[TAS] Marble Blast Gold - All Levels in

Two years and thousands of hours of work... and it's finished - all levels of Marble Blast Gold scripted by DomTurchi using HiGuy's rectify tool and RandomityGuy's timeskip and timescale plugins. With over 40 seconds of improvements across nearly 50 levels, this compilation showcases virtually all the optimal paths and tweaks currently discovered by runners and TASers of Marble Blast Gold. But enough talk. Enjoy the show!
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Timestamps:
Due to the description limit, paths and tweaks cannot fit in the description. However, DomTurchi's spreadsheet which includes that information and much more is viewable here: docs.google.co....
0:00 - Intro
0:10 - Learning to Roll
0:17 - Collect the Gems
0:32 - Jump Training
0:41 - Learn the Super Jump
0:50 - Platform Training
1:01 - Learn the Super
1:10 - Elevator
1:20 - Air Movement
1:28 - Gyrocopter
1:37 - Time Trial
1:48 - Super Bounce
1:56 - Gravity Helix
2:07 - Shock Absorber
2:16 - There and Back Again
2:30 - Marble Materials Lab
2:40 - Bumper Training
2:48 - Breezeway
2:56 - Mine Field
3:04 - Trapdoors!
3:18 - Tornado Bowl
3:35 - Pitfalls
3:51 - Platform Party
4:02 - Winding Road
4:18 - Grand Finale
5:00 - Jump Jump Jump
5:27 - Monster Speedway Qualifying
5:46 - Skate Park
6:09 - Ramp Matrix
6:33 - Hoops
6:45 - Go for the Green
6:54 - Fork in the Road
7:04 - Tri Twist
7:28 - Marbletris
7:39 - Space Slide
7:49 - Skee Ball Bonus
8:14 - Marble Playground
8:45 - Hop Skip and a Jump
8:59 - Take the High Road
9:10 - Half-Pipe
9:25 - Gauntlet
9:39 - Moto-Marblecross
10:06 - Shock Drop
10:16 - Spork in the Road
10:51 - Great Divide
11:20 - The Wave
11:31 - Tornado Alley
11:40 - Monster Speedway
12:09 - Upward Spiral
12:47 - Thrill Ride
12:56 - Money Tree
13:28 - Fan Lift
13:40 - Leap of Faith
13:53 - Freeway Crossing
14:03 - Stepping Stones
14:17 - Obstacle Course
14:26 - Points of the Compass
14:39 - Three-Fold Maze
15:02 - Tube Treasure
15:23 - Slip 'n Slide
15:34 - Skyscraper
16:03 - Half Pipe Elite
16:19 - A-Maze-ing
16:28 - Block Party
16:53 - Trap Door Madness
17:09 - Moebius Strip
17:22 - Great Divide Revisited
17:44 - Escher's Race
18:12 - To the Moon
18:20 - Around the World in 30 Seconds
18:35 - Will o' Wisp
19:10 - Twisting the Night Away
19:33 - Survival of the Fittest
19:58 - Plumber's Portal
20:19 - Siege
20:55 - Ski Slopes
21:13 - Ramps Reloaded
21:30 - Tower Maze
21:41 - Free Fall
21:53 - Acrobat
22:07 - Whirl
22:24 - Mudslide
22:39 - Pipe Dreams
22:54 - Scaffold
23:14 - Airwalk
23:31 - Shimmy
23:39 - Path of Least Resistance
23:51 - Daedalus
24:23 - Ordeal
24:34 - Battlements
24:43 - Pinball Wizard
25:14 - Eye of the Storm
25:47 - Dive!
26:04 - Tightrope
26:16 - Natural Selection
26:30 - Tango
26:38 - Icarus
26:54 - Under Construction
27:04 - Pathways
27:24 - Darwin's Dilemma
28:01 - King of the Mountain
28:22 - Credits
30:02 - Stats
Recorded & edited by DomTurchi, peer-reviewed by Mazik
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Music & SFX:
Majora's Mask - "Dawn Of A Day"
Super Monkey Ball 2 - Bubbly Washing Machine | Patrick
• ♪ Super Monkey Ball 2 ...
Banana Blitz - Advanced Track Remix | TravelocityKirby
• Banana Blitz - Advance...
Electroman Adventures | Waterflame
• Electroman Adventures
Jazz Jackrabbit - Tubelectric Remix | SIDNIFY
• Jazz Jackrabbit - Tube...
Splatoon - 'chromatic' Calamari Inkantation | sheddy
• 'chromatic' Calamari I...
Native Faith - Suwako's Theme | Xenogen
• Native Faith - Suwako'...
Extreme G - XG Race Track 01 | Mellow Sonic
• Extreme G - XG Race Tr...
DuckTales - To the Moon or Bust! | PirateCrab
• DuckTales OC ReMix by ...
Top Gear 2 - Canterbury Plains | Allan Zax
• Top Gear 2 - Canterbur...
Street Fighter Alpha - 'Super Skeet Fighter Turbo Alphamale IV' | Prince Uf Darkness
• OC ReMix #3268: Street...
Super Smash Brothers Melee - All-Star Rest Area | Jun Ishikawa
• Video
Super Smash Brothers Melee - Announcer

[@subtractment]

Dom saying something won’t happen is slang for "Im going to do this"

[@Wilchz]

and he does it

[@MazikMB]

100% factual

[@jamescarson7532]

This video was a punch of nostalgia, I grew up playing both marble blast and monkey ball, thank you so much for posting.

[@subtractment]

If I’m ever constipated remind me to watch this again

[@Wilchz]

ok i will

[@subtractment]

@@Wilchz tks

[@Wakssbm]

I don't even play this game but man is it satisfying to watch. Can't wait for the next compilation already!!!

[@HiGuyMB]

Been fun watching this come together one run at a time over the last few years. Super excited to see it all as one. Grats to Dom / HTX / everyone who proposed paths and tweaks for this!

[@djtiii]

Not to discredit Dom at all but god damn, HTX freaking rocked it. Tightrope was unholy.

[@myrus5722]

DockessTurchi P.S. I was actually the one that rocked Tightrope this time around >:D /j

[@subtractment]

@@myrus5722 I am the one who rocks

[@Wilchz]

hi dom

[@djtiii]

@@Wilchz hi

[@Nockess]

facts

[@G0LD3NSM4ALLBRA1N]

I laughed from this andvanced level it said "pinball wizard pinball wizard"

[@serraramayfield9230]

I have memories of playing this on my family's eMachines desktop in 2003-2005; this is one of the oldest games of my childhood. I laughed and was dumbfounded so, so many times over the course of this video, but I easily laughed the hardest at 29:34. How long did this take? How many man-hours were spent building this IGT TAS?! I must know! Thank you so much for creating this TAS, it does one of my most cherished games proper justice.

[@djtiii]

Took me about 2 years, but how long in man hours? Who knows. A few thousand for sure.

[@m2kball]

super satisfying runs, especially sotf, good work

[@MarbleBlastDaily]

i audibly gasped when i saw the tube treasure time

[@Doomblah]

I had seen all but one of these runs prior to this video but it was no less amazing seeing them all in a row. A truly legendary video, an unbelievable collection of scripted TAS runs.

[@AugustMK7]

someone help. this dude walked into my favorite game and killed it. i think he's insane.

[@michaeldavis812]

It’s a TAS (which stands for Tool Assisted Speedrun), so basically all of the inputs are usually done with the help of an emulator as a tool, which the creator of of this TAS was able to use in to render the game ideally with how they wanted it to play out, which in this case was used to create a theoretical best time by playing the game with the most ideal inputs as possible, so if the player of this tas messed up, they could rewind from the part where they messed up and keep replaying that part until they get the input that they’re looking for, and for any game that requires button mashing as a mechanic, they can slow the game down to get the exact amount of a button mashing Input as possible for the most optimal outcome. Now, that definitely doesn’t mean the time in which this speedrun was completed is absolutely perfect, as there could be better strategies that we don’t currently know about yet that could be discovered and optimize the time down further.

[@AugustMK7]

@@michaeldavis812 this truly is one of the moments of all time

[@kalletjugonio1547]

You missed a TT on Jump jump jump, other than that it's an alright video

[@StewMan46]

incredible poggers

[@HappyTreeX1]

I'm so excited. I got my popcorn prepared.

[@myrus5722]

Do you have your favorite beverage though? ;)

[@HappyTreeX1]

@@myrus5722 i did indeed. Fanta lol

[@BrunoValads]

Tube Treasure is a piece of art

[@nunununununununununununu]

will o wisp is just proof that gravity is merely an option

[@Winslinator]

I could only imagine the insane number of outcomes that had to be tested to come up with this collection. WOW!! Favorites were unexpectedly Tube Treasure, Skyscraper, and Darwin's Dilemma

[@DavidsKanal]

Darwin's Dilemma holy cow

[@JamesColsey]

Total domination right there.

[@subtractment]

they dont call him dom for nothin”

[@sspenst]

Insane...

[@Mark-bb9qx]

24:01 great cinematography

[@Nockess]

oh my god dom get a life

[@djtiii]

I'm afraid it's too late for me

[@fredchon3905]

Learning to Roll (00:02.190) Collect the Gems (00:08.160) Jump Training (00:03.572) Learn the Super Jump (00:02.406) Platform Training (00:05.674) Learn the Super Speed (00:02.690) Elevator (00:03.555) Air Movement (00:02.898) Gyrocopter (00:02.688) Time Trial (00:02.100) Super Bounce (00:02.837) Gravity Helix (00:04.977) Shock Absorber (00:02.871) There and Black Again (00:07.579) Marble Materials Lab (00:04.346) Bumper Training (00:02.185) Breezeway (00:02.392) Mine Field (00:01.904) Trapdoors! (00:02.107) Tornado Bowl (00:01.406) Pitfalls (00:09.813) Platform Party (00:05.931) Winding Road (00:09.494) Grand Finale (00:27.414) Beginner Total (02:01.189)

[@HyranAU]

Wow, incredible!

[@IsraeliRD]

Tornado Bowl lag at the start ugh video ruined Anyway this new world record rampage is pretty good! Whoever is the guy controlling that marble, he is absolutely showing Xelna is so last decade. Shame he doesn't have Fan Lift, else it would've been 100/100 by one person and a true god for this game. Can't wait to see the runner try and do a frame-by-frame speedrun, we might see some of the best speedruns in this game's history hands down, like Skyscraper and some bonkers-level traplaunching, maybe extra smooth gameplay and exciting edge hits and all new routes, and just overall taking over the marble's speed and spin controls and telling the Torque Game Engine: "I'm the (physics) engine now". I do recommend the runner to get better in Skee Ball Bonus (missing 3rd gem) and Eye of the Storm (wall hit towards the end), it is rather sloppy gameplay from an otherwise someone who is definitely demonstrating that he can become the next Xelna4lif. (and it's special thanks 'to' not 'too' god damn it who the heck edited this shit, nock?)

[@djtiii]

Xelna's still better, probably. And I literally had Mazik proofread this and he caught the to vs too as well, which I fixed but I guess during additional edits reverted the change or something. I'm very sad.

[@serraramayfield9230]

@@djtiii Can I have context to why FBF runs are allowed? Who are these people?

[@valyri]

love the tas work but the best part of this game is the music so whyyyddd you REPLACE ITTTT

[@subify14]

If you see him collecting gems closer, u can see that he still collects gems without touching

[@djtiii]

The hitbox of the marble is a cube around the marble, so it's possible to grab gems without the marble physically touching it. In the marble blast community, we call this ramp matrixing.

[@wagnerramosmidichannelabso514]

(8:09) - Oof, costed a split second for leaning back near the gem!

[@forrest2563]

epic

[@FUSusanWonk]

What is "NSJ"/"NJ"/"NB" in the spreadsheet (I believe I've also seen it on other places)

[@djtiii]

An NSJ/NJ/NB is Natural Slope Jump, Natural Jump and Natural Bounce respectively. You lift all keys when jumping/bouncing on the ground which affects the spin/speed of the marble. Generally, it will slow you down, but at the start of levels it gives a noticeable boost. Since its difficult to tell if the TAS does this or not sometimes, the sheet was labeled as such for transparency.

[@Mark-bb9qx]

@@djtiii is the sheet still available?

[@RoseliOliveira-n6k]

When in upward spiral my world record was 8.424

[@stevenrico3190]

24:44

[@aseelalhalmi2498]

My computer is windows 10 I play marble blast gold