Seems to be the issue with the video's encoding rather than the game's graphics. The decompression always seems to miss some intermediate frames or some shit.
Dude, THANK YOU SO MUCH for making this awesome "speedrun", i remember this game that was so hard back in the day, also showed this vid to my brother and had no idea about what TAS is, his first impression was: "WTF!! O.O" ahahahaha! keep making extraordinary videos like this one cause it's so enjoyable to watch.
I always have to wonder what this kind of run is like to the actual characters in the game. Such as in this case, where the pilot has spontaneously acquired literally godlike reflexes and decides to use this ability in the most hilarious manner possible.
"Dark Force is too powerful for us to defeat. Our only hope is to go back in time and murder her while she's a helpless little girl." "Hurry up, Anoa! We have to..." "Oh no! She saw the Vic Viper! Go, go, hurry! Leave Anoa to her fate!" "No! I can't abandon my friend! I..." "Wait... something weird's happening. For some reason, Dark Force looks hesitant. Now she looks frightened. Now she's shaking in terror. And... now she's rapid-fire bowing and begging for mercy. Now she's breaking down into heaving sobs." "Oh my." "Now Anoa is consoling her and giving her a big hug."
I was just thinking it was impossible to speedrun Gradius because it's an autoscrolling game, but then I remembered that a lot of time could be shaved off of pre-boss and Big Core fights if you have superhuman reflexes...
+Alice Wolff I think all of the time save in this TAS comes from ending input very early in the final level. tasvideos.org timing starts at power on and ends at final input (usually), rather than when the game actually ends. So since he ended input early and coasted to victory, he saved a pretty significant amount of time.
This is only because TH-cam literally nuked the encode recently. They're being fixed and will show up on TASVideos' actual TH-cam channel TASVideosChannel.
+Jaakko Vähänen It looks like it's either a score glitch or an item glitch that edits the working memory of the machine, changing a value that sets your status to having completed the boss fight. I might be completely wrong though.
It's a warp. There's a condition in first 3 stages to go for a warp. Warp makes you to skip 1 stage. In level 1, it is when the thousands digit of your score is even and you need destroy 4 hatches.
+Ihate GooglePlus The inputs can be put into the game and it'll play just like in the video. No one is actually holding a controller and doing all that. I hope that makes sense.
![[TAS] NES Gradius by adelikat in 10:52.35](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QNbYvekFoAU/mqdefault.jpg)
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![[TAS] Castlevania - Aria of Sorrow "100% souls" by Kriole in 24:56](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/DfkJpzBoJ-M/mqdefault.jpg)
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The guys who's piloting that ship must be so sick right now.
Advert-chan oh wow youre right
Lol, I'm bored, let's do 300 circles around this rock while dodging projectiles!
-This guy
Great example of TAS. It's not a "cheat"--it takes a lot of effort and deep understanding of a game to do this.
TAS videos are either "game exploit" or "funny mechanic breaking" stuff like these
4:15, do I read ADELIKAT? LOL 4:37 EAT AT JOES *dies laughing*
i did NOT see that until now! Thanks for pointing this out to me lol.
SuperLineBros what? I don't get it.
I love how the sprites just freak out like the game just cannot deal with this bullshit.
Seems to be the issue with the video's encoding rather than the game's graphics. The decompression always seems to miss some intermediate frames or some shit.
So THATS what its supposed to look like. Sad this couldn't be played at AGQD
Awesome Games Quick Done
THIS is exactly why I love Gradius / bullet hell TAS.
I was so sad when the nes couldn't play the tas right on agdq...
I know, right? :(
Also, I wonder if the MSX version of this (Nemesis) is susceptible to the same set of exploits? *pens a note to have a go*
ROBberry pi disliked this video
its like hes dancing the ship to the music, i understand now....GRADIUS is a MUSIC GAME
Comparing the music in Gradius to Gadius 2 is like night and day.
NO DESYNC!!!
so it has been 3 years
This is the same tas that de-synced at AGDQ 2014 Tas Block
lol i remember that
JESUS CHRIST THE LITTLE SPACESHIP IS LOSING ITS SHIT
"I'm running circles around you!"
The craziest show ever and forever
one of the funniest TAS I've watched :D
can we get vic viper over here some Diazepam? dude needs to sloooooow down.
1. Don't die
2. Go as fast as possible (like in Super Mario Bros or Sonic)
3. Kill bosses ASAP
4. Find glitches (again SMB)
5. Have fun =D
Very nice TAS, and good choice of game.
1:46, 9:12, and basically that whole last level were very enjoyable.+1
The Vic Viper is having a massive seizure!
Methinks the TASer got a bit bored of doing everything in slow-mo. XD
Dude, THANK YOU SO MUCH for making this awesome "speedrun", i remember this game that was so hard back in the day, also showed this vid to my brother and had no idea about what TAS is, his first impression was: "WTF!! O.O" ahahahaha! keep making extraordinary videos like this one cause it's so enjoyable to watch.
@Chesterfiled Cassandra, from SoulCalibur
The U.S Airforce has come up with a brand new kind of Go-pill.
I always have to wonder what this kind of run is like to the actual characters in the game. Such as in this case, where the pilot has spontaneously acquired literally godlike reflexes and decides to use this ability in the most hilarious manner possible.
Dear lord why anybody not mentioned about the video quality m?! It hurts my eyes
He's flying circles around them!
Avi: Why do they call him the Bullet-Dodger?
Bullet Tooth Tony: 'Cause he dodges bullets, Avi.
It's like he's phasing in and out of existence.
I know this is a TAS, but this is how I imagine people who are good at this game unlike me play all the time.
Settings > Speed 2.0x > Enjoy
"Dark Force is too powerful for us to defeat. Our only hope is to go back in time and murder her while she's a helpless little girl."
"Hurry up, Anoa! We have to..."
"Oh no! She saw the Vic Viper! Go, go, hurry! Leave Anoa to her fate!"
"No! I can't abandon my friend! I..."
"Wait... something weird's happening. For some reason, Dark Force looks hesitant. Now she looks frightened. Now she's shaking in terror. And... now she's rapid-fire bowing and begging for mercy. Now she's breaking down into heaving sobs."
"Oh my."
"Now Anoa is consoling her and giving her a big hug."
This could be in an anti-drugs campaign:
"This is your brain"
*shows regular Gradius footage*
"This is your brain on drugs"
*shows this*
last boss wtf happend? xD
Gradius happened
3:16 "?"
Yep, pretty much covers it.
I was just thinking it was impossible to speedrun Gradius because it's an autoscrolling game, but then I remembered that a lot of time could be shaved off of pre-boss and Big Core fights if you have superhuman reflexes...
+Alice Wolff Oh, and level warps.
+Alice Wolff I think all of the time save in this TAS comes from ending input very early in the final level. tasvideos.org timing starts at power on and ends at final input (usually), rather than when the game actually ends. So since he ended input early and coasted to victory, he saved a pretty significant amount of time.
Is the pilot of that ship Mobius One
1:46, the area that always killed me, and... THIS HAPPENS.
TAS > ALL.
Dang, his dodging skills would put Reimu to shame.
He's teasing the enemies!
This video is absolutely hilarious
Well plane pilot with sum game drug
who needs collision detection when you have true asian strength
Damn! That man who is driving that ship must be sugar high. :P
The ending reminds me of Ristar
I'd love a re-upload without the compression artifacts.
This is only because TH-cam literally nuked the encode recently.
They're being fixed and will show up on TASVideos' actual TH-cam channel TASVideosChannel.
Did he just spell out GRADIUS at 4:38
He did!! Thank u 4 pointing that out.
Made it to 1:19 before I decided that this was just too freaking ridiculous.
watch this on 2x speed oh my god im dizzy
he is carzy
this reminds me of Rocket Knight Adventures
I wish I were more high.
this is Gradius on LSD
The mask: gradius edition
I read the description about this run, but I still don't understand what happens at the last boss. Can someone enlighten me?
+Jaakko Vähänen It looks like it's either a score glitch or an item glitch that edits the working memory of the machine, changing a value that sets your status to having completed the boss fight. I might be completely wrong though.
10:40 what?
YES DESYNC!
in this game u can only get a better time at the bosses? the game is otherwise flowing in its own pace
Why is this making me laugh so hard
why?
I can do this without tas, hold my beer...
more nes and snes videos!!!
Y u let uzelf duy once me no understand.translation:why did you let yourself die once?i dont understand
*Comment about Chuck Norris playing*
oh My God !!
2:22 Just wondering, what are those? I didn't see them in my gameplay.. How can I see them? Wait a sec... Where's Stage 2?
It's a warp. There's a condition in first 3 stages to go for a warp. Warp makes you to skip 1 stage. In level 1, it is when the thousands digit of your score is even and you need destroy 4 hatches.
??????????
I'm dizzy
it said this was console verified.. Does something like this take an insane amount of practice or is there something else?
+Ihate GooglePlus The inputs can be put into the game and it'll play just like in the video. No one is actually holding a controller and doing all that. I hope that makes sense.
Hairo Aguilera
Ooh. Yeah, I get it.
speed up i never went past 3 anything else is crazy.
4:15
ADELIKAT
Who's the anime chick in the beginning?
I'm getting dizzy watching this...
TAS Musical :D
Well, if I was taking meth I'd be able to dodge like that too!
NINJA SKILLS
"Sir, it seems they've only...sent one single ship after us."
"Haha! What chance could it have? BTW what's TAS?"
Tas I challenge you. Playing like that you play in every game. in games Five nights at freddy's and slander. That is if you have. Courage is of course
TAS is not a person. Also games like Five nights at freddie and slander are hard to make a TAS of because they can't be emulated.
9:00 in da bagina
난 스테이지 3 까지밖에 못갔는데. .ㅜㅜ 점수는 11만점. .
you don't seem to know lsd
hey tas you is real ? or is computer? why, is impossible no have human is can execut is moviments in the games
Eat at joes
I wish I can spin around 300 times if I was on a ship XD
like if agree
I hate that video quality.
hahahah this video is hilarious. fucking computers
Eso es trampa, debes intentarlo con el juego sin asistentes.
El objetivo es entretener NO mostrar que tan bueno es en el juego.
Cheat - Invincible
Nah it's just a tas, the ship has a small hitbox
Parece una mosca jajajajaja
more nes and snes videos!!!