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Movies / Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX / M7058
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Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX

by McBobX

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Author's notes

''Alien chasing once again!''

Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX in 14:39.71

Run objectives

  • Deathless
  • Luck manipulation
  • Shoot everything!

Comments

  • Well, this game is the GBA version of the [4363M|Contra III: The Alien Wars]. It has same stages except stage 2 and 5 which are also copied the last two stages from [93G|Contra: Hard Corps] when taking the Lab/Surrender route (according to SRC). The music is downgraded and the amount of weapons also reduced to just one at a time instead of two.
  • This run beats [Users/Profile/Mr_K|Mr. K]'s old TAS by around 25 seconds, mostly due to heavy optimizations, which is expected considering he also noted that his run wasn't optimized.
  • Comparing this game to SNES version, they nerfed Crush weapon heavily but instead made Laser incredibly powerful, which is now the main weapon for every boss, except the turtle and first mini boss in area 6, which required Spread for faster kill.
  • I used [Users/Profile/Fortranm|Fortranm]'s [UserFiles/Info/637986465820758936|lua script] to display enemies HP, which was very helpful to time all shots accordingly, hence why you see in some bosses, like the robot in stage 2, where I don't shoot them right away because it won't do any damage. I also improved his [UserFiles/Info/23737571357749220|WIP] by around 2 seconds through more optimizations as well.

Special Thanks

  • [Users/Profile/Mr_K|Mr. K] for his run as it was a good starting point to build this one.
  • [Users/Profile/Fortranm|Fortranm] for both his WIP and his lua script.
  • And you for watching!

''We're done shooting!''

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