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I know the arcade version ends the game no matter what after 15 races, though tracks get repeated. Looking at the high score table on the NES version, the high score is 500 and the maximum points possible in a race is 20 points. Does this mean that there's no cutoff by the game on the number of races the player gets to play in the NES version?
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Alyosha GBA console verification work has been cool to follow since it's been developing quite well. SuperSqank They produced a nice variety of GBA TASes. Tompa It's nice to see the years of work on Minish Cap finally come into fruition.
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[6012] NES Super Mario Bros. "arbitrary code execution" by OnehundredthCoin in 04:52.65 It's completely unique among NES publications for what it does that necessitated a modified version of BizHawk to allow cart swapping. It's an incredibly technical feat under the hood and also just cool to watch in action. [6036] NES Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers "2 players" by Dimon12321, Aglar & dragonxyk in 08:43.47 Watch as these two chipmunks menacingly slide backwards towards the bosses in various stages. [6243] NES Gimmick! by Samsara, web2000, negative_seven, SBDWolf, Aglar & Hotarubi in 04:12.38 Look at that little guy go. Love that Yumetaro! Also, this is an incredible improvement to an already impressive run.
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Posted: 16 days ago
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[5997] 3DS The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D by benstephens56 in 23:12.85 There's a lot of crazy glitches found only in this version of Majora's Mask that enable completing the game without ever bothering with time traveling. [6012] NES Super Mario Bros. "arbitrary code execution" by OnehundredthCoin in 04:52.65 Cart swapping to bring some of the cleanest voice sampling and the closest the NES can get to clean FMV on a completely different game cart is a cool technical feat. [6035] SNES Super Mario World "arbitrary code execution, glitchfest" by IgorOliveira666 in 42:49.44 I mean, it's in the name of the branch.
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Suru486 Good to see someone TASing SMW related works, and with quite a bit under their belt that's been published. McBobX They've been bringing in modern techniques to older games whose publications needed them implemented in one form of another. Xujhan Their dedication to working on the quite long Breath of Fire II is something worth mentioning since that requires lots of patience and planning to get done right.
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JHolleworth Sam_Underscore SuperSqank These DS TASers brought in a nice variety of games that typically aren't seen submitted as often. I love seeing new things I haven't known about. benstephens56 They've continued to champion 3DS TASing and made great TASes with that passion. Sharkey91 Really_Tall bobbybob Adeal Migu Rupa Special shoutouts to the SM64DS crew for finally submitting the fruits of their labor of thoroughly breaking that game alongside having such tight optimizations. Hope to see them tackle more with that game in the future.
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[5811] Arcade Splatterhouse by EZGames69 & Samsara in 12:49.79 Splatterhouse TASes are always a good time and this one is no exception. [5874] Arcade Neo Turf Masters "all courses, maximum score" by mamuuuut in 38:35.36 While golf game TASes are a niche, watching crazy shots to finish courses in as few strokes as possible has always been fun to watch for me. [5939] Arcade Wonder Boy in Monster Land by ninespaces in 11:35.64 I like the Wonder Boy games a lot and this is a fine TAS of the game. I saw the earlier version of this TAS and I'm glad ninespaces took the time to implement faster strategies and improvements for the published run.
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CoolHandMike He covered a wide variety of arcade games. KusogeMan SFan mamuuuut PearlASE They made TASes for their own niches (fighting games, Namco games, Neo Geo games, and shoot 'em ups, respectively) and I find that cool.
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Induviel He had a good spread of game variety for Sega TASing. The8bitbeast His dedication for the Sega Master System still burns brightly. EZGames69 He finally completed a TAS of the highly anticipated The Adventures of Batman and Robin on the Genesis. Also, Mad Dog McCree is there and that game is a good time.
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Posted: 17 days ago
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Induviel As small as last year's Atari pool of publications is, I'll have to give the edge to Induviel for showing off some neat Atari 2600 homebrew games that I would've otherwise never known about.
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[5985] A2600 Kaboom! "maximum score" by DrD2k9 in 2:45:51.21 This one is a very good TASing endurance test for an Atari game. [6168] Lynx Hockey by alexheights1 in 00:11.72 lmao Habs Also, I like a good "start the game and walk away to victory". Of the various hockey TASes this year, this publication has the most pure form of that.
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[5900] Flash One Button Vania by Mikewillplays in 08:56.67 For a game involving the use of a single input method this TAS has a lot of major glitches to break the game open a fair amount. [6194] Flash Go Go Gummo by Mikewillplays in 04:20.10 The wide variety of movement and the ability to grapple allows for a lot of crazy movement tech. That's fun to watch in motion.
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[5844] ZXS Magicland Dizzy by DigitalDuck in 18:37.65 I think this is the best egg based game TAS for this category, which is such a highly specific thought to have. The skips and glitches make this game go by quickly and I find it neat. [5967] ZXS Jetpac by EZGames69 in 10:46.34 I know this game from Donkey Kong 64! It's cool to see this game completed so fast with lots of luck manipulation.
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[5753] DS Pac-Man World 3 by inconsistent in 24:53.53 This has a lot of cool glitches to slip past a lot of otherwise mandatory gates. The stop and go pace isn't too bad since it does let the viewers mentally catch up on what happens with some of the harder to visually follow tricks. [5997] 3DS The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D by benstephens56 in 23:12.85 Genuinely really cool to see a version of Majora's Mask that manages to not bother with any sort of time looping to beat the game. Those glitches are pretty wild. [6109] DS Super Mario 64 DS by Migu, bobbybob, Sharkey91, Really_Tall, Adeal & Rupa in 05:37.23 I'm surprised that it took this long for the "1 key" run of Super Mario 64 DS to show up, but the technical skill on display here made it worth the wait.
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[5895] SNES Celeste.smc "100%" by Suru486 in 33:10.89 My kaizo-style hack pick has to be this one since it hits a lot of vibes and the added movement tools make for a fun watch. [6139] SNES Nonsense "all exits" by Suru486 in 3:10:53.75 My non-kaizo-style hack pick is Nonsense since it has a heck of a lot of uncivilized (affectionate) gimmicks being tackled and sometimes broken quickly. I went with the "all exits" branch since it shows off a lot more of what the hack's about.
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Alyosha Their work in console verification has extended to GBA games and that's been a cool development to follow. This was also followed by him making some nice TAS improvements to older GBA publications. DigitalDuck nymx Once again these two are keeping the spirit of microcomputers (ZX Spectrum & Commodore 64, respectively) alive with their respective TASes. EZGames69 McBobX Spikestuff No real specialties from them, just a nice solid variety of TASes from these three TASers.
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[5837] PSX Spectral Tower by CoolHandMike in 24:04.89 That's an absurd amount of luck needed to clear 11130 tower floors in under 25 minutes. [5908] Wii Super Smash Bros. Brawl "The Subspace Emissary, 1 player" by DyllonStej in 56:22.83 That's an absurd amount of item and enemy luck to blast through (usually quite literally) the story mode. [6314] Windows Diablo by staphen, AJenbo, ephphatha & dwangoAC in 04:10.31 That's an absurd breakdown of how the game RNG works to generate dungeon floors, followed by an absurd amount of work manipulating that as well as other factors such as useful items and scrolls to reach the end in record time.
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[5918] GBA Shoot for the Moon by arandomgameTASer in 00:39.95 Seconding this one. Look at that space rabbit shmoove through the stages in record time. [5961] NES Super Painter by brunovalads & Alyosha in 05:27.53 This one has a lot of careful routing and optimization that's pretty interesting to watch.
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Posted: 21 days ago
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[6241] Genesis Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom by Twisted_Eye in 1:21:49.07 It's about time the old 2008 (!) TAS of PSIII saw an updated TAS and this one definitely delivered on that front. [6248] Genesis The Adventures of Batman and Robin "1 player" by EZGames69 in 36:22.34 This one is very fun to watch and listen to for its run time.
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Posted: 21 days ago
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Here are my nominations: Sam_Underscore SuperSqank These two newcomers brought in a nice variety of games that aren't as common to see around on the site. Those are always interesting to see. Suru486 It's nice seeing another person out there TASing Super Mario World related projects here, since there's a lot of cool ones but not a lot of actual submissions to the site. I hope this leads to more folks submitting their SMW work.
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Posted: 10/4/2024 11:42 PM
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Since this submission was published, you'd need to make a new submission for any improvements regardless of how big or small it is.
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Posted: 9/25/2024 8:37 PM
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I want to ask a quick question about the SOS part. How different are the routes for the best endings for each character? If they're distinct in their own way in terms of routing and planning, it would make sense that each character's best ending route would be their own distinct branch. Also from I've been informed, there isn't any completed best ending TASes that exists to work with so you'd need to have someone make one if you need it for RTA purposes.
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Posted: 9/8/2024 8:06 PM
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Playaround TASes are definitely something that feels like needing to vet for entertainment as usually that's the entire point of them. If they fail to entertain in any way then that kind of defeats the whole point of the playaround's goal. The tricky part is if it's meant to entertain a niche audience rather than a broader one.
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Posted: 9/8/2024 12:31 AM
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I'm going to ask this question here publicly since there's probably others out there who might have this same question. I know that for a lot of older ROM hacks, primarily SNES ones, don't work right with most modern emulators with better emulation accuracy and/or real hardware. For SNES ROM hacks, I've found that some hacks that don't work with BizHawk's BSNES 115+ core but works with the other SNES cores (Faust and SNES9x). Would TASes of those older ROM hacks be acceptable even if they're using the less hardware accurate cores to get the hack working at all?
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Posted: 9/4/2024 5:53 PM
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I'm having the same problems here. Seems like I'm missing one of the trusted versions of the game, according to the Dat-O-Matic database. The two No-Intro versions I have: 
File:   NHLPA Hockey 93 (USA, Europe).md
Name:   NHLPA Hockey 93 (USA, Europe) (EASN)
Alt:    NHLPA Hockey '93 (UE) (REV00)
SHA1:   8EFC1CACB079EA223966DDA065C16C49E584CAC2
MD5:    CB3A005ADAB1CB99F24A7F8B8E420328
Status: Trusted, not verified
Entry:  https://datomatic.nointro.org/index.php?page=show_record&s=32&n=0926

File:   NHLPA Hockey 93 (USA, Europe) (v1.1).md
Name:   NHLPA Hockey 93 (USA, Europe) (Rev A) (EASN)
Alt:    NHLPA Hockey '93 (UE) (REV01) [!]
SHA1:   2AB048FC7209DF28B00EF47F2F686F5B7208466E
MD5:    B6FB2CE20122B319631AF6B697E64082
Status: Trusted, verified
Entry:  https://datomatic.nointro.org/index.php?page=show_record&s=32&n=0927
The version that the submission was made on seems to also be a good dump according to the No-Intro database: 
Name:   NHLPA Hockey 93 (USA, Europe) (EA Sports)
SHA1:   76c0f3d4665ffcd53adfffaa27fc4dded694f8f7
MD5:    d49eba72cb0fffcf33469c23bfb713e4
Status: Trusted, not verified
Entry:  https://datomatic.nointro.org/index.php?page=show_record&s=32&n=3115
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