I finished one, but didn't submit it because it wasn't very well optimized in several stages, and hex editing looked nightmarish. At one point or another I regained interest in it and started over from scratch, beating my time for the first level and finished the second a few days ago. I hadn't posted about it because I wasn't really making a lot of progress, and I wasn't sure if interest would be all that high with the garbled sound on the SNES rom.
Someone mentioned a ZSNES update that would enable movie recording, so I was gonna wait for that, then I kinda forgot and started on it with Snes9x again, it's basically a transient project while I look for obscure PSX games to run and submit to SDA. :P
If were going to talk about classics, why not Space Invaders?
They don't get much more classic than that. I've never really played it well enough to see any sort of ending, but if there is one it'd be worth going for i think.
Shooters, as a rule, do not make very good TAS candidates. Usually they are fixed scrollers so no matter the technique of the player the game must take a certain length of time to complete.
Space Invaders has the added disadvantage of NO scrolling, so there would be virtually nothing to watch at all. True, never missing a shot would be impressive at first, but how long would that really hold anyone's interest? Not to mention the fact that I don't think there is an ending, therefore there is no goal...
Unless, of course, one was playing the PS1 version, however rerecording isn't supported for that yet.
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When i posted this comment my real back thoughts were that the PSone version could be used...however...an identical (if not better) version of this suped-up space invaders game was released for the GBA. I considered doing it, but i don't know how much less boring it would be.
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Sir VG wrote:
feitclub wrote:
Mukki wrote:
If were going to talk about classics, why not Space Invaders?
They don't get much more classic than that. I've never really played it well enough to see any sort of ending, but if there is one it'd be worth going for i think.
Shooters, as a rule, do not make very good TAS candidates. Usually they are fixed scrollers so no matter the technique of the player the game must take a certain length of time to complete.
Space Invaders has the added disadvantage of NO scrolling, so there would be virtually nothing to watch at all. True, never missing a shot would be impressive at first, but how long would that really hold anyone's interest? Not to mention the fact that I don't think there is an ending, therefore there is no goal...
Unless, of course, one was playing the PS1 version, however rerecording isn't supported for that yet.
There's also a really fun "modern" arcade version called "Akkan-raiders" or something like that. You have a choice of characters to fight with, there are bosses, and other such goodies. However, there's no MAME re-recording either so we're shit outta luck.
