Espyo | Sky Deck (Sonic) - 0 points - Low Score Challenge - Sonic Adventure DX @srb2Espyo | Uploaded October 2009 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
I'm sorry, but this level is really hard to LSC. I'll explain the most difficult parts, and you'll realize why I had to segment it into 3 parts.
The long hallway at 0:11 is a pain in the neck to get by without a single ring. Holding Up and Right is kind of ok, but it's tedious and not 100% safe. Off-topic: I really like the extra detail SEGA added to the rings in this hallway: if a portion is blown up, the rings that were on it will fall down, rather than staying stationary. If only Sonic Team had this kind of dedication on today's Sonic games...
At 0:50, I always tried to do things in a different way: Keep going forwards, and when the path ramps upwards, try a spindash jump towards the bottom part of this long ring-filled path. I tried to land in the middle, and from there jump to the other curve (that has enemies), but this had a ~6% rate of success. Instead, I decided to go to the distant rotatory pillars. It's not easy, specially with the camera not cooperating, but it's better than what I had in mind.
Blasting the cannons doesn't add up points, fortunately.
For some reason, the game hardly cooperated at 3:34.
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LSC INFO:
The rules for the LSC are to, basically, complete the level (score tally included) with the lowest amount of points possible. The earlier Sonic games don't give points for rings, but they do give the ring bonus, so in a way, rings are banned in both recent and classic Sonic games for the LSC.
DISCLAIMER:
In the 16-bit LSCs (like Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic 2, etc.), I DO use tools such as savestates and slowdowns, but they are merely used to make sure the video is made smoothly without silly errors. More info on such tools at tasvideos.org except I don't use the tools to speedrun.
In the more recent games (Like SADX and Sonic Heroes), I DO use cheats, but they don't alter the challenge's spirit. One of them manipulates time to skip automatically to around 5 seconds before the 0 point bonus time, instead of me having to wait.
In SADX videos, if Tails isn't present, it's also a cheat, to make sure Tails doesn't accidentally get rings.
KEEP THESE IN MIND before commenting.
I'm sorry, but this level is really hard to LSC. I'll explain the most difficult parts, and you'll realize why I had to segment it into 3 parts.
The long hallway at 0:11 is a pain in the neck to get by without a single ring. Holding Up and Right is kind of ok, but it's tedious and not 100% safe. Off-topic: I really like the extra detail SEGA added to the rings in this hallway: if a portion is blown up, the rings that were on it will fall down, rather than staying stationary. If only Sonic Team had this kind of dedication on today's Sonic games...
At 0:50, I always tried to do things in a different way: Keep going forwards, and when the path ramps upwards, try a spindash jump towards the bottom part of this long ring-filled path. I tried to land in the middle, and from there jump to the other curve (that has enemies), but this had a ~6% rate of success. Instead, I decided to go to the distant rotatory pillars. It's not easy, specially with the camera not cooperating, but it's better than what I had in mind.
Blasting the cannons doesn't add up points, fortunately.
For some reason, the game hardly cooperated at 3:34.
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LSC INFO:
The rules for the LSC are to, basically, complete the level (score tally included) with the lowest amount of points possible. The earlier Sonic games don't give points for rings, but they do give the ring bonus, so in a way, rings are banned in both recent and classic Sonic games for the LSC.
DISCLAIMER:
In the 16-bit LSCs (like Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic 2, etc.), I DO use tools such as savestates and slowdowns, but they are merely used to make sure the video is made smoothly without silly errors. More info on such tools at tasvideos.org except I don't use the tools to speedrun.
In the more recent games (Like SADX and Sonic Heroes), I DO use cheats, but they don't alter the challenge's spirit. One of them manipulates time to skip automatically to around 5 seconds before the 0 point bonus time, instead of me having to wait.
In SADX videos, if Tails isn't present, it's also a cheat, to make sure Tails doesn't accidentally get rings.
KEEP THESE IN MIND before commenting.
![All score comments [redone] - Sonic Heroes](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/M4Pd7tw1XDw/hqdefault.jpg "All score comments [redone] - Sonic Heroes
My first attempt at this video had horrible sound quality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRBkh3aYdUA
I decided to redo it, this time with decent sound quality, that wont rape your ears.
Whenever you complete a level, the character with the most points will make a quick comment about the final score grade you got. There are 60 comments in all, 5 grades times 12 characters. This isnt true for boss battles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpoMX1lhXgU
I used cheats, specially to get a specific score, but thats not important. The amount of points in each clip is the minimum amount needed to get that grade. Thanks, Shadows Carbon Copy! http://www.gamefaqs.com/gamecube/914714-sonic-heroes/faqs/28886
If you want, create a video response with Creams A score comment. Im pretty sure it works in the GC, PS2 and Xbox versions.
0:00 Team Sonic
0:46 Team Dark
1:38 Team Rose
2:32 Team Chaotix
Finally, I had a rough time making this. Not only did WMM constantly acted up with the same stupid glitch (3:35), but it also didnt allow me to render the video, because there were too many clips (not that it tells you that). I had to render each half individually. Stupidly, when I went to render the first half, it couldnt give a proportional sampling-to-resolution ratio. The larger the sampling, the larger the resolution. But somehow, it gave SMALLER resolutions with higher sampling rates. Go figure, only WMM to do the impossible. So if you spot a small difference in quality when Team Roses clips start, you know why.
Additionally, adding the annotations on the video was another disgusting challenge on its own. The server crashed every few minutes, more often than not making me lose progress, and sometimes, when I reloaded the page, it displayed the annotations with tiny font sizes, and sometimes itd even mute the audio.
Alas. Im surrounded by horrible technology. And there are people that take pride in these things?")
