While Morthyas made it vehemently clear that a run of this nature will not be published because of it's use of a gecko code, I still believe this is the Mega Man 9 run that I always wanted to be made. And sometimes when you want something done......
This run aims for in-game time instead of real time. For the purposes of this run, the code is ONLY used to provide a smoother viewing experience.
An in-game time run without using the code would use the exact same strategies, but every weapon change would include a ~70 frame pause. After obtaining concrete shot, this would become incredibly jarring and unpleasant to watch.
The code isn't perfect, and there are some frames where it doesn't work or I need to change weapons faster than the code allows. For this, I still use the menu as normal.
Please disable the shake correction. It screwed up the video
MOD EDIT: fixed that for you. <3 samsara
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I was never really sure what was going on with it. There were times where it seemed really dark, but then other times it seemed normal (maybe because I just got used to it?) I already have a much improved version in the works. I'll see if there's any way to offset the darkness (or at the very least find a bright screenshot for the game's profile).
Edit: When you use frame advance, the game is nice and bright and clear. When running at 60 fps, it all blends together to form a dark muddled mess.
That's really weird...
Would it be a good idea to add a brightened encode?
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Ok, back for real now.
So, I just finished the third level I play in world 2, and I found out you can double jump again after bouncing on an enemy.
And that the bouncy balls are crazy hard to get right
Here's the current WIP (note: only syncs on XP due to RNG)
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So... Is it possible to use that to mace an ACE run?
I honestly don't know; I know nothing about SMS game code. But it doesn't seem like it would be faster than the memory corruption method. This run is one big setup for the mirror glitch, which occurs as soon as input is ended; there's no waiting period that ACE could circumvent or smaller glitches that could be abused beforehand. If ACE is possible in this game though, it would be fun to see what entertaining things one could do.
Also note that however the mirror glitch is achieved, it would probably not be allowed for a full game run, even for getting max level early, because of its ability to warp to the credits.
I'm not asking about faster, I'm asking about possible.
Basically, you would need to write a program in memory, which would probably require making an item list and such
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It's got to be memory corruption. The mirror glitch is one of those glitches that does different things depending on input and the screen's position. It usually freezes or crashes, but it can also max out your level, warp you to another room, and do other strange things. One of them just happens to be warping to the credits.
So... Is it possible to use that to mace an ACE run?
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So, I'm coming back to working on this
movie link
EDIT: So, do recall that I previously encountered a bug where, if you complete a level with a score of zero, it doesn't count?
Yea. Well, now I have to do 2-1 again, since I ended up with zero score.
I either need to
Not do kingskip for this level
Collect the coin out of the king (which might make kingskip not work)
Go an alternate route where I can get coin
I chose not doing Kingskip, as, for some reason, this king doesn't drop a coin, and the score countdown isn't big enough to make up for the cost of going through the level
Here's the new movie file
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Movie file is up on the wip directory.
YT video forthcoming, since the game only syncs on XP
EDIT:
Link to video
EDIT2: Saying the game only syncs on XP is a little misleading. This run only syncs on XP, because XP and 7 have different numbers of lag frames when starting up.
Win 7 has more lag starting the game up, so there's a few frames saved due to playing on XP
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Signed or unsigned isn't a specific property of a byte or any , it's an interpretation. Unsigned -1 is 2^32-1, and stored as that. The bits of signed -1 are the same as the bits of signed 2^31+1, assuming it uses the normal two's complement metthod (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%27s_complement). It doesn't make a difference if Cheat Engine is interpreting everything as signed or unsigned, and because it isn't really possible (as far as I know) to tell what a program is interpreting a specific byte as from outside the program (I'm not sure about this, I think it's right, but please correct me if it isn't) it can't just use the program interpretation.
So if you're looking for a value you know should be negative, and Cheat Engine is interpreting everything as unsigned, search for greater than or equal to 2^31+1 (2147483649). If Cheat Engine is interpreting everything as signed, search for less than 0.
So I have to use the ranges?
Can I display a value as signed while I have it in my ramwatch?
That kida sucks that I cant ask cheat engine to consider everything signed
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Or I just don't understand the problem at hand... I mean you can even show signed values in the search list in the settings...
