Post by Cpadolf

Posted: 1/18/2009 8:40 PM
(Edited: 1/19/2009 4:49 PM)

Post subject: TASer of the year - 2008

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adelikat

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TASer of the year - 2008 Vote on the TASer of the year for 2008. The nominees are listed below; click on the name to be taken to a page with the relevant movies listed. adelikat 1. 1039M NES Tecmo Super Bowl in 11:05.02 "playaround" 2. 1053M NES Super Mario Bros. 3 in 10:29.05 "warps" (co-authored with Cardboard, Deign, and JXQ 3. 1059M NES Super Mario Bros. 3 in 47:33.52 "warpless" (co-authored with Cardboard, Deign, and JXQ) 4. 1057M SMS Ninja Gaiden in 15:04.25 5. 1097M GENS Contra - The Hard Corps in 04:57.28 "secret ending" 6. 1098M GENS Contra - The Hard Corps in 14:11.9 7. 1104M NES Duck Tales 2 in 08:45.82 8. 1118M NES R.B.I. Baseball in 04:29.23 "playaround" 9. 1151M GBA Batman Begins in 18:34.52 10. 1155M NES Super Spy Hunter in 23:38.42 (co-authored with Randil) 11. 1179M NES Double Dragon 2 in 08:54.05 2 Player, mode b 12. 1184M NES Trojan in 06:16.73 13. 1225M NES Karnov in 08:58.5 14. 1239M GENS Earnest Evans in 07:51.48 Cardboard 1. 1041M GENS Robocop Versus The Terminator in 14:07 2. 1053M NES Super Mario Bros. 3 "warps" in 10:29.05 (co-authored with adelikat, Deign, and JXQ) 3. 1059M NES Super Mario Bros. 3 "warpless" in 47:33.52 (co-authored with adelikat, Cardboard, Deign, and JXQ) 4. 1093M GBA Castlevania: Circle Of The Moon in 21:40 5. 1120M SNES Super Turrican in 11:31 6. 1154M GB Uchuu no Kishi Tekkaman Blade in 08:16 7. 1165M SNES Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse, The in 15:29 (co-authored with Recca) 8. 1168M GBA Castlevania - Circle of the Moon in 05:22 "Glitched" 9. 1173M GBA Naruto - Ninja Council in 11:01 Cpadolf 1. 1074M SNES Super Metroid in 41:22 2. 1075M SNES Super Metroid in 41:02 3. 1116M SNES Gradius 3 in 25:31 4. 1134M SNES Super Mario Allstars - Lost Levels in 35:09 5. 1139M SNES Super Metroid in 22:01 co-authored with hero of the day) "Glitched-any%" 6. 1195M SNES Super Metroid in 1:08:11 "All-items" 7. 1204M SNES Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind in 15:17 8. 1217M SNES Contra III - The Alien Wars in 03:23 9. 1232M SNES Sparkster in 18:16 mmbossman 1. 1038M SNES Wild Guns in 19:08 2. 1044M GENS Sonic Spinball in 07:59 3. 1047M N64 Turok - Dinosaur Hunter in 36:37 4. 1095M NES Solitaire in 00:47 5. 1096M GBA Spider-Man 3 in 15:39 6. 1181M NES Spider-Man - Return of the Sinister Six in 05:27 7. 1182M GENS 32x Spider-Man - Web of Fire in 07:10 8. 1183M GENS Spider-Man vs The Kingpin in 06:05 9. 1201M SNES Goof Troop in 16:37 (co-authored with Randil) Randil 1. 1048M NES Circus Charlie in 3:24.05 2. 1071M NES Ninja Crusaders in 04:08 (co-authored with AnS) 3. 1110M NES Moai Kun in 15:00 4. 1133M NES Deja Vu in 10:19 5. 1152M NES Uninvited in 08:10 6. 1155M NES Super Spy Hunter (co-authored with adelikat) 7. 1161M NES Shadowgate in 08:56 8. 1201M SNES Goof Troop in 16:37 (co-authored with mmbossman) 9. 1218M NES Solstice in 05:40 Aqfaq 1. 1072M GENS Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle in 05:28 2. 1078M NES Donkey Kong Jr. (co-authored with Ferret Warlord) 3. 1084M GENS Immortal, The in 10:33 4. 1102M GENS Magical Taruruuto-Kun in 15:12 5. 1068M GENS Mystic Defender in 05:38 6. 1145M GENS King's Bounty in 00:10 (co-authored with gia) 7. 1193M GENS Prince of Persia in 19:03 8. 1233M GB Rolan's Curse in 04:21 9. 1226M GB A Boy and His Blob - The Rescue of Princess Blobette in 01:42 Deign 1. 1052M NES Gimmick! in 06:42 2. 1053M NES Super Mario Bros. 3 in 10:29.05 "warps" (co-authored with adelikat, Cardboard, and JXQ) 3. 1056M GBA Castlevania - Harmony of Dissonance in 00:24 4. 1059M NES Super Mario Bros. 3 in 47:33.52 "warpless" (co-authored with adelikat, Cardboard, and JXQ) 5. 1103M NES Rockman in 15:29 6. 1125M SNES The Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past in 03:45 7. 1149M SNES Final Fantasy IV in 2:53:14 Klmz 1. 1080M NES Super Mario Bros. in 04:58 2. 1091M NES Little Samson in 10:13 3. 1129M GBA Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow in 06:46 4. 1164M NES Jackal in 07:26 5. 1198M GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance in 0:24 6. 1219M GB Ninja Gaiden Shadow in 11:29 7. 1222M GBA Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance in 11:13

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Posted: 1/18/2009 8:42 PM

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adelikat

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Voting for my homeboy Cardboard. He has produced a lot in both quantity and quality, and a majority of his runs are highly entertaining.

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Posted: 1/18/2009 8:58 PM

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Dromiceius

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I gotta give it to Deign for his FFIV run. A first generation TAS of a massive game. The rest of his collection is really solid, too.

Posted: 1/19/2009 9:40 AM

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moozooh

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Voting for Deign. "Only" 7 runs, but pretty much each of them a legend by itself.

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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.

Posted: 1/19/2009 10:03 AM

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Kles

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Why is Klmz listed in the post, but not in the poll?

Posted: 1/19/2009 10:27 AM

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Mitjitsu

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I couldn't decide between Deign and Cpadolf so I flipped a coin and decided to vote Deign.

Posted: 1/19/2009 11:05 AM

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Cpadolf

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Mitjitsu wrote:

I couldn't decide between Deign and Cpadolf so I flipped a coin and decided to vote Deign.

Damn you coins and your lousy randomness! Anyway, I had a really hard time deciding but I finaly went for Cardboard. Though it was more or less a tossup between 4 of the listed candidates.

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Posted: 1/19/2009 12:01 PM

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upthorn

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moozooh wrote:

Voting for Deign. "Only" 7 runs, but pretty much each of them a legend by itself.

I was going to say this, but moozoh said it first.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

Posted: 1/19/2009 1:22 PM

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It seems that I have been glitched out, as I love glitches. LOL

<klmz> it reminds me of that people used to keep quoting adelikat's IRC statements in the old good days <adelikat> no doubt <adelikat> klmz, they still do

Posted: 1/19/2009 4:36 PM

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alden

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Maybe if we vote for Deign he'll come back!

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Posted: 1/19/2009 11:06 PM

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My vote is adelikat - I see Deign still holds the advantage. I didn't know he left.

Posted: 1/20/2009 4:40 PM

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ShadowWraith

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Voted for Cardboard, as he's the only one in the list to co-author a run with himself.

Posted: 1/21/2009 3:51 PM

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adelikat

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ShadowWraith wrote:

Voted for Cardboard, as he's the only one in the list to co-author a run with himself.

Yes, that takes mad skilz, imo.

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Posted: 1/21/2009 5:57 PM

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moozooh

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I see he's also the only one in the list to co-author the second run with himself as well. ;)

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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.

Posted: 1/22/2009 11:58 PM

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Saturn

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Definitely Cpadolf. He improved alot as a TASer and contributed 4 monster-of-SM runs in the first half of 2008 alone, one of them being the very difficult SMI one that can be flat out compared to RBO conditions (the hardest one can face in a SM TAS), gaining alot of knowledge out of them. He also developed a very tricky strategy to escape the big Metroid without Speed Booster, which alone deserves alot of respect already. All in all he proved to be one of the few TASer here who are capable to produce new quality runs from scratch on, without being dependent on other TASer work to copy the input from, and as we all know, this is the one and only criteria that makes a truly good TASer out.

See my perfect 100% movie-walkthroughs of the best RPG games on http://www.freewebs.com/saturnsmovies/index.htm Current TAS project (with new videos): Super Metroid Redesign, any% speedrun

Posted: 1/27/2009 12:15 PM

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finalfighter

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Voting for Deign. Rockman: I thought that it was impossible to save the time from the TAS of Mr. Bisqwit. Because the uselessness of it seemed to be a little. And, I thought that it was difficult to exceed optimization by Bisqbot of W2. However, he got it over by using "BasicBot". FinalFantasyIV: It was the nice work to be surprised at a lot of ideas. He was always executing the saving by "pause" ,though it is TAS to which it takes time(very long). I want to vote on the idea and the deep attachment. I am waiting for him and I hope he says "I'm ready" again :)

Posted: 1/28/2009 1:01 AM

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mmbossman

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I voted Deign, for quality of work, variety of games, and impressiveness of projects chosen. Adelikat was a close second.

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