If you really wanted the TAS to beat Red, you could always glitch a Level 1 Geodude and underflow it from level 1 to 100 (yes Experience Underflow works in GSC too). You still are beating RED, it's just that the battle ends instantly because you don't have any Pokemon in your party.
against the Scyther, you 2HKO it without crits, doesn’t that mean that you could OHKO with a crit, considering crit is 2× damage? or does the boosted Rage attack not activate on the first turn, but only in the second, so in the first turn you can’t do as much damage as in 2 turns?
So, I have two XBox 360 controllers that I got to work with my laptop, and I use them to play on my rr emulators. Now suppose I was going to TAS a two player game of River City Ransom, for example. How would I go about such using controllers and not the keyboard? I already know: - Make 1P and 2P directions the same for one part - Save states for optimization I suppose it'd be a bit difficult but not impossible. Suggestions?
About the text boxes: I'm answering from memory here, and I never seriously looked into that feature of Trainer-Fly, so don't rely on this too heavily, but the way it works is basically that it stores the text box to play when engaging a trainer, to play it when he finally walked up to you (not sure what the address was, but it should be reasonably easy to find it). When trainer-flying, you overwrite the value when fighting other trainers or do stuff like talking to NPCs. After a battle the value is reset to 0, which opens the main menu instead. If you want any specific text box, you would need to manipulate that byte to be the text you want. If you're adventurous, you might even try to get an invalid text ID in to setup arbitrary code execution, but that's just an idea (I might acutally look into some time), it will probably not work that way.
My currently published TAS uses this strat, I even pointed it out in the submission text. Talking to oak from the side is even faster than from behind, I believe it was 2 frames, but not exactly sure anymore. Also, it saves only about 15 frames compared to talking to Oak from below (3 extra steps, but 2 less steps from the rival). Also, grats to Werster.
The new change would be to 1. battle the rocket 2. pick up TM01 3. get ether 4. get mew 5. teach TM01 to mew 6. let [Pokemon] gain 54 special EV by switching out 7. level up mew to 10 with mega punch and learn transform.
There is no Poke Ball in Mt. Moon.
I've also been thinking about the "no glitched warps" category and I was wondering what the "no glitched warps" category specifies. Does no glitched warps mean that only wrong warping is banned? If the above is true, then would other glitches such as "Item Underflow" and "ZZAZZ glitch" as long as the player does not wrong warp?
I've also found a faster way to get Mew: 1. Perform a Black-Out Trainer Fly on any trainer except the Lass with Clefairy.
2. Walk into Mt. Moon and enter the bottom floor where the ether is. 3. Battle the rocket and let him walk to you. 4. Pick up the Ether. 5. Get an encounter for a level 12 Clefairy. The clefairy should have a special DV of 7, 8, 9 or 10. 6. Walk up to the first floor. 7. Get Mew.
Also, I was thinking about instead of using Charmander for the box data, you would use another Pokemon, say Pidgey. You would manipulate the DVs as usual, and in order to have 0x36, you would have Pidgey in front, battle 2 paras but switch out to charmander to split the EV from 55 to 27, which would then be 54.
Recently, I figured out a way to get Mew in Mt. Moon, although it is slightly complicated. This could possibly save time rather than Trainer-Flying on Route 24, and lead to a faster TAS.
2. Don't PC save and quit. Instead, go inside Mt. Moon and pick up the ether required for the Cooltrainer move. (not neccesary to actually find mew)
3. Set up a blackout Trainer-Fly with the youngster. 6. Your Start menu should pop up, and it'll bring an encounter for a level 6 Gengar. The Gengar needs to have 21 special, or else it won't bring Mew up.
2. Defeat level 2 Pidgey with a critical. This allows to jump from level 6 to 8 after the Weedle fight and allowing you to get ember earlier. (It has to be a pidgey, because special EVs are different from current route.)
Note that I'm not entirely sure if this would work, because Metapod's Data could crash the game.
When activating Trainer-Fly in Viridian Forest, wouldn't it be more efficient to black out against a wild Pokemon that already has the appropriate Special stat? It would save you an encounter.
Also, what do you mean "after you finish River City Ransom"? Was there an improvement to the TAS that just got published?
Nice! Knowing this game, there's almost certainly a way of getting arbitrary code execution out of this.
They talked to him from that position and fought, causing the trainer to stay there. It took over an hour for all the stream's team to faint from random encounter battles.
It's Sod's Law that you can get all the Poison-type third-stage Pokemon early game, when those are precisely the ones that prevent WtW abuse.
So to clarify, Snorlax doesn't disappear if you cancel a Trainer-Fly by saving and resetting? Just when I thought I'd actually had a good idea for once...
Actually, there is one other place I have thought of where Trainer-PC may be worth it, it depends on the effect saving/resetting after a Trainer-Fly has been set up has on Snorlax... My idea is to first acquire the Bike Voucher, then to Trainer-Fly (by Abra's Teleport) off the first Trainer in Route 11 (having set the warp point to Cerulean, where it would naturally be anyway at that point in the route), and save/reset. That way you can pick up the Bicycle and cycle back to Vermilion to progress, whereas otherwise you'd have to walk (because you couldn't access the menu). You also skip the Trainer-Fly "wild" encounter you'd normally get to unlock the menu again, and the otherwise mandatory fight versus the Gambler just before the gate to Route 12. Of course none of this works if save/resetting to deactivate a Trainer-Fly doesn't remove Snorlax. EDIT: Oh derp, much more obviously than all that, it may well save time on Route 25.
I can post a beta build of 1.6.0 later this week which won't have any problems with the UI freezing because the cause of that problem was the approach I use to mix the OS X and Windows UI's. The next release will just have the windows UI (which will work fine on OS X, it just won't look right) until a native OS X UI is ready. Work has begun on a fully native OS X UI, but it's going to be vastly inferior to the Windows version for a long time since I'll need to re-implement features that are in the Windows version from scratch.
Somehow this reminds me of a little experiment I did quite many years on a usenet forum. I wanted to create a collaboration chess game: I set up a chess game, and every day people could suggest moves and vote for moves, and the move with the most votes would then be performed. The next day it would be the same for the "other player". The intent was not to win anything, but to see what kind of game would result from this voting system. (And my purpose was to create a game that was as good as possible, ie. both "players" playing as strongly as possible, via the cooperation of many people.) It went quite well for a while, but unfortunately it ended before even the first game was even half-way through. Many people lost interest, and some other people started kind of "soft-boycotting" the entire project by suggesting and voting for deliberately bad moves in order to make it "more interesting". I didn't want one of the "players" making deliberately bad moves, so at some point I just ended the whole project. Quite a pity, really. I wonder if this idea could work here.
Once execution reaches while true do ... end, it will never leave (unless you use break or something). So the first while true do ... end and everything before it should not be there. It should be more like this:Note: math.random(n), where n is an integer, returns a random integer from 1 to n.local buttons = {"Start"} local keyinput={} while true do r=math.random(1000) for key,value in pairs(buttons) do if r==1 then keyinput[value]=true else keyinput[value]=false end end joypad.set(keyinput) emu.frameadvance() end
local buttons = {"A","B","Up","Left","Down","Right"}
local state = {true,false}
local keyinput={}
while true do
for key,value in pairs(buttons) do
keyinput[value]=state[math.random(2)]
end
joypad.set(keyinput)
endlocal buttons = {"Start"}
local state = {true,false}
local keyinput={}
while true do
for key,value in pairs(buttons) do
keyinput[value]=state[math.random(1000)]
end
joypad.set(keyinput)
emu.frameadvance()
endlocal buttons = {"A","B","Up","Left","Down","Right"}
local state = {true,false}
local keyinput={}
while true do
for key,value in pairs(buttons) do
keyinput[value]=state[math.random(2)]
end
joypad.set(keyinput)
end
local buttons = {"Start"}
local state = {true,false}
local keyinput={}
while true do
for key,value in pairs(buttons) do
keyinput[value]=state[math.random(1000)]
end
joypad.set(keyinput)
emu.frameadvance()
end