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Oh... Thanks... But I have to warn you: this is something insane. The only place where you can manipulate luck is in level 1, during the brief period in which you can use Crusher gun. Then you have to redo the locusts in level 3, and just hope that they make you gain enough frames; if not, repeat.
Just out of curiosity, I've done a quick check if I could save some subpixels in level 1... turns out I saved 2. Then the boss died 5 frames faster.User movie #39779455533968551(see below) But I'm not going to redo the run unless someone will want to help me with the most technical stuff. The fact is that in the movie I submitted, I got a lot of luck with loading times and frame rules, and redoing the run could even result slower in the end. Edit: So. I've resynced level 2 without huge issues, but on level 3 the problems started to pop out. The first mid-boss in level 3 died 3 frames later, due to bad RNG with the locusts. The RNG started to change when I used the first Smart Bomb in level 2, so it's just as I thought: I got really lucky with RNG in my submitted run and it's going to require some serious efforts to break it. By the way, here is the movie of the resynced attempt: User movie #39800672183089620
Mednafen Saturn core will be released soon-ish in bizhawk.
I believe mednafen has Saturn emulation now and is better than that of Yabause. Mednafen is the current playstation core in Bizhawk, it wouldn't be a stretch to see a mednafen Saturn core in Bizhawk at some point.
That's fine Yabause is being phased out of BizHawk anyways. Don't TAS Saturn until Yabause is killed off.
Some of my runs (that I never posted a WIP on this site), I really did on a single file. I'm a good TASer heheheh Also, both Synahel's published runs is a short record time, and the rerecord count is much more lower than my rerecord count. So, this rerecord is lower, but very high for this game.
Well, I worked this run on a single file! Yesterday, I started and finished this run with 4400 rerecord approximately. But I took a chance to improve more floors, resulting on a lot of painful manipulation, resulting on a more 7800 rerecord approximately, and saving more 145 frames totally (I copied my run and reimproved inside of the same run).
I believe your case here is that this was easy and a newbie could have easily done just as well. I assure you it was much more difficult than it looks.