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In this introduction video I describe what is a Tool-assisted Movie and basic concepts of how to record and play a movie. Then I introduce the concepts of rerecording, savestates, slow-downs and frame advance. Basic optimization concepts are covered.

I use FCEUX for this tutorial and cover how the user can aquire it. I used Super Mario Bros to show basic rerecording.

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In this video I core more advanced rerecording concepts compared to the previous video. I take the user through the process of TASing 1-1 of Super Mario bros and match the level of optimization of the currently published TAS. I cover the concepts used in the movie but also show the practical challenges that are typical in optimizing. Rather than showing all the tricks, I show how to compare to an existing movie and slowly learn to get more and more optimized strategies and the logic used to create them.

In addition, I introduce a new tool, Ram Watch and demonstrate how it can be used in the TAS process.

The user will have a better understanding of fundamental TAS concepts common in many platformer genres and a better understanding of concepts specific to Super Mario Bros.

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In this video I cover the Ram Search tool, and how to find Ram Addresses and how they can be used to create better TAS movies in less time. I cover typical RAM Addresses that are commonly useful and strategies for finding them.

This is a live stream with viewers watching and chatting, and includes me reading and answering questions from the audience.

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In this tutorial I over the basic concept involving editing text based movie files manually and copy/pasting sections of a movie.

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Coming Soon

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Ideas for future tutorials:

• Using Lua scripts
• My TAS process

Discussion thread

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TASTutorial last edited by adelikat on 2012-04-08 19:14:22
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