This TAS completes the F-Zero X Death Race as quickly as possible, improving the prior TAS time of 8.927 by Katsukawa Sojuro aka Xenos.
Note that 2s of "improvement" are due to the stylistic choice of the prior author not stopping the timer early by falling off the track.
This movie choice has been brought up in the forums a couple of times, but never really drew direct commentary either way.
The movement of the first two cars destroyed seems driven entirely by which ship you choose. There are only 3 or 4 patterns; Golden Fox gives the best pattern where both cars break immediately to the middle. Crazy Bear, Mighty Hurricane and Great Star (heavier high boost cars) give bad patterns. Also, GF is heavy enough to kill easily, and lighter weight = faster steering - obviously important for this challenge!
I use the wide-angle view because it's easier (for me and viewers) to see what's going on. And quite a bit is going on - ships get flung everywhere when they die and can interact with both the player and other ships, making planning, patience and experimentation crucial.
In-game boost acceleration is very affected by lag in this game. If more lags are made, acceleration will make lower. This happened in xenos wizpig TAS with TT. or you can confirm this at start boost. you will get nearly 90km/h in emulator but almost impossible in console. I think mupen can't emulate lag correctly and no inaccuracy other than lag.
A familiar picture.Sorry to be changing the subject, but I've noticed a problem that I can't get around. I was thinking about the possibilities of a Adventure 2 run, and I found out that when I select 'Adventure 2' from the screen, the file for the Xenos' (to the second credits) run is darkened, and un-selectable. The funny thing is, there is the same problem with my N64: I got all the trophies, Wizpig and TT amulets, keys, balloons, beat Wizpig 2 multiple times, etc., and it still won't let me do Adventure 2. It will let me do the tracks in Track mode however.
Hi, I tried to tas pt1. I think I loaded a bad ROM cause there are invisible objects in the game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyJhHA6Pqag accidently deleted some savestates during the tas: -after finish line of 1st lap -and finally at 3rd curve 2nd lap which made me finish after 2hours of work:D I'd love to see a pro-tas of pt1. Maybe it's possible to reach 3000 @first dtd?
Here's a similar problem, easier than the one above but perhaps worth mentioning for its nice, elegant solution: determine the number of solutions to a1+a2+a3+...+an<=x for all n and x are non-negative integers.
This is the reason my testing was unsuccessful. I only tried dropping in 2nd place to get 1 star, and at a future point of reference, 1 star made me behind using shrooms only. 2 stars would surpass that.
I'm fairly confident that you'll get a faster time using 2 stars, assuming you cut corners more, and slide constantly (and use that analog stick wobbling trick).
I just heavily tested the star strat that was suggested. It is FAR slower. I was a good 3 seconds behind most of the time, and really lost out at the end... I got a star to last all the way to the 4th set of item boxes, but at that exact time, I had, using mushrooms, completed the 1st lap.
There are a few things I probably would had tried (maybe you did), like falling off the loop when you're at the top & then go back (only for the 1st lap), but think I remember JKT mentioning it wasn't useful. The next thing, would be to fall off & go back to the track after passing the loop, if done correctly, it should give you a little more speed (only for the 1st lap). The last thing regards on the 2nd time you fly, I remember that you can keep more speed falling earlier, or am I wrong?
Xenos, did you try experimenting with my speed preserving trick?
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Xenos: Again, awesome vid, but again, I think it can be improved some. At this point, do you think you want to complete the entire run on your own using the level of optimization you've been doing, or would you be willing to work as a team that tries to optimize absolutely everything?