TASBot Re: Gradius is the first video in the TASBot Revisited series where the history of how TAS runs were pitched (and how Gradius desynced) at AGDQ 2014. See the full uncut presentation of    • TASBot HD Gradius any% - AGDQ 2014 (T...   and check out https://TAS.bot/wiki/AGDQ_2014 for more details.

TASBot's very first run at a charity event was on January 5th, 2014 at AGDQ 2014 playing adelikat's TAS of Gradius with two console verification TAS replay attempts on a real console using true's NES/SNES replay device held in TASBot's hands. This TASBot Re: presentation is an opportunity to provide context around past charity event runs with full attribution of the TAS authors and presenters that helped make it all happen and the challenges the TASBot team faced.

This run of Gradius by TAS author adelikat was shown at Awesome Games Done Quick 2014 benefiting the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Please update the TASBot wiki page for this run at https://TAS.Bot/wiki/AGDQ_2014 with any missing attribution or other run details; the wiki entry also includes historical original resolution video links.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:38 TAS at GDQ?
2:09 The first working replay device by Jaku
3:00 New replay devices by micro500 and true
3:49 The birth of TASBot
4:26 First presentation jitters
5:22 Why did Gradius desync?
5:57 Conclusion

TASBot Re: Gradius (TASBot Revisited episode 1)
TAS Author - Adelikat
Lead - dwangoAC
Presenters - dwangoAC, micro500, Weatherton, TheGreekBrit
Video Editing - Spooey
TASBot Opening - CraftedCart
Outro Graphics - DrD2k9, Briar
End Credits - Reisama
Thumbnail - Pepman
TASBot theme music - JohnGabrielUK, WhimsyHeath
World's first replay device - Jaku
Seaman Gameplay - KilobyteKeith,Level Breakers
NES/SNES Replay Device - true
NESBot - micro500
Super Mario Bros. TAS - HappyLee
Wizards & Warriors III played on NESBot at SGDQ 2011 - DarkKobold, Speedgame Main Marathon History
TASVideos Founder - Bisqwit

Nintendo Entertainment System Gradius Tool-Assisted Speedrun by adelikat, author notes at https://tasvideos.org/1324S and published on TASVideos at https://tasvideos.org/711M with this description: "In this run, adelikat picks up maximum speed upgrades and has fun with perfect reflexes, much like the previous movie. That is certainly something nice to do, because the game scrolls automatically and the player cannot affect the speed. However, the point of this movie is not just to beat this game as fast as possible, but rather to do all kinds of unpredictable and awe-inspiring things rarely seen in any TAS — without losing time. See for yourself.
This is probably one of the best illustrations on how to create art out of a simplistic and otherwise uninteresting game to watch. What is also different about this movie is an extra warp which significantly shortens the game, and the use of a new tool (input macro) as described in the submission text. Bots are occasionally used to generate pseudorandom input while still avoiding death."

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All Games Done Quick charity event content used with permission. All TASVideos.org content used with permission under CC-BY-2.0 licensing (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

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