Imagine a hypothetical game in which a version is released that has not removed debugging shortcuts -- when you start up the game, there's a teleporter that will take you straight to the final level. You don't have to enter a cheat code or perform an obscure action or anything like that, the game just straight-up gives you a free pass to the endgame. A couple of hours after release, the devs realize what they did and release a patch that changes 1 bit in the executable so that the teleporter isn't generated. Should all the speedruns use the version of the game that provides the teleporter? (EDIT: what if it takes a week for the devs to release the patch? A month?)
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Under the above logic, we should have an unlimited amount of submissions, each using a different route through the game, since you know, they're different gameplay.
but if this is as fast as the game can get then I think it's bad game choice :/
I'm not saying that I totally agree with him, but you've see how we truly feel about SMB TASes.
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No, no, no. The idea is to use a TAS to accomplish what's not supposed to be even possible to accomplish. To accomplish a goal that is impossible under normal conditions, and very difficult (but still possible) when TASing. Many Super Mario Hacks are designed to be hard even with savestates and slow mo. These do not count.
