[TAS] Donkey Kong Country 3 (GBA) - 103% Tool-assisted Speedrun

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Avanor

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Published on February 15, 2018 7:17:25 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mlYlrd8q2U

Game:

Donkey Kong Country 3 (1995)

Duration: 2:12:19

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This is a Tool-assisted speedrun.
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I started working on this TAS more because of wanting to do another TAS, and 103% was the last "normal" category that was left for me to do.

There were some aspects that scared me, especially the huge amount of RNG when it comes to certain stages, bosses, and most of all the bonus-levels with the green bananas.
However, I can gladly say that I found ways to manipulate the RNG, which is one of the more timesaving parts of this project.
Of course the movement was way more optimized, and even though there might be mistakes and a lot of stuff to improve on, I am really happy with the result as I put a lot of effort into this.

After my any% TAS of this game, I already had rough ideas of the strats I wanted to use for this run. But I have to say that I found so many new and also cool-looking strats, which also saved time, that I enjoyed the work more and more as I went deeper into the run.
Before I started, I created a route for the Bear-Coins. 75 is the amount I needed, with at least 50 after World 5. Because of stupidity I ended up having 76, but that's alright I guess.
And as I said before, there is definitely room for improvement, even though this is far more than just a Human Theory TAS.

I hoped to be able to use more glitches, but unfortunately that didn't really work out. Some Time-Stops were useful, but that's pretty much it.

If there are any questions, feel free to leave a comment.
Have fun watching!

Game: Donkey Kong Country 3 (Gameboy Advance)
Emulator: BizHawk 1.12.2.1
RTA timing: 2:10:52.37 (471,142 frames)
TAS timing: 2:11:31.48 (471,489 frames)

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