If you pay close attention to the score counter at that light, you'll see that my bomb kills it for the full 3 points on the same frame that I'm spotted (which is also the same frame it despawns after going off-screen behind you). After some testing it was confirmed that the light right before the tankers was the best one to get spotted by because there are only 4 lights left in the rest of the level and 27 extra enemies. Missing one causes extra enemies to spawn for the rest of the level at the cost of reducing the light's point value from 3 to 1. The biggest thing about this level are the search lights. The rest of the level is reasonably straight forward flying with long stretches of open space, so I use a bunch of boost to try and get through. There was no amount of boosting or braking to be able to get some of these birds with a distance shot, so I had to hit the whole group directly with a charge shot. The ones that appear closest to you are the ones that spawn last. Right near the start we have a bunch of bird spawns from the right. Holding Z Button and R Trigger will prevent lock on while charging laser.Press B instead to fire a locked on bomb.Down + C Down - U-turn (All-Range mode only).Z Button (Twice) - Barrel Roll to the Left.

R Trigger (Twice) - Barrel Roll to the Right.So, with naught but a vision, I loaded up the game and fired my first shot. It was during this project that I realized the only person to make my dream come true was me, and I finally had the skill set to do it. I even entered the fully 3D world of Blast Corps (another favorite of mine whose TAS didn't exist). In the meantime I kept doing project after project getting intimately familiar with BizHawk and a now second-nature workflow using TAStudio.

For whatever reason it never even occurred to me to simply 'Search' for a Star Fox TAS (I can't tell you why the brain works they way it does). I waited for years for a Star Fox TAS to grace my existence.

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