DOS Prince of Persia TAS -

[@jpa3974]

Holy shit. You spoke more words during the narration of this speedrun than I have spoken in the last 8 months.

[@jonaskoelker]

Runner says the script is ~3500 words. Spread over 8 months, that'd be 462.5 per month, ~15.4 per day or ~1 per waking hour. May I suggest you get out more? ;-)

[@V-for-Vendetta01]

@@jonaskoelker r/woooosh

[@sean.durham999]

I feel like I need to smoke some meth just to keep up.

[@dabbasw31]

Yes. The text "with commentary" in the video title is definitely no clickbait.🙂

[@lechatnoir8635]

I'm sure the commentary is tool-assisted. Unbelievable!

[@ZenoPopo]

dude, your commentary is so perfect I can listen to it for hours, even though you talk so fast I can't even keep up with you, and end up not even knowing what am I listening to.

[@countyama1305]

Top 10 rappers Eminem was too afraid to diss.

[@joemyk]

TAS: Tool Assisted Speakrun

[@poida1674]

I'd swear you're race horse commentator, spot on and never missing a thing, fantastic job.

[@The86MLK]

Game manual: using practice mode will reduce your timer to 15 minutes, thus making the game unwinnable Speedrunner: hold my potion

[@Tama23]

Both a speedrun and a speed-reading! Great work!

[@mand0123]

Make more videos please. You are excellent.

[@DavidXNewton]

Thanks! I'll try :)

[@albertcloete2991]

I'm trying to imagine my 6 year old self watching someone finish this game in 14 minutes.

[@DavidXNewton]

Hah, me too - I spent the whole hour trying to get across the gap back from the sword in the first level

[@riftvallance2087]

I enjoyed the breathless audio commentary

[@liquidmetalrob]

David X. Newton and Prince of Persia, always a winning combination!

[@Foopy64]

excellent video

[@atknoell3]

This video was amazing, good job. Gotta love the tas arts.

[@briandemodulated]

Great video! Absolutely laden with information. I loved watching this.

[@eviliraqi]

this is incredible.

[@Seventeen_Seconds]

Hey I've been smashing the DGC on podcast during lockdown and was hoping there would be an official KZbin channel. Great work absolutely awesome commentary

[@chillseekerthechillseeker]

Very entertaining video and commentary. Good stuff!

[@youuuuuuuuuuutube]

LOL this is a speed run in play and in commentary, great job.

[@SonataFanatica]

My favourite Prince of Persia fan has made a new video on Prince of Persia! That TAS was awesome!! Now do it with The Shadow and The Flame! ;)

[@AnAverageArceus]

I'm just like that last guard you met on level 4. Just standing there... contemplating his life choices...

[@jpviegas]

Well done sir! I hope you manage to break your own record!

[@hrnekbezucha]

Wow, David's zero punctuation commentary :D well done

[@MadisKukk]

For a moment I thought I had 1.25x playback speed on. David's special - speedrunning and speedtalking, 2 in 1.

[@NoobixCube]

I don't know how, but despite watching you since long before this video came out, I only watched it after it was mentioned in your Stumbling Through Super Mario World series. I guess you can tell Celine that perhaps your material DOES need to be plugged to your viewers!

[@tmack729]

Incredible!

[@nestcanz]

What I typed: "prince of persia WR" What I received: "prince of persia commentary WR"

[@skifullydone8165]

@9:27 Jumping down and taking damage and that delay is faster than just drop down from above? That crouch animation felt like ages.

[@DavidXNewton]

I know, it feels like years but if you run them side by side the damaging way is faster! I actually messed it up a little here, you can drop down further to the left and still go in the door, saving a bit more time

[@skifullydone8165]

@@DavidXNewton Must be a slight margin I guess? Do you still play this game? When I saw it, I wanted to go back to play it. But then I remembered level 3 with the chomps. That sound they make was horrific as a little kid haha.

[@cannot-handle-handles]

@@skifullydone8165 Here's another run where someone does what you suggest (because they're down to one health, I assume): kzbin.info/www/bejne/iV6zaYF5fJaEipI

[@WorthlessWinner]

first tool assisted speed-run i've seen/ I used to think it was 'cheating' but now i see it's just a different kind of challenge. You have to know a lot more about how the game works to do it this way it seems.

[@DavidXNewton]

That's right, I don't think I understood them at first either but it's about measuring your skill at writing a program to play a game, testing your knowledge of the internals of the game and how to exploit them :)

[@adorablerainbowfist]

Love your PoP videos! If you do another speed run though I'd recommend uploaded the uncut run with no commentary and then doing a separate video with commentary where you can pause to explain things.

[@cannot-handle-handles]

That's a great idea! This way of doing it was fun in its own way. :-D

[@Lilithe]

The commentary was actually pretty cool. Especially since I've never played the game.

[@ElementEvilTeam]

You just tassed your reading!

[@liquidmetalrob]

It's always great to see Prince of Persia fighting Jeffar.

[@Raison_d-etre]

*Jaffar

[@UsernameUserlastname]

Fantastic!

[@skifullydone8165]

@13:46 I defeated Jaffar and when I wanted to get in the door, I forgot to jump and fell down hard! :-D

[@achromicwhite2309]

Pretty awesome... showed me a few tricks, no doubt. I've done it under 15, including the first 4 levels, myself. Though, I usually like to do it with "no tricks".

[@SirSilicon]

I like to see this game in TAS but I don`t like the level 4 skip. It shows less of the game. Some questions for this run: You fight a lot. Is`nt it possible to jump through all the guards? What emulator do you use? DosBox? Can`t you use the fall and bounce against the wall bug/glitch more often? Will there be a new TAs attempt some time?

[@DavidXNewton]

The answer to all of these is "maybe" :) The emulator is a Java-based one called jpc-rr, which is more geared for doing TAS recordings than DOSBox is. It's probably possible to jump through all the guards, but sometimes the amount of time you'd have to take to line yourself up exactly to do the jump would be more than it takes to just swap through them. I think that the fall/bounce only works when you fall off a 1-tile-wide gap right next to a wall, but it's possible that there are other possible places I've missed!

[@lancebaylis3169]

I'll never get tired of hearing the mid boss being called 'Fatty'.

[@BillyBob-cy9yi]

on level 8 you can actually skip the first fight by timing your jump to go to the ledge and holding on dropping down and holding on again

[@seldom_bucket]

I'm confused..is this a tas commentary speedrun? If so why has this man not got a wr?

[@nels1098]

this guy is the new John Moschitta Jr.

[@MattTheSpratt]

are the sound samples of lower quality than usual? edit: ohhh it's a different emulator that probably handles sound differently

[@Jenkinsmum]

Regarding the level 9 bug that keeps the jaws open. I think understand what's going on. If you watch kzbin.info/www/bejne/iV6zaYF5fJaEipIm58s you'll see a similar bug of the same kind. Jaws stay open if you're on a different altitude. However the game for some reason is not registering the prince on the same altitude so therefore they stay open. There maybe something in the programming in which the jaws activate from conventional climbing and falling.

[@cannot-handle-handles]

Great video - it uses a couple of other tricks I hadn't seen before, like another gate skip at the end of level 9: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iV6zaYF5fJaEipI

[@sharpskilz]

this video is great on 50 percent speed

[@moiqtheplayer]

12:16 you could've been faster by stepping up and down once then drop off the plank, you saved time around 5 seconds

[@GreaseLightning02]

David, what emulator did you use for this? Like you, I grew up with the original POP on DOS. I know it pretty well, but I'd like to have a crack at a TAS.

[@DavidXNewton]

Hi! This was with JPC-RR - it was tricky to get it set up (maybe because I'd just never used it before) but once I got it going it was an interesting experience :) I dumped what I knew into a thread at tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20296&highlight= - some of that might help

[@plue735]

If there’s gonna be a Fusion 3, is there gonna be a CT3?

[@rijden-nu]

As a kid, I really thought this game was called "Prince Megahit" and was written by a guy called R. Bubba Magilicutty.

[@DavidXNewton]

Ha :) Yes, I was always confused by why the “loading” screen (cracktro) was there and who really wrote this game...

[@liquidmetalrob]

Have you played the rom hack 4D Prince of Persia?

[@DavidXNewton]

Yes, but I haven't got anywhere near finishing it :) I also tried Repetition of Time this month, which is amazingly clever with how it uses some of the game elements in unexpected ways.

[@liquidmetalrob]

I think the best I managed was level 6. It's solidly hard. I might give it another go with Dosbox save states. I'll have to check that one out.

[@liquidmetalrob]

I made a Lego model of Prince hanging onto a desk that got retweeted by Jordan Mechner twitter.com/liquidmetalrob/status/526127244457312256 I've also got an animated GIF of Lego Prince running that I made on there.

[@DavidXNewton]

Ah, I remember seeing that ages ago! That's great - and now I want to make one for my own desk at work :)

[@rijden-nu]

Also, you totally sound like Ranger Ron from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4.

[@celinesenden4142]

World record

[@trucid2]

A time close to this should be possible without TAS. The tough parts are the RNG with guards and the falling tiles on the level with Jafar.

[@DavidXNewton]

Definitely - if I memorized it all I think it could be done :) Just that the TAS environment gives a lot of safety to experiment and retry when I otherwise wouldn't be able to

[@pecet]

What Emulator do you use?

[@DavidXNewton]

This is with JPC-RR, and I used a guide from tasvideos to set it up! tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources/JPC.html

[@acmwl897]

Rap god is that you?

[@Davesoft]

*Speedrunnifieded

[@borjitasstoi]

1.25 micro machines mode on

[@theopot5798]

I did it once in around 12 min , ' too bad I did not have internet that time to broadcast it

[@AXYoutubeLive]

haha

I wasted my best years and youth in this game but you ruined it :) Best tas video because of commentary.

[@giovannidistasi6416]

So you skipped the first 3 levels... what's the point of the fake record?

[@DavidXNewton]

The point of the TAS is to get to the end of the game as fast as possible through any means excluding outright cheating. The “practice mode” shortcut to skip up to level 4 is listed in the manual, so I think that it’s well below even all the guard-skips and other tricks here on the cheatiness scale

[@nuhashrahman8408]

Breath bro, breath

[@WhamDieMoe]

Eminem: Finally A Worthy Opponent, Our Battle Will Be Legendary P.S. This Run Is Obsolete

[@Patohead001]

Like if you think the voice uses circle breathing.

[@loupax]

prince.exe megahit

[@Piggy991]

You speak like you could play games really fast. Oh wait

[@stutavagrippa8690]

The Level 8 beginning guard is easy. Put down your sword, then hit, and repeat.

[@sinnanna7471]

talk. slower. please.

[@DavidXNewton]

Sin Nanna NO

[@gwishart]

Why? It's a nice change to hear somebody speak at a sensible pace, instead of all those American KZbinrs who spend three minutes pronouncing each vowel.

[@PrinceOfTheSea]

말 ㅈㄴ많네 타스도 아닌듯

[@kmed1994]

wtf is this?

[@sushantyadav7806]

If the commentary is in hindi the views and comment will be 100 times as of now...like whoever is agree

[@mcbananamoko]

most annoying commentary ever