Showcase runs are given their own URL code, i.e xxxxM for Movies, xxxxS for Submissions, and xxxxG for Games. Some proposed codes are L (for Live), D (for Demonstration), and E (for Event). These would be added and maintained through an entirely separate UI from submissions, with the permissions to use it being locked to Admins and dwangoAC, potentially Senior staff as well. These would function identically to publications, just without the need to be processed through the submission system, and without the need for input files. Any formally published GDQ showcase would be moved over to this new system.
Then you can reach that stage. Using glitches, it is possible to unlock it before this happens. This is done by beating the 49th stage (Factory-5) out of bounds.
If I beat stage 50 last, the game shows the ending, followed by the credits.
If I beat stage 50 as the 2nd last stage, then backtrack to the final castle stage (Stage 24), I would not be able to see the ending, but the run would end at
instead.
What is the stance of beating 100%, but not show the ending?
Must have a goal
Must break some Wiki: MovieRules (otherwise it just gets published)
I'd be curious to see how any of these could be used in a full level TAS, although the last two that I shared may be too specific of use cases. Who knows?
Ideally, though, these kinds of things are accomplished with Game Genie/Action Replay, or even something like a Lua script that runs alongside the movie and pokes/freezes RAM at the right spots. Consider it futureproofing: If someone 10 years down the line wants to improve such a run, they're not going to be using the same emulator or the same tools. Providing just a savestate or just SRAM is going to be meaningless to them. Written records of repro steps, or more universal things like Game Genie and Lua, are going to stay useful essentially forever.
2. Alternate Speed Goals Things like fastest game over, fastest crash/softlock, fastest 69% completion, pretty much any goal that can be reached in a fastest time. We get a lot of these kinds of runs on April Fools Day, perhaps we should actually do something about it. This feels pretty straightforward, though I suppose the biggest thing to consider is how far should this be taken. "Any goal that can be reached in a fastest time" could lead to things like "fastest game start", so we would need to find a way to limit truly arbitrary goals like that without ruining the point of accepting new speed goals in the first place.
Also what ikuyo mentioned about individual level TASes sounds awesome. Tons of communities care about IL's and TASVideos doesn't have a good way to cater to those people right now. For example, people have been TASing Super Smash Bros. Melee's Break the Targets, Home Run Contest, Multi-Man Melee, etc. for years and there isn't a good way to feature that here without those players putting in the time and effort to get it all in one input file. The way the game-specific pages work right now technically works but the playground sounds like a great way to expand on that. Think about the number of games with active TAS communities that only focus on single stages, because it's so much easier to start and finish a TAS that way.
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Edit2:
1. recruit 3 npcs
2. save bug (journal then reset on 1st lag)
3. drop off 00000
the RTA somehow then gets final world key. If I saved, I get this:
Which is super OP.
Edit3:
1. go through up to 1st monster as normal
2. talk to father for PorkChop
3. saved at desert entrance
4. CactiBall appeared. Recruited
5. saved again
6. reset
7. CactiBall now 00000
8. buy exit bell/warp wand (or manip via overworld)
9. glitched to beaver
10. worm appeared. recruited
11. beaver boss.
12. proceed normal as TAS
13. lamp boss. your slime defeated. lamp defeated. recruit lamp; place them to farm
14. back to oasis
15. back to well
16. spooky appeared. spooky recruited. deposit to farm
17. exit bell get (dont need if obtained in overworld)
18. madcandle appeared (where beaver was). recruited as 3rd npc
19. spottedslime appeared. recruited. deposit to farm
20. snake appeared. snake recruited deposit to farm
21. beaver recruited. replace 3rd npc
22. warp wing back to greatlog
23. deposit snake (remember, it was duped by 0000). followers will now be 2 beavers.
24. deposit 1st beaver. followers will now be tombstone.
25. release in order, every npc in farm until 1 left. Screen should glitch mid way
26. Go to magic door, warp back to oasis to heal
27. Tournament for pirate key; OHKO everyone
28. Go to sea world. Buy 1 journal page for saving from the village
29. Leave village. Go to water, fight 12 NPCs (in groups of 3, make sure each is within 20 encounter steps away)
30. You should now have limbo key. Go to Limbo
31. Go to bridge in front of castle. Save using journal.
32. 1 frame before 1st lag of saving, reset. NPC should be gone
33. Final boss.
Edit 4:
http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/72122126885481104
ID is in C6FE. The glitched NPC id is 110. C73E is where keys are at. Getting XP with ID 110 increases C73E. C73F is where key ID is stored. 6 is Limbo. Thus 0x600 (00 06) XP, or 1536 is needed to get Limbo key. That's why the run defeats 12 npcs in pirate world.
This TAS has been console verified. https://youtu.be/plEEzyQyaMw
. I don't know what specific ruleset the RTA equivalent to the category uses to avoid devolving into one-god-glitch but it managed to remain exremely cool ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3myc23dd1_Q ) so maybe there's hope for TASes too?
Mario Kart Wii polls for inputs multiple times per frame. By having (gamecube) controller 1 pressing half of the inputs, and controller 2 pressing the exact negative of those inputs, the game cancels out the inputs and reads only half the size on all following frames (until power off), so by inputting all possible inputs on 2 controllers on the next frame (which will fill up double the amount of space - so 4 controllers), you can use the third controller to read past the 4 controllers’ memory region and into “garbage” data. After the input region of memory are the event and save regions. Because an event is already occurring (power on -> menu screen), changing these values will only affect the screen itself until the event that’s running is already over, as long as the value is changed by the time the event is over. What I do is run an event in the background, unlocking each individual aspect that goes towards having 100% of the game unlocked, which writes to the save region after the event memory, meanwhile on certain frames that I need to actually input A. I do so on the rewritten double scaled input table, so it turns out I have to actually hold 64 input units right on the C stick of controller 1. The unlock events only occur for one frame so by doing one event every frame I can unlock all required things before the power on -> menu screen event finishes. I finally finish by proving that everything is unlocked by creating the new license and returning to the main menu screen with B (which involves pressing 64 input units left on the control stick of controller 1 due to the doubled input range).
Is map glitch not a game end glitch? The current labeling makes it look like it isn't...
Hell yes and I made a temporary encode for the masses https://youtu.be/JirDSYZKJgI
Is this meant to properly obsolete [2225] GBC Keitai Denjuu Telefang: Speed Version "warp glitch" by jlun2, MisterChess in 07:12.50?
I can trigger the ending & update the island by setting it tp 5F, then C5DC to 1. This won't set boss flag however.
I can also trigger the boss remotely:
C91A - needs to be changed??
C91B - needs to be changed??
C91F - ??? needs to be 1??
C920 - C922 - ID?
C923 - "action" (eg. 3 triggers battle if exists, or closes dialogue)
Changing it to right before the "THE END" screen pops up won't let you save normally, so 5F prob be the best bet for GEG.
From discord, by casualpokefan:
i found 2 rng bytes at cd03-cd04, with yet again another LCGRNG, with the formula seed = ((seed * 5) + 11) mod 65536