Tool-assisted speedrun of Alien Carnage

Frenkel · 07-29-2011, 04:19 PM

There's a tool-assisted speedrun of Alien Carnage on TASVideos.org. Someone has finished all 4 episodes of that game in about 20 minutes.

Malvineous · 07-29-2011, 06:34 PM

Interesting! I'm not sure about the 20 minutes though, the game seems to run much faster than it's supposed to. I thought they sped it up to make the video shorter but it looks like they're counting that as the actual time.

Maybe they forgot to patch all 15 or so .exe files to fix the timing problem on fast PCs?

Frenkel · 07-30-2011, 10:13 AM

He used the freeware version that's on the 3D Realms FTP. It's possible to play the game at the same speed as in the video.

What patch do you mean? Is it an official Apogee patch?

Malvineous · 07-30-2011, 08:27 PM

Just had a look at the readme file in the 3DR download, it looks like the patch I was referring to (tppatch) has already been applied. The readme file in the patch mentioned that the delays could be a bit short on really fast computers, but then just trying the game again I completely forgot it has a 'turbo' mode. When you switch that on it runs at the same speed as the video :-$

07-29-2011, 04:19 PM	#1
Frenkel	Tool-assisted speedrun of Alien Carnage There's a tool-assisted speedrun of Alien Carnage on TASVideos.org. Someone has finished all 4 episodes of that game in about 20 minutes. __________________ Groeten van Frenkel Visit us at the Official S&F Prod. Homepage

07-29-2011, 06:34 PM	#2
Malvineous	Re: Tool-assisted speedrun of Alien Carnage Interesting! I'm not sure about the 20 minutes though, the game seems to run much faster than it's supposed to. I thought they sped it up to make the video shorter but it looks like they're counting that as the actual time. Maybe they forgot to patch all 15 or so .exe files to fix the timing problem on fast PCs?

07-30-2011, 10:13 AM	#3
Frenkel	Re: Tool-assisted speedrun of Alien Carnage He used the freeware version that's on the 3D Realms FTP. It's possible to play the game at the same speed as in the video. What patch do you mean? Is it an official Apogee patch? __________________ Groeten van Frenkel Visit us at the Official S&F Prod. Homepage

07-30-2011, 08:27 PM	#4
Malvineous	Re: Tool-assisted speedrun of Alien Carnage Just had a look at the readme file in the 3DR download, it looks like the patch I was referring to (tppatch) has already been applied. The readme file in the patch mentioned that the delays could be a bit short on really fast computers, but then just trying the game again I completely forgot it has a 'turbo' mode. When you switch that on it runs at the same speed as the video :-$