So.....I got motivated to do some NES TASing so I decided to improve upon the current Street Fighter TAS:
http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/13187642320614957
Currently 121 frames ahead of the published movie.
Edit: Seems like I messed up at the end; Attacking in midair at the end is faster than down B.
http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/13195247401590845
Edit 2: I managed to get the last hit of the boss down to 2487, but then it caused me to stand too far back from obtaining the crystal ASAP. I later managed to get the boss killed at frame 2488 and obtain the crystal 4 frames later. I'll keep trying since I don't want the rng later to mess up.
Total control is definitely possible with this bug. After it writes $80 to $9c70, it starts executing completely wrong things and then it returns to $0081. A BRK is then needed to get the PRG layout back to normal. So, by manipulating some bytes between $0088 and $00ff to read 20 e3 8f, you can get to the ending scene. Note that the stack pointer is overflowing, so a JSR is needed to get it back where it should be (or the ending will be bugged and get stuck when the carpet goes up).
:o
Who would've guessed that a potential improvement to the current any% run would be completing a completely different level than the previous runs? :s
I still wonder whether a stream left to itself in complete anarchy mode could’ve beaten the game
Well....
http://www.twitch.tv/rngplayspokemon
This managed to beat Jhoto E4, so I'm sure complete anarchy would eventually be able to beat the game as well, just that it might take a while...
So it's the fastest? Well, why does it need a max score branch then if based on the comments, it doesn't seem like a non-max score would be faster (nor more entertaining)?
Slower. But in-game time, faster.
max score + time trial: end it as fast as possible
time trial: force everyone to wait for about 1 minute for it to end.
Wait, then this isn't legible for vault then. A TAS that doesn't get max score would acheive a faster real time, so why is this accepted to vault?
It's less levels... so yes.
Also if it was just Time Trial the TAS it would become less than 5minutes.
It would ignore the 2 longest levels "Mega Speed Race" and "Race or Fall" and fail the both of them.
This was a very strange TAS. I mean, outside the asinine premise of a pepsi-based superhero and his bizarre antics, they actually placed a commercial right before the credits.
It was somewhat fun though and managed to get me entertained at least.
jlun2: Well, going for maximum score will make the run slower. I'm pretty sure we don't need another submission to know that. By including maximum score in the branch, we're
(a) being more clear about the goals of the branch (since changing those goals can make the run faster), and
(b) setting expectations about what we hope to see in an attempt at obsoletion. A new submission which only goes faster because it gets a worse score would not be viewed favorably.
On playback, I get graphical glitching on some of the animation frames for these grey dudes, as you can see here.
Well, according to this post, it was supposed to be fixed along with the Wind Waker graphic bug, but Dolphin now seems to crash after a certain revision post-update. I'll try and track down which revision started to crash it.
Edit:
https://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=6525
It seems whatever graphics fix seem to crash dolphin. :o
Just curious, is "Maximum score" really needed in the branch name? I thought the fact that it's a vault run already means it's the fastest branch, so unless a non-max score run was submitted that ended up being faster does that mean the branch should be removed?
Here we go. Starting Hidden Mansion mode, a frame ahead of Wakssbm before Parlor, and another frame before portrait cutscene.
Wait, is the reason why you're ahead of him because of hidden mode, or optimization? Because if it's the former, it'll mean you're slower if done on a new game.
On playback, I get graphical glitching on some of the animation frames for these grey dudes, as you can see here.
:o
