MOSTGAMES UPDATE 10/10/16

MOSTGAMES PROJECT
Update 10/10/16

This pace that I have been at lately is a pace I'm more comfortable with. Gives me enough time to work on each game 2-3 days, which is typically long enough to understand the game and put up a time I'm happy with with the strats I have come up with. This week I found a few real gems :^)

Standings:
Jumpyluff       181 (+2)
Dugongue        151 (+6) several of these were older runs?
authorblues     131 (+6) nothing in the queue
Deln            100 (+1)
Darko           82 (+3)
Racingmonster   66 (+3)
PrinceRallis    65 (+2)
hocinehocine    63 (+1) he can't be stopped!!!

Games added this week:
1: Bomberman 64 (old run, any%, 26th lmao)
==>  https://www.speedrun.com/run/emk1jj3y
2: Darkman (added leaderboard, uncontested 1st)
==>  https://www.speedrun.com/run/kz5lovny
3: Cool World NES (1st)
==>  https://www.speedrun.com/run/7z08epem
4: Stuart Little: The Journey Home GBC (1st)
==>  https://www.speedrun.com/run/emk16x3y
5: Ghoul School (6th)
==>  https://www.speedrun.com/run/0y6g39pm
6: Avenging Spirit GB (1st)
==>  https://www.speedrun.com/run/2yww1dpy

SPECIFIC GAME INFO:

Cool World had only been run by feasel, that I could see. His run was really good, and provided 90% of the routing I used. I modified it in a few significant ways that afforded me about 20 seconds of time savings, and on my final (world record) run, I discovered a brand new glitch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSK82LZNGyk) that would probably change the run pretty significantly for a time save of maybe 5-10 seconds. Maybe I'll improve it.

I discovered both Stuart Little and Avenging Spirit from Gyoo's @SpeedrunWRs bot. I'll admit that I've been sniping games off of that that look interesting. Stuart Little was a silly little platformer with some deceptively difficult top-down RC Pro Am style stages. I ended up only doing Easy mode because of how hard of a time I was having perfecting my time. This time isn't even all that great, but it is decently optimized.

Avenging Spirit is a really amazing little GB platformer that I really fell in love with. After bopping that Free WR™ (8:40), I thought I was done with the game, but the guy who runs the leaderboard came back with a few small route improvements for a 8:33. So with the help of some people in chat and some extensive testing, ended up really improving the route and grinding the time down to 7:49, which I think is a time that will stand for a little while. It would take route improvements or significant grinding to improve it by more than a few seconds, I think.

Ghoul School is ass. Toad, Whitehat, and Jeffrosledger are seriously impressive for their times in that game. It is seriously a level of optimization that you can't really appreciate until you play the game and see why it is tough to get good at. Whitehat has an awesome tutorial on speedrun.com that you can check out. Learn it. You can learn it in 20 minutes. More people should run it. Really easy to pick up, really hard to get a great time.

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Hung out with Laplacier this weekend. My streams have been averaging 40-70 viewers, and I am seriously blown away at how many people watch me work on these games, offer help, offer suggestions, leave me kind words of encouragement and congratulations. Even if I never get big enough for partner or whatever people work toward, I want you to know that I consider myself massively successful because of all of your support. It's more than an idiot nerd like me could ask for.

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