As always, I have provided a release package on my my sourceforge project. It includes the movie file, RAM Watch files, submission text, and level savestates.
Note: To watch the movie file, you must use Desmume 9.6 with advanced bus timing turned OFF

Introduction

Spider-man 2 is a very fast paced 3Dish-2D platformer for Nintendo DS. I picked this game to TAS because it was fast, had a large variety of movies, and a ton of amazing abilities that can be exploited with the variety of web slinging Spiderman can do.

Tricks & Glitches & Noteables

Chapter 6 - Mysterio

There is a bug when coming out of the mini-game. During the mini-game you will eventually tap the real mysterio. When this happens, rapidly tap the Y button. If the timing is correct, he will not reappear in the fight. He will be frozen and invisible for the rest of the fight. This allows for Spiderman to laydown a brutal (and unfair!) beating on his frozen, invisible self. I found this trick in a FAQ on GameFAQs.

Faster beginning of web slinging

When standing still and using a web sling, it is slightly faster to jump for one frame and then sling in order to avoid the slinging animation. This was discovered by SonikKustar

High Speed Corner Bounce

Meh, I need a better name for this. If you do a diagonal websling into a precise part of a corner of a ceiling, spiderman will hit his head but then counter to accelerate up after the corner. This is used to avoid grabbing some platforms and jumping on to them.

Final Octavius Fight

If you stay too close to him when he turns around, the game will go into the mini-game (thus costing a whole lot of time). This is why I sling far away from him and then return.

Thanks

SonikKustar, for helping me find tricks, watching WIPs, and even TASing a few portions of Level 1 & 2.
Enjoy

Baxter: Good audience response generally for this fast-paced TAS. Accepting.
sgrunt: Since GabCM apparently hasn't handled this yet, I'll publish it shortly.


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This is how I think Spider-Man would move in reality. Maybe with a bit less banging his head on the ceiling though. Fast paced web action, quick bosses and quickly beating the puzzles all lead to an easy yes vote here.
Post subject: Movie published
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [1638] DS Spider-Man 2 by adelikat in 14:20.21
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F***. Now I have to reencode this ASAP.
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Er... why? I checked the encode before publishing it and it appeared to be fine.
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sgrunt wrote:
Er... why? I checked the encode before publishing it and it appeared to be fine.
It doesn't work with VLC and some other players. It's the last of these "broken" encodes done with my old method. And I'd also make it look like a real DS. Top-to-top, not side-to-side. EDIT: It's changed now.
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The publication needs an update. Like the categories and the description.
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An HD encode could be nice too.
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Yea, it's not like we have a backlog of other TASes we have to move over to TASVideosChannel from other channels. This is also referring to your post at Tony Hawk 3.
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+fsvgm777 never censoring anything.
Disables Comments and Ratings for the YouTube account. Something better for yourself and also others.
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I was thinking of HD encoding this movie myself... How does that sound? (New YT video I mean)
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