ATATATATATATATA!!!

Summary

  • Uses warps
  • Takes Damage To Save Time
  • Manipulates Luck
  • Colors a miserable piles of muscles
  • UnOfficial Encodes Official encode [1]
  • Emulator used: Dega (1.16pre Mame Core)
  • Frames:18772 Re-records:2653


About the game


This game is inspired by the manga of the same name (Fist of the north star for usa), check up wiki for more infos
It covers the first "season", you play as kenshiro, the successor of the deadly martial art school "Hokuto Shinken" , a very thought guy and very angry... looking for his girl (of course).
Basicly the main characteristic of this super heros is anything he touch explode, hes a master of the pressure points.

You may ask why not tasing Black Belt instead of this, theres couple of reason, but one guy on gfaqs did a summary:
  • In Hokuto no Ken you could get on higher places, like windows and such.
  • There were no life recovering items in Hokuto no Ken. After defeating each boss, you recover some health.
  • All the enemies's sprites were edited, but their attacks are the same.
  • The invincibility item was a "P", and it only appeared if you were on a high place.
  • Boss 4 from Chapter 1 was really a tough one to kill. If you don't follow the right strategy, he can take more than 100 blows and not die! In Black Belt, he only does take four blows before dying, undepending on the strategy.
  • After you defeat each boss, there is an extra scene of the hero talking to a woman. In Black Belt there's no such scene.
  • The music on the normal stages and Master Fights is different. However, the music from the beggining and end of stages is the same.
  • The Master of Chapter 3 is a giant monster, and you fight it inside a colosseum.
  • And of course, the hero's sprite is different.

On top of that, there is no warps, thus making Black Belt longer in the end, even if there is more "scene of the hero talking to a woman after each boss", nesrocks' attempt was 7:10
But the way they transformed the game for pal/usa realy felt bad, anybody who know the manga and see Black Belt is like... wtf this is hokuto no ken ? why did they done all that mess to it ?
There is also apparently a secret stage in black belt, after you beat last boss holding 1+2 will load a boss rush mode, this felt kinda pointless so i didnt even tryed out, as im warping all stages except the first one.
Anyway.

About the run


Some comments on how things are working:
  • Stage 1, theres a frame rule on each mini-boss, and they wont spam until a certain ammount of time, either i can go wait do nothing when the screen stop to scroll, or i can kill some guys (i choosed later option for entertainment). The boss is dyeing quickly and very simple, punch or flying kick only, taking no damage on any boss allow to warp in the next stage.
  • Stage 2, starting with this stage, i always use warps, simply by doing a high jump right at start, the boss wasnt easy to manipulate, there is a waiting period, but theres not realy anyway around that, on my first test run the boss did ran away behind me, this time i could keep him near the corner, and it was indeed faster to wait instead rushing him, kick until bar is 3/4 off then can use punch (or keep kick).
  • Stage 3, this boss is only vunerable on the head, jumping is required, alltho if you jump straight, he will also start to jump... so instead i just go back and forth jumping, this prevent him from moving at all, with good timing on the kick i hit him for every jump.
  • Stage 4, is the hardest boss without hesitation, you need first to attack him, he will dodge and counter attack, then only hes vunerable to a counter-counter attack... phew.. annoying boss to manipulate, plus you dont kill him, and your forced in a walk back script, this one may be further optimized, im not sure.
  • Stage 5, you have to hit him in the right order, first head, then torso, croch, and feets, after 2 cycle to finish him you have to let him jump and hit him in air, major shortcut to wait hes near the floor so you "catch" him quicker.
  • Stage 6, oh well, corner stuck and low kicks... booya... this boss suppossly hard, because in reality he can strike back much faster than all others, hardly avoidable if you dont attack him with correct timing.

The only damage taken are in stage1, on all mini boss i get hit in air, you do recover and can use a flying kick, this quickly hit twice and stuck them in the corner. One guy hit me before first mini boss, this is just to quickly dispose of the 2 guys.
I didnt checked exactly the detail, but most obviously more than half of the movie is loading level, waiting time/scores bonus ect... the actual input is very small, this will explain the (relativly) low rerecord count (and quickness of making this tas).

Hope youll enjoy it ! :D

Flygon: Replaced YouTube module with an officially encoded one that also has resolution an integer to that of the Master System's.
FractalFusion: Judging.
Removed "Uses warps" as it seems more like a non-warp glitch.
FractalFusion: I'll accept it for publication. Guess the warp looks so much like a glitch that it's interesting.
This run "uses warps" as a movie class, but there should be no separate branch name.
Flygon: Reprocessing encode.
Flygon: Hell, I'll process publication.


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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #2781: arukAdo's SMS Hokuto no Ken in 05:12.87
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It was aight, good enough for a weak yes vote
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Voting yes because it's not Battle Chess. Actually, I'm not voting yet. I just had to say that because I'm dumb like that.
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Your Youtube video is audio-desynced. Well, yes vote ^^ ATATATATATATATATA WOTSCHA!
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Gonna give a yes vote here, especially if you now decide to pick up Last Battle on Genesis :-p
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What a strange game. Yes voted. Encoding when I get SMB3 out of the way.
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Gonna give a yes vote here, especially if you now decide to pick up Last Battle on Genesis :-p
Do you know if it was submited/rejected/accepted already ? I saw a tas on youtube of it, but im not sure wether or not its realy suited, the game blow hard (its slow paced and look annoying to optimize) I was rather considering doing one of the psx games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiNna4xtWiw I think the second title is just a street fighter, im not sure, but the first one surely feature story mode (beat em all) alike Last Battle.
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arukAdo: There's also a TAS published of Fist Of The North Star, which I think is the sequel to this game, if you're looking for game ideas. Anyway, I liked this! The move variety is fairly good, and the "warping jump" was really funny to watch. The boss fights looked pretty good too, where you could tell they were hard but were still beaten without much trouble. The length of the game is also about right. Yes vote.
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Short and sweet, love it. Would have quickly gotten old, but it's over soon and remains entertaining throughout. I thought the boss fights in chapters 5 & 6 were especially comical, but the best thing about it by far is its dissimilarity to Battle Chess. Definite yes.
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I've actually voted No on this one; I managed to get bored after two minutes, when it was clear that it was much the same throughout the whole TAS apart from the first level. The boss fights were the only breaks in the flying throughout the sky thing, which gets old quickly, and they weren't massively striking or obviously even tool-assisted.
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mklip2001 wrote:
arukAdo: There's also a TAS published of Fist Of The North Star, which I think is the sequel to this game, if you're looking for game ideas.
Actually, The true sequel came on the Genesis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fiUbUbDesI If I remember correctly, maTO did a test run of it. Anyways, This was pretty neat. I laughed when you skipped the stages, Although this shouldnt really be called a "warps" run mostly because a "warpless" run wouldnt be much interesting. So a weak Yes vote.
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I also disagree with the "warps" category. It's just moving fast over the stage, not actually skipping anything but the enemies. But the run looks nice.
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Let's see. Chapter 1: walk to the right, punch and jump occasionally, beat up boss. Chapter 2: fly over stage, beat up boss. Chapter 3: fly over stage, beat up boss. Chapter 4: fly over stage, beat up boss... I just don't see much entertainment or overall technical merit here, and must vote No.
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It was quite funny. Yes vote.
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For people who know these bosses, it's really fun to watch them go down so quickly, so I vote Yes =P
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I like it enough. The flying over levels thing got me by surprise. Better than just killing enemies over and over. But I'll wait for more opinions before making a final decision on this one.
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yeah ok I'll also give a yes vote. Borderline though.
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FractalFusion wrote:
Removed "Uses warps" as it seems more like a non-warp glitch.
It is actually not a glitch, but i dont see how to explain it better than "warp" This is exactly like the warp zone in mario, the difference been how you access to the warps, in this game its just about to beat the boss without taking damage, if you take damage, the "warp" will not activate (i tested this, the flying kick is just a regular move, theres nothing special about it, just meet conditions with previous boss sequence). The reason it doesnt work on stage1 is obviously because i havent beated a boss yet :D If you have a better word than warp then tell me, "shortcut" didnt seemed adequate to me (i thinked twice before using that word)
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voting yes because I see technical merit in finding glitches to skip over stages, and I'm not prejudiced against games that are not very well-known, as I'm sure there's superplaying going on that the average person doesn't even know about, regardless of how exciting the game is to watch. (The same reasons I thought my Top Gun submission should've been accepted! But decided to cancel...)
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [1601] SMS Hokuto no Ken by arukAdo in 05:12.87