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Elite Beat Agents Elite Beat Divas Low Score Entry write up:
This run plays on HARD ROCK! Difficulty. In order to unlock that, you must beat the game in Sweatin' difficulty, in order to play that, you must play on Cruisin' difficulty. Here's a verification movie that does just that.
This run has three goals:
  • Play with Elite Beat Divas
  • Play every song in the game
  • Fail as hard as I can, but still always progress and reach end credits.
It is possible to die in this game and very easy on the hardest difficulty, which means that unlike other rhythm games, you actually have to play it. Most of the time the failure cutscenes are funnier than the success cutscenes, some of them only make sense if you've seen the good ending, though.
I used very advanced techniques such as trial and error in order to make the best movie possible for all of you.

Possible improvements

I don't know, use a bot or something? I actually didn't try too hard, here.
Enjoy spending most of your time staring at the cleavage of a low-poly 3d model.
No encode because copyright lawyers scare me.

feos: This game is awful, disgusting, disturbing, terrible, horrible, it makes me barf, it stole my cookies, it killed my dog, it makes no sense, it entertains Hitler, and on top of it all, it promotes dancing. Everybody knows that dancing causes elephant lobotomy and Spikestuff ⃰.
Seriously though, this game doesn't offer any good dancing styles. Rejecting for not having this dance in the game:
As for a regular TAS of this game, even for a movie that starts from power on and aims for fastest time, this game is basically timed. The markers appear at a given rate and you can't complete a level way faster by being way more optimal. It's possible to trade a bit of time by balancing error and score, but there's not enough player control to allow for a serious speed competition in my opinion.
* I have an official approval from him so keep your shirt on!


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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #6351: arkiandruski's DS Elite Beat Agents "low score" in 1:00:52.99
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Since April fool's is over, I'd like to say a few things. This idea popped into my head as a challenge that would actually be difficult and impressive to pull off with a TAS. Playing a rhythm game optimally in a TAS setting is trivial, which makes them bad game choices. This movie is a test run to see if the end result of the challenge might actually be interesting. Elite Beat Agents and the entire Osu series is an interesting set of games for a low score run for a few reasons. - there is a life bar, so failure is possible. On harder difficulties, you have to be pretty good just to avoid dying. - the scoring system is rather complex and based on combos, so you're inventivised to keep the combos short, but doing so requires playing better in order to have the life left necessary to break it and survive, so there a trade off. - the story in these games tends to be amusing, and even more so if you play poorly. So the movie itself was put together quickly, and is therefore suboptimal, but I would be interested to hear if this might be a goal to look into for a more serious effort. EDIT: Also, feel free to still give it a joke rejection message. I'm not trying to take that fun away from judges.
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I'm interested in watching this, but not nearly enough to figure out setting up a DS emulator on OSX. I think you will probably not get in legal trouble for creating an encode.
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I think Elite Beat Agents uses actual pop songs, which YouTube can sniff out like a bloodhound.
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They use covers, but yeah, I'm still a bit leery, and there's a decent chance that another video has the tracks from the games claimed anyways.
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You know, I once got a copyright flag for including the Dolphin Shoals music...in my Mario Kart 8 highlight reel. So I can't say I blame you!
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I ain't no coward! Link to video Currently Claimed Copyrighted Content: Makes No Difference - Sum 41 • 1:01:25 - 1:01:37 You're the Inspiration (2006 Remaster) - Chicago • 1:02:35 - 1:02:51 Just a random note, you could've uploaded it to DailyMotion. --- Thoughts: This is dumb. Yes vote.
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Hey lady, can you back off a bit? Im trying to watch this tas. You’re making me very uncomfortable.
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Agents are go! Checked out the game and it's absolutely ridiculous. It's so boldly and unbearably stupid that it's amusing, I hope I don't go off the rails after having judged it. The movies are yet to be watched.
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Just the high score (compared to everything else) on the last song shows that this game almost don't forgive mistakes on Hard Rock! difficulty. Normally TASes are made with perfection in mind, but this TAS proves that in the right circumstances, failure is entertaining in a TAS. For a rhythm game TAS, this is a very original approach and I like it. Yes vote
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