Mega Man X any% TAS comparison
Channel: amaureaLua
Date: 03/03/2012

This is a comparison video between the Mega Man X any% Tool-Assisted speedruns at tasvideos. The runs being compared are:
main: [725] SNES Mega Man X (USA V1.1) by FractalFusion in 29:57.88 (2006-12-02) http://tasvideos.org/725M.html
red: [300] SNES Mega Man X (USA v1.1) by DeHackEd in 30:43.92 (2005-02-26) http://tasvideos.org/300M.html
blue: [148] SNES Mega Man X (USA v1.1) by Wodball in 32:00.6 (2004-07-31) http://tasvideos.org/148M.html
green: [139] SNES Mega Man X (USA v1.1) by Frenom in 33:47.43 (2004-07-22) http://tasvideos.org/139M.html
orange: [120] SNES Mega Man X (USA v1.1) by Wodball in 34:48.42 (2004-07-15) http://tasvideos.org/120M.html

None of these are very recent, as you can see - the newest one is about 5 years old, and has significant room for improvement, but we are still waiting for an improved version to appear.

There are two rows of numbers at the top of the screen. The first one shows how many frames earlier the main TAS by FractalFusion arrived at the beginning of the current level than the others. If they had done the stages in the same order, this number could be interpreted as how far ahead FractalFusion is compared to the others, but since the stages are not done in the same order, this number isn't very useful until the Sigma stages are reached.

The second row shows the number of frames FractalFusion has gained on the others since the beginning of the current stage. This number is based on their horizontal position in the level, so it is only accurate in sections with mainly horizontal movement. So it is going to be garbare during boss battles, for example. Still, it is a nice way for seeing just where frames are gained or lost.

This comparison was made using a lua script for snes9x-rr. The lua script can be found here:
http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6539&start=210
And the emulator needed can be found here:
http://snes9x-rr.googlecode.com/files/snes9x-1.43-rerecording-svn146.zip