This improves the current published Gods TAS by 132 frames.
  • Emulator: Gens 11b
  • Aims for fastest time
  • Abuses programming errors
  • Takes damage to save time
  • Uses death as a shortcut
  • Contains speed/entertainment tradeoffs
  • Genre: God simulator

Aqfaq's Comments

It is an old movie, but it looks like I'm not redoing the game in the near future, so I might as well submit it.
It uses different death and health management to save time. For example, one death is avoided in the beginning of world 1-3.
Also, in the final shop, the weapon is downgraded to get money for another extra life, allowing one more death in the final level. This was one of the "major" improvements, saving 28 frames, if I remember correctly.
It is still improvable, but finishing a new movie is harder than I thought. I'm looking forward to the day somebody finds the ultimate timesaver that I totally missed!
There is also a 2 frames faster movie, which reduces lag by disabling hint messages, but it is less entertaining: http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/1257299063/gods-no-hints.gmv

Anoobis' Comments

THERE IS NO GODS! ONLY ME!

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SOON, EVERYTHING WILL BE ÖBSÖLETED!


Mukki: Judging...
Mukki: Accepting as an improvement to the currently published run.


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Ohhhh... god no, we've pissed off an00bis! Time to break out the goat sacrifice.
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This place is becoming better.
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moozooh wrote:
This place is becoming better.
Yeah, I mean I can't encode ALL Aqfaq's Anoobis' new runs, they arrive too fast. But the whole plot of what I see lately is really weird (don't you notice?) XD
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Hint: Illuminate the study to end the world =) Nice run, YES vote!
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Post subject: Re: Gods: youtube + video file
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antd wrote:
youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3MFVSLZn9Q video file http://hotfile.com/dl/122876459/6cb695c/Gods_k.avi.html
Can you say what's the point of doubling the encodes with mere dumps? Whether it has been already youtubed or uploaded to mediafire. I can get when you upload vids of WIPs (& appreciate it!), but this...
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Post subject: Re: Gods: youtube + video file
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feos wrote:
antd wrote:
youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3MFVSLZn9Q video file http://hotfile.com/dl/122876459/6cb695c/Gods_k.avi.html
Can you say what's the point of doubling the encodes with mere dumps? Whether it has been already youtubed or uploaded to mediafire. I can get when you upload vids of WIPs (& appreciate it!), but this...
I don't know what you mean with that but I appreciate his YT upload being 2:40 into the video as of now, it actually looks like a decent TAS due to all the shit going on at the same time on the screen (lots of enemies and shooting), I'll probably vote yes edit: oh wow, it even ends with a bang xD yes vote
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I mean, why youtube what's already youtubed & upload what's already uploaded (not vice versa).
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I'm not sure I get you, the vid was already youtubed? where?
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I mean, why youtube what's already youtubed & upload what's already uploaded (not vice versa).
People encode for fun, you should let them.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaTcZIF-MQ0 Here. I would have the HD up by now, if Youtube decided to cooperate. I'll keep trying until it does work though.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaTcZIF-MQ0 Here. I would have the HD up by now, if Youtube decided to cooperate. I'll keep trying until it does work though.
well, you never posted it in this topic
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Looked good to me. I should try playing this game sometime; it looks pretty interesting.
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Nice! If this is how good your runs are when you're pissed off, Anoobis, remind me to anger you more ;-) Smart idea to downgrade your weapon for more money as well! Yes vote. If you're looking for games to obsolete, I'm pretty sure a bunch of us have ideas to suggest... :)
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.
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mklip2001 wrote:
If you're looking for games to obsolete...
I am! Toothache: Who is this Aqfaq you speak of in your encodes?
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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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I don't like the music and I don't like the artstyle, but the movie makes short work of the game. So yeah, sure whatever, do publish this.
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NitroGenesis wrote:
mklip2001 wrote:
If you're looking for games to obsolete...
I am!
Well, here are some basic suggestions, looking through old movies. Here, I'm trying to put down medium-length games, generally platformers, where there's less long-distance planning. Of course, you could also scroll through old games for other possible targets...
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.
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this run actualy complete the game ( sort of ) and improve the previous run gods is still total pure awesomnes yes vote ! good job god of the undead tases ! @mklip2001 add to your list maruy mallard, ecco the dolfin 1 & 2, starfox,master blaster 1 & 2, jurasic park, terminator genesis, eathworm jim 1 & 2 , and mickey mania and you have the wole batch of old tasses i just saw some weeks later god of undead tases, we summon your skill with those impure unimproved run !
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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. ---- [1838] Genesis Gods by Aqfaq in 07:29.73