These save files are from the very first room of the game. They have a modified player name and the Punch Card in the first inventory slot, everything else is unmodified from the defaults. They can be created like this: Enable debug mode (instructions can be found in Undertale's speedrun guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSbtlfy6wLQxF_bkZD7hPXZCsnoq1KBPVsmaH3efIbTeBczo8fhZ5PD5Bfgd3w53QtnTG5OSmm1AwMr/pub#h.g7tnj6osgj3u). Make sure the save file folder is empty, then name yourself any name and start a new game. Once the first room loads, press S, then Z to create the save files. Open file0 in a text editor and change the following lines: Line 1: Change from the name you used when creating the save file toLine 13: Change from 0 to 26. (This puts the Punch Card, which has item ID 26, into the first inventory slot.)\TF \RB\F0U\F1T \E1HE\E2Y!\E3!\Ts \WT\E4od\E6ay\E7's\E8 T\E9AS\E5 i\F0s \F2sp\E3on\E2se\E1re\E0d \F0by\TF \RR\F3AI\E2D:\E3 \OS\E4H\YA\F0D\OO\F4W \YL\E1E\OG\E2E\YN\E3D\OS\E5,\Ts \Wo\E6ne\E7 o\E8f \E9th\F0e \F5bi\E7gg\E6es\E5t \E4mo\E3bi\E2le\E1 R\E0PG\F0s \F6of\E2 2\E302\E42!^1 \R1\E90 \Om\E6i\Yl\E7l\Gi\E8o\Bn\E5 u\Ps\F0e\Rr\F7s \Wh\E3av\E2e \E1jo\E0in\F0ed\F8 R\E2ai\E3d \E4ov\E5er\E6 t\E7he\E8 l\E9as\F0t \F96 \E7mo\E6nt\E5hs\E4, \E3an\E2d \E1it\E0 h\F0as\F3 a\E3n \E2al\E0mo\E2st\TF \RP\E3E\OR\E2F\YE\E0C\GT\E2 S\BC\E3O\PR\E2E\Ts \Wo\E0n \E2th\E3e \E2Pl\E0ay\E2 S\E3to\E2re\E0!!\E2!^2 %%
It might usually make sense if a faster TAS is made during judgement to reject the slower one, but I'm not convinced it makes sense to judge a 2019 TAS by comparing it to 2024 speedruns, especially when a large portion of the time save comes from newer versions of the game.
The issue with the Dandanator Mini is that it's a homebrew peripheral, and as such can be made to do pretty much anything. If it's just about loading times, we have SD card readers that just dump a snapshot of the game straight into memory - why bother with the cartridge emulation? If converting from tape to cartridge via a homebrew peripheral is allowed, can I just edit a tape file to remove the loading screen? There's less changes to code in doing that, and plenty of people did that back in the day. Personally I'd rather stick to "official" releases hardware-wise, and as close as we can get to that software-wise as well. As much as it's annoying seeing every microcomputer encode flooded with comments about the loading, I'd rather that than what's effectively starting with a savestate.
This functionality exists in the base game's "debug mode" in the form of the following code, which is executed every time F10 is pressed:The patch removes the global.debug check, so that pressing F10 toggles global.phasing (noclip) even if debug mode is disabled.if (global.debug == true) { global.interact = 0 if (global.phasing == 0) global.phasing = 1 else global.phasing = 0 }
Line 1: Change from the name you used when creating the save file to\TF \RB\F0U\F1T \E1HE\E2Y!\E3!\Ts \WT\E4od\E6ay\E7's\E8 T\E9AS\E5 i\F0s \F2sp\E3on\E2se\E1re\E0d \F0by\TF \RR\F3AI\E2D:\E3 \OS\E4H\YA\F0D\OO\F4W \YL\E1E\OG\E2E\YN\E3D\OS\E5,\Ts \Wo\E6ne\E7 o\E8f \E9th\F0e \F5bi\E7gg\E6es\E5t \E4mo\E3bi\E2le\E1 R\E0PG\F0s \F6of\E2 2\E302\E42!^1 \R1\E90 \Om\E6i\Yl\E7l\Gi\E8o\Bn\E5 u\Ps\F0e\Rr\F7s \Wh\E3av\E2e \E1jo\E0in\F0ed\F8 R\E2ai\E3d \E4ov\E5er\E6 t\E7he\E8 l\E9as\F0t \F96 \E7mo\E6nt\E5hs\E4, \E3an\E2d \E1it\E0 h\F0as\F3 a\E3n \E2al\E0mo\E2st\TF \RP\E3E\OR\E2F\YE\E0C\GT\E2 S\BC\E3O\PR\E2E\Ts \Wo\E0n \E2th\E3e \E2Pl\E0ay\E2 S\E3to\E2re\E0!!\E2!^2 %%
Here: https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638408691747048256
This patch modifies the game to allow pressing F10 to toggle noclip. This functionality is only used for a single frame of the TAS.
To start with the correct save file, copy all the files from the "start_save_files" folder from the archive into /home/<Your Username>/.config/UNDERTALE.
If you've run this movie past the first few hundred frames, you'll have to copy the files into /home/<Your Username>/.config/UNDERTALE again, every time.
While I wait for my TAS to finish being judged, I have made this other TAS of a SMW Creepypasta Hack. I would like to send it as a submission, but because of its gore I have doubts whether it will be admitted or directly canceled for this same reason. Is this Hack admissible? Link to video
To keep with the tradition of SMB3 TASes published so far, the PRG0 ROM is used. I remember using a PRG1 ROM in my previous runs (same as Acmlm), but I can't seem to find the exact ROM now...
And the movie doesn't sync on the fixed patch.