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Dizzy the Adventurer NES Tool-Assisted Speedrun Video

Started by alden on 19 July 2007 • 18,213 views

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#5393919 July 2007

I recently created a Tool-Assisted Speedrun of the NES game Dizzy the Adventurer.

For those unfamiliar with the term, a Tool-Assisted Speedrun (TAS) is an emulator made movie using slowdown and save-states to play the game as fast as possible. Unlike a regular speedrun where playing skill is key, a TAS involves analysis of the game and a lot of brute force to determine the fastest possible strategy.

You can view the movie on YouTube curtesy of speedruns.net

Or, download a high quality video and read an in depth commentary at the mother of all TAS sites, tasvideos.org

Figured someone here would enjoy this!

#5770320 July 2007

I remember finishing this version a while ago :smile: dare I ask what the "Oh Dizzy", "Oh Daisy" thing was about at the end :lol:

Thanks for posting this {eggs2}:denzil:

#5773928 July 2007

Adz, somethings are better unsaid {yolkfolk}:dizzy:

#5778829 July 2007

Haha, the Dizzy games have great dialogue.

My personal favourite from this one is:

Dizzy: Well I only gave her a jokebook.

King: Ah! But it's the way you gave it!

Glad you liked the movie {dizzy}:cool:

#578516 August 2007

Your video has been added to Yolkfolk.com, on the Videos page :smile:

#5792227 August 2007

This games is brilliant. Especially the music.

#5792327 August 2007

Dizzy isn't exactly your typical speedrun fare, but well done; it was very enjoyable. Your cloud jumping in particular was excellent.

How many save-states did that run take you - roughly?

#5792928 August 2007

glad you liked it ingolemo :smile:

yes, the cloud jumping was the trickiest part, and where stuff happens where it shouldn't, like jumping under st peter's gate and jumping to and from the juggling balls.

i only used about 4 savestate slots at a time, but according to the file i started rerecording the movie 8408 times :surprise:

that's not to say i rerecorded from the beginning 8000 times, but i did go back and "undo" from a savestate that many times

#579561 September 2007

Tool-assisted is noobish.

EDIT: That was the 2.400 post of the forum :smile:

#579903 September 2007

Not bad certainly, but I bet you could easily cut that time down (like where you died in the water and stuff)

#580095 September 2007

I could probably make it faster... but not by cutting out the death. Because the boat moves so slowly, it's slightly (a sixth of a second :tongue: ) faster to jump to the next screen, die and get respawned on the far shore than to wait for the boat. Plus the death music is funny

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Ok, i'll try to post a real run on sda :tongue: