and not doing a game series twice if i can help it. i also want this competition to introduce different TAS concepts to people, so this one will require multitrack (which gens has built in). i dont believe this will take too long, but i have not tried it yet. if people need me to make a explanation video i can. _________________________________________________________________ results for task 1: this task was kind of a disaster, because i forgot to ban the one things (i havent played super metroid ever so that prolly wasnt a good idea,) and i made the goal too open. as a result i didnt finish mine and so RaijinXBLADE won by default, since he was the only one who entered (if you want to see his video pm me). results for task 2: compilation video:coming soon zip of all files:http://www.mediafire.com/?cf8lxr79b45am93 place)name-frames[rerecords] 1)Aglar-5271[1758] 2)Mugg-5400[6051] 3)Mothrayas-5491[4121] 3)RaijinXBLADE-5491[1739] 4)thundrio-5685[1565] results for task 3: compilation video:coming soon zip of all files:http://www.mediafire.com/?cpe2y1cldftyiy8 place)name-frames[rerecords] 1)Aglar-4914[935] 2)Tompa-4938[9525] 3)Deign-4966[1784] 4)Twisted Eye-5074[368] 5)RaijinXBLADE-5206[634] _______________________________________________________________- scoring: place)name[points] 1)Aglar[9] 2)RaijinXBLADE[4] 2)Tompa[4] 3)Mugg[3] 3)Deign[3] 4)Mothrayas[2] 4)Twisted Eye[2] 5)thundrio[1] scoring works like this; each task i give the person in last place 1 point, second to last 2 points, etc etc. ______________________________________________________________ i believe i covered everything. if i forgot anything please let me know. i am looking for somebody who is interested in helping to make the compilation videos for each task (pm me if your willing). also thanks to nahoc's and mr.grunz's tas competitions as they were the inspiration for me doing this.
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After you defeat a boss, its room will contain no enemies. Does this make such rooms a valid starting point?
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yes, as long as the room contains no enemies.
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I've no free time for it.
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So this is a non game specific competition, but you have to use metroid? I don't follow.
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henke37 wrote:
So this is a non game specific competition, but you have to use metroid? I don't follow.
Super Metroid is just the game for the first "task"; I think other tasks would be done on other games.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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yes. every week features a different game
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I will participate as long as I'm at least somewhat familiar with the game given. Since I'm no Metroid fan at all, I'm not doing this first task.
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Me'll participate. I don't think I'll do first task, but whatever.
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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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This is interesting. I think I'll participate as well. I'm not good at Super Metroid and I'm horrible at TASing it as well, but I think I'll at least try this task. Oh and one question. Is it ok to clear a room of all enemies before starting the recording?
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sure
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We need more people picking up on this competition!
Post subject: Re: Thundrios non game specific TAS Competition!
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thundrio wrote:
what game would you like the competition to do next? 1)kingdom hearts 358/2 days (nds) 2)zelda oracle of ages (gbc) 3)007 goldeneye (n64) 4)megaman 1-4 (list preference if any) (nes) 5)toy story (gen)
I don't have any particular preference as to which one.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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I don't really mind which game, I also think that game choice is not why this challenge failed to gain much participation. The goal you chose requires people to know the game really, really, really well before they can even choose a starting point, let alone know where to go from there on. For each game, there are only a few TASers who know it well enough to take up this kind of challenge. I suggest that next time you take a different approach to the challenge itself, so that even somebody who has never heard of the game before can play it for a few minutes, and can then start doing the challenge. I also suggest you don't pick any game for N64, PSX, DOS or any system which doesn't really have a stable emulator yet. Mupen and PCSX are still very prone to desyncs, and JPC isn't really easy to use. If the next challenge sounds like something that I could actually do (giving a fixed starting position would help a lot, from reset (and clean SRAM) would be even better) I'd be very happy to give it a try.
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Tbh I don't know Super Metroid well at all. I only played through it once. I really dislike the controls in that game, that's the biggest problem I have with it. But that one person to submit so far for this competition was none other than me. Anyway I gotta go with Megaman being the next game. I don't mind which Megaman game though. I don't personally have a problem with TASing any DS, N64 or PSX games either. DOS and Arcade doesn't sound like a good idea to use for a competition yet though.
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ya, i did realize my mistake, and i have got a better idea as to my next challenge. it will be simpler, and you wont need to know the game as well.
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Are you allowed to re-enter rooms?
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yes, i thought about changing the rules after realizing that, but as i didnt mention it, and that it might make it a bit easier, yes you can
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Uh oh... We're all about to get devastated! Kriole is a Super Metroid Genious.
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Think I'm gonna pass this challenge, since the optimal way to kill enemies quickly is extremely anticlimactic.
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Lol I'm not sure everyone knows this though. You kind of just told everyone what to do now basically =P
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RaijinXBlade wrote:
Lol I'm not sure everyone knows this though. You kind of just told everyone what to do now basically =P
Oh... didn't know you had to send the smv's to avoid spoilers. Just let me fix that real quick. My apologies.
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Hopefully the next challenges won't be so simple that you'd just have to resort to tactics like that to win this.
http://www.youtube.com/Noxxa <dwangoAC> This is a TAS (...). Not suitable for all audiences. May cause undesirable side-effects. May contain emulator abuse. Emulator may be abusive. This product contains glitches known to the state of California to cause egg defects. <Masterjun> I'm just a guy arranging bits in a sequence which could potentially amuse other people looking at these bits <adelikat> In Oregon Trail, I sacrificed my own family to save time. In Star trek, I killed helpless comrades in escape pods to save time. Here, I kill my allies to save time. I think I need help.
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Kriole wrote:
RaijinXBlade wrote:
Lol I'm not sure everyone knows this though. You kind of just told everyone what to do now basically =P
Oh... didn't know you had to send the smv's to avoid spoilers. Just let me fix that real quick. My apologies.
Don't worry. To be honest, that tactic is what I did lol I do not know how to TAS Super Metroid that well so I did something easy to handle.
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new task is sup. gl hf =)