even the viewers can feel the tension and adrenaline increasing!
realizing that you’re actually fighting for the world record itself.
And you’re so full of joy after this.
So happy that you enjoyed the vid, you even watched this several times. And made this post. :lix-blush:
The performance was scarily good. A rare stroke of awareness and concentration.
But I've only noticed this the day after. I had two runs with average performance, both lost 20 to 30 seconds from the WR during episodes 3, 4, 5.
Wow, not expecting your rather newfound hobby to have gotten so far so quickly as breaking the world record! Congratulations!
I assume you've checked/researched that your current 40000 fixed cycles is indeed optimal for the game?
Thanks thanks!
Performance during play isn't affected. Anything from 16,000 or so plays the same. But load times are affected. The faster I set the cycles, the faster the levels load, and we can get arbitrarily fast load times here. I have to choose something.
I have several reasons for 40,000:
- DOSBox at max-cycles runs differently for different people, I don't want to rely on that.
- Levels load a tiny tad slower than on Vortale's 30:32 video, this makes the times comparable. I wanted to be slightly slower or equally fast, but never slightly faster. I think main menu to first level is within 0.1 seconds between Vortale's 30:32 and my 30:23.
- The JJ manual recommends a 486, and TASVideos.com says: If in doubt, use 40,000 cycles in DOSBox, that's an average 486 computer.
- I can agree that arbitrary cycle settings are OK for runs, then this video will still be a legal entry.
I got confidence that the 30:23 wasn't a fluke. :lix-cool: (http://www.lixgame.com/etc/jj-30-24.png)
-- Simon
I still run JJ actively, for 4 months now. I stream on twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/simonnaar) 3 or 4 times a week, 2-4 hours each time.
On 2016-12-22, before I left town to visit my parents, I WR'ed with 29:57 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXG3WjWvzNU), yet I'm unsatisfied. :-) This run screws up in comparatively easy places. In the two weeks since, I found several tricks and improvements. I feel like I can get 29:50 easily, and 29:40 with grinding. But I haven't managed to beat the 29:57 yet. Several good runs died near the end. geoo and Animiral recommend more conservative playstyle. I'm not sure whether I want to compromise. I want the perfect finish. <_<;
(http://lixgame.com/etc/battleships1-lose-bird.gif) (http://lixgame.com/etc/crysilis2-miss-column.gif) (http://lixgame.com/etc/crysilis2-miss-invincibility.gif)
Run #351 was at -28, had an excellent Crysilis 1, and had potential for under 29:30. :O
Explanations: #338 loses the bird. The bird is necessary to sequence-break the next level, to kill the boss inside the ship from the outside. Losing the bird costs 50 seconds. #351 swivels too early, cutting the jump too short. In #353, I assume to have taken the invincibility, but I jump too early, before having taken it.
I fixed a rounding bug in the run timer (https://github.com/3snowp7im/urn/pull/26) and am already contemplating another issue (unsplitting a mistaken split doesn't un-gold the mistake). The timer isn't updated much these days, but they still merge pull requests. That's good style when you don't develop actively.
I made a Youtube channel for future runs (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAiAPqvOazLscVaTUS0byJw). It's widespread to speedrun on twitch, then upload the best runs to youtube: Video-on-demand works better there, it reaches a wider audience, and viewers can comment on the run. Right now, the channel has only the 29:57.
Edit 2017-01-09:
(http://lixgame.com/etc/jj-fire-diamond.gif) New best with 29:33. Happy!
-- Simon
Want to congratulate to your Fox run:
It was an overall great run.
But that level 9 snakepit. Such things can happen; things that worked always fine suddenly won't work anymore. I'm glad you made it through and the frame perfect jumps were overall actually quite well. It has shown that it was very clever to take so much extra boni for the lives.
The first point in the run that seemed a bit tight was level 7 but you did a great boss. Level 11 seemed to have worked reasonably well (afair). These were the three levels I thought that seemed the biggest danger.
And you managed to get that lvl 4 skip. Nice.
All in all it seemed very courageous to do that run in a marathon but you really have built up an impressive consistency there.
It was again a great run with great commentary and a great (marathon) time.