Ooh, cool to see you working on it - seems like a good game for a TAS. As far as avoiding the wolf, it seems like in the later stages he can often be tricked to fall into a gap by jumping or briefly letting go of left/right at the right time. If it's a death pit, you don't have to do anything else to avoid him for that level and can just run as fast as possible. It doesn't make sense from a publishable-movies standpoint (since it only exists as part of 100% and that's too repetitive), but I think it would also be really cool to see time-attack mode TAS'd. It's the same levels, but with no story and a very restricted set of animals, plus each level has an ingame timer.
It also plays on the easiest difficulty since the harder difficulties don't add anything to the gameplay or entertainment. It just makes the run slower.
The transition countdown triggers as soon as you pass a certain point back to the tent. By landing from a jump, you can retain a bit of speed and slide closer to the tent. This ends the stage ~100 frames faster.
The bonus points at the end are based on the time remaining, creating a Sonic-type situation where finishing a fight slower is faster overall.
Attacks and drops I don't have, but I do have a table with enemy stat table that lists health, among other things. Here is the site that it is posted on: http://sanqui.rustedlogic.net/etc/hp1/enemies.html
I have no idea how that works.
1. That is amazing. I need to learn that for RTA. 2. It is pointless, though used to be used in RTA. The one cutscene that I really want to be able to skip is the Snape cutscene going to the Slytherin Common Room when under the Polyjuice Potion. This is just from quick testing Text boxes: Harry's Room English US: 37 English UK: 37 French: 43 Dutch: 40 Spanish: 37 Italian: 37 Netherlands: 42 Swedish: 39 Danish: 40 Portuguese: 40 So I guess based on these numbers, not saying that they will keep the same pattern throughout the game though, we have 4 languages to work with.
Unfortunately, it also disables encounters until you reach Hagrid. Is there any way to get into a battle with Ron being sick?
5. Can't skip going to detention cutscene by pausing. Enemy encounters are disabled as well, and the dungeons shortcut is locked.
6. Can't skip recruiting Hermonie and Ron to the party. Dungeons shortcut is locked, and pressing start crashes like most other times.
7. You can skip the snake cutscene oddly. Press Start right before the trigger, then
go to equip and hold B. Right after the equip screen exits hold Start. This skips the cutscene(s), and allows you to walk to the exit.
https://youtu.be/riX5_eaLP5M
8. Can't skip petrified cat cutscene. Pausing doesn't work, and no enemies will appear. Doesn't appear to be able to walk around either.
9. Trying to pause at Prof. Binn's class cutscene gave
http://imgur.com/emFUdT8
Gonna test some more a bit. How's testing the dialogue boxes so far?
I think we can give an affordance in instantaneous clock changes. It's just not entertaining watching system menus be tased. There is no creativity or challenge there.
Yeah, this is basically the kind of scenario I was imagining. A TAS should be able to manipulate such things, as a manual speedrunner could as well, but I'm not sure that the change should be allowed to be instantaneous. Instead, maybe we should have some method of running the DS system program and "menuing the clock?" I'm not sure how to approach this.
Something I am curious about with regard to TASes of modern consoles (ones that take in RTC values for RNG seeding): to what extent are we allowed to control the clock time on resets? I would imagine that the default practice would be to just have the clock move along with the real time counter, but I can think of scenarios in several games where it would be faster to change the clock to a different value entirely, even if you had to do it manually on a physical console. How would a TAS incorporate that? Would we be allowed to arbitrarily change the clock upon power on/off, even though in real time one needs to manually adjust it on the system of the console? I guess this is part of a broader discussion on whether or not clock time should be considered input or whatnot...
Just 2 more days and it's show time!
This is how I imagine in 2 days.
Hey. Thanks again. I think the glitch is unlikely to work on other bosses although I can't be 100% sure, since I don't know exactly how it works. Also I have tested over 260 consecutive frames after the optimal deathblow at level 2 boss, so the deathblow frame alone at least doesn't seem to produce the glitch there( or rather there is no glitch triggering frame). Level 3 and 4 bosses I haven't actually tested that much, but it feels even more unlikely to trigger the glitch in those.
| Name/Movie | Platform | What it executes as code | How was ending triggered |
| Battle Dodge Ball | SNES | Password characters | Call cutscene function |
| Battletoads | NES | Not sure; see post | Jumps to ending function? See https://tasvideos.org/GameResources/NES/Battletoads#GameEnd |
| Castlevania: Symphony of the Night | PSX | Inventory menu | ???? |
| Final Fantasy | NES | Character name | ???? |
| Final Fantasy II | NES | Character name? | Call cutscene function |
| Final Fantasy V | SNES | Input? | Call cutscene function |
| Final Fantasy VI | SNES | Money + window color configuration | Call cutscene function |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | GBC | Player sprite location + Inventory | Set state to ending |
| Keitai Denjū Telefang | GBC | Position + Character name | Set event variables to ending |
| Kirby Super Star | SNES | Input | Set game mode to cutscene |
| Mother 2 | SNES | Save data + input? | ??? |
| Pokémon: Silver/Gold/Crystal Version | GBC | Input | Warps to last area + auto-input |
| Pokémon: Red/Blue/Green/Yellow Version | GB | Item + Input? | Change current map id + pointer of map script |
| Pokémon Card GB2: GR-dan Sanjou! | GBC | Character name + deck | Call cutscene function |
| Pokémon Trading Card Game | GBC | Deck | Call cutscene function |
| Pokemon Emerald | GBA | Box name | Warps to last area + auto-input |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms II | NES | Input | Call cutscene function |
| Super Mario Bros. 3 | NES | DPCM exploit, Pipe glitch | Call cutscene function |
| Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins | GB | Input | Set state to credits |
| Super Mario World | SNES | Input | Set cutscene to ending |
| Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island | SNES | Input | ??? |
| Super Metroid | SNES | Position + Input | Call cutscene function |
| The Legend of Zelda | NES | File name + Input | Change current map id + pointer of map script |
| The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past | SNES | Input | Set game state to credits |
| The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask | N64 | File name + Input | Call cutscene function |
| The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time | N64 | File name + Input | Call cutscene function |
| Trials of Mana | SNES | Input? | Call cutscene function |
