Super Metroid 100% Tool-Assisted Speedrun pt. 4

I did not make this. All I did was convert this into a format suitable for uploading to YouTube. All credit for playing this goes to JXQ.

This is one of the best TASes I've seen so far. Even knowing it's a TAS I'm still absolutely amazed by some of the tricks in here. Unfortunately 30 fps is insufficient to capture the awesomeness of the run or the game itself. Not a fan of splitting videos either.

You can download the input file and read the author's comments at
http://tasvideos.org/1483S.html

This is really the kind of video series that needs to be watched from beginning to end. In case you're having trouble finding all the links, here they are:
1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFejjt8IAnU
2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xve2tuU2GvQ
3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tidFpnPpfJk
4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQm0fyg-7w0
5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SMTRj6lclM
6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcVcqLNe_q4
7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLyYOTfSkfA

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• super
• metroid
• JXQ
• TAS
• tool
• assisted
• speedrun
• speed
• run
• 100%
• snes
• nintendeo

[jynxdaddy]

at 1:28 my rockets can't destroy the block from this side, what is the trick?

[1whoistornapart]

It's weird, for some reason, you need to be the right distance away from the wall. Back up so you're underneath the platform above you, then jump to the right. Try to get the screen to scroll as far to the right as you can before firing the missile.

I don't know why it works like that ^_^ You can also use a Crystal Flash to force-crouch in the tunnel then just shoot the block but that's a bit slower obviously.

[embrezar]

I tried to post, it didn't work... Ok, so at the risk of sounding like a total moron, what is TAS? I mean, from what I gather, it basically requires an emulator, usually involves slow-motion, but what does it do? Is it like one huge macro that someone has to program? "Hold this button, aim here, fire twice, switch to missile, fire, switch to super bomb, morphball, plant super bomb, etc." Also, what is rerecord? A movie I saw said "rerecord count: 26865."

[1whoistornapart]

You've got the basic idea, a TAS is speedrunning with the help of savestates, slowdown and frame advance to remove the limitations of human reflex time and speed. But they are not macros really, the TAS itself is a record of what buttons were pressed (and not pressed) on every frame, and in most cases it's a human pressing those buttons, not a program.

The re-record count is simply how many times a savestate was loaded.

[embrezar]

Holy crap, so that movie has 26865 savestate loads? Making a TAS must take forever... I mean, going frame-by-frame through a whole game? Talk about time consuming.

[1whoistornapart]

Indeed, it takes a great deal of patience to make a good TAS. Just FYI this particular TAS has 125,635 re-records.

[smileuser1]

@embrezar yeah, makinf a tas is HELL of work. i'm not as good as saturn or kriole, but a tas for 60 minutes watch will take me 6 hours and 2'000'000 klicks (!!!) that's not funny

[smileuser1]

@jynxdaddy if you take a look at metroids asm codes, you'll find a code, that destroys every shot, after the shote left the screen+ab. 2 blocks. the powerbomb is one of the most glichy things in supermetroid, you'll not get it done without a powerbomb. the destroy shot code can't run correctly, because the bomb slows the game down, it's just about 1/2 speed. that means, the emulator needs 2 frames, to calculate 1 frame - you'll get a bit more time, for the projectile. it'll fly longer distances.

[CamTheKitty]

5:08 HATE that one, how the hell would one know about that one :(

[Quincy0047]

mayhaps I should have played the game before I watched this. . .

[embrezar]

Oh, I see. The OP's name is RupeeClock, and I was referring to a known group of spammers on that other site... the comments on the page with the video are all jacked up and out of order so I didn't see it until I hit "show all comments."

[embrezar]

Wow, that is a good question... wtf? That was meant for a NewGrounds post. How the heck DID that end up here?

[JavierTehSpirit]

...how did this end up here?

[JavierTehSpirit]

...how did this end up here?