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Very nice!

Marble Blast Advanced Beginner Levels

Pulled off all of these yesterday. All can be done better but I don't have the time to improve on many of them right now.

Songs: Nightwish - Stargazers and Nightwish - Wish I Had an Angel

All were just plain fast

Impressive job, now try the Intermediate

Sometime later.

Well done

Great runs!

Jump jump jump (2.389) [end screen]

Finally got around to uploading these (I got both times in January)…

There are two ways to do this path, the one used depends on what happens to the marble after the TT catch. Both get 2.38.

1. If the marble keeps going after the catch and doesn't hit the pole that the TT is on, then wall-hit and catch another of those TTs, then continue normally

2. If the marble hits the pole and goes to the right, wall-hit on the pole or the wall and catch the next TT

When I first got a 2.38 catch, I didn't know either path tweak (I could have used #2), so I missed the time.



To the Moon (3.899) [end screen]

I got this by complete surprise…

I don't think this can be beaten (maybe a better 3rd decimal place)

I have 2.380 on video (Jump jump jump).

If it's on MBG .rec give it to Matan.

Nice, guys!

iMac, you should do some custom level videos sometime.

I did give it to Matan (or Pascal, can't remember), along with Gyrocopter 2.788, but he hasn't acknowledged it.

I didn't recieve ur .rec yet

Marble Blast Levels X

As promised, here's Marble Blast Levels X. Hope you enjoy it, it'll be my last levels video until probably after winter break… I probably spent more time per level on average than with any other Marble Blast Levels video.

There and Back Again (8.90): I finally tried the WR path and after a while managed to pull a 9.21, then this run.
Possible improvement: 0.25

Monster Speedway Qualifying (17.79): Last October I got a 18.02 with this path and since then I had trouble pulling it off. Recently I tried again and managed a lucky 17.79. The Super Speed to the 3rd gem is basically a curved path, in order to get to the next Super Speed properly.
Possible improvement: ≈0.2

To the Moon (3.95): Just trying to get sub-4 on video.

Twisting the Night away (19.68): I needed as much speed as I could from 5th gem to the finish platform, while not overshooting the 6th gem. Finish was lucky too.
Possible improvement: 0.3

Survival of the Fittest (9.48): I spent hours trying to beat my 10.32, with no luck (I got a 10.3x and several other 10.xx's). Then I got this low pop. I pulled back to try and hit the top of the diamond scenery pole, and missed. That was a good thing, because I then hit the near side of the pole below it, and rebounded upward barely missing the grey pole. I bounced on the finish slope but that didn't send me OOB.
Possible improvement: 0.5 (regular trap path)

Path of Least Resistance (3.92): The annoying part is getting the right jumps after the second edge hit, as well as doing the first edge hit properly for a quick TT catch (this one was a bit slow)
Possible improvement: 0.25 (it's quite hard for me to get sub-3.2 on the 1st TT)

Natural Selection (6.81): Probably my favorite run here. I was aiming for 7.06 (previous PR = 7.24) but I suddenly hit this time. I got as close to the left edge for the trap so I didn't have to move as much towards the finish after the trap.
Oh, and jumping in the trap does help!
Possible improvement: 0.1

Flight of the Marble (10.04): Made for the MBP WRR2 (before it got beat). This was all about the 2nd diamond catch and the 2nd Helicopter.
Possible improvement: 0.02 unless you do sign hit

Busy Bee (8.59): Caused me so much annoyances when I was more of a noob (I remember raging at the level when I could barely get PT (15.00)), so I decided to beat it now. Got a 8.59, which can go down especially if I don't get as much height after the stalk, but it's still good.
Possible improvement: 0.2

Learn the Edge Hit (3.46): Tried this path after my 7.xx in Marble Blast Levels 8 and got a 3.9 or so. Then I lowered my time to 3.6x or so, then 3.46. I got a really good last gem catch which I didn't get in my 3.6x run.
Possible improvement: 0.15

Keep on Rollin' (6.76): I can't do the wall-hit path (or at least I can't be bothered to try), so I tried to find a path faster than the regular 7.xx path. Some experimentation gave me this path that steadily got me 6.76 from a low 7.
At the time of the video I thought this would be quite hard for me to beat with this path, but afterwards I used two additional tweaks that brought my time down to a quick 6.46. Can you figure out what these tweaks are? (One of them is not specific to this path, and therefore is already well known.)
Personal record: 6.46
Possible improvement: up to 0.1 on top of that

Marvelous!

TRAPS PWN. If I am not mistaken, but if your using a keyboard for your camera, then your pretty good with it. Seems smooth and fast imo. SotF was my favorite, and nonetheless all were amazing too. Nice work iMac, loved it.

Outstanding!

Excellent runs! SotF was amazing to watch.

[No Gems] Sand Storm (1.90)

So I saw powerjohn25's video of No Gems (diamonds) Sand Storm, which used a TM catch then a traplaunch. Since I didn't get the TM back when I did my No Gems compilation, his time was much better than my 6.82. And then in his video, he made a big deal out of beating me. I saw that as a challenge…

I got 2.04 within 10 minutes but I wanted a better time. After like an hour of not getting traps, I got this. The 1.90 catch is rare (and I haven't gotten a better catch), and so I was very shocked when I trapped for real on this run.

I jump when I go in the small cave where the TM is, so the marble doesn't rebound out.

That was an AWESOME launch. Where is john's vid, btw? Just curious

Oct 12, 2010, 7:37pm, admin wrote:That was an AWESOME launch. Where is john's vid, btw? Just curious

…stay until the end

Oh my god, that is the funniest shit ever. I expected something else but LOL. Still, your vid is a ton better!

An awesome traplaunch indeed.

Great launch!

stfu powerjohn omg... Learn not to brag your life out when you pwn sum1 in a video game

Oct 13, 2010, 11:35am, xelna wrote:stfu powerjohn omg... Learn not to brag your life out when you pwn sum1 in a video game

PC Game FYI.

Nice job iMac, I like how you look forward to challenges, cuz you like being on top. That's nice.
Great Trap, impressive.

LMAO seriously epic stuff.

It's called a video game, yuri

I think you mean Nanu, but I don't think you're the first person to mix them up.

Oct 13, 2010, 11:23pm, marblefire wrote:I think you mean Nanu, but I don't think you're the first person to mix them up.

How'd you mix us two up LOL?
That's k, we all make mistakes

Hard to explain... you two just remind me of each other for some reason.