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This movie improves on the old TAS by 700 frames (11.67 seconds) and uses a new shortcut as well as faster stage intro skips.
  • Emulator used: Bizhawk 1.9.1
  • Plays on hardest difficulty
  • Uses a password

Comments

Super Monkey Ball Jr. is notorious for the bad controls and even worse physics. If you've seen the other monkey ball movies on the site, you may have noticed that moving diagonally is faster than going straight, and getting bounces into the air gives you more speed. Naturally, the exact opposite of both are true for this game. Any airtime will slow you down, and going diagonally does not save time.
A password is used to access the Master stages from power-on. (Down, Down, Up, Up, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A)
Each floor has an intro where the stage is viewed from afar. These intros can all be skipped by pressing A, but this movie uses a bug where the intro is skipped before it even begins. By getting the exact right frame, the game loads the stage before the intro scene is shown.

Stage by stage comments

Floor 1

Nothing new here. I optimized the ending as much as possible, cutting corners as close as I could without getting bumps.

Floor 2

Nothing new here either. More optimization, all three clips are perfectly flat and no time is lost by being hit upwards.

Floor 3

The two shortcuts were improved to lose less speed. The final turn no longer slows down to finish the floor.

Floor 4

Completely new shortcut here that skips straight to the goal! Saves a ton of time over previous movies.

Floor 5

Nothing new here. All gaps were crossed with as little upward bounce as possible.

Other comments

I'm now certain that no more possible shortcuts are possible for this game. All intro skips and level transitions are perfect as far as I'm aware, and all five floors are optimized to the best of my abilities. I don't see anyone improving on this movie (mainly because nobody will ever bother)
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edit- Cancelled for me forgetting to kill input after the movie was over.


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#673: yagz's GBA Super Monkey Ball Jr. in 06:04.18 #677: yagz's GBA Super Monkey Ball Jr. in 05:32.58 #1713: Comicalflop's GBA Super Monkey Ball Jr. in 02:20.47 #3574: Waffle's GBA Super Monkey Ball Jr. in 02:03.27 Edit: Oh, I see why. Someone forgot to kill their input. It's not 02:47.38 it's 01:52.11.
Silverbawxer wrote:
I don't see anyone improving on this movie (mainly because nobody will ever bother :P)
Hi, I'm Spikestuff and I already fixed your TAS.
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+fsvgm777 never censoring anything.
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Post subject: Re: #4663: Silverbawxer's GBA Super Monkey Ball Jr. in 02:47.38
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TASVideoAgent wrote:
Super Monkey Ball Jr. is notorious for the bad controls and even worse physics. If you've seen the other monkey ball movies on the site, you may have noticed that moving diagonally is faster than going straight, and getting bounces into the air gives you more speed. Naturally, the exact opposite of both are true for this game. Any airtime will slow you down, and going diagonally does not save time.
Sounds more like better physics to me.
Spikestuff wrote:
Silverbawxer wrote:
I don't see anyone improving on this movie (mainly because nobody will ever bother :P)
Hi, I'm Spikestuff.
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Spikestuff wrote:
#673: yagz's GBA Super Monkey Ball Jr. in 06:04.18 #677: yagz's GBA Super Monkey Ball Jr. in 05:32.58 #1713: Comicalflop's GBA Super Monkey Ball Jr. in 02:20.47 #3574: Waffle's GBA Super Monkey Ball Jr. in 02:03.27 Edit: Oh, I see why. Someone forgot to kill their input.z It's not 02:47.38 it's 01:52.11.
Silverbawxer wrote:
I don't see anyone improving on this movie (mainly because nobody will ever bother :P)
Hi, I'm Spikestuff and I already fixed your TAS.
sheeeeeeeit apparently I'm stupid because I don't see an option to change the movie file. Do I have to cancel this submission and upload the new fixed one?
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