That explains why the AI seems strangly non-acting. :D
Didn't think of this when I watched the movie.
Thanks for pointing that out. Still a good movie though.
Yeah he does a lot of combo breakers.
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In case you didn't notice, he starts from a reset which means he plays on easy, the default difficulty. I play it on Very hard, the hardest difficulty, of course his is going to be faster.
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I think a run of this game would do well on TASvideos. The game is not graphically superior to the SNES version, but it has blood and gore (ABACABB).
Heres a WIP
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I'm not sure if this has been discovered yet but, there is a variation pause glitch in this game. Here is a demonstration of it in Fire man's stage:
http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/1166238871/mmtwwtas.gmv
Rom is Megaman - The Wily Wars (E).gen with the SRAM patch to allow game saving.
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True, but this is 100%, meaning he HAS to get it, otherwise you can't get the gold armor, thus not truly 100%.
But thanks for the video. That was cool to see.
I know that this is 100% you're talking about, I was just proving you can get "leg armor required" items without it.
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I would think that a 100% TAS would have as its top priority reducing revisits to the stages. Given the complicated dependency chains here (most of the upgrades require other upgrades to get), figuring out a route will be nontrivial. But the more time you spend planning the route now, the less time you'll spend re-doing your run just because you realized something halfway through.
A quick look through a GameFAQs guide shows the following. Some of these may not apply in a TAS.
Blizzard Buffalo:
* Heart tank requires a ride armor
* E-tank requires leg upgrade
* Has the leg upgrade (no requirement)
Tunnel Rhino:
* Heart tank requires Triad Thunder and the arm upgrade
* Head upgrade requires Triad Thunder and the arm upgrade
Gravity Beetle:
* Heart tank requires killing Blast Hornet.
* Frog ride armor requires leg upgrade
Blast Hornet:
* Heart tank requires leg upgrade
* Chimera ride armor requires Tornado Fang
Crush Crawfish:
* Heart tank requires a ride armor
* Hawk ride armor requiries Triad Thunder and arm upgrade
Volt Catfish:
* E-tank requires a ride armor
* Armor upgrade requires Gravity Well and arm upgrade
Neon Tiger:
* Arm upgrade requires Tornado Fang and leg upgrade
Toxic Seahorse:
* Kangaroo ride armor requires Frog ride armor
Anything not listed (E-tanks, heart tanks) can be gotten without special upgrades.
In short, you need to get the leg upgrade to get the arm upgrade, and the arm upgrade to get the head and armor upgrades. You need the Frog armor to get the Kangaroo armor, and a bunch of tanks require ride armors as well (Chimera and Hawk will probably be the favorites for dealing with those). IIRC you also must get the Chimera armor to be able to use any armor, even though the Frog and Hawk armors don't have it as a prerequisite.
As a first pass, I'd say the following:
Tunnel Rhino (get Tornado Fang)
Blizzard Buffalo (get leg upgrade)
Blast Hornet (get heart tank, Chimera armor)
Neon Tiger (get arm upgrade)
Gravity Beetle (get Gravity Well, heart tank, Frog armor)
Volt Catfish (get Triad Thunder, E-tank, armor upgrade)
Crush Crawfish (get heart tank, Hawk armor)
Toxic Seahorse (get Kangaroo armor)
Blizzard Buffalo (get heart tank, E-tank, exit)
Tunnel Rhino (get heart tank, head upgrade, exit)
Doppler stage 1 (get golden armor)
This uses just two stage revisits. It's also possible to backtrack in Blizzard Buffalo after getting the leg upgrade to grab the E-tank; I don't remember the stage layout at all well enough to know if this'd be preferable to getting it during the revisit.
I've basically ignored boss weaknesses here on the theory that dealing 4-5 damage per strike vs. 2-3 damage (with the X buster) doesn't make all that much of a difference compared to avoiding a stage revisit. However, it may be possible to keep the number of stage revisits the same while nailing weaknesses better. Tunnel Rhino in particular will be annoying with his lengthy invincibility. Fortunately Neon Tiger is hit before Gravity Beetle.
Again, this is just a rough first-pass route; I haven't put much thought into it at all.
Snes9x 1.43+ improvment 9 works for me.
The rom I use is Mega Man X (U) (V1.1) [!].smc
Nice work!
10/10 for you!
Love all the tricks that make this run nonstop!
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Here are some problems I found:
-The intro scrolls up instead of down
-If hold on to 2 pegs with both hands, you flip in different angles.
-Barrels will make you stand in air.
I tried almost every VBA version (except 20), and all share the same problems.
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What I've investigated and seen in this game so far. I really recommend to calculate or try to make your subpixels perfect as possible to attain fastest time as possible. You can gain frames with this, like happened in Deign's Rockman run.
Subpixel addresses
X (High) = $480 X speed (High) = $4C0
X (Low) = $4A0 X Speed (low) = $4E0
Y (High) = $600 Y speed (High) = $660
Y (Low) = $620 Y Speed (low) = $680
If you are curious about your something you can check and compare some of your movements from Deign's run to see if you have done something wrong somewhere. I hope to see this run done.
I don't know much about pixel addresses and stuff like that.
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This looks more like a catwalk than a speedrun. In fact, your Gutsman stage could be improved playing in real-time. I won't even start listing things that went wrong in your WIP.
Oh, like the 80,000 score bonus, getting the bonus point icons, not dealing with the miners properly, not shooting Gutsman fast enough, climbing the first ladder in Cutsman...
And that's stuff I observed in real time.
How can I manipulate 50,000s?
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I assigned the save and load state hot keys to 2 of the buttons on my controller that I use. Every button I use on it works, but it wont cooperate with the hot keys.
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