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Marble Madness (Any %) (Single Segment)
Verifier Responses
Decision: Accept
Reason: This one was for ALL the marbles.
Congratulations to Steve 'Elipsis' Barrios!
Marble Madness (Any %) (Single Segment)
Verifier Responses
Quote from bassdeluxe27:
Cheating: None detected. The player also has a Twitch channel that he regularly uses, so he's legit.
Play quality: I'll admit, I'm going to be brutal here, but that's because I'm extremely familiar with this game
Stage 1: Well played. A perfect run could save up to half a second on this, but anything with a 55 in-game timer is very good.
Stage 2: This is pretty much perfect. Very well done.
Stage 3: First half is perfect. The pause before going down the final ramps at the finish is the largest time loss in the run, and it cost nearly a second.
Stage 4: Extremely good. Could probably save half a second at the end with perfect execution, but that would be extremely precise. The runner's comments make this out to be a bigger mistake than it actually is, in my opinion.
Stage 5: Also extremely good. The run comments point out the mistake at the end (two wallbounces instead of one), but this is a pixel perfect trick, late in the run, with no chance to retry if it's missed. This is the signature trick in this run, and the runner makes it look much easier than it actually is.
Stage 6: I'm very happy to finally see a high quality run of this stage in the WR. This has been a problem stage for past WR runs, and we've finally got a near perfect run of it in the WR. Any time lost here is minimal, and not worth considering.
Overall: 2-2.5 seconds is the sum of time lost, based on my analysis above, and in all but one case, that's really nitpicking. Also, actually saving that time earlier in the run could through off patterns later in the run (particularly the stage 4 hammers), so it's difficult to say how much time was truly lost. This is a fantastic run, and it definitely is the run that we've been waiting for. Anyone who sets aside time to attempt to beat this run might be insane, because it would be extremely difficult to beat.
Video Quality: I have no complaints.
Final verdict: Accept
Congrats Elipsys! Awesome run!
Play quality: I'll admit, I'm going to be brutal here, but that's because I'm extremely familiar with this game
Stage 1: Well played. A perfect run could save up to half a second on this, but anything with a 55 in-game timer is very good.
Stage 2: This is pretty much perfect. Very well done.
Stage 3: First half is perfect. The pause before going down the final ramps at the finish is the largest time loss in the run, and it cost nearly a second.
Stage 4: Extremely good. Could probably save half a second at the end with perfect execution, but that would be extremely precise. The runner's comments make this out to be a bigger mistake than it actually is, in my opinion.
Stage 5: Also extremely good. The run comments point out the mistake at the end (two wallbounces instead of one), but this is a pixel perfect trick, late in the run, with no chance to retry if it's missed. This is the signature trick in this run, and the runner makes it look much easier than it actually is.
Stage 6: I'm very happy to finally see a high quality run of this stage in the WR. This has been a problem stage for past WR runs, and we've finally got a near perfect run of it in the WR. Any time lost here is minimal, and not worth considering.
Overall: 2-2.5 seconds is the sum of time lost, based on my analysis above, and in all but one case, that's really nitpicking. Also, actually saving that time earlier in the run could through off patterns later in the run (particularly the stage 4 hammers), so it's difficult to say how much time was truly lost. This is a fantastic run, and it definitely is the run that we've been waiting for. Anyone who sets aside time to attempt to beat this run might be insane, because it would be extremely difficult to beat.
Video Quality: I have no complaints.
Final verdict: Accept
Congrats Elipsys! Awesome run!
Quote from UraniumAnchor:
A/V good, no cheating, blah blah.
This run is faster than the 2:50, that's all you really need to know.
It does look like the 2:50 is a bit faster at the beginning of the intermediate (3rd) race, but this run makes up for it with a cleaner run through the wave section. It seems that most of the rest of the improvement is tighter movement in the final race.
Whether or not it's a 2:47 I'll leave up to IsraeliRD, but this is undoubtedly faster than the 2:50 by the same runner published not too long ago.
Accept.
This run is faster than the 2:50, that's all you really need to know.
It does look like the 2:50 is a bit faster at the beginning of the intermediate (3rd) race, but this run makes up for it with a cleaner run through the wave section. It seems that most of the rest of the improvement is tighter movement in the final race.
Whether or not it's a 2:47 I'll leave up to IsraeliRD, but this is undoubtedly faster than the 2:50 by the same runner published not too long ago.
Accept.
Quote from CarpetCrawler:
Easy Accept, the time that can be saved is marginal and this run is just ridiculously good. Shoutouts to the magic wand. 
Decision: Accept
Reason: This one was for ALL the marbles.
Congratulations to Steve 'Elipsis' Barrios!
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