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Maybe it's just me, but the link to your WIP isn't working. Could you check it please?
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Jymos wrote:
I'm pretty sure there's 45 episodes, each with 5 levels. But that's only if you unlock the Atari bonus stages. Are you planning on doing that?
There is a cheat to unlocking the atari levels from the beginning. I can't remember how to unlock them legit, but using the code would be okay, due to not changing the game play at all.
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Forget party hats, Christmas tree hats all the way man.
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There is no "legit" way of unlocking the atari bonus levels. I know. I have completed the game on DS. You have to use the cheat code. There is no other way of unlocking those levels. BTW, I use the cheat code before starting episode 1
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Hey andymac, I just wonder.. are you still working on this Tas?
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Bizhawk has a new DS core in the latest dev builds so I thought I'd test it with this game. The game is very sync-friendly so improving previous levels is easy. I'm not sure how this compares to the old WIPs in this thread since those files are long gone, but I'm pretty confident this episode is faster than those. http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/62279214089241435 Link to video
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Wow! I thought N+ was a flash game for PC only. I'll wait for Bizhawk release and than try this game.
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Dimon12321 wrote:
Wow! I thought N+ was a flash game for PC only. I'll wait for Bizhawk release and than try this game.
Original N was flash for PC, N+ was released for other platforms.
[16:36:31] <Mothrayas> I have to say this argument about robot drug usage is a lot more fun than whatever else we have been doing in the past two+ hours
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
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slamo, you last TAS goes out of sync at the first stage. Bizhawk-2.4.1. There is also a mismatch in firmware.bin, maybe that's the reason. sha1:22A7547DBC302BCBFB4005CFB5A2D426D3F85AC6 NDS Firmware (note: given hash is with blank user data) Which one do you use?
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It's likely caused by ds bios
[16:36:31] <Mothrayas> I have to say this argument about robot drug usage is a lot more fun than whatever else we have been doing in the past two+ hours
[16:08:10] <BenLubar> a TAS is just the limit of a segmented speedrun as the segment length approaches zero
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There’s two different firmware.bin files that I discovered that exist. One of them contains the DS splash screen and the other one doesn’t. It’s likely slamo used the one that doesn’t have the DS splash screen as it’s currently the only verified dump of the firmware in bizhawk.
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't 12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!" Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish [Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing
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I haven't set a firmware file at all. Bizhawk lets you run the DS core without one. Hopefully if one is required, it's just a matter of inserting frames at the beginning to resync it?
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It depends on the game really. Some games have no change to them and some have massive changes, RNG being one such example.
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't 12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!" Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish [Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing
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EZGames69 wrote:
There’s two different firmware.bin files that I discovered that exist. One of them contains the DS splash screen and the other one doesn’t. It’s likely slamo used the one that doesn’t have the DS splash screen as it’s currently the only verified dump of the firmware in bizhawk.
Probably. I tried it without firmware.bin and the results are the same.
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Dimon12321 wrote:
EZGames69 wrote:
There’s two different firmware.bin files that I discovered that exist. One of them contains the DS splash screen and the other one doesn’t. It’s likely slamo used the one that doesn’t have the DS splash screen as it’s currently the only verified dump of the firmware in bizhawk.
Probably. I tried it without firmware.bin and the results are the same.
Try this one? I resynced it on a verified firmware file, I just had to adjust a couple loading parts and also redo 11-0 for some reason. http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/63170876617741887
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Goes out of sync at the beginning of Episode 1. Episode 0 works fine Seriously, I'm out of ideas where do you get a special version of firmware. The one from emu paradise is the only one I managed to find In short, don't bother!
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