[TAS] NES Faxanadu by Invariel in

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  • Опубликовано: 28 дек 2016
  • 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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Комментарии • 108

  • @adirblazkowics7717
    @adirblazkowics7717 6 лет назад +73

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

  • @Laurell_Silentshade
    @Laurell_Silentshade 5 лет назад +41

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

  • @alcala315
    @alcala315 5 лет назад +37

    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
      @omegasupreme5527 4 года назад +5

      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
      @alexandarjelenic2880 4 года назад +19

      Don’t have negative thoughts.

    • @fastrollasshole2663
      @fastrollasshole2663 3 года назад +5

      weird flex but ok

    • @khaimk4r4su
      @khaimk4r4su Год назад +4

      @@alexandarjelenic2880 i remember my mantra

  • @alexandarjelenic2880
    @alexandarjelenic2880 4 года назад +21

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

  • @JayLeePoe
    @JayLeePoe 3 года назад +17

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

    • @LeoStaley
      @LeoStaley 3 года назад +5

      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
      @scaf_007vs3 2 года назад +1

      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
      @JuddMan03 2 года назад +1

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

  • @brenkrasmer
    @brenkrasmer 7 лет назад +29

    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
      @trunkmonkey81 5 лет назад +3

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

    • @adamnilsson566
      @adamnilsson566 4 года назад +2

      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
      @discobunny4eva759 3 года назад

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

    • @AboveEmAllProduction
      @AboveEmAllProduction 2 года назад

      Your grandmother had a nes? Wat

  • @guardiane
    @guardiane 4 года назад +8

    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."

  • @clementdubet6353
    @clementdubet6353 4 года назад +8

    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.

  • @Hemestal
    @Hemestal 2 года назад +3

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

  • @keithstone001
    @keithstone001 3 года назад +2

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

  • @LampreyKisses
    @LampreyKisses 4 года назад +11

    TFW you have negative thoughts and forget your mantra.

  • @JoLiKMC
    @JoLiKMC 5 лет назад +8

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

    • @cybertron851975
      @cybertron851975 4 года назад +2

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

  • @Illgaia
    @Illgaia 3 года назад +9

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

    • @lordlouie3550
      @lordlouie3550 3 года назад

      Later builds of the game made the font more readable.

    • @brenkrasmer
      @brenkrasmer 3 года назад

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

    • @TruthTroop
      @TruthTroop 2 года назад +2

      Me and my friend said Nello for years after that.

  • @trashstratum
    @trashstratum 2 года назад +3

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

  • @dm.6133
    @dm.6133 2 года назад +3

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

  • @robertmatthews9650
    @robertmatthews9650 5 лет назад +9

    The guy selling keys looks like Bill Murray

    • @dewidiot79
      @dewidiot79 5 лет назад +1

      Robert Matthews I’ve always thought that!

  • @DarkOrderSolDjango
    @DarkOrderSolDjango 7 лет назад +9

    My favorite NES game :D

  • @LibertyPrime0256
    @LibertyPrime0256 2 года назад +6

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

  • @gospelli-zando3880
    @gospelli-zando3880 3 года назад +5

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

  • @GameOver-nj6qe
    @GameOver-nj6qe 5 лет назад +10

    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
      @MiTBender Год назад

      m.ruclips.net/video/eNhOIlNt-hs/видео.html

  • @teckworks
    @teckworks 6 лет назад +13

    Thank god you had enough golds.

    • @Terkzorr
      @Terkzorr 5 лет назад +1

      He sure used lot of key as well.

    • @zophar1
      @zophar1 Год назад

      Well, Nello to you too!

  • @JoeFpoc
    @JoeFpoc 3 года назад +2

    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

  • @LeoStaley
    @LeoStaley 3 года назад +5

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

    • @Invariel
      @Invariel 3 года назад +11

      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
      @LeoStaley 3 года назад +1

      @@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
      @Invariel 3 года назад +4

      @@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.

  • @DemureDave
    @DemureDave Год назад

    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!

  • @sporedoutofmymind
    @sporedoutofmymind 3 года назад +2

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

  • @chriswinkler284
    @chriswinkler284 3 года назад +1

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

  • @drayenomg
    @drayenomg 4 года назад +2

    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
      @kingk4882 2 года назад

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

    • @WhyDidntIInventYT
      @WhyDidntIInventYT 2 года назад

      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.

  • @DarkOrderSolDjango
    @DarkOrderSolDjango 7 лет назад +4

    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
      @Invariel 7 лет назад +4

      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.

  • @TabbzManiaGaming
    @TabbzManiaGaming 2 года назад +1

    Man completed the game with a shiv

  • @kevinlopezobrien5366
    @kevinlopezobrien5366 3 года назад +2

    All the NPCs have an eyelash stuck in their eyes.

  • @TabooRevolution13
    @TabooRevolution13 Год назад

    Amazing

  • @proaudio55
    @proaudio55 3 года назад

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

    • @Invariel
      @Invariel 3 года назад +5

      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.

  • @wse33
    @wse33 4 года назад +4

    This musics smacks

  • @metalmania3230
    @metalmania3230 4 года назад +1

    Nice glitch,even the sound is freqking out lol

  • @demoskunk
    @demoskunk 3 года назад +2

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

    • @LeoStaley
      @LeoStaley 3 года назад

      He was exploiting a glitch using his emulator.

    • @Invariel
      @Invariel 3 года назад +3

      @@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.

  • @larsenrobert3
    @larsenrobert3 4 года назад +1

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

  • @user-qq6oy3um1p
    @user-qq6oy3um1p 3 года назад

    Nice game faxenado

  • @dancrowdus
    @dancrowdus Год назад

    TASBot is free from injury because of the ointment

  • @gforce365
    @gforce365 7 месяцев назад

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

  • @manny7318
    @manny7318 4 года назад

    Maaaaatlooooock!

  • @youBrakeIHonk
    @youBrakeIHonk 3 года назад

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

    • @lapthom
      @lapthom 3 года назад

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

    • @youBrakeIHonk
      @youBrakeIHonk 3 года назад

      @@lapthom mystery solved!!!

  • @menswear2112
    @menswear2112 4 года назад +1

    That ointment is serious shit.

  • @Ragesauce
    @Ragesauce 5 лет назад

    That's one big fucking tree!

  • @makotroid108
    @makotroid108 3 года назад +1

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

    • @Invariel
      @Invariel 3 года назад +1

      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
      @makotroid108 3 года назад

      @@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
      @Invariel 3 года назад +1

      @@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.

  • @darkngel012
    @darkngel012 Год назад

    Good

  • @Azarath304
    @Azarath304 7 лет назад

    was this before Zelda 2?

    • @DarkOrderSolDjango
      @DarkOrderSolDjango 7 лет назад

      I think it was after, why do you ask ?

    • @Azarath304
      @Azarath304 7 лет назад

      DarkOrderSolDjango just wondering, how about castlevania?

    • @DarkOrderSolDjango
      @DarkOrderSolDjango 7 лет назад +1

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

    • @uljk5699
      @uljk5699 4 года назад

      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.

  • @PrivateOGITH
    @PrivateOGITH 5 лет назад +1

    god D@M That was Fast...

  • @cedricsalentiny959
    @cedricsalentiny959 3 года назад +2

    they have well change the dwarfs 😁

  • @DrewPicklesTheDark
    @DrewPicklesTheDark 5 лет назад +8

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

  • @drakdragon
    @drakdragon 7 лет назад +2

    12:23 What the hell?

    • @Invariel
      @Invariel 7 лет назад +12

      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
      @drakdragon 7 лет назад

      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
      @Invariel 7 лет назад

      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.

  • @XanthinZarda
    @XanthinZarda 7 лет назад +7

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

    • @JoLiKMC
      @JoLiKMC 5 лет назад +1

      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
      @pyrobison2002 4 года назад +3

      This is an outstanding ost

  • @ecozones2d627
    @ecozones2d627 Год назад

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

  • @nintendojoe2958
    @nintendojoe2958 Год назад

    Thanks for cheapening a childhood accomplishment!!! 😄

  • @Qvmmy
    @Qvmmy 7 лет назад +4

    final boss look so lame

    • @DarkOrderSolDjango
      @DarkOrderSolDjango 7 лет назад

      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
      @Qvmmy 7 лет назад +1

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

    • @LeoStaley
      @LeoStaley 3 года назад

      Not even a dragon WTF

  • @Avrelivs_Gold
    @Avrelivs_Gold Год назад

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

  • @123TauruZ321
    @123TauruZ321 Год назад

    The music in this game is bad.

  • @masterwu7784
    @masterwu7784 4 года назад +1

    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
      @LeoStaley 3 года назад +4

      One of the best games on the system.

  • @TabbzManiaGaming
    @TabbzManiaGaming 2 года назад

    Bro you using some hacks or something this ain’t this easy lol