itsPersonal | FusionVaria | [TAS] SpongeBob: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Any% in 39:20.10 (GC) @itsPersonnal | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 1 hour ago
This run is dedicated to Coel625, for relentlessly proving to me that further optimization can always be discovered if you dismiss convention in favor of creativity.
I began creating the input file for this TAS in December of 2019, meaning it took 10 months to complete. That said, the routing process for an Any% TAS has been essentially on-going since I first began playing Battle for Bikini Bottom in 2012. Of course many great minds contributed to the finalized route, through non-TAS and TAS findings alike. I do not take full credit for this route, nor the modern TAS meta. However, I have contributed my fair share, and the hundreds of timing/routing videos posted on my second YouTube channel, throughout the past 8 years, were largely responsible for the relatively short 10-month creation cycle of this TAS.
Since most timing/routing was done outside of this movie, the rerecord count (of at least 200,000) could accurately be inflated several times over. I have easily spent more time and effort on this project than on any other TAS to my name. This TAS was 8 years in the making, starting out as a funny side project in an underdeveloped cartoon game, and evolving into one of the most rewarding, fun, and passionate experiences of my life to date. I hope you enjoy the fruits of this questionable allocation of several thousand hours of my free time, across nearly half of my life: A Tool-Assisted ‘Battle for Bikini Bottom’ Speedrun, completed in 39:20.100, on GameCube.
Thank you each and every member of the Battle for Bikini Bottom community, for reviving this gem of a game after the first wave of runners had essentially retired. You all gave me a space to return to, and the collaboration necessary to achieve such a polished end-product for this 2020 revision of Tool-Assisted BfBB Any%.
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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).
Check out another upload of this TAS with an Input/Address Viewer:
youtube.com/watch?v=67JANjM_nDc
Previous TAS Record - Any% in 1:04:37.066 (2014):
youtube.com/watch?v=dRtf15EbS9U
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Feel free to stream this TAS on Twitch (or anywhere really) for viewing parties / reaction content :)
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Thumbnail art by Klyx - twitter.com/KlyxTwit
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
― T.S. Eliot
This run is dedicated to Coel625, for relentlessly proving to me that further optimization can always be discovered if you dismiss convention in favor of creativity.
I began creating the input file for this TAS in December of 2019, meaning it took 10 months to complete. That said, the routing process for an Any% TAS has been essentially on-going since I first began playing Battle for Bikini Bottom in 2012. Of course many great minds contributed to the finalized route, through non-TAS and TAS findings alike. I do not take full credit for this route, nor the modern TAS meta. However, I have contributed my fair share, and the hundreds of timing/routing videos posted on my second YouTube channel, throughout the past 8 years, were largely responsible for the relatively short 10-month creation cycle of this TAS.
Since most timing/routing was done outside of this movie, the rerecord count (of at least 200,000) could accurately be inflated several times over. I have easily spent more time and effort on this project than on any other TAS to my name. This TAS was 8 years in the making, starting out as a funny side project in an underdeveloped cartoon game, and evolving into one of the most rewarding, fun, and passionate experiences of my life to date. I hope you enjoy the fruits of this questionable allocation of several thousand hours of my free time, across nearly half of my life: A Tool-Assisted ‘Battle for Bikini Bottom’ Speedrun, completed in 39:20.100, on GameCube.
Thank you each and every member of the Battle for Bikini Bottom community, for reviving this gem of a game after the first wave of runners had essentially retired. You all gave me a space to return to, and the collaboration necessary to achieve such a polished end-product for this 2020 revision of Tool-Assisted BfBB Any%.
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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).
Check out another upload of this TAS with an Input/Address Viewer:
youtube.com/watch?v=67JANjM_nDc
Previous TAS Record - Any% in 1:04:37.066 (2014):
youtube.com/watch?v=dRtf15EbS9U
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Feel free to stream this TAS on Twitch (or anywhere really) for viewing parties / reaction content :)
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Thumbnail art by Klyx - twitter.com/KlyxTwit
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
― T.S. Eliot
![[TAS] SpongeBob: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Any% in 39:20.10 (GC)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-EYZ7dMCRqU/hqdefault.jpg "[TAS] SpongeBob: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Any% in 39:20.10 (GC)
This run is dedicated to Coel625, for relentlessly proving to me that further optimization can always be discovered if you dismiss convention in favor of creativity.
I began creating the input file for this TAS in December of 2019, meaning it took 10 months to complete. That said, the routing process for an Any% TAS has been essentially on-going since I first began playing Battle for Bikini Bottom in 2012. Of course many great minds contributed to the finalized route, through non-TAS and TAS findings alike. I do not take full credit for this route, nor the modern TAS meta. However, I have contributed my fair share, and the hundreds of timing/routing videos posted on my second YouTube channel, throughout the past 8 years, were largely responsible for the relatively short 10-month creation cycle of this TAS.
Since most timing/routing was done outside of this movie, the rerecord count (of at least 200,000) could accurately be inflated several times over. I have easily spent more time and effort on this project than on any other TAS to my name. This TAS was 8 years in the making, starting out as a funny side project in an underdeveloped cartoon game, and evolving into one of the most rewarding, fun, and passionate experiences of my life to date. I hope you enjoy the fruits of this questionable allocation of several thousand hours of my free time, across nearly half of my life: A Tool-Assisted ‘Battle for Bikini Bottom’ Speedrun, completed in 39:20.100, on GameCube.
Thank you each and every member of the Battle for Bikini Bottom community, for reviving this gem of a game after the first wave of runners had essentially retired. You all gave me a space to return to, and the collaboration necessary to achieve such a polished end-product for this 2020 revision of Tool-Assisted BfBB Any%.
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).
Check out another upload of this TAS with an Input/Address Viewer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67JANjM_nDc
Previous TAS Record - Any% in 1:04:37.066 (2014):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRtf15EbS9U
Feel free to stream this TAS on Twitch (or anywhere really) for viewing parties / reaction content :)
Thumbnail art by Klyx - https://twitter.com/KlyxTwit
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
― T.S. Eliot")
![[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.")
