Abe's Oddysee PSX TAS

[JennyGenesis]

You might remember a while back that I posted a 100% TAS of the PSX Version of AO, a new TAS has just been released this time with the focus on beating the game as quickly as possible. It's still impressive!

[SgabbitGabbiar]

omfg ! it's the best game player of the world ! xD

PS: but TAS is a program for the emulators that can do this ?

[Glitch]

Very impressive. It's a testament to Oddworld that people are still doing speed runs of it's games.

[Wil]

I too enjoy getting Abe's Oddysee over and done with as quickly as possible.

[Crashpunk]

That is very impressive indeed. I love the tricks he pulled off. The timing was perfect.

[Nath]

I'm still in Escape from Rupture Farms after 40 minute (and that's me speed running it)

[Wil]

It's a TAS, you can pretend all those times you died you didn't die.

[jumper]

Eugh, I feel the compulsion to actually tell everyone what a TAS actually is >_>

[Crashpunk]

Tool Assisted Speedrun.

[DarkHoodness]

I want to see one where they save 99 Mudokons. Doesn't doing it with tools sort of defeat the purpose anyway?

[Manco]

Tool Assisted Speedrun.

You helped him?

I’m so sorry

[JennyGenesis]

I want to see one where they save 99 Mudokons. Doesn't doing it with tools sort of defeat the purpose anyway?

It's great entertainment,

Can you imagine do that flawlessly without tools?

[DarkHoodness]

There are speedruns out there that are done without tools - Which is much more of a testament to skill than those that use them. This is one example, as far as I'm aware.

[JennyGenesis]

It's just an entertainment thing,

Tool assisted runs are just more entertaining to watch because you can see some people pill off some really crazy things.

[Mudokon_Master]

Sounds good to me.

[jumper]

TAS's are meant for entertainment purposes, not to show skill. It's not the equivalent of a person playing the game, and then if they mess up, doing something again. The game is normally played using thousands of save-states and often played frame-by-frame to make everything perfect.

[JennyGenesis]

If you watch that video, a rerecord count is displayed,

I really do not have the patience to do a TAS.

[STM]

Maaan, but that guy cheated. I do not approve.

[Phylum]

TAS

TAS

TAS

TAS

Tool Assisted Speedrun.

TAS

TAS

Fuck's sake.

[jumper]

I don't understand...

[Phylum]

I'm making it perfectly clear to him that if he'd read the thread he'd know it's a TAS.

[STM]

I don't know what a TAS is.

[JennyGenesis]

Tool assisted speedrun.

Which means he used save states and played the game at a very low frame rate to achieve what you saw.

[Crashpunk]

How do you make a save state on Oddysee! I've wanted to do that for ages!

[JennyGenesis]

Save States on the emulator.

[Crashpunk]

I can never get the ePSXe emulator to work. I have no idea what to do with the Plug-ins.

[JennyGenesis]

A simple Google search will find you a .rar file with ePSXe all configured with the plugins,

Or just use pSX which I found to be a much better emulator.

[Phylum]

We should stop talking about emulators. I think there's a rule about it.

Do you mean PCSX, Jenny?

[JennyGenesis]

Ummm, whats wrong with talking about emulators?

The TAS was clearly performed on one,

Anyway, this is the emulator I was on about, not PCSX

http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/