SMS Rastan wasn't released in Japan, and the FM Sound Unit was only released in Japan. As such, this game shouldn't be using the FM Synth music and sound. I tried doing a direct transplant of the inputs with the PSG sound and it desynced on the first boss.
Pretty cool platforming action. It's a shame about the sound, but maybe a second encode could be made with SFX on, since it's a few frames here and there. I will say that watching Juni move around silently gave me a sense of flow, only interrupted by the end-level score tally. Though most viewers might prefer to play music while watching it.
Sonic Blast is an interesting game to TAS, and I loved working on that back from 2017. I'm more surprised with the upper route at the start of Red Volcano 2, because the jump up looked impossible given the stiff gameplay physics, so I didn't test at all. Very neat! The water current from Blue Marine 1 is the main enemy of this act. I'm not sure if the pipe route on Blue Marine 2 was tested before (I lost my project months after the publication), but avoiding the sucker back would be unlikely for me. Glad both skips are actually possible after all the years :) Green Hill Zone looks much more polished with the improved speed management knownledge (I focused avoiding the rings rather than rolling down a hill - my bad), and I liked the route change on Sliver Castle 2 - doing many jumps under the spikes and taking damage at the end not only for losing rings but to allow a faster turnaround was clever! Excellent work on this game and yes vote.
I'm happy to see an optimized run of this category! Thanks for the detailed notes, it answered every question I had about it. I also liked the entertainment like when you imitated Flappy Bird, around 2:06. I should note that the old TAS you referenced was by Tee-N-Tee; I just made an encode of it. I should have been more clear about that.
Yes. So much art in moving this time. I like crab boss left-right wall glitch. What about "all *" run?
How dependent on RNG is Crash or how inconsistent is its lagging? Doesn't it make sense to edit Rolling Stone level in TAStudio, all the level intermission screens where crystals are counted and cut the map part where you go back to Rolling Stone?
Is Wille Coyote's position universally tracked throughout the level or can one despawn him by having him go off screen? If the latter, could you intentionally despawn him (by stopping or otherwise) to reduce end of level delays by having him spawn sooner after you reach the exit?
Easy yes vote! Question. According to this faq https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/atari2600/563930-basic-math/faqs/29098 at section III end Controls, it says you can change the difficulty switch to get a time limit. What difficulty does this TAS uses?
That was a fun watch of an interesting but flawed movie tie-in, if nothing else for the visuals and weird bosses. I noticed that there's a 2nd player available. Does that change gameplay all that much?
Based on the youtube encode, at Section 2 it looks like there is 2 potential opening of the first two walls on the top and the bottom.