MOTHER 3 in Under Six Hours

Wow. Can’t wait to find time to watch this. Good thing summer’s coming up.

6 hours? Just a 6? Holy cow, I struggle to keep my playthrough time under 26 hours let alone 6. Damn, is that really how much time I spend wandering around?

@MG:
Heh Summer… I almost roasted last Christmas because of that (just so you don’t get confused, Australia has the seasons are the other way to America, we’re getting snow up in the mountains right now)

Speed runs are always the best to watch. Just when you think you’ve seen the fastest run for a game another one comes by and beats that time. I’ll be sure to watch this soon! Looks interesting…

i can’t believe it….
thw whole game in a 6 hours video.
Epic.

I don’t really care for TAS runs just because they are TAS. For me, there is very little difference b/w TAS runs and “cheat runs” viz. teleporting to the end of the game with 99 stats and killing the final boss in under 10 minutes. Either way, you’re cheating. I prefer real no-cheat runs or runs that abuse a glitch in the original version of the game (e.g. the breadcrumb glitch run of Mother)

Let’s make a class-action lawsuit against YouTube. I think they are discriminating people registered from Jan. 1 2007, because they cannot upload videos longer that 11 minutes, even on Director account (YouTube says 10, but is acually 11).

Turns out you can’t sue somebody just for doing something you don’t like.

Whenever I hear of TAS, I always think of this Duck Hunt parody: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1936443
“The player is using a Game Genie!”
“We’ve dealt with that before.”
“Yeah, but he’s also got the gun right up to the screen!”
“He’s got the–! Aah, @%*! The game just started!!”

Haha, yeah that was hilarious! 😀

PK Saturn: I haven’t watched this video, but I think that Mother 3 is surprisingly robust. I haven’t heard anything about major glitches in the game. The only one I know of is that one map layering glitch that Mato pointed out in the past, but that doesn’t break the game at all. So this TAS is closer to a speed run, other than the luck manipulation in battles (though that just makes things a bit faster).

Hey Mato, just to let you know, this is the same TAS as the one you posted in the past: http://earthboundcentral.com/2010/04/mother-3-tool-assisted-speed-run/
This one just happens to be a single video instead of 35. The times are exactly the same; the titles of the two videos suggest slightly different times, but one of them is wrong.

College humor rocks. 😀 Awesome video, Ginrei!
As for the M3 playthrough, I haven’t watched that. I didn’t know youtube videos could be 6 hours long…

The actual finish time is 5:42:22.3.

This inspired me to do my own TAS end time 3 hours 23 minutes

3 hours 23 minutes would be impossible unless heavy glitching/sequence breaking, heavy early leveling or new game +.

As cool as it is to watch I don’t think I would like doing a speedrun. The game loses something for me when I rush through it. I haven’t done any TAS speedruns but I think it wouldn’t be as enjoyable playing especially for an RPG.

mato: do you have any ideas of what /might/ break when TAS-ing through the patched game?

I’m a little confused. Exactly what is a TAS speedrun? Is it just a speedrun that abuses glitches?

http://tasvideos.org/WelcomeToTASVideos.html

That’ll explain everything you need to know about Tool Assisted Speedruns.

This run hasn’t been submitted to TASVideos, by the way. Some people on the forum would like to see it submitted, but that’s really up to the original author.

@Kirby Phelps: TAS = Tool Assisted Speedrun.
It is basically a computer-generated speedrun, as in the computer’s playing the game.

@rcmero a computer doesn’t play the game. I kind of take offense since a computer didn’t spend 2 months+ on this. get your tas facts straight.

There’s one huge encoding error I just noticed. At the beginning of Chapter 4 right before Lucas goes in the tunnel there is one screen missing. I haven’t the foggiest what happened but I will make sure it doesn’t happen next time. It technically should be 10 seconds longer.

Holy Kraps!
This is the longest video I’ve ever seen in my whole life! But seriously, I can’t believe it is posible to complete MOTHER 3 in under 6 hours. Maybe a Guinnes World record…?

I don’t think there are Guiness World records for tas runs.

Only speedruns.

I can beat this game in 5 hours webnations!

And also i noticed this is more than 6 hours!
it is 6 hours and 5 minutes you liar!

Exclude the ending and you have 5 hours and 42 minutes.