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Jenga on the handheld. It's basically a port of the blocky version, except with some different mechanics added every stage and one different rule: You can move any piece as much as you want for as long as you want as long as it's not considered "taken". I specifically rigged it up so that the opponent loses on their first turn.

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  • Emulator used: DeSmuME_0.9.10_x86
  • 1 rule abused
  • 1 glitch abused
  • Still worse than the original

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I have no clue why the alien/space stage was like that; I couldn't repeat that glitch anywhere else. Incidentally provoked me to make this run.
The credits don't automatically play after beating the main event, so I went to the options to see it akin to the Rubik's Cube TAS.
A possible improvement would be somehow manipulate the pterosaur to swoop in and grab the block in the dinosaur stage (5th). Also somehow replicate the stage 2 glitch.

Noxxa: Judging.
Noxxa: Mediocre viewer response. As Jenga is a board game, this game also does not qualify for the Vault. As such, rejecting.


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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #4655: jlun2's DS Jenga World Tour in 02:38.53
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"It's all over. Watch out for those falling blocks!" Is this the new "All right now, play friendly!"? Anyways, meh.
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I just realized that you can splice in the input and select each and every single different character to have them unlock the exact same set of levels once 19 more times. I guess if anyone wants to do a "100%"-ish TAS they can do that.
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This was okay for what it was. The last bit of the encode made it all worth it. Meh vote.
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Hah! The concept of the TAS is hilarious at least. Wonder if this would work in a real life game of Jenga. Also, there ought to be some safety regulations against playing Jenga inside a live volcano or other extreme conditions. I laughed out loud while watching it and it didn't last too long, so it gets a yes vote from me.
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This is just a bunch of completely normal games of Jenga. One person goes, then the next person just knocks over the tower and asks to play something different.
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Very entertaining for a 2.65 minutes movie. YES vote.
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That AI's Jengaship just got totally shanked.
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I love the disconnect between the CPUs move and how the tower falls over. No for vault :P
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Jenga is a board game? RIP
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Patashu wrote:
Jenga is a board game? RIP
This is actually something I did some research into when I judged this movie. It turned out that yes, Jenga is indeed commonly categorized as a board game.
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Patashu wrote:
Jenga is a board game? RIP
This is actually something I did some research into when I judged this movie. It turned out that yes, Jenga is indeed commonly categorized as a board game.
From wikipedia, "A board game is a game that involves counters or pieces moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games can be based on pure strategy, chance (e.g. rolling dice), or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal that a player aims to achieve. Early board games represented a battle between two armies, and most modern board games are still based on defeating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position, or accrual of points (often expressed as in-game currency)." Tetris is a game in which pre-defined pieces are moved about a pre-defined board and stacked in such a way as to accrue points. http://tasvideos.org/4423S.html http://tasvideos.org/1065S.html http://tasvideos.org/2786S.html http://tasvideos.org/2459S.html http://tasvideos.org/2471S.html I'm sure there are more, but I'm lazy. I find it ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS that the common argument against board games is "wut r we gona do wit all the chess gaemz?" when we still accept tetris clone after tetris clone after tetris clone. Rejecting someone's hard work and effort because "it's a board game" is a farce of an excuse.
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Rejecting someone's hard work and effort because "it's a board game" is a farce of an excuse.
Please see here for a discussion on this subject (if you haven't read it already).
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A physical game that can be played on, say, a coffee table, qualifies as a board game in most cases. There are also some other real world games, such as sports or game shows. I forget any examples of how they were received as "fastest time" TASes of video games that try to replicate them. In any case, Tetris is not an example of a board game, due to the fact it never existed as a physical game you can play on your coffee table or at some other place. If you know such an example, feel free to show me, so I may retract this statement. I do believe that Vault has some room for this sort of game, due to the fact there is a clear progression from "stage" to "stage", rather than some arbitrary moves that lead to one player winning in only a single game. But that's a discussion best reserved to the topic already linked.
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DS Jenga World Tour is obviously a video game, not a board game.