periwinkle | (1:03:44) Cave Story+ (PC) Best Ending, Hard speedrun @periwinkle. | Uploaded October 2020 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
Personal best from 2020/10/06 to 2020/10/08, improving upon a previous 1:11:50 (twitch.tv/videos/746662443) and 1:05:07 (twitch.tv/videos/762660650) times which I didn't upload to YouTube.
This run was almost a low 59, until...yeah.
Catch me live at twitch.tv/periwinkle9 to see me go for sub-1 hour (and other Cave Story/+ speedruns)!
Twitch highlight with commentary: twitch.tv/videos/762660651
Personal best from 2020/10/06 to 2020/10/08, improving upon a previous 1:11:50 (twitch.tv/videos/746662443) and 1:05:07 (twitch.tv/videos/762660650) times which I didn't upload to YouTube.
This run was almost a low 59, until...yeah.
Catch me live at twitch.tv/periwinkle9 to see me go for sub-1 hour (and other Cave Story/+ speedruns)!
Twitch highlight with commentary: twitch.tv/videos/762660651
![[TAS] Cave Story+ Machine Gun Challenge (no Booster unequips) in 1148](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/abXbLzXFr8I/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Cave Story+ Machine Gun Challenge (no Booster unequips) in 1148
Sensitivity warning: The inventory flickers open and closed in various places throughout this run.
This is a TAS of the Machine Gun Challenge in Cave Story+, made using libTAS with the Linux port of the game. It aims for fastest in-game time (290 Counter time) completion, and thus pauses in ways that saves in-game time but not real time. However, it does NOT use the Booster unequip technique (unequipping the Booster mid-boost to conserve the speed). Heres why you dont want to watch a TAS that does use Booster unequips: https://youtu.be/nBrejdxk6A0
Prefer the original soundtrack? Here is an encode with that music setting: https://youtu.be/WNKS4HC8mXk
Q&A:
• Why the goal of no Booster unequips, rather than no pauses or minimize real time?
I wanted to strike a balance between optimizing for in-game time (which is what most people care about) versus making the video actually watchable (see video linked in first paragraph above). Now, pausing *does* actually save real time in several places, so eliminating all pauses would make the run *slower* in every way. So, given that a TAS optimized for real time would still use pauses, I figured Id go one step further and pause everywhere where it saves in-game time, but just not to unequip.
• So, what do the pauses do, exactly?
I go more into depth about this in the description of my Wind Fortress TAS (https://youtu.be/V6IWKvAdRRk), but in short, most pauses are used to release the jump button during the pause, in order to do things like first-frame boost jumps or switching boost directions without stopping the boost. Theres also a couple of instances where I pause to hold jump for lower gravity without starting a boost.
• How much (in-game) time could be saved by incorporating Booster unequips?
A couple of seconds, I think. (At the expense of maybe 20 minutes of extra real time. Yes, I said minutes, not seconds.)
Stay tuned...")
![[TAS] Super Mario Bros. coinless in 4:59.057 (4:55.780 RTA timing)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cQ3c-KhT74Q/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Super Mario Bros. coinless in 4:59.057 (4:55.780 RTA timing)
This is a 21-frame improvement to my previous TAS of this: https://youtu.be/57xPZ9SF8BA
The improvement comes from a faster 1-1 underground strat. Thanks to Kriller37 for informing me (over 2 months ago at this point) that, in fact, I suck at walljumping.
I have a couple of other SMB1-related TASes that Ive had in the pipeline for quite a while now, but never bothered to finish polishing them up and uploading them. I should probably get around to doing that at some point....
FM2 download: http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/472441778/coinless_v2.fm2")
