As the Bizhawk team will be adding PSX support in version 2.0, I think we should not publish our PCSX movie and do the run again on the new Bizhawk emulator when 2.0 comes out and when the developers are given the OK to TAS on BizHawk. I have been testing PSX core on the betas and it looks promising that we'll get better results and better frame rate than PCSX. So until then we will have a finished PCSX movie that we will use to guide us when making the BizHawk movie.
Unless the TAS abuses a difference in emulation between the two emulators, it's fine to publish it since you started it before Bizhawk got PSX support.
Of course, if you were planning on redoing/improving the run anyway, this is a good excuse to!
some of the fangames have savewarping as AN INTENDED MECHANIC.
I wanna be the Boshy is infamous for this. you cannot beat the game without savewarping.
Although the kind of savewarping you do in Boshy leaves you in the same spot you saved but you get your double jump back.
Update: I tested running this game on Octoshock (PSXHawk). It went through the Merlin/first clock cutscene as well as the end-of-stage scenes with Merlin with no problems, so I'm assuming it will work for the rest of the game as well. Looks like TASing this game will finally be possible.
Could you make a detailed explanation of the 'chip enemies before homing missiling them' mechanic, and how to maximize point gain using it? A few people I talked to were confused about how exactly it works.
How many shots should you fire?
Should you use same colour or different colour?
If you only half overlap with an enemy you hit it with only one half of your shot, is this useful to get more points?
Well, I took a look at it again, and I couldn't get any difference in points between using the shot, the laser or both to kill enemies. So it must have been a mistake in the first place, you cannot get different points by how you kill enemies, sorry.
Basically, one shot gives 10 points when on the same color and 20 for opposite color. One laser gives 100 points for same color if it doesn't kill the enemy, 200 points for opposite color. If the enemy has low heath, the laser gives the amount of points depending on the remaining heath.
Ok, got it. Shame, it was a cool sounding mechanic :)
Is there a table which shows what powerup you get at each PI number?
I didn't understand your question, can you elaborate more?
You can use the PI glitch to get 256 different values, right?
Has everyone tested each of these values, documented the effects and made a list of it all?
Could you make a detailed explanation of the 'chip enemies before homing missiling them' mechanic, and how to maximize point gain using it? A few people I talked to were confused about how exactly it works.
How many shots should you fire?
Should you use same colour or different colour?
If you only half overlap with an enemy you hit it with only one half of your shot, is this useful to get more points?
I thought that was only a softlock?
Btw, how does the crash in that nicovideo TAS work? I have no way to translate the japanese explanation (well, I'd have to transcribe it into unicode - and as non japanese speaker that will take forever)
