User Files from adelikat

Up to the Level 4 darknut room where I got hopelessly stuck, this is a hard one to manip!

It is 602 frames ahead of this WIP by jprofit22. It also has potential for more savings, as it setups up running out of bombs + bomb drop to switch to the wand for the upcoming key room to save a switch.

An important thing I've learned in TASing this game is to not be afraid of damage boosting even if you can't refill life before picking up a triforce. Boosting can net up to 16 frames, but the health refill of a half a heart is 21-22 frame. Nominally this is a 6 frame cost, but in this game you can easily gain or lose frames like that depending on RNG throughout every room. So it is worth attempting dmg boosts to see if you get more favorable RNG over the course of a dungeon.

Most addresses are mapped

This uses the same route as #3419: Randil's NES Déjà Vu in 09:41.59 but improves it by 54 frames. Most of the improvement is from optimized input (removing unecessary delays). It also does some alternate button movements, and finds a way to reduce frames needed for luck manipulation.

A helpful HUD to show various things on screen such as enemy hitboxes, and when you are in range to pick up missiles, and to make lag frames more apparent

Some useful RAM addresses for TASing this game

based on the dicussions on #1704: Bisqwit's NES Igo: Kyuu Roban Taikyoku in 04:50.33 this is a test run that confirms a level 14 strategy, that is both faster than the submission, and plays on a harder difficulty. This movie doesn't try to be frame perfect with the moves so could be improved more. Also Meerkov indicated there might be even faster strategies to improve further

Up to the Liclick encounter in Chapter 5, 2814 frames ahead of [3184] NES Dragon Warrior IV by adelikat in 1:58:06.28

Finishes Chapter 3, 2475 frames ahead of the currently published movie

Some incredible luck manip in chapter 3. Got the 3 armor offers without declining one, and some really tight encounters during the 7 broad sword/7 half plate fights

Also this new strat gets an extra level, but will not increase the final level at the end of the game, so there is about 600 frames more that will be realized by the end of the TAS

Extra HP is manipulated which will reduce 1, maybe even 2, medical herbs used before the final fight

227 frames improved over version 5 (774 frames total improved from the published movie). About 180 of these are from staying at the inn at the beginning to get a better day/night cycle, most of the rest is from an even more absurdly unlikely set of level ups. Also a few frames were scraped from screen transitions.

Some useful addresses I used when making the TAS

Just a few, but helpful, addresses

This move is is 684 frames faster than #7826: juef's NES Rally Bike "1 loop" in 08:35.87 when measuring at the crossing of the finish line. It's a good deal shorter than that because of earlier input end, I let the post race stuff linger instead of ending it quickly, I also end input before crossing the finish line but not without delaying which frame it is crossed, that gains an extra 12 frames.

Will work on a version that uses an invulnerability manip to end input much sooner, and submit that.

See https://tasvideos.org/Forum/Posts/481095 for details. This is an improvement to the published movie. Gets up to the Chapter 3 armor selling. But there is a routing improvement in Chapter 1.

I don't know when this will ever be finished, uploading it here so there's record of this work

Complete trading shenanigans. Proof of concept, could be optimized a lot more, the point was to show the mayhem that can happen when a CPU initiates a trade with a human player.

This is a demo of an interesting glitch. I set up a trade that would bankrupt Ollie, but force Arthur (would not agree to this trade) to agree to it and get bankrupted. Even better, not only did Arthur not agree to the trade, he didn't even get a turn, lol.

BizHawk Ram Watch file for SNES The Addams Family

a BizHawk .wch file for NES Super Mario Bros

This demonstrates how you can use the clock stopping glitch to get a much higher score on Soda Popinski, at the expense of the fight being much much longer.

The idea is to stop the clock, then counter his hooks which only do 1 pt of damaage and can give a star.

To do this optimally TAS wise is not very trivial. After every hook, you do need to luck manipulate him to do hooks again, which he can every time (this video doesn't because i was lazy). Also some of the stars are not guaranteed and need luck manipulation (50% chance)

Converted http://tasvideos.org/5767S.html to a GB file and converted the input log. Then added some extra frames to get it past the name selection screen. After that it desyncs soon after

sometimes you don't have the luxury of having previous actions to start a manipulation from. This script is the last resort technique. You start it on the lag frame before the action. The logic is that it will mash random buttons such that it will delay the ability to press a button to scroll to the next action. Then it delays a frame and presses a random button. There's a max of about 30 frames that you can delay this way. There's not a lot of RNG variance either. But this script can get decent results when there are no other options.

Similar to the ManipCritical file except it is used to manipulate the enemy to miss

This file was used to manipulate critical hits in typical situations, where they were not the first action in a round. The wait options at the top were based on how many previous (non-luck manipulated) scroll moments there were. The further back you could start the bot, the better the results. This file uses the DW-4ManipCore file

Core lua file used for Dragon Warrior 4 bot scripts. All scripts included this file as a basis for script creation

12 frame improvement over the latest #4783: adelikat, Aglar, Noxxa, Really_Tall & Samsara's NES Streemerz: Super Strength Emergency Squad Zeta "Streeeeemerz Mode" in 05:03.33 at the time of this posting

Quick test of Mario Time Machine to asses the tech quality of http://tasvideos.org/3401S.html