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But at this rate, I'll never get to read that red book from Kringle Krisis.

Hey! Now I'm the remaining Zelda King. Hahaha. No one could stop be now. (also random aside 12/02/2021 will be the last palindromic date until 2030 at least with the MM/DD/YYYY format)

So, uh... I guess we can have a party now that the parents (Mods/Admins) are gone?

Apparently, the site is having DNS problems hence why there has only been two posts in the last 11 hours. For some reason it still works for me (at least on my desktop, it doesn't on my phone). So, if anyone is curious where everyone else has gone, you are one of the lucky ones that still has access to the site.

Looks like we need tinsel from somewhere to beat the yeti. Maybe Santa's Workshop or Santa's House. > Examine Book > Take Book > North/West > North/West > North > East (to Santa's Workshop) > Ask elf about tinsel

My map btw +------------+ +------------+ +------------+ | Cookie | - | North Pole | - | Santa's | | Factory | - | (Start) | - | Workshop | +------------+ +------------+ +------------+ || \ +------------+ +------------+ \ | Santa's | - | Santa's | \ | Old Barn | - | House | \ +------------+ +------------+ \ || \ +------------+ +------------+ | Reindeer | ------------------ | Candy Cane | | Paddock | ------------------ | Forest | +------------+ +------------+ \ +------------+ +------------+ | Ice Cream | | Yeti | | Desert | | Mountain | +------------+ +------------+ \ ^^ +------------+ +------------+ | Gumdrop | - | Sugarplum | | Sea | - | Isle | +------------+ +------------+

Sorry I missed this thread for awhile and then didn't have time to catch up. > Examine chick > Ask Yeti about chick > Ask Mrs. Claus about chick > Out > North (to North Pole) > Examine red-and-white striped pole > Question why their are directions other than south at the north pole > South > West > South (To paddock) > Take carrot > East > Ask Yeti to fell a candy cane > South/East > Examine Desert > South/East > Examine Polar bear

Just got my package as well!

It's actually most likely the sixth variant box. It could be anywhere between 4th-6th variant based on only the front of the box but the 6th variant is far more common than the rest. Even looking at the back of the box we couldn't differentiate between the 5th and 6th variants because the only difference is on the box flaps that are sealed away. Also I should mention this is only talking about box variants. If you include things like how many screws in the cart, you also have to include things like the TM manual variant. So the three no rev-A box variants are NES TM, NES R old screenshot, and NES R new screenshot. But really none of this matters as the one that sold for $870k was a third box variant anyway.

After watching your video I realized my problem is I try to kill too many things when skipping them is faster. This stems from when I causally play games my natural instinct is to kill all enemies. I went back and checked the video of my failed run and I was two seconds ahead of you going into the Joker fight, so it definitely would have been a close one.

Looks like it doesn't matter anyway considering Bert. Crazy that we are all within 30 seconds of each other. Now I'm going to see what you did differently in your video.

The firebug strat isn't 100% safe. Sometimes he just decides to punch you and I've never figured out what causes it. In the video I got lucky and he never did it. I figured all of the clocktower enemies could be despawned, it was just a matter of figuring out the setup. It's definitely slightly slower but safer. But strats like that let me skip all the droppers.

I guess it's time to post my results. Batman: Completed, 15:28 I'm not entirely sure on what the timing is supposed to be, so feel free to retime. Here's the video description with notes on the run: Macross: 999,900 = 9 points I didn't even intend to hit 999,900 exactly, but it lined up perfectly. Thank god the shooter was easy because I normally suck at them.

Oops, posted a bit early.

I tried a couple more times and improved by 30ish seconds. I've had a run die on Joker that would have been 15 seconds faster than this one, but I've about hit my limit for the week.

I definitely don't do the quick kill as I found it too risky. But it looks like I'm still doing it a bit faster than you. I kill him in 32 seconds in my run.

I've had the same thought. I assume the answer is the NES palette is limited. In other news, I finally got a run on a decent pace through to the end. No clue if it's fast enough to beat Bert and Ernie, but I'm happy with it at least. I've had slightly faster runs die to Joker, but they were only ~15 seconds faster. I could probably clean up another 15 seconds on top of that, but if I want to go much faster than that, I'll need to go for better and possibly risker strats. Not sure how much time (if any) I'll spend on it tomorrow, so I may have reached my final time.

Yeah I did yesterday. For some reason, today I keep losing runs to Joker even though I was beating him consistently before. I've gone back at figured out a better strategy I think, so I'll see if I can get some faster runs done.

No, I mean if someone where to post a decent video of them beating Batman now, the others could learn from it to do better before Sunday's deadline. Yes and no. Of course there are hundreds of completion videos, but not many of them are people trying to speedrun Batman at our level. I can't learn a whole lot from watching the WR speedrun, because there's no way in hell I'm going to be able to learn all that in a week. Whereas, I'm sure we all have some of our own strats that aren't optimal, but still pretty fast while being consistent.

The difference with a video is your opponents can watch that video and possibly discover better strats that might help them beat you.

Huh, interesting. I'm actually not that bad at the joker and the stage 3 boss I have no problems with. Although, I button mash him too and farm the dropper before if I don't have the health. I know how to kill him no damage but it's way too slow. The stage 4 boss is the one I hate as I'm not consistent. My strategy with getting out of the level 2 boss with ammo is just to go into it with nearly full ammo. And yeah the jumping enemies suck. The best way to farm the droppers is to keep just the right distance away that you can still hit them while they are falling. Lol, I wouldn't be surprised.

I'm watching your run now. I use the batarang by default on most enemies. I find it's way easier than punching as it requires less precision and you tend to gain more ammo than you lose. To despawn the spike cars in the upper left of 1-2 you need to jump on the platform a bit further to the right. I wouldn't recommend farming for health on those enemies in 2-2 (but if you do it's probably easier with the batarang). If you can hold out there's a dropper in 2-3 (which I actually didn't know you could destroy, I stun it instead and make a break for it). To jump past the gear wall drop a bit later in 2-3, you have to make sure you aren't pressing a direction on the D-pad to get full air control to avoid the gears. For the level 2 boss you can stand just to the left of the electric pole when hitting the second weak point. Lol, definitely not. I still cheese the hell out of those. It's probably where I lose the most time compared to the speedrun. Have you got a no-death run yet?

And I completed a no death run. Then I tried again and got one 3 minutes faster. That one had no major mistakes but had time to save everywhere. Plus there are probably faster strats I can start using now that I'm more comfortable with the game. But I should probably also stop procrastinating and start working on Macross. How's everyone else doing?

Still haven't started Macross, but tomorrow I'll be ready to record my full game runs of Batman. I feel confident I'll be able to do a fast-ish no death run eventually. I tried another one at the end of the night and only had one stupid death in 5-1 (didn't time it but it felt around 20 minutes).

I'm a mixed bag when it comes to platformers. Some I'm good at and some I suck at. It probably helps I'm applying myself more than normal given this is the finals. Still, even if I do well at Batman, I'll probably fail miserably at Macross. I haven't even touched it yet.