itsPersonal | FusionVaria | [TAS] Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Norion Skip SOLVED @itsPersonnal | Uploaded 4 years ago | Updated 3 minutes ago
Metroid Prime 3 is actually kinda funny. Here's a video explaining the out of bounds: twitch.tv/videos/552028179
The first planet you visit in Metroid Prime 3, Norion, is effectively unimportant to anything but plot. There is a single upgrade collected in the second room of the planet, and everything following is essentially just walking from point A to point B (and fighting mini bosses) to advance the in-game story/solve puzzles which are completely contained to this planet and unimportant to beating the game. So therefore, skipping Norion has no real implications or issues in a speedrun, as long as you collect that one upgrade at the start.
The elevator sequence activated at the end of this video is the trigger to leave this planet and continue on with the game. It is technically accessible through out of bounds navigation from any room in the entire planet, but, in an almost unbelievable reality, there were no possible Secret Worlds (out of bounds) until the one used in this video was discovered yesterday. Unfortunately, this Secret World is TAS-only, and also takes place towards the end of the Norion sequence. If someone finds an out of bounds sooner, this same skip could be done sooner, and save even more time.
This iteration of 'Norion Skip' saves ~4 and a half to 5 minutes (real-time) over Paraxade0's non-TAS segmented speedrun (the easiest rough comparison I could find). The IGT timesave for this skip is unknown, but it is most certainly faster for both in-game and real-time.
Sadly I couldn't record this video in 4k without running into desync issues.
Metroid Prime 3 is actually kinda funny. Here's a video explaining the out of bounds: twitch.tv/videos/552028179
The first planet you visit in Metroid Prime 3, Norion, is effectively unimportant to anything but plot. There is a single upgrade collected in the second room of the planet, and everything following is essentially just walking from point A to point B (and fighting mini bosses) to advance the in-game story/solve puzzles which are completely contained to this planet and unimportant to beating the game. So therefore, skipping Norion has no real implications or issues in a speedrun, as long as you collect that one upgrade at the start.
The elevator sequence activated at the end of this video is the trigger to leave this planet and continue on with the game. It is technically accessible through out of bounds navigation from any room in the entire planet, but, in an almost unbelievable reality, there were no possible Secret Worlds (out of bounds) until the one used in this video was discovered yesterday. Unfortunately, this Secret World is TAS-only, and also takes place towards the end of the Norion sequence. If someone finds an out of bounds sooner, this same skip could be done sooner, and save even more time.
This iteration of 'Norion Skip' saves ~4 and a half to 5 minutes (real-time) over Paraxade0's non-TAS segmented speedrun (the easiest rough comparison I could find). The IGT timesave for this skip is unknown, but it is most certainly faster for both in-game and real-time.
Sadly I couldn't record this video in 4k without running into desync issues.
![[TAS] Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Norion Skip SOLVED](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1jBLvs6PMOA/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Norion Skip SOLVED
Metroid Prime 3 is actually kinda funny. Heres a video explaining the out of bounds: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/552028179
The first planet you visit in Metroid Prime 3, Norion, is effectively unimportant to anything but plot. There is a single upgrade collected in the second room of the planet, and everything following is essentially just walking from point A to point B (and fighting mini bosses) to advance the in-game story/solve puzzles which are completely contained to this planet and unimportant to beating the game. So therefore, skipping Norion has no real implications or issues in a speedrun, as long as you collect that one upgrade at the start.
The elevator sequence activated at the end of this video is the trigger to leave this planet and continue on with the game. It is technically accessible through out of bounds navigation from any room in the entire planet, but, in an almost unbelievable reality, there were no possible Secret Worlds (out of bounds) until the one used in this video was discovered yesterday. Unfortunately, this Secret World is TAS-only, and also takes place towards the end of the Norion sequence. If someone finds an out of bounds sooner, this same skip could be done sooner, and save even more time.
This iteration of Norion Skip saves ~4 and a half to 5 minutes (real-time) over Paraxade0s non-TAS segmented speedrun (the easiest rough comparison I could find). The IGT timesave for this skip is unknown, but it is most certainly faster for both in-game and real-time.
Sadly I couldnt record this video in 4k without running into desync issues.")
![Sonic Adventure DX (WR) - Amys Final Egg 1:07.55 [TAS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1zhdOqROMyg/hqdefault.jpg "Sonic Adventure DX (WR) - Amys Final Egg 1:07.55 [TAS]
The creation of this TAS was streamed live on Twitch.tv. Consider following.
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This is a tool assisted speedrun of Amys Final Egg with a completion time of 1:07.55 (in-game time).
Inputs by me
Rerecord count is apparently 4959
Previous WR 1:14.83 (by me):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luDkb005Fgo
Im so happy to finally solve this Zero hop! And to make it actually useful in the route. The previous record obsoleted this strat by using the elevator wallrun in the top room, which cant be done if you do the wallrun at the bottom, as I did here.
This could be improved if there is a way to clip through the floor/ceiling section while remaining on the wall, but I can not find a way to do so.")
![Sonic Adventure 2 (WR) - Aquatic Mine M3 0:03.82 [TAS]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2cuzgC_n3WU/hqdefault.jpg "Sonic Adventure 2 (WR) - Aquatic Mine M3 0:03.82 [TAS]
This is a tool assisted speedrun of Aquatic Mine mission 3 with a completion time of 0:03.82 (in-game time).
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Inputs by me.
Completed 11/13/2019.
Ive been sitting on this IL for a few months now because I was very confident that I could save one more frame from it. Im quite sure that 3.80 is possible and I am just bad. Anyway, enjoy.")
![TAS: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Any% in 39:20.10 [Visualized]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/67JANjM_nDc/hqdefault.jpg "TAS: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Any% in 39:20.10 [Visualized]
Welcome to the Visualized version of the Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Any% TAS! Please watch in 60FPS for a full experience 👀
This video was created using an external program to read and display controller inputs/memory addresses alongside the game. The gameplay is identical to the 2020 TAS of Battle for Bikini Bottom, no improvements have been made since its release.
RTA Standard Timing (File Select to Final Cutscene): 39:20.100
TAS Standard Timing (Power-on to “Last Input”): 39:43.750
This TAS was created using Dolphin Emulator. While Xbox is the fastest console to play Battle for Bikini Bottom, it has limited TAS tools. Compared to Xbox, approximately 5 minutes were lost due to GameCube’s slow load screens, deaths, and oob-respawns throughout this run. A perfect conversion of these inputs to Xbox would yield a 34:xx time. (The lack of lag-based tricks also loses some amount of time).
Original Encode (Without Input/Address Viewer):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v EYZ7dMCRqU
Previous TAS Record - Any% in 1:04:37.066 (2014):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRtf15EbS9U
Early Game: 0:00
Robo-Sandy (Skip): 9:03
Mid Game: 12:22
Robo-Patrick (Skip): 22:22
Late Game: 26:35
Final Cutscene (End): 39:45
Credits: 42:13
There are a couple of issues with the input display, as the information used to map the display is taken from the games pressed and release events in memory. Because of how the B Button is handled when skipping textboxes, it unfortunately does not display on the input viewer when text boxes are skipped. There is also a bug relating to lag which can cause a button to not register as released, I believe this only happens twice in the video, during SBA the Start Button displays as held for a couple seconds when it shouldnt, and towards the end of Kelp Forest the Z Button does the same.
Thank you: P3BK4C, THC98, Yoshifan for building off each others work to create the tool used to visualize memory and controller inputs.
https://twitter.com/p3bk4c
https://twitter.com/Tales 98
https://twitter.com/yoshifan28
https://github.com/peb-adr/ram-watch-cheat-engine
Thumbnail art by Klyx - https://twitter.com/KlyxTwit
Feel free to stream this TAS on Twitch (or anywhere really) for viewing parties / reaction content :)")
