Hi. First of all great job on finishing a smw project. (Is it possible?) I have to vote no on this. My opinion of the hack is that the gimmick adds nothing of value from a TAS perspective; it's possible that P2 controlling enemies could be used for some interesting tricks, if the levels were better designed, but it seems like regular L->R levels with added functionality that makes little sense for speedruns. Some general comments (and justification for "no"): 1. Collective bonus stars is nearly always a detriment to the run. These cause lag and gain you nothing. 2. Suboptimal parts in levels, particularly in the final castle: The boss door is entered later for seemingly no reason? (It's possible there is a reason for this, I can't see it though.) 3. Hack is far too tiny for an interesting TAS, in my opinion. 4. Overall, decent execution, but I think the entertainment is nothing that can't be seen in regular smw runs - if the gimmick was more explored, I could maybe justify this. We need to be more stringent with regard to hacks, since the barrier for entry is so high. Good luck in future projects.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree with Bahamete here and vote no. If you TAS a hack of a game, the hack is supposed to be either more complicated or longer than the original game, but this hack is much simpler and shorter than SMW (no water levels, no underground levels, missing a lot of the enemies, etc.) The overall entertainment for the run was meh. Having the enemies auto-die would have been cool for 15 seconds, but having it for the whole run makes this run seem kind of dumb, since it effectively makes this a 4 level hack of SMW where there are no enemies. However, this is much more optimized than your previous two TASes, so that's a plus.

I don't see the point of this. It's a very short game which looks less difficult and less interesting that the original. A hack needs to bring something new to the table. This hack got rid of almost all of the good parts of the original. I was bored.

2 Players co-op hacks are always fun, however, I think this is not the case on this hack. Co-op hack should be more special and entertaining than any other hacks, it is true that entertainment is even less than the original game. But certainly, the optimization is got better than previous ones. I wish you to prepare a better project on this occasion.

I appreciate all the effort put into this. Unfortunately, as others have mentioned, the game just doesn't lend itself well to a TAS. A TAS is supposed to do things that are harder than humans can do, but removing 90% of the enemies by turning them into to coins makes it a much easier game. Voting 'no', but don't let that discourage you from finding a better game and TASsing that.

WUT!!! The Adventures of Lolo? I thought I had clicked on the wrong video. I can see from your first submission, around 1 week ago, that you are certainly improving this run. More than a minute cut? At that rate, I wonder how far you can take it. As many people here are aware, I'm big on re-record counts (even though that has been a hot discussion lately). Around 5 times the movie length isn't bad. So you certainly are doing the work...and it seems to be a pretty decent run. However, I'm just a player of this game and not a TASer. From what I can tell, there doesn't seem to be any crazy TAS tricks going on, rather...just a very insane speedrun. @3:43 Are you aware that you can still jump from the net and grab again? This is a red flag for me on optimization. This can clearly take off seconds. Since this is an any%, I usually vote yes for optimization and crazy speed tricks, but I don't see that here. I'm voting meh, because this is just not the TAS that jumps out at me.

Please do not be too discouraged even if you don't get accepted here with this TAS. Even if there is not a place for publication for this hack on TASVideos, there might be some audience out there that might appreciate it and at the very least you have built up some skills working on this.

same as the others, one can see that you put effort in the TAS and so i hope that you continue with TASing but yeah this hack doesn´t seem to give me much "wow effects" voting no for the submission

Most of this was posted as a message on Discord to the author of the run, regarding possible improvements, but I should post it here too: Firstly, congratulations for your submission. It's significantly better than your previous ones, especially in the first levels. It's a sign you are improving, but there are still some mistakes you should pay attention to. At the beginning of 2nd level you walked left for many frames, which loses time. The -1 trick consists of pressing left for a single frame. I noticed you forgot to do it in some levels, like level 3. At the 4th level, I feel it's probably possible to skip a cycle if you use the enemies in your favor to jump over lava. It should save time at the end too. The pipe entry wasn't good, you lost a lot of speed on the ground for many frames. At the first room of the castle you lost a lot of time on the grid. Mario moves incredibly slowly on grids, you shouldn't touch them for more than 1 frame. It should be tested if it's possible to skip the grid entirely by spin jumping the podoboo with P-Speed. You also lost P-speed at the end of the room, which is probably avoidable. Even if it isn't, it's way better to 6/5 instead. At the second room, you could've made an enemy to move left and spin jump on it instead of waiting for the platform. There was also a lot of delay to enter the boss door. At the boss, visually it feels like it's clearly possible to hit him sooner, but I might be mistaken. Anyway, hitting the ball once definitely loses time. About minor stuff, getting bonus starts is usually a bad idea, because they cause the game to lag more often. But there is much more into ending levels optimally, like score/coin planning, manipulating Mario's subspeed, delaying goal tape end when the frame rule is bad in order to save lag, etc. I believe the most significant minor improvement you could have applied is to partially clip horizontal pipes as you enter them (like in an walljump), which shortens the animation a good amount. Corner boosting can also save some frames here and there. I believe you aren't willing to do yet another version of this run, but even if you are, this hack doesn't seem to be good or interesting enough for acceptance on TASVideos. Anyway, these points are mentioned are relevant if you want to TAS a different SMW hack in the future. Good luck with your next project.

First off, I finally got into my forum account. Secondly,

Please do not be too discouraged even if you don't get accepted here with this TAS. Even if there is not a place for publication for this hack on TASVideos, there might be some audience out there that might appreciate it and at the very least you have built up some skills working on this.

I keep getting replies like this. Thanks for telling me not to be discouraged. I will continue to TAS games and stay active. I have school on weekdays, so I won't be responding much then (as stated before). Third, I understand that there might not be a place for this hack, and this will get rejected. I thought it would be cool to have the enemies turned into coins after I found out how to do that, but I now see that it gets kind of repetitive. Lastly, I think I can make a play-around TAS for this game, but that might take a whie to make. I think it would be cool to have something like a play-around for this game, but I'm not going to do that any time soon. Thanks everyone for helping me figure out tricks for SMW, and you guys are really helpful.

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