Is it possible to pull this glitch off on NESHawk? I think that is supposed to be cycle-accurate.
At approx 1:28 (of the encode video), on the 2nd green tile after exiting the city, I get an encounter with some kind of red blob (lol idk what the enemies are in this game). After fighting for a few moments, it exits the battle, moves around a bit, and then encounters a blue blob. The location of the encounters and seemingly the battles themselves, all appear to be consistent between attempts.
I do not have the equipment necessary to initialize Work RAM; although given the consistency of the desyncs, I feel it's unlikely that initializing RAM would help (unless this is one of the rare cases where the Everdrive menu happens to consistently set values that the game depends on for RNG). In the past, I've tried and failed to verify the existing publication of this game, too. Perhaps it could be something on my end, some quirk that my device doesn't handle, honestly I don't know.
Maybe try on NESHawk? If the run syncs on two emulators that is probably a good sign, but idk
Reading a nominally "write-only" register returns the latch's current value, as do the unused bits of PPUSTATUS. This value begins to decay after a frame or so, faster once the PPU has warmed up, and it is likely that values with alternating bit patterns (such as $55 or $AA) will decay faster.
Thanks for all the help, ViGadeomes! All 3 movies have value. The GB version is the original most basic one, GBC has the shortest gameplay, and GBA is console verifiable.I personally lean towards preferring the console verification aspect. EDIT: If we're going to replace the movie with either resync, ViGadeomes's name may make sense to add to authors, due to research and work he contributed to this project. TaoTao, what do you think?
Mode Startup Gameplay Overall GB 628 1049 1686 GBC 480 1018 1507 GBA 494 1065 1568
The unitialized RAM states are effectively the same as on real consoles, the GB/C emulation is very very good and CasualPokePlayer confirmed me that the uninit RAM has no emulation problems when I asked him to be sure.
it is actually possible on a real GBC to play this game and it doesn't seem to have any noticeable audio, video or gameplay-affecting glitches, so I think it makes it allowable in this mode. I could be wrong tho. This point is this way to let people choose the best official platform that officialy support games from other platforms to play on. Anyway, I don't feel this improvement totally fair and I can ask to not be credited as co-author even with my improvement replacement over your version if you don't accept it.
The improvement is big compared to the previous run thanks to the new strat and I wasn't able to improve the run in its current form. It makes it a solid 1679 frames improvement compared to the previous TAS (as a note the previous run doesn't press the last input to get to the "Leaving Las Vegas" screen while this one does). The very detailed explanation of how the RNG works makes it very eazy to verify which is appreciated ! I first tried to convert the movie in GBA mode to make the run console verified one day. Sadly, the TAS was desyncing due to the initial frame counter value beeing different because of the uninitialized RAM (00 in GB mode, 50 in GBA mode & 7F in GBC mode). The GBC mode was the best initial value which saved 31 frames gameplay-wise (not counting BIOS time differences) thanks to the different RNG. I also tried the $1 slot route on the 3 modes thanks to the extra informations TaoTao gave me but it wasn't worth it.
Hello TaoTao, this is a very nice improvement to begin with ! Could you elaborate a little more on this point ? I can't link the reel value to the jackpot on the $1 slot machine. I was able to get a different & better starting value for the frame counter by using the GBC mode and been able to save some frames & would like to test the $1 slot machine route just to be sure. Then I'll post my Review ! Thanks in advance.
Thank you again for your efforts. Is it possible that a slot jackpot exists that could be solved for?
400000 mod 65536 = 6784. I have nothing to say further.
For reference, I put a solver (examples/poker_royal.rs) to get a royal flush. (solution)
| Ending | Condition (dec) | Condition (hex) |
| Bus | 0 | 0x0 |
| Taxi | 1 ..= 4863 | 0x1 ..= 0x12FF |
| Green car | 4864 ..= 11775 | 0x1300 ..= 0x2DFF |
| Orange car | 11776 ..= 65535 | 0x2E00 ..= 0xFFFF |
| Limousine | 65536 ..= 131071 | 0x10000 ..= 0x1FFFF |
| Red sports car | 131072 .. | 0x20000 .. |
| Address | Type | Description |
| $A7 | u8 | money ($100 units) |
| $A8 | u8 | money ($25 units) |
| $A9 | u8 | money ($10 units) |
| $AA | u8 | money ($5 units) |
| $AB | u8 | money ($1 units) |
| $0621 | u24le | calculated money (modifying this has no effect) |
| $077E | u8 | money ($25500 units) |
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Hello, I was derusting this game and trying a few of the tas zips in TaoTao's video. For the Stage 9-2 one I am able to zip into the wall after getting boosted off the enemy, but I am not zipping out of bounds like the tas. At first I was just getting kicked out instantly until I figured out holding up+left will keep me in the wall until I get damaged again. After that the game decides to eject me out of the wall granted with more distance then if I just held down+left. I was hoping if TaoTao was still around or if anyone else that is interested could tell me what inputs are being done during this zip so I could see whether this is humanly possible to pull off. I would greatly appreciate it. Here is a vod of my best attempt at doing it so far. https://youtu.be/g-iH95-XjJg