This topic is for the purpose of discussing #3595: Cooljay's SNES Lethal Weapon in 30:08.40

I watched it all. All 30 minutes! This is the second time I do that at all, the first was that glitched out SNES MegaMan movie. This means the game is really fantastic. Divine graphical style, cool music, dynamical gameplay. But the movie really looks sub-optimal. First thing to mention is that strange physics when you stop after each jump - but sometimes not. Then you go back or forward for no obvious reason in some places, like at entering the doors or turning the switches, or on the ladders. Also, if you are about to fall into a whole, you shall jump into it to get the most speed and reach the floor sooner (avoiding hitting corners, surely). Or these electric charges on the floor. When you go back a bit before it turns off, you can start moving right earlier and already have some acceleration right at the moment of it switching off, being just near it at this moment. Why did you kill so many enemies you could just jump over and ignore? So, this needs just some basic movement optimisation I believe. The rerecord count shows that too (if it's real). To make this optimisation you just need to run each level or just room several times in a row, trying to speed up everything you could miss at the first time. That method always ends up improving the things you didn't expect to improve. http://tasvideos.org/Guidelines.html http://tasvideos.org/GameResources/CommonTricks.html http://tasvideos.org/GenericTips.html EDIT: making a fast encode. No HD this time.

Thanks for the tips feos. I certainly could've polished it better. If I need to make another run I will try one more go to get that final touches. Regarding killing enemies. It was mainly I wasn't sure when they might shoot back and some were in the way. Mission 3 at the shopping mall screen you have to kill all the terrorists in it to progress.

It's always better to post WIPs in a Games section, where you shall create a thread for this game, if there's no one yet.

It's always better to post WIPs in a Games section, where you shall create a thread for this game, if there's no one yet.

Yeah I should've still posted one beforehand during the making of it.

Hmm, I'm fairly happy with the game choice. The graphics are simple and generally clean, the music is awesome, and there's a fair bit of length and stage variety. The controls seem clunky, but that's not necessarily a run-killer. However, this run isn't precise enough at this point. The main offender is Mission 4. There are a number of places when it looks like you jump off a rising lift too late, so you overjump the ledge you want to reach. You walk past switches that need to be turned on or off. There are missed shots over enemies' heads. And I'm pretty sure that some of the damage you took in Mission 4 would be much better spent in Mission 5, so that you don't have to wait and duck under the machinegun streams. Good attempt, but this really could use more touch-up. I do think that it'll be publishable once it's cleaner, though.

Hmm, I'm fairly happy with the game choice. The graphics are simple and generally clean, the music is awesome, and there's a fair bit of length and stage variety. The controls seem clunky, but that's not necessarily a run-killer. However, this run isn't precise enough at this point. The main offender is Mission 4. There are a number of places when it looks like you jump off a rising lift too late, so you overjump the ledge you want to reach. You walk past switches that need to be turned on or off. There are missed shots over enemies' heads. And I'm pretty sure that some of the damage you took in Mission 4 would be much better spent in Mission 5, so that you don't have to wait and duck under the machinegun streams. Good attempt, but this really could use more touch-up. I do think that it'll be publishable once it's cleaner, though.

Thanks for feedback. I can see if I clean that Mission 4 and 5 up for an improved version Also other touches will do as well

om, nom, nom... sweet!