Posts for Aftermath

Posted: 4/16/2011 12:50 AM
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Aftermath
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Joined: 10/29/2009
Posts: 3
Neat, I enjoyed the boss rush. Not sure if you're looking to refine your attempt, but there's a faster TAS here: http://bbs.cvcv.net/thread-57790-1-1.html I think most of your strats are a bit faster though, except Aguni and Abaddon, but the Bat movement through the doors ends up saving that half second or so between your times. How do you manage to throw so many Killer Clowns? Looked like something with switching Doppelganger, but I'm not sure. Last question is, what's goes on in the Paranoia fight? I might be trying to improve my current boss rush with some of your strats if I can wrap my head around them. Quite impressed with how much the game can be sped up (12 seconds faster than my best boss rush), and the variety needed for it as well.
Posted: 11/3/2010 3:38 PM
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Aftermath
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Joined: 10/29/2009
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Question on a technique. There's a lot of places where you get infinite jumps by attacking, switching, and jumping again (wait cube room is easiest example). How exactly does that work? Can you tell me what the frame timings are for each of the necessary steps? Also, you say there's no need for the statue in that room anyway, what do you do to skip it? Thanks for making that test run tas, was very enjoyable to watch
Posted: 10/29/2009 8:40 AM
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Aftermath
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Joined: 10/29/2009
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If you want to start a Hard Mode run from scratch, set any of these addresses to 0x01. 
File 1 - 0x0210AA2A
File 2 - 0x0210AA2B
File 3 - 0x0210AA2C
It sets a CLEAR flag on the save file, even if you haven't started a game. This is all that's necessary to start a Hard Mode game from scratch, the following is just to fix a couple problems that crop up from carrying over non-existent data. You'll probably want to modify these addresses to these values, 
0x020F7228    0x0008
0x020F722A    0x0100
0x020F722C    0x0200
0x020F722E    0x0004
0x020F7230    0x0001
0x020F7232    0x0002
This sets the control scheme to default. If you start a New Game from the clear option, it will try to write the values from the existing save, resulting in blanks for all of them. Also, it's necessary after starting to set 0x020F7255 to 0x00 in order to get the auto-equip and the extra dialogs, but I think you already knew that. Here is a code for AR that will set it to 0 when you start from the CLEAR icon. 
920F7254 F0FF0F00
220F7255 00000000
D2000000 00000000
One other thing of interest is the save file's time values: 
File 1 - 0x0210AA58
File 2 - 0x0210AA5C
File 3 - 0x0210AA60

The format for the save time is value /60 = time in seconds.