The brain fails at estimating risks
If you're looking for a game to run, pick one you play or played a lot, so you know all the tricks and glitches to run through it crazy fast. Maybe no one's done it yet. You won't know until you look.
So jlun2, hows your run goin?
Well, you should probably face robo patrick at least before you face spongebot steelpants, because then you can beat spongebot super fast with the cruise bubble and be able to pass the part with the brain holes much more easily. You can skip it if you know how to get enough spatulas to get into the chum bucket, but then you should probably face robo pat so that its easier. Just a thought.
I mean you could copy parts by having both emulators open, snes playing the movie, desmume recording, and you could copy button inputs frame for frame, unless you find a faster way, and make sure the snes run wasnt using the 2p wheel trick at the part you want to use.
BTW, in Battletoads & Double Dragon there's a cheat that gives 10 lives. It would be useful for a Playaround. Is that not acceptable too?
So I got 12:67 on "the caged shin sprite" (3 frames faster than ReneBalow) but apparently the the crane in Ricco Harbor can be in different places because of rng, and well, Dolphin seems to be incapable of having the same rng twice seeing as how every time I play back the dtm the crane is in a different spot <_<, I guess in theory I could have it play back right if a try long enough, but fuck that.
As far as the Atari 2600, Pitfall 2 has it's own sound chip in the cartridge which allowed to to have the catchy music that was in it and it is possibly ripe for TAS. Pitfall 1 has a timer that cannot be sped up to my knowledge. Without a good case of game-breaking glitch, I can't see how it would be a good TAS.
This game has a global clock, by which many things depend. For instance, to see the map, you have to wait for the "sun" to light up the map room. This can take several minutes. In fact, this is about 50% of the time of the best unassisted runs (which run about 7 minutes). Since I have the power of tool-assistance, I don't need a map, I know where the ark is, so I can avoid this 3+ minute frame rule, whew!
I saw the videos linked to by OmnipotentEntity, and it starts to get glitched as soon as you reach level 30! If you look closely, you will notice that it shows up as 00, and it goes on from there.
Have you forgotten? Stoppit with the @Nonsense.
Translation of asutoro's post (my understanding of technical details here is suspect though): ---- I only tried to see if the Nunchuk has any effect on Mario Galaxy. There is no problem. For New Super Mario Bros. Wii, there is no problem of desync so it can be TASed, but there are a lot of errors. I understand that it is necessary for something like TASinput to use the Wiimote. With only the keyboard, it is not possible to fix a specific value along the X,Y,Z axis for games which require such special motion. In Wii party, there are minigames that cannot show special motion.
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone -Open the menu right before you talk to Hagrid in the first dungeon -Randomly during a battle
There was discussion in irc about plans to remove bad game choice as a reason to reject a run.
I voted yes, as per the hopefully soon to be new rule about game choice.
I thought of something that may cause some problems in the future. If I get to disk 2, can Dolphin continue recording the dtm file? Technically Dolphin views Disk1 and Disk2 as separate games. There are a few things that can be done about this: 1. Dolphin might continue the dtm file and autoloads disk2 (doubtful). 2. I will have to create a save file at the end of Disk1. The end of Ch4-3 prompts a save screen before prompting the player to switch disks. I will start recording a 2nd dtm file with disk2 which load the save. The total time will be the combined frame numbers. 3. There is a way to switch disks while recording the dtm. The problem with #2 is that TASvideos usually frowns upon game saves, especially since the save will then be used to continue the same TAS but in two separate dtms. I know some TASes use saves, but they don't use two separate input files. Also since I have already started TASing with no memory card inserted, the encoder would have to pause the game and go to the options to manually insert the memory card at some point during the gameplay. Considering that a console player could easily insert a MC during a speedrun, I don't see why I couldn't in a TAS. In fact I do it at the end of chapters to compare my times to the console versions (XBOX360/PS3). Opinions or solutions to this problem? I personally would prefer option 2. This is still a while off, but I thought I'd put the idea out there.
Also, please do not treat this like a chat room.
Edit by FractalFusion: Merged two posts. Also, please don't treat the forum as a chat room.
I briefly played this game at one point, got my ass handed back to me by the giant rat. These glitches look quite promising... interested to see more of this.
What do you say, everyone? Could @Mr. Pwnage's idea get published?
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