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As far as I'm aware, all of the current routes are optimized for real-time, not in-game. If I recall correctly, nearly 2 minutes can be saved with an in-game time route.
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janus wrote:
you think you can beat me? good luck!
... Dude, be nice the the newbie. No run is perfect.
Looking for any scripts or technical data anyone can supply. I got all the stuff gamefaqs has to offer, and it doesn't amount to much. I'm specifically looking for ways to read the game state, ie, memory offsets of in game variables and anything to do with memory layout. I want to try botting with lua, and this is the game I picked to work on. (The FFs are better documented and probably would have been a better choice, but I haven't played this game in a while. =)
I don't know any of that information, but I do sincerely wish you the best of luck. :)
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A little bit of an update, I've been crunching numbers, but because of generally apathy, I haven't actually hunkered down and wrote a working lua script.
Some interesting things from testing.
Being hit pushes you 6 frames worth pixels faster than regular walking.
There's three ways to gain back health:
a) Every screen transition you're assumed to be resting for one frame, which means if the value of 7E0490 and 491 are in the correct range, you gain 1 HP and/or 1MP.
b) Waste two frames stuttering every 18 frames. You gain 1 HP AND 1 MP per 2 frames
c) Allow the boss to refill your health after battle, wastes two frames per HP and two frames per MP.
So damage is only worth it if (Damage) - (Screen Transitions) < 3
MP usage is only beneficial if it saves you at least 2 frames per MP, OR you need to regain HP anyway because you took damage to save time.
On which level and final equipment should be selected:
The Moon Blade @ level 21: 10964 frames estimated
The Moon Blade @ level 22: 10640 frames estimated
The Moon Blade @ level 23: 10544 frames estimated
The Moon Blade @ level 24: 10472 frames estimated
The Force Blade @ level 21: 12284 frames estimated
The Force Blade @ level 22: 11576 frames estimated
The Force Blade @ level 23: 10976 frames estimated
The Force Blade @ level 24: 10796 frames estimated
The Magic Blade @ level 21: 13424 frames estimated
The Magic Blade @ level 22: 12488 frames estimated
The Magic Blade @ level 23: 12296 frames estimated
The Magic Blade @ level 24: #DIV/0! (Green Evil Spirit is not defeatable because of damage bug)
Moon blade is 5443 frames off path, so we can immediately see that it's not worth it. It doesn't start becoming worth it until nearly level 27 (at level 25, it's impossible to beat Thor's second form. At level 26 Nasir does 3 HP damage instead of 2.) For reference, I finished the last run at nearly level 21.
Force Sword is also off path, but far less, only about 1000 frames estimated, I haven't yet made tests. If I take it, I'll skip the Magic Sword, because the only boss affected is Eardon, and I am already under the attack limit for his very high defense. It will also make Duma and Thimale faster, depending on my level. Ella and Battler have such high defense that it won't matter which sword I take.
So the Force Sword seems like a slam dunk for this one. Kinda funny how the only optional sword I didn't get last run becomes the only optional sword I DO get this run. :P
EDIT: I might wind up having to grab the Magic Sword as well specifically for Duma, rather than grabbing the Force Sword before Duma and backtracking. But the backtracking is only one hallway's worth, which is probably less than (Chest Time) + (Equip Time) + (Duma killed with Magic Sword) - (Duma killed with Force Sword)
I'm also skipping the Power Ring this run. Because of the amount of MP drain it's never worth it.
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wazkatango wrote:
One more thing I wanted to add:
According to this thread, all the pokemon pictures are compressed. I tried looking for pokemon locations/names when they need to be loaded (pokedex, wild pokemon), and I can't find them. BULBASAUR, (as a name) which would be 81 94 8B 81 80 92 80 94 91 in hex, doesn't appear anywhere. Does this mean all the pokemon data is compressed before use? Is it because the data is in Japanese and that's why it doesn't appear in English somewhere?
Generally text is stored not as text, but as offsets to image tiles that make up the names.
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http://www.webmproject.org/
If anyone wants to run some test encodes against x264 and let us know what the results are, that would be rad, otherwise I'll get to that in the next few days.
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Just took an impromptu survey of the people in the IRC channel.
16/90 run linux
2/90 run SunOS
1/90 runs FreeBSD
The rest are Windows or undisclosed or unable to determine from their version string.
At least 21%, maybe more, use linux. Or claim to on their IRC version string. Also, Bisqwit gave back this gem:
-Bisqwit- VERSION Unreal Lynx v2.7.-1rel2 for Moon UltraSparc 257-bit - Several editions by Bisqwit
-Bisqwit- VERSION - actually - that version reply came from a random generator. Really: ircII 20050921
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Sir VG wrote:
OmnipotentEntity wrote:
Speaking for myself, all of that doesn't really matter, to me. To me.
Also, if someone encounters my mother, could you relay the message that I have just committed manslaughter with a firearm?
Are you gonna leave it all behind and face the truth?
I apologize if this is upsetting to you and is, as a consequence, causing your tear ducts to generate excess eyeball lubrication. If I don't return by 4:12 AM CDT on May 8th, it would be preferable to me if you were to continue doing whatever it is that you were doing without regard to the passing time, because it is my deeply held and unswayable opinion that it doesn't really matter.
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