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For those of you uninformed, Magnalon and myself have planned to take part in several Mega Man races. The idea originally spawned in one of my Mega Man blogs. Magnalon asserted that in Mega Man and Bass, playing as Bass was the game's easy mode. I didn't necessarily disagree, but at the same time I asserted that Mega Man was still a very effective character. Thus came the idea for a race, myself as Mega Man and Magnalon as Bass. However before that we decided to start with a run of Mega Man X. The rules were as follows: No boss weaknesses. You had to take down the bosses with just a buster. The only exception was Sigma's Final Form. Though I'm hoping to get some video footage and commentary in for the originally proclaimed Mega Man and Bass run, we just did a bare bones stopwatch play in this case. The results are in as thus: Wry Guy: 2 Hours and 36 Minutes This time actually kind of sucks on my part. My time before hitting Sigma was actually pretty decent. Before him my time was around 1 hour and 30 minutes. After that however, I just sucked. To be perfectly honest I wasted about an hour on Sigma simply for the fact that I fought him like a retard and didn't keep in mind that once you get on his final form's hands, you can stay up there. I kept jumping off and getting murdered by the barrage of lighting and fire shots from above, and only brought one sub tank with me because I was trying to not waste time collecting everything. Ended up being counter-productive. The reason I went for the stage order I did was to obtain the dash boots as quickly as possible in Chill Penguin's stage, and then the helmet in Storm Eagle's stage so that I could get the hidden buster upgrade in Flame Mammoth's stage. After that I went after Sting Chameleon for the armor upgrade and his power, so that I could use the charged up chameleon ability to run straight through certain areas of the game. I only used it a few times, though. I could have gotten a much faster time had I used it as often as possible... that and didn't suck dick against Sigma. Stage Order: Chill Penguin, Storm Eagle, Flame Mammoth, Sting Chameleon, Boomer Kuwanger, Launch Octopus, Spark Mandrill, Armored Armadillo. Items Obtained: 1 sub tank, 3 heart tanks, all upgrades including preemptive Zero Buster. Magnalon: 1 hour and 30 minutes Unlike me, Magnalon didn't waste tons of time on Sigma and sped through with a total victory. Quoted from the man himself, "It was optional accessories, so you definitely had time to go back and get some heart-subtanks! We should have a redo!" Very good chance that we will later on too. Magnalon's biggest obstacles were the Wall boss from Sigma Stage 2, and Sigma's first form. If some of you don't recall, the wall boss is the giant face that shoots you with his eyeballs. I don't know Magnalon's exact reasoning behind his stage order, but he'll probably let us know in the comments. Stage Order: Chill Penguin, Storm Eagle, Flame Mammoth, Spark Mandrill, Armored Armadillo, Launch Octopus, Boomer Kuwanger, Sting Chameleon. Items Obtained: 4 Heart Tanks, 1 Sub Tank, Armor Upgrade, Boot Upgrade. Stay tuned for the next race. Advertisement: Find Lawyers I've no idea why it's always the same ad they give me, but I like having a bloggable viewcounter and that's all they ask.
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It was a fun run! No weaknesses is a total bitch. I would be up for a weakness run, 1 level go-through, set order, set upgrades run.
That way, we're ALL on the same page. We could have a community wide contest. I also can't wait for the meat and potatoes: Bass v. Megaman.
@Pedro
We should make a forum topic and do another race sometime in the next few weeks. I can post the perfect order.
As for how to obtain the video, I found a program that'll just record straight off your computer screen. So long as your computer isn't too old, it should be able to handle it.
I can never get those things to work for me.
Let me know if we get to either Banjo-Kazooie or DKC2. Now those are two games I can truly speed through.
I dig this idea, and I hope that the commentary vid will see daylight soon, since I'm sure that will undoubtably amuse me.
Hadouken was banned, yes, because essentially as a 1-hit kill for bosses, it would be counted as a "weakness"
@Wry
...if you want to chat, X4 is definitely do-able the way you suggested. I have it for console as well:we can run the game off the disc onto the PC if you're more comfortable.
Is the vid cap program you're referring to FRAPS? I have it, but the video size it ends up recording for even 5 minutes of gameplay is MASSIVE.
I don't have Adobe Premier, either, so I can't compress it. Any ideas?
@Jordan
Banjo Kazooie would be long! As for DKC2, I'd LOVE that. To be honest, I used to speed run Donkey Kong Country 1 all the time via a dual box setup, but 2? That'd be fresh!
If you want to make a speed run forum topic and link it here, we can suggest future set run paths and dates for them, video capture optional, with a mini-guide!
Future projects?
Super Mario World "no cape race" (my favorite!)
Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2
Mega Man X1-X6
Mega Man and Bass
Banjo Kazooie minimalist planned run? (It would be long!)
???
I'll take all the info gathered in this thread and stick it in later. Anyone else that wants to take place in community races should use this thread too.
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