[WIP] 21% Hard Mode Speedrun

2015-08-27 03:39:53 pm

well done, impressive stuff you're doing with this category.

2015-09-02 11:57:46 am

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Thanks guys!

It took a little longer to get a OP + NEWBORN segment I'm fine with so check out the description to find out why:

Daryoshi

2015-09-09 12:26:32 pm

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never mines again in this run :D

Hazel

2015-09-09 12:41:31 pm

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Awesome! I would have been so worried about dying in the fire jets at the end lol. Sucks you didn't make that last platform in PPC a cycle earlier, you just barely missed it. What's the save time at now? And are Spirit, Elder and Sun the only things left?

Daryoshi

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Daryoshi: 2015-09-10 04:24:19 am

2015-09-10 04:18:45 am

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Thanks! Yeah I was like if I die then that's not too bad (since I didn't have in mind that the segment went so good) but when rewatching I was like holy crap that was extremely close to losing a super solid segment (especially because the fire jets sometimes do TWO damage when rolling below, on hard mode..)
Also, this segment is so weird; on one hand it LOOKS very good, one the other hand there's that potential theoretical time save of having the Wave Pirate fall down for some reason (let's say 22 secs gained). This would allow for a TWO cycle earlier last platform. The last platform takes about 7 secs for one way so about 14 secs for a cycle and I missed getting on that platform by about 2 seconds so I would have gained 14 seconds in total if i had been there 2 seconds earlier and could have jumped onto the platform. About dashing onto the platform; I had already looked into that during the Vent Shaft + PPC segment and had come up with nothing. The big crates on the middle platform are on a very bad angle and without letting anything alive, I couldn't come up with anything else. So, the potential time save for this segment would be almost half a minute without even letting anything alive, so a TAS could DESTROY this segment. ;)

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And are Spirit, Elder and Sun the only things left?

Almost; Strength and Truth (obviously) as well are still to be gotten. Oh and Sun will be gotten via Thardus Dash.. :/ ;)

Thanks! Yeah I was like if I die then that's not too bad (since I didn't have in mind that the segment went so good) but when rewatching I was like holy crap that was extremely close to losing a super solid segment (especially because the fire jets sometimes do TWO damage when rolling below, on hard mode..)
Also, this segment is so weird; on one hand it LOOKS very good, one the other hand there's that potential theoretical time save of having the Wave Pirate fall down for some reason (let's say 22 secs gained). This would allow for a TWO cycle earlier last platform. The last platform takes about 7 secs for one way so about 14 secs for a cycle and I missed getting on that platform by about 2 seconds so I would have gained 14 seconds in total if i had been there 2 seconds earlier and could have jumped onto the platform. About dashing onto the platform; I had already looked into that during the Vent Shaft + PPC segment and had come up with nothing. The big crates on the middle platform are on a very bad angle and without letting anything alive, I couldn't come up with anything else. So, the potential time save for this segment would be almost half a minute without even letting anything alive, so a TAS could DESTROY this segment. ;)

EDIT: [quote] And are Spirit, Elder and Sun the only things left?[/quote]
Almost; Strength and Truth (obviously) as well are still to be gotten. Oh and Sun will be gotten via Thardus Dash.. :/ ;)

Daryoshi

2015-09-10 07:03:06 pm

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Man, these segments keep getting cleared damn fast. If I continue like that on S19 and Meta Ridley (with goooood luck) I might beat the final bosses in 2015 still. ;)

Hazel

2015-09-10 07:06:28 pm

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What's the ingame time at now? Also good luck on Phen's Edge!

Daryoshi

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Daryoshi: 2015-09-10 07:13:43 pm

2015-09-10 07:11:32 pm

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hey sorry for not telling you already on your last post: the in-game time was 1:29 after PPC and is 1:30 now. fyi, I've been keeping everyone interested up-to-date on page ONE of this topic so one can quickly see what time and % I had before/ after each segment.

Oh, and thanks; I'll need it. I mean as long as I haven't found a way to do the first dash that works for ME. I know JustinDM and M177 got very good at it all of a sudden with some incredibly consistent setup; but none of their setups seems to work for me (so far). After I get a success-rate of like 1:10 in the first dash, the segment will be quite easy to clear.

Hazel

2015-09-10 07:18:48 pm

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I've never been able to do the dash on console without pausing to ensure a 1 frame B press, and even with that it's kind of hard to bend forwards without bending too much. I did find a setup on dolphin but it's hard to recreate because there's nothing to line up your position with. :/

Daryoshi

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Daryoshi: 2015-10-26 01:25:14 pm

2015-10-26 01:24:51 pm

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read description as always on my vids.

finally. damn this took more time in Terms of days and weeks than i had thought before. this was mainly because i had close to never enough time AND motivation at the same time for playing since I started at University 6 weeks ago.

so glad i'm past this since apart from the final bosses, there shouldn't be any hard segments at all anymore (i got very good at 21% thardus dash so that segment won't take long).

EDIT: the segment 19 thumbnail is nuts :D

Baby Sheegoth

2015-10-27 05:35:43 pm

Sweet fucking jesus

JustinDM

2015-10-28 12:33:51 am

Did you ever time going around vs. the DBJ in phendrana's edge? The DBJ looks kinda slow in comparison to a dash.

Daryoshi

2015-10-30 12:14:42 pm

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i know i messed up with the DBJ since I didnt shot enough plasma shots so the 2nd pirate did somehow had to hit me >_>

without that happening, it might be faster than dashing leftwards (btw you can clear that gap to the left of the wave door (when entering the room) without neither a dash nor a DBJ by doing a tight regular/ single jump).

but after all, TomLube told me the Frost Cave SW would be faster (and even more faster than Inbounds when not going to save in Frost Cave).

Daryoshi

2016-01-24 08:16:09 am

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95% of why it took so long in terms of weeks and months is a bunch of IRL stuff.
The other 5% are because of the last DBJ, or failing to roll straight into the actual artifact of ELDER or not getting the UBJ afterwards to escape Control Tower first time and a lot of other stuff that - if gone wrong - would be a reset.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy and watch me streaming attempts of the Thardus Jump + SUN + STRENGTH segment (until ship in one segment from now).

Hazel

2016-01-24 10:14:12 am

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Great to see progress again! The next segment sounds like a pain, I don't know how hard thardus jump actually is but getting it and playing well for so long after sounds tough. Good luck.

JustinDM

2016-01-24 03:34:18 pm

I didn't know that ledge existed before the metroid cutscene

Daryoshi

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Daryoshi: 2016-01-29 07:38:02 am

2016-01-29 07:37:50 am

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THIS IS NOT THE REAL DEAL. it's a test segment

Daryoshi

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Daryoshi: 2016-08-03 06:35:37 pm

Daryoshi: 2016-08-03 09:14:04 am

2016-08-03 09:13:34 am

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DANG I hadn't finished more than one segment in this year?! :O

EDIT: I exported the .ts-file from my Hauppauge capture device to a .mp4-file and then uploaded the that file.
The video on Youtube now runs on 30 fps and no longer on 14 (!) like before.

Hazel

2016-08-03 02:08:14 pm

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What's up with the frame rate?

Jack879

2016-08-03 02:14:45 pm

I'm guessing it was 30fps interlaced that was deinterlaced rather than 60fps interlaced.

Hazel

2016-08-03 02:19:41 pm

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There's no way that's 30, looks more like 15 or 10.

Daryoshi

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Daryoshi: 2016-08-03 05:13:24 pm

2016-08-03 05:12:35 pm

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well that's weird.. so the original video was 720x480 and it says 29 frames but perhaps it's really 29.97 or something (that number (29.97) I've seen quite some times; has something to do with NTSC iirc/ afaik).
but e.g. my Segment 20 of this run, it shows me the exact same details as for this segment, Segment 21.

Also when I watch the local recording, it seems fine to watch, not 15 fps or something that low. So ONLY the YT upload and ONLY the upload of THIS segment is affected?!

So where could the problem be? Should I re-upload? Or try uploading the .ts --> .mp4 exported version?

JustinDM

2016-08-03 05:14:08 pm

Try re-uploading it first, if that doesnt work, try the .mp4

Hazel

2016-08-03 05:21:04 pm

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That's an odd problem, you could try rendering the original file that is 29.97 through a video editor and upload that?

Daryoshi

2016-08-03 06:37:19 pm

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Problem solved; I edited my post above. Thanks for the help!