TAS - Jazz Jackrabbit 2 Episode 1-4 as Spaz in

[@weakness.detector]

I love this so game so much. A family friend of ours had it installed on our pc 16 years ago and I spent way over 6 years( it was a brick without internet ) speedruning it all by myself, im glad I came close at the end of the day :) keep it up dude, this game needs way more attention than it gets

[@Vextor007998]

It's really nice to see a speedrun of a childhood game that I spent a good 7 years on.

[@markoadam6619]

Really nice job! I already watched it like 20 times :D

[@ProdByTrybe]

@Rudy Jack how?? Pls tell me

[@ProdByTrybe]

@Hezekiah Makai code ??

[@lennartwei2693]

I've been playing this game many times since I'm a kid and this is my first time seeing a speed run of it. It is actually way faster than I initially expected. I knew there are some bugs, but the way you use them as shortcuts is something else. Also amazing mechanics, I did not even know there was a wall jump mechanic.

[@BinaryBlob]

Well, this is a TAS (Tool Assisted Speedrun) so all inputs are pre-programmed. The human performed world record is 17:48 (kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmK2iH2ihZmVl9U) so it's quite a bit slower. The walljumps are just a developer oversight. It's frame perfect and also depend on your alignment. At full speed you move at 8 pixels per frame and if you were to be 8 pixels away from the wall and try to walljump on the next frame it won't work. At 6:52 you can see that I slow down just a tiny bit to avoid this.

[@lennartwei2693]

@@BinaryBlob Thanks for the note, I was not aware of that

[@jbayta]

i was just thinking about a game that i loved so much when i was around 5 years old. i just remembered it was some space rabbit pc game, finally found it. i miss being a kid.

[@ZuoKalp]

I wouldn't dare to speedrun this game if that implied that I would need to skip those amazing tunes.

[@Japie__]

Another 7 seconds faster than the previous TAS. Congrats! :)

[@gamenickx5573]

I'm pretty impressed. Well done. It's really outstanding work.

[@TrinityUnofficial]

this is the only way to introduce yourself to this series in any way

[@Tyle_smalcu]

Wow... That's very impressive, congratulations! :)

[@BinaryBlob]

Thanks! :)

[@hiasince1]

amazing speed run

[@MrAstose]

that's really dope :D

[@omuletulnou]

10:23 what's up with the music there? Feels like it skips a beat.

[@BinaryBlob]

That's weird. I never noticed that. Something seems to happen with the beat at 10:14 as well. Maybe the sound of the spring affects the pitch of some part of the music? I know that some sounds can get a different pitch if two sounds start simultaneously. I've heard this many times when bricks drop during the queen fight in the second level but I don't think I've ever heard it affect the music.

[@FlOuRiShFrIeDeR]

wow! good work bro!

[@BinaryBlob]

Thanks! :)

[@dzllz]

Legendary run man! Loved the huge level skips by jumping over walls. How do you climb walls like that, is it only possible with TAS?

[@BinaryBlob]

If you press down on the exact frame you hit a wall the game thinks you're standing on ground. If you hold jump while doing that you'll be able to jump off the wall. One or two wall jumps is doable RTA but the only episode we do them in actual runs is in the shareware demo. For Spaz I do two wall jumps near the start and for Jazz/Lori I do one wall jump on the last level.

[@MarkGlowInTheDark]

No way im gonna speedrun this game. I love jazz jack rabbit but man this looks super hard to speedrun (anv never speedrunned before. I only maxe deathless runs i knights and merchants)

[@loodgack]

you can turn into a yellow rabbit in the basic JJ2? or is it a mod? 4:29

[@Japie__]

It's from the official JJ2 expansion "The Secret Files" released in 1999. They added a 3rd character to play as.

[@paultaglieri9990]

Love this

[@amielaloni123]

how do you jump so many times with spaz? like in 6:58 or 14:10 and other places???? its save so many time, and mach better then the bombs...

[@BinaryBlob]

Those are wall jumps which require a frame perfect down press. Depending on your speed and distance from the wall the frame before you hit it you sometimes wont be able to make it though even if you get the frame perfect down press. This is a tool assisted speedrun though so it's not actually me playing. All inputs were programmed beforehand. The only instance that I can think of where I do wall jumps in an actual run is the beginning of my demo% as Spaz: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZqVmmd8l9qGgJY

[@dennisfromthe90s]

I wanted to use Jazz2TAS to make a TAS of Jazz Unleashed Demo, but there's a major problem: Use of Jazz2TAS results in Access Violation. Can anyone tell me what I have to do to get Jazz2TAS to work?

[@markoadam6619]

I think the issue can be that Jazz2TAS is not compatible with jj2+

[@MrUlf1337]

why is there no water in the "Marinated Rabbit" level? I always have to swim through which is so much slower and harder to do. Are you using a patch or what kind of version is this?

[@BinaryBlob]

Nope, no patch. I'm using version 1.24 of the game published by LK Avalon. The trigger that enables the water is located below the spawn. If you buffer a jump while the level is loading you can jump over the trigger.

[@MrUlf1337]

@@BinaryBlob aah alright, i'll need to check what version i'm using and will try that jump. thanks

[@MrUlf1337]

@@BinaryBlob I use the 1.23 version by Epic Megagames (I think). water does spawn immediatly after the level is loaded, even though i jump mid air as far as possible.

[@BinaryBlob]

@@MrUlf1337 Did you move to the right as well? The trigger is below the spawn point so if you just hold jump you'll still hit it on your way down.

[@MrUlf1337]

@@BinaryBlob yes I spawned and immediatly jumped to the right, I even hit the wall where one crab is, without touching the ground.

[@Lionka88]

Good job. I just wondering why this game is not available as mobile game.

[@almamater7427]

Way better than chicken invaders.

[@JnashCS]

2019?? I played this game like 15 years ago :D:D

[@wahrheitenthüllt]

Isnt the Purple Haze Maze skip faster?

[@BinaryBlob]

I'm not sure what skip you're talking about. There's a clip you can do but I'm pretty sure that's slower.

[@markoadam6619]

Unfortunately its not you have to spend way too much time in the wall :(

[@markoadam6619]

But there is one skip on lab1 which saves time and its not in this TAS because it was found later. Also there should one skip Rabbit Roast ehich should save time but I havent theoretized it fully yet.

[@wahrheitenthüllt]

What are you doing at the first fight in Knight Cap to avoid the damage of the falling bricks?

[@BinaryBlob]

I do buttstomps. You're invincible for a breif moment right before the buttstomp.

[@JnashCS]

@@BinaryBlob I wish i knew that 15 years ago lol

[@keyshujin]

Respect 😀

[@mustafazaidani5592]

Great job man! I wonder how much time does it take you to do a whole level

[@BinaryBlob]

Thanks! It's kinda hard to estimate how long each level takes since I rarely do a full level in one sitting. I started working on a Lori TAS a while ago and I believe I did Tossed Salad from start to finish in a 2-3 hour livestream. Some levels require a lot of trial-and-error and can take multiple hours while some levels such as Funky Grooveathon is quite straight forward and can take less than an hour. If we account for the time spent reverse enginering the Queen to get the best RNG I'd definitely say that Knight Cap took the most amount of time.

[@HEUK_DOO]

존나게 빠르군...

[@coolmendotdot2]

Why's there no water in the water level?

[@BinaryBlob]

The trigger that activates the water is just below where you spawn. By simply holding jump when the level starts you can skip the trigger. You of course also have to move sideways to avoid the trigger on the way down.

[@coolmendotdot2]

@@BinaryBlob lmfao i mean this video already demonstrated that jj2 is kinda broken, but _that_ brokenness is sm64 tier

[@Solek172421]

ale zapierdala

[@미쿡-k2u]

??? Is it possible?

[@markoadam6619]

Not by humans - this was made with a tool which helped Binary give the exact inputs on every frame the get the fastest result.

[@krunotomicic]

How do you manage to clip through walls?

[@BinaryBlob]

Do you mean at 2:35 for example? I buttstomp when I'm as close to the ceiling as possible and while in the buttstomp animation I double jump. I think it's called "wallclimbing": www.jazz2online.com/wiki/Wallclimb

[@simonjacobson5798]

Niklas, kan du tänka dig att lägga upp denna TAS på "tasvideos.org"?

[@BinaryBlob]

Jazz2TAS ändrar i koden och jag vet inte om det är tillåtet. Det enda som ändras i koden är dock bara den del som kollar vilka knappar som trycks.

[@neoray222]

How to dawlond ? Pliz link

[@BinaryBlob]

The TAS tool? You can download it here: github.com/BinaryBlob92/jazz2tas/releases

[@jardax010]

What the actual fuck ???? XDDDD I remember that I played it as a kid more than s month and finished it in 15 minutes ?? Childhood ruined xD

[@LinusSegueRatings]

wouldn't blame someone for thinking it's a tas (writing this at minute 6 of the run)

[@LinusSegueRatings]

alright i'm stupid, i change my comment to "wouldn't blame someone for thinking it wasn't tas" because that's the only way i'll feel less stupid lmao

[@islambasiony4388]

4:33 you can't defeat me prepare to face my superbot! 1 sec later AH i'm outta here (probably embarrassed of his quick failure :D)

[@watercat1248]

You did play the game fer you probably use some kind of hack

[@treylinazerros159]

It's a tool called Jazz2TAS. With tool assisted speedruns, you place the inputs in order to get perfect gameplay. The hard work is making sure each input is set optimally and every strategy is looked into. There's no rewind so it can get very tedious.

[@watercat1248]

@@treylinazerros159 okay that's make sense

[@petervasil7798]

When u give a pc to chinese kid