Does anyone have complete maps of how the dungeons are generated?
Note that this information is missing from Nintendo's official Player's Guide published back then; they only gave examples of generated maps, not all possible combinations.
Joined: 8/15/2005
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I would love to investigate more, but there is still no emulator with the neccesary tools to play this game. mGBA is planned to have support for this eventually, but it hasn't as of now.
There's also the DSi-Ware version, but I don't think there is a way to emulate that at all? Otherwise I'll start working on this kind of research + an actual TAS, instantly.
Joined: 8/15/2005
Posts: 1934
Location: Mullsjö, Sweden
Yo!
Since DSi TASing is possible, I've started doing some research for this game. Here's a test TAS I did of the "first" area in the game:
Link to video
Copying the Youtube description
"The main thing about this game is that all maps are very randomized. This includes the "main map", what kind of puzzle area you get, where you spawn, and what the content in chests are. The first two are randomized for both the first and second map at once, the other two can be manipulated.
For this run, I manually found a "perfect" RNG seed, 3712. The spawn for the second map is not the best, you can save three frames by spawning at the perfect position on the right side of the exit.
The first round of the boss fight could be done in one cycle if I had a sword power up, this could likely be obtained in on of the two stages, as it would save more than it cost. I didn't want to drag this out for too long however. As I used a cheated seed, this can't be part of a full-run TAS, though it is my hope to finish one eventually. Enjoy! "
