SNES Secret of Mana TAS in 2:08:37.58 by Touch-me

[lara050]

HOW DOES HE DO 36 DAMAGE ON A LULLABUD AT LEVEL 1???

[OmnipotentEntity]

@lara050 Critical hit I'd imagine. But I'd have to play the game again to be sure.

[lara050]

@OmnipotentEntity Looking back it was a critical hit. I saw the message box that would say "Lullabud got wacked". It seems strange that he gets so many critical hits on the first boss and the Lullabuds at the beginning of the game though.

[OmnipotentEntity]

@lara050 That's a TAS for you. :D

[lordreis]

Nice one! Although a speed run really makes this game lose it's incredible depth and awesomeness a bit :(

[SuperMissile]

Secret of Mana, in my opinion, Kingdom Hearts ancestor. =3

[xSimplyChronox]

@SuperMissile kingdom hearts doesn't compare to secret of mana

[Psychokore1987]

I Really love the way you played that game.. Fast, wisely and it looks like you played it a 100 times ^^.

You really made a sport of it! :-)

[RandomAsianKid]

Ah I found it. For anyone else who was curious like me, just type into the youtube search: "Secret of Mana - Rope Glitch"

[Garro2]

Would be nice to have the SMV of this, but it's a damn fine video anyway.

[RandomAsianKid]

How did you sell your magic rope without actually selling it? o.0;

[OmnipotentEntity]

@RandomAsianKid I don't actually know the mechanics behind this glitch. You might be able to find some more information in the TASVideos forums thread for Secret of Mana. Sorry.

[TwilightSamus]

Thanks for the Youtube upload. I saw a SoM TAS on a different website (It may of been the same TAS, it was in Japanese) but the website was in Japanese and had some really odd, spammy messages scrolling across the videos constantly. I'm interested in seeing how much of this TAS can be improved, if any, but I'm not sure if anyone would care to improve this considering how long it took to have this TAS made in the first place.

[OmnipotentEntity]

@TwilightSamus You probably saw it at Nicovideo, this is the same TAS. This TAS is known to be improvable by quite a bit and the author of this video is working on it currently.

[TwilightSamus]

@OmnipotentEntity Awesome to both messages. And yeah, I'm pretty sure it was Nicovideo. I Google'd Secret of Mana TAS at work one day which took me to a GameFAQs thread that redirected to Nicovideo which luckily isn't blocked by my work. (which isn't saying much when Vimeo and Megaupload aren't, I guess)

[OmnipotentEntity]

@TwilightSamus You know, I completely forgot to mention. I have already uploaded Touch-Me's current WIP for SNES Secret of Mana, you can find it in my recent videos.

[Kiruklee]

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YEARS FOR THIS.

YOU HAVE MY DEEPEST GRATITUDE FOR CREATING THIS TAS.

[AmnesiaGm1]

Fantastic TAS video, I really appreciated to watch it entirely without skiping anything. I learned a lot of thing. Congratulation again for having produced this insanely work on this game.

[EckoAP91]

what did he do at 1:37:58

He skipped Hydra?

[scottw182]

What's the glitch that lets him do these super attacks that kill the bosses almost completely by themselves?

[OmnipotentEntity]

@scottw182, it involves letting the computer player charge their weapon beyond level 1, then setting the "max charge" to 1, which causes the weapon to go into higher charge levels. So you're seeing a level 8 attack at lower levels of the game. Level 8 attacks do a lot of damage. :)

[scottw182]

@OmnipotentEntity That's awesome. Is it possible to duplicate manually, or is it a TAS-only kind of thing?

[OmnipotentEntity]

@scottw182 Sorry I missed this comment, yes, it's pretty easy to activate the glitch on a console if you have a buddy. It's very difficult to "pick" which level you swing at though.

[jeanclaudevandamme]

Awesome job. Thanks man!

[Dany67890]

So, he does something that let's him not take any damage?

[panreyes]

Why does the mana beast die that way? I mean, there was no finish attack!

[shurithino]

@panreyes the finishing blow was done before he could enter in dying animation , thats when he stopped attacking

[OmnipotentEntity]

@wavedownsmash It's a glitch involving a rope, but I don't know any details beyond that.

[Dragonicafan]

@OmnipotentEntity how do u sprint?

[OmnipotentEntity]

@Dragonicafan Use the "A" button when your weapon meter is at 100%

[wavedashdownsmash]

translations of the comments would be greatly appreciated (for example how he got so much money at ~11 mins)

[SFA3Beginner]

waited so long for this, thanks man

[shurithino]

thanks for uploading this in just one part 

[OmnipotentEntity]

@shurithino thank youtube they removed my upload cap :D