Ski Or Die (PC): Acro Aerials ownage

I decided to show you 3 tricks that give you full points when comboed right together, during a moderately high jump. I did the tricks _2, E7 and E9 (E = with Enter, _ = w/o Enter) in all the six possible orders in row, and got full 50 points each time. There are also other combos that can give you full points with a moderately high jump (at least with some luck with judging), like E9+E7+E9, but I think E7+_2+E9 is the most reliable of those combos that don't use those arbitrarily long holdable tricks H = {E2, E4, E6, E8}. Replacing _2 with one of those holdable tricks makes an easy and reliable full point combo, actually even better than any of these combos I show in this video.

There are only 3 possible heights for a jump: low, moderate high and high. The faster you tap a left key (1/4/7) and a right key (3/6/9) after each other, the higher the jump. Making the high jump (you can actually see to space at it's peak :)) is very hard without slowing down the game a little by using/emulating a slow computer (less than 1600 emulated cycles/ms in DOSBox) *. The state where you are sliding on the snow before the jump seems computationally quite heavy, so it is possible to easen doing high jumps without making the jump itself much slower (e.g. with 1000-1250 cycles). E7+E9+E3(+H) is one example of a very reliable 50-point combo to do during a high jump.

The game was run in DOSBox 0.73 (cycles=2000, core=normal) with the "adlib" switch. DOSBox was also used to record the original video clip, which I uploaded to YouTube. No cheats or assisting tools were used.

----TIPS----

1) Use the time in the air 100 percently to doing tricks; wasting even a fraction of second into doing nothing usually ruins your chances of getting 50 points. When landing, keep on continuing the trick as long as possible. E7+H+E9 is possibly the most forgiving in this matter (and thus the best combo to do with moderately high jumps?).

2) The correct moment to change to next trick (when doing a normal trick) is when the legs of the guy are pointing left and downwards. When the legs are pointing directly downwards, it's too late. There are several frames during which you can change the trick, so you can slightly control how much time you spend on different tricks. The more time you spend on a trick, the more points you get from it. Try to spend more time on high scoring (slow) tricks like E9 than on low scoring (quick) tricks like E7.

3) As your last trick, do a slow trick like E9 or one of the H-tricks. In this video, the tricks that ended with E7 (the fastest of those 3 tricks) were clearly the hardest.

4) It's usually bad idea to repeat the same trick twice during same jump. Comboing different tricks gives more points. (Known exception: E9+E7+E9.)

5) If you are doing moderately high jumps, you may tap left and right quite lazily without endangering getting the low height jump. Concentrate rather in the tricks than in trying to boost up your speed with unnecessarily quick tapping.


* EDIT: I now know a way to get a high jump quite easily without taking advantage of slowdowns. For example, press and hold down 9 and then tap 7 rapidly (with same hand or with the other hand). Whatever pair of keys you use to accelerate, note that this trick won't work if you give the keys the roles the wrong way; the lower priority key must be the one which is held down.

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[jefdarcy]

I never managed to reach "space" using the keyboard, but back in the day we played this with a joystick, that worked every time.

[Ma5terViking]

@jefdarcy I added short instructions on how to do the high jump with a keyboard - hope you find them useful :)

[gnawny]

I don't want to burst your bubble, but it's possible to get 99 from each judge!

[Ma5terViking]

@gnawny Really? O.o

[phu303]

check this watch?v=RDamvirJrbg - a ski or die vid :)

[gnawny]

@Ma5terViking

I was owning my friend once then she mashed some buttons and her skier jumped super high off the aerial, so high you couldn't see the ground, giving her time to do a crazy number of tricks

[chrissylynn6]

c'mon ya gotta get stuck sometimes!!

It's sooo funny when you try to do great and it gets stuck and he like flies in mid-air and their is no control...lol

[Pingu123489]

nice mn

[LotBlind]

Wonderful expertise!