[TAS] Marble Blast Gold - Beginner Levels by DomTurchi in

The second installation of scripted beginner TASes! Fully brought to you by DomTurchi.
For the uninitiated, Tool Assisted Speedruns are usually created frame by frame with TASers usually utilizing save states to optimize their movements or force the game’s RNG in their favor. As Marble Blast does not have any such tools available, custom scripting tools were developed by HiGuy in order to execute frame perfect camera & marble inputs through a scripting tool. The tool then converts the script into the game's internal .rec format for playback in-game.
DomTurchi improved 22 out of the 24 levels from the last compilation, utilizing all new tech found throughout 2021, and demonstrating not only full-blown optimization but showcasing how far the community's runners have gone to optimize this game.
Additional TAS information:
- While all recordings will play in a vanilla Marble Blast Gold, all of these were recorded on the community used Framerate Unlocker modification by Derpking (which lets the game run at 1000fps), and a small mod to the game to show the game's third decimal place.
- Minimum allowed FPS is 30 and used in Platform Training, Marble Materials Lab and Platform Party. This is a community accepted minimum. Mid-run frame rate drops were also utilized in Gyrocopter, Time Trial, Super Bounce & Tornado Bowl.
- All techniques (except banned glitches such as Screenshot Glitch) that are used can be found at: marbleblast.co...
- Note from DomTurchi: While natural jumping on the start pad slope was found by m@s, I feel it is a bit disingenuous to give him sole credit for this as a start. Not only because its usefulness was first discovered by DKman00 and improved by Xelna on Super Bounce, but also because there are many different variations and applications of natural jumping that conflict with other start discoveries made by the community. The below “Timestamps and path/tweak credits” section will thus be void of any slope tweak credits, and instead label the start for the techniques used in the TAS (NSJ = Natural Slope Jump, NJ = Natural Jump, and NB = Natural Bounce). Combinations of starts will be labeled with a forward slash, so, for example, NSJ/NJ is a natural slope jump followed immediately by a natural jump (the tweak found by m@s).
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Timestamps/Credits:
0:00 - Learning to Roll | dushine
0:07 - Collect the Gems | Sceptus, tweaks by Cobalt & DomTurchi (NSJ/NB)
0:21 - Jump Training | Edge hit tweak by Xelna (NSJ)
0:31 - Learn the Super Jump | DKman00
0:39 - Platform Training | N/A
0:50 - Learn the Super Speed | Finish sign tweak by Xelna (NSJ/NB)
0:59 - Elevator | dushine
1:08 - Air Movement | Xelna (NSJ/NB)
1:17 - Gyrocopter | NSJ/NB
1:25 - Time Trial | NSJ/NJ
1:36 - Super Bounce | NSJ/NB
1:44 - Gravity Helix | NSJ/NJ
1:55 - Shock Absorber | Start tweak by Regislian
2:04 - There and Back Again | Xelna (NSJ/NB)
2:17 - Marble Materials Lab | Tweaks by Xelna & Nature Freak (NSJ/NJ)
2:27 - Bumper Training | DKman00 (NSJ/NB)
2:35 - Breezeway | Sign hit tweaks by Xelna & DomTurchi (NSJ/NJ)
2:43 - Mine Field | dushine (NSJ)
2:51 - Trapdoors! | Trapdoor edge hit tweak by Xelna (NSJ/NJ)
3:05 - Tornado Bowl | NSJ/NB
3:22 - Pitfalls | MBU community, tweaks by Kasper & DomTurchi
3:37 - Platform Party | dushine
3:49 - Winding Road | Edge hit tweak by Cobalt
4:04 - Grand Finale | Kasper, tweaks by Kalle29 and Cobalt
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Music:
Lonely Rolling Star (Katamari Damacy) | Video Game Remixes
• Katamari Damacy - Lone...
Racing Sport Rock | Infraction
• Racing Sport Rock by I...

[@HappyTreeX1]

Absolutely beautiful. i love every bit of this. Especially seeing a sub 6 Platform Party done in vanilla MBG.

[@HiGuyMB]

Insane runs. I'm super impressed with all the work DomTurchi put into making these, and the result is amazing. Hype!

[@HyranAU]

It’s insane how close the RTA records are to some of these TAS runs. Awesome stuff!

[@djtiii]

For a brief period, a few of my old TASes were beaten by RTA records because of the new start that was found. Definitely some incredible runners in this community.

[@HyranAU]

@@djtiii That’s insanity. It just goes to show what a die hard community can do to a game, even a game with a simple design concept like this one.

[@MazikMB]

I cannot get enough of the 2nd song jesus christ
It'll be scary to see how much these levels will be pushed at future dates in RTA. Excellent work, and I can't wait to see the upcoming Advanced TAS compilation you and HTX have planned :)

[@Xelna]

nice run

[@ithinkimightabandonthischa8747]

tas mbg is always fun to watch considering how difficult and precise some of this stuff is!

[@Doomblah]

Absolutely unbelievable how much Natural Jumps destroyed all these levels. GG!

[@ralphmarbler27]

I love how Platform Party gets annihilated like that.

[@ItzJeanMB]

I've been looking for the name of the 2nd song for a while now, great stuff

[@powerjohn25]

Awesome work Dom!
BTW who edit this? Matan or Nockess?

[@djtiii]

Me :)

[@Nockess]

dom me dom