I'm looking forward to a Tomba 2 TAS. A few questions:
1) Do illegal d-pad combinations (u+d, l+r, u+d+l and so on) do anything interesting? Check in every 'movement state', menu and so on.
2) Have you found the memory addresses for x/y speed and position? In some games running with the directional button held down is not the fastest way to move under TAS conditions, due to oscillating speeds you can freeze (super mario world) or acceleration/top speed being different in the air or slopes or land.
(Is it standard to notate 1 frame in a 20 fps game as 3 frames?)
I think it is. Mupen only counts in 60 frames per second while TASing those games. There's also a lot of lag in some places, so counting that way is a lot easier to understand.
Ah, I see - a few of the splits were not multiples of 3 frames. That is due to lag?
Game absolutely obliterated and squeezed for every precious frame - every superslide, every damage boost, every unbelievable clip, plus Extreme Cucco Herding 2013 (for PC and XBox 360). I was surprised so many times in a great way. Yes.
(Is it standard to notate 1 frame in a 20 fps game as 3 frames?)
A few ideas that aren't ideal solutions:
-Running the game inside a virtual machine
-Running the game on an old machine or laptop (laptops in particular let you adjust the CPU speed, or I think you can underclock desktop PCs in the bios settings too?)
-Running the game alongside a program, such as Cpukiller, which tries to throttle CPU (I remember using this to cheat at Neopets flash games back in the day, not sure if it still works well)
If the game runs at a consistent frame rate you could make macros and scripts to automate input for you. Then it would be a 'script-assisted speedrun' like some of the Half Life runs.
The old Chrono Trigger glitched TAS resets during save, corrupts the universe and destroys all gaming sanity in order to win as fast as possible.
http://tasvideos.org/1285M.htmlLink to video
Definitely a fav of mine, much flashier than the faster but not as glitchy movie that obsoleted it :)
How would bizhawk tingle tuner + dolphin work from a TASing perspective? bizhawk would freeze and frame advance dolphin at the same speed it is, or vice versa?
Are you looking to learn TASing by doing a game that is well studied, has tricks and runs to learn from, etc. or to do a game that no one has invested TASing effort into before?
If the former, you could always do any one of the 'Super Mario Advance' series
Thank you for your answers! I'm currently unable to find a ROM with a "[!]" tag for the game I want to TAS. Is there a specific source to get ROMs from?
We aren't allowed to distribute roms here or talk about where to get them. (Google around.)
