This topic is for the purpose of discussing #1117: macK's NES Little Samson in 20:20.10

Umm... I think you didn't use frame advance in this run because it's really really sloppy. Here's my WIP which I think I'll be finishing at some point. It completes the first level and is 415 frames (6.93 seconds) faster than your run. I'm sorry but I'll have to vote no.

Yes, watch Guybrush's WIP carefully, there are many common TAS trick that could help you improve your runs. Some things I noticed: 1) definately a cool, publish-worthy game. Good choice here. I wonder why we don't have a TAS of this yet? 2) If you don't use frame advance you should be at least slowing the game down to 3% in order to get perfect accuracy when jumping / wall climbing, etc. 3) the wall climbing looks slow you should jump on and off at the earliest possible frames. 4) you should jump down from ledges instead of falling. This is a common TAS trick. by jumping you increase your acceleration and therefore get to the bottom faster 5) the tornadoes in the 2nd level seem to move you faster than regular flying. You should try to be one them for as long as possible. 6) in the mouse level you walk on the ceiling longer than necessary. you walk faster than you can wall climb so you shouldn't be on the ceiling any longer than necessary. If you want some help on using various TAS tools, PM me and will glad to help :)

This game is also known as Serei Densetsu Lickle and has a couple very good movies, although they haven't been submitted by the original authors. To be published, you'll have to improve on them, since it isn't acceptable to publish a known-impovable movie. This one is the better of the two if I remember correctly. I don't think it will be easy to beat. There's some discussion of it here and a search will show you two old submissions of this game.

1) definately a cool, publish-worthy game. Good choice here. I wonder why we don't have a TAS of this yet?

The game has a habit of randomly skipping some stages. I have no idea why but anyway it's a real turnoff for any TASer.

1) definately a cool, publish-worthy game. Good choice here. I wonder why we don't have a TAS of this yet?

The game has a habit of randomly skipping some stages. I have no idea why but anyway it's a real turnoff for any TASer.

What stages? The intro stages or stages after that?

Not the intro stages, they are always played. The stages in the beginning after the intro stages however sometimes don't all get played.

It's a warp. If you beat the first boss (green monster) using only the mouse, the game warps you ahead a fixed amount of levels. A movie using this should be labeled using warps. That's the only one I know of at least. Are there other (random?) warps as well?

Ah, didn't know that. That explains a lot.

randomly skipping stages? That sounds like a good thing to me O_o Secret warps? again, a good thing. Someone make a warped run of this.

I'll start a serious unwarped run soon (or when I have time). EDIT: It seems that I cannot skip the warps so...

LOL, a new age of speedrunning: "Sadly, I can't do it slow…" "It seems that I can't avoid skipping most of the levels…" "Somehow all the paths except the shortest one became blocked…" "I was playing at 50% speed, but then I realised it actually was a frame-perfect run…"

Where did MazziC go? :(