A thing I recently discovered is that if I enter an area and the music fades, the game waits for it to fade before loading the next area. This is an issue with the bike since its song fades to the normal area song. Getting off the bike immediately loads the normal area song, so I can do that and run into the next area. Also, between two areas that change songs, before the transition, I can use the bike to get the current song to fade, so the game doesn't have to wait as long before it fades completely. The fadeout issue explains the occasional bumping against walls in the run.
Passwords or cheat codes that aren't supposed to be known from running the game for the first time aren't vaultable. So you guys have to actually like it if you want it accepted :) Otherwise it'd have to be 2 runs - all normal stages (vaultable) and all extra stages (only Moons).
I've been playing the fan translation on my DSTWO, and I'm currently in the middle of day 3. The story is very bizarre, but the basic premise is that a haunted video game is being transmitted through Wi-Fi and playing it kills you within a week. The real world controls are absolutely craptastic and are without a doubt the biggest optimization challenge for a TAS. While I'm fairly impressed with the walking, I think it could be a little bit more optimized. Still, it's hard to say for sure, and I believe the level of optimization currently present is better than what a speedrun could achieve and is worthy of publication. That said, I find this game to be a complete bore even with the tricks and glitches showcased here, so I'll have to vote No for entertainment. However, I have to congratulate you for this record, since it must have been quite hard to achieve. Good work! :) One last thing: I'm reading in the submission details that there's some emulator glitch showcased after the credits. I'm not sure what it is since I don't know what the credits should normally look like, but isn't it an issue for publication, considering input ends afterwards? Probably not a big deal, but I just wanted to make sure.
Since someone is going to ask it: Could the TAS be extended to do ?4 via this cheat after the completion of all other content? Why or why not?
Sounds like an example where it would be okay to use a cheat to access something otherwise unavailable. Especially if that level would make for a fantastic TAS!
Someone told me that when you fight the Gelato goop piranha and break the tower plate above it, the piranha will instantly die. Is this true? Is it dead for good? Is the plate reachable by some TAS technique? (without rocket nozzle and without Yoshi)
Because I wanted to be a contributing member of society, but realized that all I ccould do was vote on submissions to this site, so here I am.
The graphical puny glitch is fixed in the latest builds of Dolphin, and probably fixed in that build with EFB2RAM, I think?
Either an invisble block, or that minor wall you circled may be walkable OoB. Needs checking though.
Edit: I have delightful news, skid_au has made ram watch for Dolphin! Though it's for debugger only but he said Lioncash will do a non-debugger version. So if Itspersonnal or any other won't work on Prime, I'll restart once JosJuice and Lioncash's patch is done. Oh.. and I managed to find and persuade a deity of a kind new partner :P Here is a hint, he managed to blow everyone's mind this year ^_^
So is someone working on this? I mean, theres the glitched run, but what about a glitchless run? The glitched run is boring and uninteresting, so a TAS of the full game can be entertaining... just sayin'.
The data we want to corrupt is Move identifiant to get a certain Glitch Move. There are 354 moves in 3rd Generation. Any move with an identifiant higher than 354 will have its characteristics read on ROM adresses not affected for this, meaning that this move can have nearly any combination of characteristics. ex : Move with a sleeping effect, Dragon type, 241 Base Power, 115 PPs, 130% Precision, 187% of Effect Precision, and a Priority of 15.
GodessMaria,do you ever plan on testing the japanese ruby sapphire versions?you mentioned u can skip a lot of badges in the endgame check at ever grande and the japanese versions can walk through water with a glitch and possibly reach lilycove faster(thru slateport)?
As a live speedrun though, the game is very unforgiving. There are stealth sections with wonky detection where if you're seen, you restart the level. There are moving platform sections with wonky pit detection where if you fall in, you restart the level.
EDIT: It desyncs right away because of loading times. :(