Just hope the two submissions are not nearly identical.
For computer games, environment settings explicitly supported by the game or its documentation are allowed.
- If a setting is not mentioned in any way, it's allowed if it doesn't cause significant glitches.
(It's fine now)
Hello, TIC-80 should be added to https://tasvideos.org/Movies now that there is a movie. Thank you!
Although I'm not 100% sure, I think that input on DOS uses a maskable interrupt rather than polling, i.e. it actually interrupts the processor in much the same way that, say, vblank would on a NES. That means that if you press a key, it's handled as soon as the keyboard manages to communicate that fact to the processor – there's no "poll once a frame" or equivalent. The limiting factor on luck manipulation speed is therefore the rate at which the keyboard is able to send the "a key was pressed" message.
Oh, I didn't know about that route. Yes, that route is faster. The file with the improvements applied: https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638509571823584872
The three chapters are all separate games, which means I can't TAS them one after the other without making separate submissions. You bring up Henry Stickmin, which is a good comparison because the chapters in that series are also separate games (unless you factor in the collection, which doesn't even exist for the Impossible Quiz.
Bad Ending is triggered by finishing the game with zero money left. The current way of doing this is achieving exactly $6,000,000 and healing twice (You can heal yourself at any time in the game by pressing "select" (assumed you have at least $3,000,000))
Why do you take the lower route here? It cost you 54 realtime frames because you have to go back and forth (causing 2 more screen transitions).
3 in-game frames are lost due to the new timesave, because you start the next level facing backwards. But there's also 3 frames lost here:
During the next level IGT difference is reduced to 15 frames, hard to tell why, because the strats look identical?
On this screen the improvement is reduced to just 2 IGT frames:
2 IGT frames are gained back before the next level starts. During the rest of the game the difference becomes 11 IGT frames of overall improvement.