[TAS] NES Faxanadu by Invariel in

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7 жыл бұрын

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/3297M
TAS originally published on 2016-12-29
In comparison to the usual run-through platform games, this is one of the games that requires more planning to play efficiently.
The game features an inventory and equipment and a spells system, all of which were rare to see in NES games when this game came out.
This is the 4th published version of the TAS, now 00:16.71 seconds faster than the previous version.
The author has written comments ( tasvideos.org/5338S ) describing all the planning and tricks that went into this movie.
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This movie has a full Atlas Map encode ( • Faxanadu (Any% TAS) 🌲 ... ), which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.

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@adirblazkowics7717 6 жыл бұрын

"But you need the dragon slayer!" "Nah, I got this knife I bought from some warehouse back at home."

@Laurell_Silentshade 5 жыл бұрын

Before there was the uncanny valley of Bethesda NPC staring, there was the epileptic blinking NPCs of Faxanadu.

@alcala315 5 жыл бұрын

I played and beat this game when I was a kid. The music the adventure was something I will never forget. Now I’m married with Children and full of bills and credit card debt.

@omegasupreme5527 4 жыл бұрын

Man, you need to drop that habit. Credit cards are a fools game. They're as bad as those check into cash places or the instant payday ones.

@alexandarjelenic2880 4 жыл бұрын

Don’t have negative thoughts.

@fastrollasshole2663 3 жыл бұрын

weird flex but ok

@khaimk4r4su Жыл бұрын

@@alexandarjelenic2880 i remember my mantra

@alexandarjelenic2880 4 жыл бұрын

I recall grinding the start to buy death magic early on.

@JayLeePoe 3 жыл бұрын

_it is just crazy how much of these levels and of this game I have never forgotten_

@LeoStaley 3 жыл бұрын

I replayed it a few weeks ago after having put it down for 25 years, and I still remembered every single next screen. Wild.

@scaf_007vs3 2 жыл бұрын

I agree.. whats bullshit is how gamers do their best to bypass any and every challenge the game was designed to display. If I wanted a video of a way to cheat the programming I'd ask for it.. sorry but this just isn't for me

@JuddMan03 2 жыл бұрын

@@scaf_007vs3 It's a TAS. finding ways around the programming is the whole point of it.

@brenkrasmer 7 жыл бұрын

I remember playing this game on my grandmother's NES, for the longest time... and I had to keep re-starting because the 'mantras' that you get from the churches were so long and random, I could never write them down and still be able to read them later...

@trunkmonkey81 5 жыл бұрын

This was so dang hard for a 7 year old...I don't think I made it past the first few areas...

@adamnilsson566 4 жыл бұрын

I played it on my older brother’s NES when I was around 7 I guess, and there was a period when I managed to memorize the whole mantra to get to the last church with all the gear.

@discobunny4eva759 3 жыл бұрын

Me too. Never saw the rest of this game until today.

@AboveEmAllProduction 2 жыл бұрын

Your grandmother had a nes? Wat

@guardiane 4 жыл бұрын

The King's end quote should apply to all TAS enthusiasts. "Oh you're already off to master your next game? What a restless guy."

@keithstone001 3 жыл бұрын

I will never tire of watching tas wreck game from my childhood good show.

@Hemestal 2 жыл бұрын

Its kinda funny how your guy just peaces out casually after just saving two whole civilizations from a cataclysm.

@LampreyKisses 4 жыл бұрын

TFW you have negative thoughts and forget your mantra.

@trashstratum 2 жыл бұрын

This game took me almost 2 years to beat. Crazy to see it done in 23mins

@clementdubet6353 4 жыл бұрын

A dude come from nowhere, he talk to a king and a priest. He smash the devil's head, and leave the town bored to be a hero.

@JoLiKMC 5 жыл бұрын

"Don't have negative thoughts." Okay, _"Oddball!"_

@cybertron851975 4 жыл бұрын

Josephine Lithius why don’t you knock it off with those negative waves??!!

@Illgaia 3 жыл бұрын

I can't help but see "Nello, I sell tools."

@lordlouie3550 3 жыл бұрын

Later builds of the game made the font more readable.

@brenkrasmer 3 жыл бұрын

Same. Same. Even after seeing the difference between H and N on screen at the same time barely dispelled the illusion. Nello.

@TruthTroop 2 жыл бұрын

Me and my friend said Nello for years after that.

@dm.6133 2 жыл бұрын

Man that's the longest ointment ever. And he did it on sandals 😮

@robertmatthews9650 5 жыл бұрын

The guy selling keys looks like Bill Murray

@dewidiot79 5 жыл бұрын

Robert Matthews I’ve always thought that!

@gospelli-zando3880 3 жыл бұрын

Great performance! It took me much more than 23 minutes to finish it myself.

@FoxxMulderr 2 жыл бұрын

Gee, you think?

@GameOver-nj6qe 5 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite soundtracks for the NES. Did anybody count the total key changes? I bet there would be a lot. :P Great speedrun, thank you!

@MiTBender Жыл бұрын

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@DarkOrderSolDjango 7 жыл бұрын

My favorite NES game :D

@JoeFpoc 3 жыл бұрын

I rented this game a bunch. Loved the style and gameplay but never had any idea what to do or where to go. Figured i would just watch a playthrough instead of attempting it

@LibertyPrime0256 2 жыл бұрын

Ugh...those goddamned mantras. The autosave generation doesn't realize how good they have it.

@teckworks 6 жыл бұрын

Thank god you had enough golds.

@Terkzorr 5 жыл бұрын

He sure used lot of key as well.

@zophar1 Жыл бұрын

Well, Nello to you too!

@chriswinkler284 3 жыл бұрын

The music toward the end sounds like a lost Mega Man track :P

@DemureDave Жыл бұрын

The music wasn't taking it too well with the glitches being used. At least that was the only thing impacted by it. This was fun to watch!

@drayenomg 4 жыл бұрын

I loved this game as a kid, I didn't even understand english I just tried whatever got me further... I got blocked in the final area as I somehow couldn't find the last boss... Felt like the area looped, but I see none of this in here. Good job!

@kingk4882 2 жыл бұрын

The final area is like a maze and indeed loops when you take the wrong directions 😉

@WhyDidntIInventYT 2 жыл бұрын

yes, the final dungeon is a maze, and you need to find the correct path. I'm impressed you made it so far without reading any text, since the NPCs give you crucial hints for progression.

@LeoStaley 3 жыл бұрын

Wait. Is this a bug exploitation that makes the ointment and wing shoes permanent together??

@Invariel 3 жыл бұрын

Not permanent, per se. There's a timer that, whenever it hits 0, 64, 128, or 192, causes the Ointment, Wing Boots, Gloves, and Hourglass to tick down by one second. By pausing one frame before and unpausing one frame after, the code that counts down is skipped, letting the four items persist longer than they should. The RTA runners use it as well, to extend their own Wing Boots timers, and Tundra in particular, has recently (within the past few months) started extending Ointment.

@LeoStaley 3 жыл бұрын

@@Invariel so since this a is a tas, why does he bother ever getting more than the first pair of wing boots? Don't they take more time to get? Or does the time lost by the constant pausing make it worth it to let it expire?

@Invariel 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeoStaley Dying strategically is much faster than returning to the branch-off point. For example, I take a death after getting the Black Onyx; it's MUCH faster to take a death there and warp back to town, equip, and use a new pair of Wing Boots than to travel all the way back.

@wse33 4 жыл бұрын

This musics smacks

@pyrobison2002 4 жыл бұрын

The best

@TabooRevolution13 Жыл бұрын

Amazing

@sporedoutofmymind 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone blinks in this game like they're having problems with their contacts

@metalmania3230 4 жыл бұрын

Nice glitch,even the sound is freqking out lol

@TabbzManiaGaming 2 жыл бұрын

Man completed the game with a shiv

@proaudio55 3 жыл бұрын

Pardon my ignorance... @0:16 it says "rerecord count: 25859" ... what does that mean?

@Invariel 3 жыл бұрын

A TAS is a series of inputs, broken down by frame. When you play it back, it's like a player piano: it reads what it's supposed to do on frame one, then on frame two, and so forth. A re-record is when you edit an earlier section of the file to change inputs; you "record again" from a known starting point. TL;DR, I went back and corrected myself 25859 times in the file that I submitted. If memory serves, that was revision 11, so there were ten previous files whose work I learned from, whose rerecord counts are not counted.

@kevinlopezobrien5366 3 жыл бұрын

All the NPCs have an eyelash stuck in their eyes.

@larsenrobert3 4 жыл бұрын

You beat the game only with a dagger.... I need to practice more :)

@user-qq6oy3um1p 3 жыл бұрын

Nice game faxenado

@menswear2112 4 жыл бұрын

That ointment is serious shit.

@Ragesauce 5 жыл бұрын

That's one big fucking tree!

@youBrakeIHonk 3 жыл бұрын

The tree at the end... is ALARMINGLY large...

@lapthom 3 жыл бұрын

Well, you basically spent most of the game climbing around in it, so there.

@youBrakeIHonk 3 жыл бұрын

@@lapthom mystery solved!!!

@manny7318 4 жыл бұрын

Maaaaatlooooock!

@DarkOrderSolDjango 7 жыл бұрын

Let me tell you some stuff about the game: If you are wondering why he go outside of town and come back it's because some ennemies drop are RNG based, you can double hit an ennemy when you are very close to it and it's very simple to do. When you have enough experience and see a priest you will earn a title, depending of your title when you die and continue you'll start again with more gold, he died at the beginning because it replenish your health and magic and you get the ring without having to travel to the church and since he had no title he respawned with 0 gold, on the second death he respawned with 500 gold wich is what he needed in order to buy the key he need. There is a bugged item in the game that was supposed to increase your strength but it actually does the opposite, if you check youtube you will find a mantra (password) that will let you play with items that was supposed to be in the game but they did not in the final version, so they do nothing but it's always cool to find stuff like that.

@Invariel 7 жыл бұрын

You might find it interesting to read my author's commentary at TASVideos. It builds upon Lord Tom's author's commentary (which you can reach by looking at the obsoleted publication), and there's also a Game Resources page which delves into some of the nitty gritty about how the game works.

@dancrowdus Жыл бұрын

TASBot is free from injury because of the ointment

@darkngel012 Жыл бұрын

Good

@demoskunk 3 жыл бұрын

What's up with the music cutting in and out? It's super-annoying.

@LeoStaley 3 жыл бұрын

He was exploiting a glitch using his emulator.

@Invariel 3 жыл бұрын

@@LeoStaley No, I was exploiting a glitch that can be done on console. There's an internal timer that on values 0, 64, 128, and 192, reduces the item timers by 1, causing them to inevitably disappear. If you pause before that value and unpause after the value, it cuts the music briefly but also causes the item timers to not count down. It's done in RTA.

@cedricsalentiny959 3 жыл бұрын

they have well change the dwarfs 😁

@PrivateOGITH 5 жыл бұрын

god D@M That was Fast...

@kenneyblanton6080 Жыл бұрын

Watch it at 2x speed like I did 🤣🤣

@gforce365 7 ай бұрын

And how was I supposed to know to do all this when I was 9?

@XanthinZarda 7 жыл бұрын

I dig this soundtrack. _All_ of what _could be done wrong_ with the NES soundchip, all rolled into one cacophony.

@JoLiKMC 5 жыл бұрын

That's mean, dude. This is one of my all-time favorite 2A03 soundtracks. But, to each their own. Then again, if you're talking about 12:23, then yeah. Just a tad bit glitchy, that.

@pyrobison2002 4 жыл бұрын

This is an outstanding ost

@Azarath304 7 жыл бұрын

was this before Zelda 2?

@DarkOrderSolDjango 7 жыл бұрын

I think it was after, why do you ask ?

@Azarath304 7 жыл бұрын

DarkOrderSolDjango just wondering, how about castlevania?

@DarkOrderSolDjango 7 жыл бұрын

Azarath Dragoneel Castlevania came first, Faxanadu was a very late NES game if I remember right, hence why the graphics is better.

@uljk5699 4 жыл бұрын

According to Wikipedia, Faxanadu was released later in 1987 while Zelda 2 was released earlier the same year, so no. However the original _Dragon Slayer II: Xanadu_ was released on 1985.

@makotroid108 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine being a townsfolk and dudeman jumps 8 feet over your head.

@Invariel 3 жыл бұрын

That was a stylistic choice that accidentally led to the jump at the very beginning of the game. There's an invisible person-sized hitbox there that, if triggered, makes 12 seconds of text happen.

@makotroid108 3 жыл бұрын

@@Invariel I've never had any luck doing the text skip when I was trying to learn any%. Seems to be a tight window. Either way, a cool bit of history there!

@Invariel 3 жыл бұрын

@@makotroid108 RTA runners build up speed by running to the left and sometimes jumping before switching to run to the right; the way it's presented in the TAS is "incredibly precise" (there's a minimum speed that you need to hit in order to make the jump, and then your jump arc has to clear the person rectangle), but at higher speeds it should be easier and offer more freedom.

@DrewPicklesTheDark 5 жыл бұрын

lol old Nintendo, where a guy smoking was ok but a cross was serious business and needed to be censored.

@drakdragon 7 жыл бұрын

12:23 What the hell?

@Invariel 7 жыл бұрын

Two things: 1) Extending the wing boots and ointment timers require that specific frames not register player input, or otherwise not be playable. By pausing around those specific frames the wing boots and ointment are extended, but they cause the distorted audio that you hear. 2) The Guru only needs to be talked to for one frame after his textbox appears in order to register that Guru as a death warp point, which is why I go through the trouble of walking over there in the first place.

@drakdragon 7 жыл бұрын

Haha, that's pretty wicked that it would actually glitch the audio like that. Neat run though, I remember playing this game when I was a kid and getting my ass handed to me by it until I sat down and really plowed through it. I never noticed until I watched the TAS about getting money from your title though. I like how at the end of your run that dialog box pops up about the power of the ointment disappearing, makes me think he's walking and looks up to the sky and sees the ghost of a smiling tiger balm salesman in the clouds or something.

@Invariel 7 жыл бұрын

The ointment actually times out automatically when you enter King Grieve's room. Fortunately, the frame counter isn't at 63 at that point, so I can pause around it and keep the ointment going until the King's throne room. Incidentally, the Wing Boots timer is at 3 for much of the last part of the run, and it counts down to 0 but doesn't count down again in the throne room.

@nintendojoe2958 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for cheapening a childhood accomplishment!!! 😄

@ecozones2d627 Жыл бұрын

Why he sometimes enter a room and the indians exist and reenter?. I guess it's for gold

@Qvmmy 7 жыл бұрын

final boss look so lame

@DarkOrderSolDjango 7 жыл бұрын

He is lame, but in order to reach it you have to figure out the maze, wich is like in the forest in Legend of Zelda, up left down left in Zelda, but for Faxanadu I don't know.

@Qvmmy 7 жыл бұрын

still dont change its lame but dragon boss look good and look like agumon

@LeoStaley 3 жыл бұрын

Not even a dragon WTF

@Avrelivs_Gold Жыл бұрын

This is what gaming used to be. Only complete dorks and losers could survive.

@masterwu7784 4 жыл бұрын

I remember the name of the game........ Remember the Nintendo power issue, remember wanting to play the game but never did. Um, looks like garbage truck juice to me. But I'm still glad to see it tho lol

@LeoStaley 3 жыл бұрын

One of the best games on the system.