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David Crane's A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia is a puzzle adventure game featuring Boy and his partner in this adventure Blobert. Blobert transforms into different tools to help Boy navigate areas based on the different jelly beans Boy can feed him; however, today Boy is only going to use a handful of his jelly beans.

Game objectives

  • Emulator used: FCEUX 2.2.0
  • Aims to beat the game as fast as possible
  • Uses game-breaking glitches

Comments

I first learned about this game when I heard the OCRemix of the main theme long ago and fell in love with it. When I got into speedrunning a few years back it was the first game I took seriously. After I routed the game I watched the TAS made by Kyman & SilentSlayers & Aglar and learned how to apply that route into the real time. A new trick was found to get out of bounds even quicker resulting in an improvement of 18.26 seconds (1096 frames) over the previous movie by Kyman & SilentSlayers & Aglar.

Thanks and Shoutouts

I just want to thank some people for things they've done to help the Blob community
  • Kyman, SilentSlayers, Aglar - For creating the first TAS of the game I watched and really helped me dig into this game more.
  • Jorf - For helping me push the RTA time down to below 2 minutes and really coming within 8 seconds of the old TAS run.
  • Unknown Guy - The guy that made us aware of the new strat. I don't know you, but thank you.
  • xcd - Thanks for making me realize the trampolines were wrong.
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Posted: 9/14/2014 8:00 PM
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Zephyrz
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Go ahead MESHUGGAH. I made this as kind of a test type thing to see what I could do when it came to TASing and so I could get a feel of how much the route change improved it. If you want to be a coauthor I of course have no problems, but I also have no problems if you want to just do the entire thing and be solo author seeing as you're improving quite a bit over what I had. Just glad to see Blob getting some love! Thanks everyone for the support and such! Also if you do have any questions about the game I can try to answer them, but you probably know as much if not more than I do now.
Just doing my Blob.
Posted: 9/14/2014 8:16 PM
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Well, I will stick myself to the original intention (watching a new NES TAS by a "newcomer" and help if I can). So I will finish the movie alone and add you (Zephyrz) as coauthor once done. Not because of mercy or anything like that, but since I literally learned the game by watching his input and I don't see "value" in ruining newcomers motivation in anyway. Currently fnishing in 4902 frames.
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Posted: 9/14/2014 11:23 PM
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Patashu
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Out of curiosity, is there any '100%' category in this game?
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Posted: 9/15/2014 5:22 AM
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Tangent
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Patashu wrote:
Out of curiosity, is there any '100%' category in this game?
I imagine that'd be collecting all the treasures on Earth before rocketing away and doing the exact same skips. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyjEVKwOn7g
Posted: 9/15/2014 6:10 AM
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MESHUGGAH wrote:
Well, I will stick myself to the original intention (watching a new NES TAS by a "newcomer" and help if I can). So I will finish the movie alone and add you (Zephyrz) as coauthor once done. Not because of mercy or anything like that, but since I literally learned the game by watching his input and I don't see "value" in ruining newcomers motivation in anyway.
This should be done more often: Co-authoring and crediting people who may play a huge role in a run's creation even if they didn't work on the input file themselves.
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Posted: 9/15/2014 1:49 PM
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NES TAS of 2011
So what's your general plan, guys?
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Posted: 9/15/2014 2:59 PM
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by randomly mashing buttons
My favorite method. <3
Posted: 9/15/2014 7:12 PM
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Posted: 9/16/2014 2:32 AM
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Zephyrz
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Going to cancel this submission and move over to MESHUGGAH's new video. http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15814
Just doing my Blob.
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