This topic is for the purpose of discussing #2573: Sonikkustar's NES Vice: Project Doom in 12:35.61

Excellent run! There were some parts that were very entertaining, and even though it's been a while since I've seen the previous run, there was a noticeable increase in swiftness throughout. Congrats on getting this project done, and a big yes vote! Now get to work on another 2004 movie! :)

Significant improvement to 2004 run + fast-paced game = yes vote. Encode: http://www.archive.org/download/NesVice-ProjectDoomIn1235.61bySonikkustar/vicedoom-tas-sonikkustar.mp4 Stream it here: http://www.zexsoft.com/aktan/?NesVice-ProjectDoomIn1235.61bySonikkustar/vicedoom-tas-sonikkustar

Excellent run indeed, and your comments added a nice touch to the movie. Yes vote for sure. /by the way, I want my props, I found all the crotch shots!

This run was amazing, it even exceeded my expectations. The way you tore up the road in the car chase levels was excellent, everything we aim for in TASing. The levels themselves were extremely entertaining. Most of the time you were fighting off 3-5 enemies at once coming from every direction, and you barely slowed down for anything. This must be one of the most fluid TASes of all time. Therefore I have no choice but to vote meh ... er I mean yes, an extremely strong yes. Now we just need to replace Mr Hart with a sprite of the guy from Shadow of the Ninja, replace the pipe with a sword, and replace the gun with ninja stars, because that's exactly what this run looked like, a ninja tearing up an entire army like a hot chainsaw through butter. Grunt: The name of the game is "Vice: Project Doom" not "Vice - Project Doom" as seen in your encode.

Voting yes. Congratulations on making this game more entertaining than I thought it could be. The varied use of all the weapons was a great choice as it meant that there was always a lot of action on screen. Part of me felt that perhaps the grenades could have been used to further mitigate lag. For example, in stage 11 could you have thrown grenades backwards to kill the guys dropping from the ceiling to stop the lag that their weapons caused? There were other similar situations throughout the run (I'm assuming that those blue fish can't be killed). This, however, is minor. Great work!

Really great run, I enjoyed every second of it. The technical quality looked very good too, so here's a strong yes vote from me. Great job!

Looked good to me! Nice work. Thanks for the encode, sgrunt!

I enjoyed watching this, good improvement, yes vote.

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Wow, insta-publish before I even get home to check out this run! No matter though. The game is a real treat for TASing, and Sonikkustar, you've done a great job at reducing lag. Thanks for mentioning me, though all my comments were just observation at full-speed (as opposed to observations by a trained TASer).

The subtitles are a bit hard to read by default, at least with mplayer. If you are using mplayer, try this:

mplayer vicedoom-tas-sonikkustar.mp4 -sid 0 -ass -ass-font-scale 1.5 -ass-bottom-margin 34 -ass-use-margins

It will scale the video a bit smaller, making room at the bottom for the subtitles so that they don't get mixed with the status bar in the game. (The subtitles are also scaled a bit larger than default). Works great on fullscreen.