Username:
B
I
U
S
"
url
img
#
code
sup
sub
font
size
color
smiley
embarassed
thumbsup
happy
Huh?
Angry
Roll Eyes
Undecided
Lips Sealed
Kiss
Cry
Grin
Wink
Tongue
Shocked
Cheesy
Smiley
Sad
1 page
--
--
List results:
Search options:
Use \ before commas in usernames
Game Page: http://speeddemosarchive.com/MightyBombJack.html

Mighty Bomb Jack (ntscus) (nes) [Any %] [Single Segment]

Decision: Accept

Congratulations to 'ktwo'!
Thread title:  
Run Information

Mighty Bomb Jack (ntscus) (nes) [Any %] [Single Segment]

Verification Files

http://v.speeddemosarchive.com/MightyBombJack-20240307/

Please refer to the Verification Guidelines before posting.

Please post your opinions about the run and be certain to conclude your post with a verdict (Accept/Reject). If you wish to remain anonymous, you can also send a pm with your reply to 'sdaverification' (please state clearly in that case which run you have verified). This is not a contest where the majority wins - Each verification will be judged on its content.
So you don't think the palace room warping should constitute a separation of categories? Also I noticed we currently have a "best ending w/ deaths" run but this run, while using deaths as a warp of sorts, doesn't have that category. Should any changes be made?

A/V good, cheating check.

I can't see mistakes here really. The game is a little odd and I admittedly didn't even notice when Jack changed colors. Or maybe that wasn't featured in this run. I thought the individual rooms were short enough to just about be botted maybe. Maybe that was done for the TAS.

Too weird, can't not
accept
Dragon Power Supreme
From what I gather based on the SDA KB and linked game atlas map, the warp is intended, though the atlas says unknown access so I think its creator didn't know how to get there, which according to the run comments is convoluted (dying twice in 5-5 after collecting a hidden sphinx in 5-2 in order to get access to 5-X).

The kb mentions a bunch of categories and endings:
- with/without deaths with/without wraps [total 4]
- 4 endings (king, queen, incest princess, belzebut)
- normal (any% with/without deaths) which includes warps

As 5-X access requires intentional deaths, I think this should just be "Any%" which muddies the water as no warps should be its own category (which at this point no deaths is also a given).
For best ending idk what to tell you.

Anyway, A/V solid, no cheating, runner worked hard on this run and I think I spotted one movement mistake but otherwise I couldn't spot the runner's own admitted mistakes so yeah.

Accept.

(Also that swastika room lmao)
Princess -> incest, Israeli? I'm gonna have to make a note of this...

I'm sure the runner can help us categorize this right. And this feels like a game that we need more of, at some point, so it's good there might be so many ways to run it!

Russian anti-Finnish propaganda points at how the Finnish Air Force (and some other contexts) had/have a swastika as an emblem, without bothering to mention that was from pre-Nazi times.
Dragon Power Supreme
See the kb where it's mentioned that in the best ending you're revealed to be the king's son... and the princess ending means you marry her and have a child Shocked

Russian propaganda works the hardest over there tbh.
But it is mentioned anywhere the princess is the king's biological daughter? You can't wriggle away from this.
Edit history:
IsraeliRD: 2024-04-15 11:17:17 am
Dragon Power Supreme
Good question! Here's the family portrait that I took.
It's clear king + jack are related, and queen+daughter are (based on skin color and nothing else), which suggests either genetics or extrafamilial marriage.
Since the game was developed in Japan and they consider incest to be legal (but frowned upon) (I took a bullet with my search history and google wanted to know my location rip me), I therefore consider the game to suggest they are genetically related, and thus they are in fact real brother and sister and thus marrying his sister and having a kid together.

Attachment:
This won't be the last you hear of this.
=]
this seems legit, Accept
Decision posted.
Quote from LotBlind:
So you don't think the palace room warping should constitute a separation of categories? Also I noticed we currently have a "best ending w/ deaths" run but this run, while using deaths as a warp of sorts, doesn't have that category. Should any changes be made?

From how categories are defined on SDA, this run should be labeled "Any% with deaths" and is therefore different than the existing any% run on the site. However, almost every room has been improved in the new run (both in terms of execution and routing), so in my opinion this should obsolete the currently hosted any% run.

As for categories, I think there should be room for runs in the "Any% no death" category. I think that category won't be particularly popular, but around 2 min of the run (so ~1/3) will be completely different from the death abuse category.

Only the "normal" and "best" ending categories make sense. The other endings are not separate branches, just intermediate ones.

In my opinion, the following categories make the most sense:
* Any% with deaths and with warps (this submission)
* Any% without deaths and with warps (the currently hosted run)
* Best ending with deaths and with warps (currently hosted)

But as noted in the sdakb, there are other categories that have been run by other people and that could be acceptable.

Quote from IsraeliRD:
See the kb where it's mentioned that in the best ending you're revealed to be the king's son... and the princess ending means you marry her and have a child.

I could be wrong, but it's possible there is a translation issue when it comes to the family business. Maybe "son" refers to "son-in-law"?
Okay, changed the category and made it so the old any% will be obsoleted.