Incidentally, I'd love to see you do a TAS of Eris, if you think you're up to it. :)

:D Kriole's Eris TAS is really awesome and I don't think I can do that awesome :P so I try another hacks instead!

I find it strange that a lot of voters are complaining about the visuals. For me, that was the highlight of the TAS. I found the game to be beautiful, so much so that I was excited about every room change just to see what the hack designer's imagination could throw at us. I even took some snapshots to prove my point: Granted, I wasn't too impressed with the boss palette change, particularly Ridley, and some of the rooms were a bit off-putting. Nonetheless, this was a visual feast, which is something strange for me to say considering I'm not at all a graphics whore. As for the gameplay, no complaints in terms of optimization, from an untrained eye this looks on par with the technical quality of currently published Super Metroid TASes. There was nothing that stood out as groundbreaking about the hack like the continuous shinespark ability in Redesign, but I was still thoroughly entertained throughout. For the complaint that the game lacks enemies, I don't see how that really makes a difference. The intrigue of the metroid series is in the adventure/exploration, I always found the combat outside of boss battles to be secondary, if not a nuisance at times. All we're really missing from a lack of enemies is damage boosts, no big deal. My biggest concern is that godawful Ridley fight. The second Samus' bombs ran out and all she was left with was a weak charge beam, I knew this battle was going to be painfully long. Even with 4x speed this took too long. I'll finish by saying I don't really agree with the site's general attitude against publishing hacked runs. As long as the play quality is there and the hack offers something unique (which this one clearly does in its visual presentation), I'm all for it. Edit: Voted yes, obviously.

The Missile pack "above the beginning of the long shinespark to the red tower" requires shinerspark (and one shot to reveal it, of course :) if I collect it, then I have to shinerspark again, in total it'll take more than 4s :D

You're visiting the room twice. At 18 minutes, you would need to charge again, that's true. But when visiting again at 24 minutes, you don't need a shinespark afterwards, so you could charge one, spark up and grab the missile without having to retreat. Would still take too long, though. If the missile pack above the Dark Beam was too slow to get, then this one is even slower.

So, I watched the encode, and overall, While the Boss Battles weren't as interesting as usually, I liked the run. It was new, fresh and interesting enough for me to give it a yes.

...I didn't vote in tis one. Derp. But before that....

As far as I'm aware there's no official policy on hack publications, but judging from audience response, I wouldn't expect to see more than one hack published for any given game, at least not until the publication process gets revamped.

I've always dreamed about a subsite for hacks =P like hacks.tasvideos.org

I find it strange that a lot of voters are complaining about the visuals. For me, that was the highlight of the TAS.

I like them. They're disturbing sometimes, like Ridley and inside out Draygon. Voting yes on this one ...although I must ask: does this game have any story? It's seems I'm missing something about this game (besides never playing the Metroid Prime trilogy) why everything started exploding for no reason (I know it's Metroid, and almost every game ends with a planet shattering explosion,but still) and the identity of the enemies the enemies are. I know it's a hack, and I shoudn't be asking this, but it makes me wonder...

I've always dreamed about a subsite for hacks =P like hacks.tasvideos.org

:D Yeah that's will be awesome!

...although I must ask: does this game have any story? It's seems I'm missing something about this game (besides never playing the Metroid Prime trilogy) why everything started exploding for no reason (I know it's Metroid, and almost every game ends with a planet shattering explosion,but still) and the identity of the enemies the enemies are. I know it's a hack, and I shoudn't be asking this, but it makes me wonder...

The Prime series introduced a character called "Dark Samus", which is more or less Samus's evil, crack-addicted twin. Except it's space opera, so instead of crack they use Phazon. This hack has you playing as Dark Samus, hence the new color scheme, Phazon upgrades, and sprite replacements (the space pirates are supposed to look like Galactic Federation troopers to the extent possible, and many biological enemies are replaced by robots). As for the explosions, just assume that one of the bosses was load-bearing. :)

I find it strange that a lot of voters are complaining about the visuals. For me, that was the highlight of the TAS. I found the game to be beautiful, so much so that I was excited about every room change just to see what the hack designer's imagination could throw at us. I even took some snapshots to prove my point: Edit: Voted yes, obviously.

I'm going to have to second that. I enjoyed the entirety of this run and watched all 30-odd minutes of it. The highlight for me was the variations on the concepts from the original game. The TAS is nothing special, but without drastic gameplay modifications, there are going to be tactics reused. Nice hack, nice TAS.

om, nom, nom... want more!

Hi, I made a TAS of the new version of this hack, check it out if you have time :)

And where is this TAS? :)

For the lazy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILGRTPnxrUk