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Foxhound3857
2007-09-30 11:18:37 pm
Like my new Signature/Avatar guys? Had it custom made (and I love Pound Puppies, too).

If you think about it, his clue for the X-Ray (you can only get it after you defeat Ridley) makes a lot more sense now, since the X-Ray Scope's general area is off limits until Ridley is killed. So I don't feel cheated; he hid the X-Ray very well.
Lance Uppercut
2007-10-01 07:43:21 am
Foxhound3857, you said the same thing in page 51, how about checking a few posts after your post there... I answered with an smv.

The x-ray is not off limits by any means and I guess that is what confused most people here.

Oh, and I like your av and sig, pretty cool  8-)
Foxhound3857
2007-10-01 10:32:46 am
Quote from Lance Uppercut:
Foxhound3857, you said the same thing in page 51, how about checking a few posts after your post there... I answered with an smv.

The x-ray is not off limits by any means and I guess that is what confused most people here.

Oh, and I like your av and sig, pretty cool  8-)


Actually, the X-Ray technically IS off limits until you defeat Ridley. You can go to the area where it resides, but the area is superheated, so you'd either die or waste too many resources trying to get to it without the Varia suit.
Lance Uppercut
2007-10-01 03:30:52 pm
I dont know what you mean by technically, but....

It is obvious you did not view the smv I posted there, it shows you how to collect the x-ray without varia suit. The gap in which to initiate CF is quite small, but it is still doable in realtime and without any save states too. WITH save states there is no question about whether or not you will be able to get it.

Also if you read a couple pages, you would notice how Saturn himself says that x-ray does not actually require Ridley dead.
Foxhound3857
2007-10-01 04:43:48 pm
Hmm...

I stand thoroughly corrected then.

Isn't it kind of difficult to have enough supplies to go after the X-Ray AND still make it to Ridley though? I remember being low on both missiles and power bombs at the safe room, and I had to restart because there was no possible way to resupply without death. It sucked.
Lance Uppercut
2007-10-01 05:22:35 pm
Well, if you have enough energy left from GT -> safe room, it would mean that you only have to sacrifice 10 supers and 11 PBs (assuming you have plenty of regular missiles) for the CF. The e-tank in the safe room gives you a pretty good freedom of choice. Also if you have enough power bombs, it is easy to refill just Super missiles before Ridley.

It is also possible to refill supers and PBs and abuse the energy station right after GT, so you should have a pretty good arsenal for upcoming areas.

Well, shortly put, everything depends on how you play before that part  :)    It gets easier every time, because you know what to expect and how to prepare.
CaptainCanada
2007-10-01 07:11:15 pm
You could just do LN in two runs, probably a good deal easier.

First: Normal run until the safe room with the E-tank, leave E-tank, get X-ray, leave.

Second: No GT fight so you should be be able to get to the recharge room without an extra CF, normal run to Ridley.
Tonski
2007-10-07 09:05:33 am
Long time no updates from my TAS run, but here's a big big update:

Kraid done!

Expect WIP 3 soon. :P The fight is in my opinion very entertaining. Thanks Cpadolf for the Fake Kraid room tips btw. ;)
ICheatAtGolf
2007-10-07 02:26:09 pm
Hey Tonski, that's pretty awesome and all except there's no link.
Tonski
2007-10-07 02:33:24 pm
Quote from Tonski:
Expect WIP 3 soon.

I wanna keep you waiting. ;) I'm planning to do the WIP until hi-jump so they won't be so short.
Cpadolf
2007-10-07 04:53:34 pm
Almost happy
Great to hear Tonski :P  Now with kraid done you should have a much easier time proceding for awhile. Just remember some of the room strats I made from post kraid till the first heated room Wink
ducknerd
2007-10-07 08:13:41 pm
Eschews avatars
THE OPERATION WAS COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY (again)
7:12, 100%, animals saved, all in realtime (using v 1.4 and Lance's snail super technique). Got to the end with 00:00:23 on the timer with the elevator-pose-echoes glitch when I entered the ship.
Saturn
2007-10-08 09:13:03 am
Great news, Tonski.
Look forward for WIP 3. :)

Ducknerd, you really should update to 1.5 sometime. It differs from the last versions at most, and has new secret rooms added v1.4 didn't have.
Tonski
2007-10-08 02:42:17 pm
Saturn you don't use your saturn-@hotmail.com huh?

I added you ages ago.
Saturn
2007-10-12 01:49:18 pm
I do. Just not that often...
Though if you mean MSN messenger, then no. Just the actual email adress.


REPOST:
There are some crazy news that must be mentioned:

A guy named Kriole from YouTube seems to also work on a SMI TAS. And the stunning thing is, he just pwned us TASers badly by managing to enter Kraid's Lair with a walljump, a tech that was thought to be impossible to execute in that room!!!

Video:


He also shows a great Kraid strategy and many other interesting techs, which are a must see for everybody who knows SMI. If you still work on the TAS, Tonski, you should definitely take a closer look on his strategies as well.
Tonski
2007-10-12 02:44:18 pm
"If you still work on your TAS, Tonski"

You seem to assume I'm not going to make it done at all? I am still working on it, and I watched boti WIPs from Kriole. He's actually old fella to me, I've known him on youtube for a long time. When we sucked totally and used 24% speed we used to have this semi-TAS competition I guess, neither of us finished our TASes so we can call it a tie. :)

About the WIPs, the Kraid walljump made me pretty much go O_O, but other than that I think his strategies are in many places slower than mine. Like for example that refil at green brinstar room from those pipe bugs, way too slow. Also, there's too many mistakes spottable with naked eye. There are many in my TAS too, but not as big. For example he didn't shoot the door open after killing Fake Kraid and the pirates = big mistake.

As for my Kraid strategy, it might be a bit (or a lot) slower than his, but the fight itself is entertaining. I'm pretty sure that if we both finish our TASes (I certainly will) that I'll have faster ingame-time. Although I aim more for entertainment, I'm still going for speed.

Too much talk, and still no smv. I've had a bit break from TASing since my schoolwork, I'm working my ass off to get my grades up. We both have slow progress Saturn, so please don't blame me for that. Now luckily a vacation started and I think you can expect the next WIP within a week or so.
EDIT:
Oh yeah Spore Spawn 3 rounds...  [-X
EDIT2:
I did some calculations as good as you can do by watching the youtube clock, and I think my Kraid fight is a bit faster.
Cpadolf
2007-10-12 02:57:11 pm
Almost happy
Yeah his kraid entry was a bit of a kick in the crotch, I actually tried to do it that way once but in realtime.

But I still see that he missed many of the strategies I've been making both for my own entertainment but also for tonski. For one he does not seem very aware of cwj, and his pre kraid room (with the eyedoor) was really slow. Otherwise I think it looks quite good.

Now see how he will do against my über tactics for norfair moahahaha...(kidding, thoug they are quite nice aiwebs_008 )
P.JMan
2007-10-12 03:00:00 pm
I like Big Butts and I can not lie
I know Kriole aswell, his work on MZM and Fusion anyway. Nowhere as good as us TASers though
Cpadolf
2007-10-12 03:11:10 pm
Almost happy
Though I noted a big thing he did better then you Tonski, in the noob bridge room he mockballed just at the end of the bridge whereas you do it in the begining. I think this is one of the biggest and most noteable mistakes in your run and it's sad you where to far away to fix it.

EDIT: My memwatcher does not work for SMI nad I can't seem to make it do (adding it's name and all the ramadresses in the ini does not make it work) anyone know why? And tonski, do you have a working memwatch for SMI?
Tonski
2007-10-12 04:04:02 pm
The noob bridge + Gauntlet first room are in my opinion the only 2 places where in he performed a much better TAS quality than me. Those are really bad suck in my movie.  Embarassed  Embarassed

EDIT:
Oh yeah and that Kraid entry of course.
Saturn
2007-10-12 05:15:40 pm
Yeah, I know that overall your precision is somewhat better, Tonski. I just meant that some of his strategies at Kraids are really good on the first look, but of course I can't judge that unless seeing your WIP.

And I don't assume you won't get it done. I just fear it might get too difficult to TAS in the later quests, so it wouldn't be a surprise to see people giving up on it (just like it happened alot in actual playthroughs). It's of course great to hear you still plan to finish it in any case.

Also don't worry about the slight mistakes. A first version can never be 100% perfect anyway (especially not SMI :P).
Sneaky Paradox
2007-10-12 10:22:45 pm
I have a simple question, where can I download Snes9XW 1.43 v9 because I can't watch anything and I can't find anywhere to download it. Please help :D
Sneaky Paradox
2007-10-12 10:36:42 pm
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!
the wicked child
2007-10-12 10:42:00 pm
You are quite welcome. That is the only version I've ever been able to watch SMVs on.