Dizzy the Adventurer NES Tool-Assisted Speedrun Video

[alden]

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 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=iwYBvu9qNX8) curtesy of speedruns.net (http://www.speedruns.net/)

Or, download a high quality video (http://tasvideos.org/905M.html) and read an in depth commentary (http://tasvideos.org/1530S.html) at the mother of all TAS sites, tasvideos.org (http://tasvideos.org/)

Figured someone here would enjoy this!

[Adz.M]

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

Thanks for posting this :v2_dizzy_cool:

[Mat_Dizzy]

Adz, somethings are better unsaid :v2_dizzy_happy:

[alden]

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:

[Adz.M]

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

[AndyUK]

This games is brilliant. Especially the music.

[ingolemo]

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?

[alden]

glad you liked it ingolemo :)

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 :0

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

[Mervin1337]

Tool-assisted is noobish.

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

[Mataeus]

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

[alden]

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 :P ) 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

>>Tool-assisted is noobish

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