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Movies

What I look for in a movie

• Watchability. Does the player find something interesting to do during auto-scrolling levels? In [577] SNES Super Mario World "all 96 exits" by Fabian in 1:21:29.63, [1135] SNES Super Demo World: The Legend Continues "all 120 exits" by Chef_Stef in 2:08:01.68, and [1035] SNES Super Mario All-Stars: Super Mario Bros. 3 "playaround" by Genisto in 1:06:46.28 not only isn't auto-scrolling boring, the auto-scrolling levels are some of the most entertaining levels present in the runs. Does the player in general try to move in a more entertaining manner? Example: [1349] NES Super Mario Bros. "warpless" by HappyLee in 18:41.70's 6-2. The opposite of this would be TASing a game which makes a lot of annoying sounds or flashes a lot, see this rejected submission: #2809: Fladdermus's DS Point Blank DS "highest score" in 05:35.84.
• Superhuman. Is the player seemingly portraying superhuman reflexes, abilities, and precision? Examples: Jumping over piranha plants in 1-3 of [1607] GB Super Mario Land "hard mode" by MUGG in 12:14.77. Flying around in [711] NES Gradius by adelikat in 10:52.35.
• Innovation. Presenting some novel ideas which weren't present in previous movies. See how [901] NES Castlevania by Phil & Morrison in 11:20.50, [309] NES Super Mario Bros. 2 "warps" by Sleepz in 07:54.23, [1368] SNES Super Metroid by Taco & Kriole in 38:41.52 each added something new to the table compared to their predecessor runs for the same game. Each of their predecessors also added something new over their predecessors which normal players would never think of.
• Timing. Did the player set up something to have it complete exactly when it was needed? [1252] SNES Lemmings "best ending" by Lord_Tom in 1:03:04.45 is a great example of this. Various tasks are started by one Lemming, and completed the instant another Lemming requires it. Or see firing in the various Super Mario Bros runs (especially 3), where a shot is fired to hit an enemy exactly when it appears on screen.
• Items. Collecting and managing items with great precision and shock value. Were in your face items avoided? Were items hard to obtain collected without wasting time? Such as avoiding the coins over the pits in 8-1 of Super Mario Bros and collecting the four in a row coins in 4-1. If items are tallied at level end, are they thrown away before the level finishes? See [901] NES Castlevania by Phil & Morrison in 11:20.50 for a good example of this. How effectively did the player use the resources provided to them? Did they complete the level with exactly one energy bar left? Did they get just enough refills to match their exact need? See the various Mega Man runs (especially NES ones) for good examples.
• Quickness. Did the player avoid extraneous activities which added little value to the entertainment of the run? Did he employ techniques or items to increase his speed? See jump and slash for movement speedup in [33] NES Shadow of the Ninja (Europe) by Exim in 11:36.00, or using practically every item available for increasing horizontal movement in [809] SNES Mega Man X2 by FractalFusion & Graveworm in 31:42.45. Was movement in general optimized? Such as jumping just the amount required to reach a platform, or at just the right frame to optimally scroll vertically.
• Brains. Were the objectives and the route used to complete them well planned out? Did the route take into account that precision allows for doing things that otherwise would not be possible and use an impossible route? See the planning and execution that went into [868] NES The Legend of Zelda by Phil & Baxter in 24:04.05, [1462] GBC The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX by SwordlessLink in 1:00:02.68, and [1195] SNES Super Metroid "100%" by Cpadolf in 1:08:10.87.

Wish List

New movies I'd like to see

• Battleclash
• Bionic Commando - Elite Forces
• Bionic Commando Rearmed
• Bomberglob
• Command & Conquer 64
• Commander Keen in Goodbye Galaxy: Secret of the Oracle - All Stages
• Commander Keen in Goodbye Galaxy: The Armageddon Machine - All Stages
• Crash 'n the Boys: Street Challenge (DMG)
• Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty
• Donkey Kong (DMG)
• Joy Mecha Fight
• Kirby's Dream Land 3
• Kirby Super Star: The Arena (Or maybe this should be part of a single 100% run)
• The Legend of Kyrandia
• Mario Tennis (N64)
• Mega Man "No Magnet Beam" (NES)
• Mega Twins
• Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge
• Metal Slug 2
• Nemesis (DMG)
• New Super Mario Bros. 3 (NDS)
• Paper Mario
• Powered Gear - Strategic Variant Armor Equipment
• Prince of Persia 2 (DOS)
• Pulstar
• Raptor: Call of the Shadows
• Realms of Chaos
• Star Wars - Jedi Power Battles (AGB)
• Super Smash Bros Brawl: The Subspace Emissary
• The Second Reality Project 2 (SNES)
• Tetris Battle Gaiden
• TMNT (DMG)
• Torin's Passage
• Wacky Wheels
• Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman
• Wario Land - 100% + Best Ending

• Command & Conquer
• Command & Conquer: The Covert Operations
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert: Counterstrike
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert: Aftermath

Interviews

• In March 2012, Comicalflop and I were interviewed for an article in Kill Screen.

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About Me

Emulation projects that I've worked on

• bsnes
• Gambatte
• NSRT
• PCSX-RR
• Snes9x
• SNEeSe
• VBA-M
• ZSNES

TASVideos related projects

• TASVideoAgent
• YouTube Uploader