Given that the first warp to the southern continent relies on a specific emulator quirk (RNG seed that initializes ram to the coordinates necessary), I really don't know if this TAS is okay. It can't be console-verified in its current state.
It's just like starting from a saved game.
Edit:
Quotes from the rules:
http://tasvideos.org/MovieRules.html
Tools that manipulate ROM or RAM (e.g. Game Genie codes) are not allowed
They count as hacked versions of the game if they touch ROM areas. Either convert it to a real hack or don't use it at all.
No questionable emulator settings
The emulator should be set to emulate the system as closely as possible while still allowing the game to be played. You should not depend on a particular emulator hack to gain speed.
Does using a particularly selected RNG seed to initialize memory violate these two clauses?
In my opinion, relying on an emulator setting to initialize what is otherwise uninitialized memory is the same thing as using a game anchored from a saved game, and that usually means you need a verification movie (just walk to the correct spot on the overworld and reset?)
So this game was featured at AGDQ, showing off an awesome skip level glitch. The game has been submitted before, and has been rejected in the past due to "Bad Game Choice". (As far as I know, TASvideos hasn't done that since they introduced the vault.)
Obviously, the current rejected runs can't be published since they don't beat the AGDQ speedrun. ('Must beat existing records' rule)
The HQx series is nowhere near the XBR series.
XBRZ and SuperXBR are the leaders for now, depending on what you are scaling.
Screenshot of Sonic 1 using 4xBRZ:
http://i.imgur.com/Ri9o177.png
Quick question for hyper: why did you not use FFM? Was it a stylistic choice because you prefer to start from clean RAM? Or was FFM discovered after you had started the TAS? (Or maybe it was both?)
The answer to that is in the video with comments.
If he used FFM, it would have to start from a savestate with verification video.
Or it would have to start from playing through Grunty's Lair on a pre-saved SRAM, then trigger the glitch, and that would be the first few minutes of the TAS.
You can't start TASs from a savestate here.
Did anyone calculate what the equivalent time would be for the existing published run if it were of the Japanese version instead of the US version?
I wonder if the people are actually doing that, and that is the holdup on publishing this.
Maybe I've just been spoiled to death by submissions with huge novels for submission texts that describe everything in exquisite detail, but I am really lost as to what is going on in glitchland. Anyone care to explain it?
