Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask TAS Competition Discussion

Welcome to the TAS Competition hosted by me.

First off here are some basic rules:

- At 12:00 AM EST at the specified due date (or before then) you are to submit one .m64 and .st to TAScompetition@web.de. Submissions that are late are welcome and in most cases accepted.

- The two files should be compressed and named to "TASCompetitionTask#ByNAME".

Example: TASCompetitionTask1ByMrGrunz

- You must NOT talk strategy or show WIPs or finished products to any other people, even if they don't submit or compete.

- You may NOT co-author with anyone for a given task unless otherwise specified.

- The task will be timed by me. Timing starts at the first frame you walk and ends at the point I set as the end for every competition.

- Any violation of the rules makes you viable for DISQUALIFICATION and possibly further action if necessary.

As this competition will probably have only 1-2 taks, because OoT/MM aren't that cool for competitions, I haven't thought about a scoring system yet.

TASK 1:

Enter the Ikana Grave on Cycle 1 and get the Heart Piece there. Here is a walkthrough video of this level:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dln5NWWKuZk

Timing starts at the first frame you get control over link after entering the grave and ends at the frame you open the chest. You have to use the items you have in the Save Stat I uploaded, so you MAY NOT use any items that are not in this save file:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4g3zgm4xzdw

You can use as many bombs and bombchus as you feel like.
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Note: As some people were not big fans of this goal, you can tell me what you think about it and if you don't like it, we'll choose another one. The point of this goal is to be rather short one to start with and still have a nice space for crazieness.

Due date: I'll just wait until enough people submitted

The TAS community here is kinda non-existent so I might do one to help maybe get interest in it. Whens the due date?

I was wondering the same thing.  I've been really wanting to start zelda TASing, so this will be my first attempt.  Hopefully I won't be too awful... And dammit, I've seen what you can do Jiano.  Your non-TAS entry would destroy mine.  Oh well... Here's to trying!

added it

I'm in on this

I've never TASed before, but hell I'll join in.

I'm in, but i need help with something. in the last MM TAS i made, everything worked perfectly, then suddendly link like gone crazy he started to roll around and stuff  :o

i know how to fix that in OoT but i have no idea in MM. please help.

Freshmilk980 wrote

I'm in, but i need help with something. in the last MM TAS i made, everything worked perfectly, then suddendly link like gone crazy he started to roll around and stuff  :o

i know how to fix that in OoT but i have no idea in MM. please help.

I have the same problem.  I basically have to reload the TAS after every room transition, pause etc so help would be greatly appreciated.

Also, which version of mupen should be used?

My first "real" TAS speedrun of MM, it turned out pretty well.
I'm very motivated for this competition, I hope you will make more ;D

Oh snap! I'm to late to be able to do stuff  :'(

Can we do an OoT one after this? Id LOVE to. Allthough i had GREAT fun TASing this  ;D i liked this goal btw. i want more like this

Oh wait, I looked at the wrong date xD
Wait for meee! :D

EDIT: Btw, does it matter what emulator you use?
EDIT2: Also, is there another way to get over the first gap than by bomb?

MrGrunz wrote

Enter the Ikana Grave on Cycle 1 and get the Heart Piece there

Sorry master Grunz, but did you mean on day one?

olivebates wrote

EDIT2: Also, is there another way to get over the first gap than by bomb?

If you're talking about the gap beetween the graves 1 and 2, you can jump onto the biggest stalactit and continue to the other side.

If you're talking about the gap of the invisible room, I think there's no other way than bomb...

Majora MIM wrote

If you're talking about the gap of the invisible room, I think there's no other way than bomb...

Invisible room?..

The room with the invisible Keese and Skulltulas on the way to the Piece of Heart. Half the walkway is also invisible.

And I thought we weren't supposed to discuss strats...?

yeah no discussion please ;)

and yeah, I said enter at day 1 and meant day 1. Getting past the gap is another nice place where people show how creative they can get.

only 2 submissions yet :(

MrGrunz wrote

only 2 submissions yet :(

Well for my case, I usually submit just before the due date in case I found some improvements during the week.

MrGrunz wrote

only 2 submissions yet :(

Oooh, your in luck! Just finnished it! :D

It took some hours... Kek.


How to send it :0?

EDIT: Also, what I'm asking about isn't strat, its common knowladge :P (... okay maybe a little, soz :3)

Can we change what's on the c-buttons? Or do we have to have the bow on c-left?

of course you can change what buttons you have on C

just leave, change items, enter, start recording

Iii feel like wriiiting somthing!! :D


... Heeeres somthing!. :)

ok,there are some people who like HAVE to join. for example Bloob, pokey, Sowrdlink, bobmario511 bla..bla...bla................................


get those people in here

how many submissions allready?

4 people submitted. anavrin will submit some time tomorrow, too, so it is 5 people

I changed the due date, because I hope pokey, bobmario and some other people will take part then

I wanna take part, but I'm terrible at TASing and I haven't had much time lately. If you're going to decide when the deadline is can you give us 24 hours notice or something like that?

Sorry to be a noob but what does TAS mean?

Tool-assisted speedrun

When does the result will be out?
I mean, if you really wanted pokey, bobmario and some other people to take part then they should have been warned earlier, now it's too late, they can just take part of it for the next task.

blargh, I'll post the results today

MrGrunz was super nice and gave me 3 hours to do this TAS. I'm not that good at TASing MM but I think it looks ok for me.