Saved 3 frames over the previous movie by using edge-canceled back air to set up red Sheik better. At this point I think it's really hard to squeeze any more frames out.

Dolphin 5.0-10707, NTSC-U, no luck manipulation cheats used.

Uses memory card data with all characters and stages unlocked, with 1P data cleared through the options menu.

You'd think this route could save more time over RTA, but I only got the one frame save. I suspect there's more potential here, but this is all I have so far.

What makes this one hard is not even so much having to manipulate for both Zeldas to transform (and the neutral one to jump before doing so), nor manipulating for the 9, but getting red Sheik to cooperate. Here she uses up tilt to trade with the 9, but most often she'd just stuff it with a jab.

Dolphin 5.0-10707, NTSC-U, no luck manipulation cheats used.

Uses memory card data with all characters and stages unlocked, with 1P data cleared through the options menu.

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Movie length includes all capture time.

20XX 4.06, Dolphin 5.0, no memory card

http://tasvideos.org/5429S.html

replace submission file only if accepted

Better luck manipulation at the start - input post "new game" select is ThunderAxe31's

8 stages done out of 12. Four Castle stages left.

3 stages done out of 12. Five Ice stages and four Castle stages left.

Can probably be tightened up a bit, this game is really random.

Beats this WIP by 1842 frames.

WIP 4: BombMan.EXE

• Fixes a jump off a conveyor belt in Compas Man's stage. 8 frames saved, then 1 frame lost a few rooms later by a bad x subpixel from jumping off the conveyor belt, 4 frames lost to RNG for the weapon drop for Doppel Crash later in the stage, and 3 frames lost to RNG for the R-Shadow miniboss. Net gain: zero. (lol)
• Fixes not jumping off a platform next to a ladder near the end of the R-Shadow stage. Saves 16 frames.
• Thanks to above timesaver, there's a better RNG to get a drop off the final enemy, losing only 1 frame as opposed to 8 earlier in the stage. Net gain: 7 frames.

Total frames saved: 23 (0.30 seconds)

233 frames (3.08 seconds) saved over the previous WIP due to a different mini-boss strat, which also required redoing half the stage.

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testrun thrown together in one evening, so very unoptimized

Fire flowers are easier to get here than in Mario 3. In stage 1, at least.

testrun thrown together in one evening so very very unoptimized

notes:

• fire flowers are very useful
• mushrooms/fire flowers are very out of the way everywhere, hard to get them without losing seconds going off route

Uses DeSmuME 0.9.7 with advanced bus timing off.

To be used as verification movie for Old Axe Armor mode TASes

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Double WIP this time. Putting these two together since both are the same stage.

On to Dr. Mitt's Fortress now!

This stage is pretty long.

Zook has arms growing in weird places.

Another stage rerun, this time with some faster movement partially thanks to the Foot upgrade.

It's been way too long since the last one.

002C=1 at frame 18637. In-game time: 3:44.86

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgHM-2Hurj0

Testrun. Not optimized.

Clears first two missions.

Intended Downtown route (PC mission titles)

• Wheeler-Dealing!
• Cop Car Crush!
• Lick those Loonies!
• Get Zitzaki!
• Bank Robbery!
• Happy Gas Smash!
• Big Bank Job!
• Armored Car Clash!
• Bank Van Theft!
• Yutes Must Die!
• Follow That Traitor!
• Get Gama Rei!
• SWAT Van Swipe!
• Stop the Tank!
• Pizza Cake!
• Radio Za-Za!
• Who's Mad?
• Destroy J-Lab!
• Dimentia to Go!
• Taxi Drivers Must Die!
• Gang War A-Go-Go!

Route aims to mimimize travel downtime while also minimizing requiring to change around respect a lot.

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Qualifying round for Donington Park (GP) in 1:13.81 using Renault Laguna. The fastest AI time is nearly 15 seconds higher.

It's been a while.

hi ALAKTORN

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This WIP clears the three trial stages.

Rerunning the same stage as before, so much fun. Random lag to screw things up, so much fun too.

Does this stage layout look familiar to anybody...?

hand arm sounds redundant. actually isn't

Still fun.

Fun.

• (56 frames saved in prior WIP)
• 10 frames saved in Ice Man's stage (10 in stage, 0 in boss)
• 28 frames saved in Fire Man's stage (21 in stage, 7 in boss)
• 16 frames lost by longer menu loading times
• 193 frames saved by skipping through the Wily Fortress cutscene faster.

Total amount of time saved by the start of the first fortress stage is now 271 frames.

(Note: frames are compared by AVI frame time because VBA's frames are inaccurate).

• 23 frames saved in Cut Man's stage (22 in stage, 1 in boss).
• 51 frames saved in Elec Man's stage (44 in stage, 7 in boss).
• 18 frames lost overall by longer menu loading times in GambatteHawk.

(Note: frames are compared by AVI frame time because VBA's frames are inaccurate).

First WIP. Completes the first chapter.

The final part of the stage needs to be redone to pick up 8 souls with minimal time loss, so that we have 2000 souls at the end.