This topic is for the purpose of discussing #548: Tatsuhiko's SNES Contra III: The Alien Wars in 15:38.85

Cool idea with a nokill-run. But you should do something about your missed shots here and there. Why just Normal mode? HARD mode would be alot more entertaining :) And with only 77 rerecord this is well played. Good work.

I should try it on hard, but I felt that it would be too hard since the amount of enemy and how fast they respawn.

I don't know how to start my post so I'll simply list the things that are, in my opinion, wrong with this movie: 1) You did not play at the hardest difficulty setting 2) We have a faster run published already, which is played on hard 3) You were sloppy: it is very clear that there are a lot of delays that you did not bother fixing. Use more rerecords to correct your mistakes and use slow motion for accuracy. If there is a shadow of a doubt in your mind that something can be done faster, test it. 4) There are a lot of missed shots 5) I don't think sacrificing time just because you want to collect bombs for fun is a good idea I have nothing against no-kill runs but this just isn't a very good one, sorry.

Yes, great idea, but poorly executed. As others have pointed out, any speedrun should be on the highest difficulty. You've got the current version to see for comparison, there are quite a few things you need to do. There may be potential here, but even though Contra seems simple, it will take a while to produce a high-quality timeattack. It may not be possible to maintain forward movement all the time with no kills, but you should be able to do much better if you work at it some more. Good luck, hope you can stick it out.

Doing a No-Kill speedrun of Contra3 on hard is impossible. Even with slow motion. On hard, the sniper on Level 3 would be impossible to get past no matter how skillful you think you may be. Although there might be more than that, that was the only one I could think of. Being that a no-kill speedrun of contra 3 would be impossible, I'm wondering if I should re-submit a less sloppy/more expert looking normal difficulty run. Would you guys want me to do that? One question: I'm still looking up to this day to get the Slow Motion option. Is it in a modified version of Snes9x? If so, where could I look for it so I can drastically improve this run?

Slow motion is built in to snes9x versions 1.40+. To activate it, use shift- or shift+ to change the framerate of the game. Also, if the game isn't played on hard, it will very probably not be accepted for publishing.

Shift +/- to change the emulation speed (without Shift, it changes the frameskip instead), Pause to stop, \ for frame advance (but on my keyboard, it's Shift-\). And for some reason when I tried to watch it, it kept desyncing at the start of the second level ... (edited: just realized it's because I have the final 1.43 version, not dev, so nevermind)

If you want to remap keys like save, load, frame advance, etc, get the ZeldaFix version. It should be floating somewhere around this thread. It's much better than the "official" version. To be on the safe side, make sure the movie works in 1.43 (or whatever) as well, and you're good to go. So far, I haven't had any desyncs between this ZeldaFix version and 1.43 final. (edit: although now that I read some more, I guess it isn't supposed to be compatible with that particular version, so I've just been lucky... )

Thanks for telling me.