Since TASVideos began officially supporting arcade emulator speedruns, fighting games have received tons of attention from within their community. Probably the best one yet is a Z2A Dramatic Battle tool-assisted speedrun by error1 starring Rose and Dhalsim.
Arcade Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha in 03:19.0
Not only does he control two characters through two indpendent controllers, but also uses Dramatic Battle mode’s infinite super meter to connect multiple lvl3 supers and Custom Combos. Even though he’s fighting CPU opponents, a few of those combo setups get fairly elaborate.
Instead of aiming strictly for fastest completion times, he tries to demonstrate something new every round and focuses more on style. It’s consistently entertaining all the way through; definitely worth a look. Hopefully the fighting game TAS genre continues to develop because there’s clearly potential in it.
yes it should certainly set a standard for what to expect, but i hope TASers aren’t too intimidated…otherwise we won’t see too much at all, but if combo engineers can do one or two of these incredible TASs, that’s enough for me.
Wow that was absolutely mental. I loved the Akuma bit (reflecting the fireballs back) and the Dic resets.
I meant re-dizzies, not resets.
Nah i don’t think we have to worry about TASers getting intimidated. They’re a resilient bunch and they’re used to everything getting obsoleted eventually.
As long as their conception of style ends up compatible with ours, we’ll fine. But if they ever reach the conclusion that the best fighting game tactic of all time is a series of 3-hit combos broken up by one-frame gaps to avoid damage reduction, we are screwed.