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Posted: 9/3/2011 2:27 PM
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As a long-time lurker, I just wanted to say how entertaining I find the MK TASes. I love how much they make a mockery of the AI (as much as it made a mockery of me with its cheapness), and the glitchiness as exploited by the runners. I can only assume exploiting the glitches as they do would require some frame-perfect technical precision -- just enough to break the game for the highly entertaining results.
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Posted: 1/19/2011 12:50 AM
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Fantastic TAS. Quick question: has it happened before that the speedrunning record and the TAS record were held by the same person? (I get the vibe Adelikat is one of those people.)
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Posted: 1/13/2011 1:13 AM
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Tompa wrote:
While the run is very nice looking, I can't see any reasons to have this run published. 16 stars existed in the past because there were no faster way to beat the game, why go back to slower tactics when there are faster ones? This goal would be the same even if it was 21, 63, 32, 79 stars, and we don't need one category/star.
As a lurker with 2 cents, I have to respectfully disagree. I think the 70-star category should still legitimately exist, if executed without any glitching through/passed minimum-star boundaries. Conceptually a "How fast can one finish this game whilst still playing within the main intentions of the original creators?" TAS. Additionally it allows for flexibility in deciding which 70 stars are the fastest to collect.
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Posted: 3/23/2010 2:48 PM
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I do agree that Commentary is fantastic. If anyone is interested, here's a thread on the SDA forums listing all the 'commentaried' runs they have: http://speeddemosarchive.com/forum/index.php?topic=8356.0 Commentary makes me watch runs for games i've never even played! I'd love commentary for this video as well, as i've seen the RBA glitch before in previous non-published TAS runs on Z:OoT, and i've briefly read about the RBA glitch as well, but I don't get the trick with repeatedly releasing the bugs out of the jar and then catching them again. Back on topic, I was thinking that this video is a very exceptional case for voting 'yes' to, but it should be rated in the mid-ranges for lacking the full bevvy of currently existing tricks on Z:OoT. Out of interest, may I ask, who is working on the definitive Z:OoT (U)-version TAS?
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Posted: 3/22/2010 10:58 AM
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Not about to read through 11 pages of debate. Just wanted to say I generally stick to the rules, but I don't mind bending them in extraordinary circumstances, eg. a massively popular game has an incredibly outdated TAS, and is superceded by technically imperfect run on the (J) version, but by a Japanese person; and a closer-to-technically perfect (U) version run is on the way anyway. I figured, if we don't accept this, then tasvideos might stand to lose a little "bragging" authority in the TAS world.
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Posted: 3/22/2010 6:57 AM
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TAZ... like the first syllable in "Tasmania".
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