BizHawk 2.2.1 Shaman King 1, (U) rom up to about half of the game

Syncs on 0.9.11. Easy to tie, will be significantly less trivial to break it. I spent zero effort on the boost, so that will likely be the path to take for optimization. The more frames you spend holding up-right after the fall, the higher the angle is, but the better your speed. I chose the sharpest angle but couldn't get a 08 with this boost&fall.

Syncs on 0.9.9. The same baseline: boost, fall fast, glitch bounce, sidegoal. The difference is we sidegoal off the left rather than the right, which is faster because the distance we have to travel between the bounce and sidegoal is lower. Now it's .90!

Syncs on 0.9.9. The same baseline: boost, fall fast, glitch bounce, sidegoal. The difference is we sidegoal off the left rather than the right, which is faster because the distance we have to travel between the bounce and sidegoal is lower. Given some optimisation, this may reach a .90 time.

Syncs on 0.9.11

easy level, very unoptimized

hard level

1 frame off WR

Inside the Pilaf bottom route, there is a huge pit (see https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/gba/924062-dragon-ball-advanced-adventure/faqs/46730, bottom right) with falling boulders. We are supposed to maneuver by going back and forth. However, the much shorter route would be to scale the pit upwards, as that avoids having to do the normal route.

Thankfully, we have four independant tricks that let us gain more height than normal (three of which are useful here):

• reverse wall jumping, which allows us to walljump in reverse - instead of the knockback going away from the wall, it goes to the wall instead. Needs to be done from a standstill, not useful here.
• damage canceling; we can cancel out of Goku's taking damage state if we do any action during the first few frames.
• walljumping → LR rush. Walljumping pushes us away from the wall. However, in the first frame that we exit the walljumping state, LR rush and we're back on it, allowing infinite scaling assuming a perpendicular flat surface.
• walljumping knockback cancel. Holding the direction going to the wall after jumping away from it "cancels" most of our knockback by putting Goku to a much lower speed.

Combining this, we can scale the pit in its entirety. The first wall is flat and high enough to reach with a jump, so we scale it with walljumping → LR rush.

The second wall is much trickier: it's out of our reach by a normal jump. Thankfully, since we're in the pit that drops boulders, we can take damage off those. By jumping, divekicking "in reverse" at peak height to use the initial divekick phase (gaining us a further vertical advantage and pushing Goku to the left as well) then taking damage at the peak of our height, we get a bunch of height in the middle of the pit, enough to reach the wall. The only thing left to do is reach the wall with an LR rush and walljump → LR rush again.

The third wall is easier. The only tricky part is the reversed triangle celling at the start, which we can clear with normal walljumps with largely gimped knockback, using the knockback "cancel" trick. Then clear the rest with walljumping → LR rush.

Saves around ~500 frames over the normal route approx.

frame: saved

Should use git for this

exclamation point draws more on first frame

divekicks

rom J, 2.x bizhawk

version control never

U rom (no language screen)

Up to extremely tiring backtracking.

Designed badly, runs as fast as a turtle, etc.. I made some rather poor design decisions, but here it is in its current state.

I added a slot viewer that displays various informations about current slots, as well as stole^W borrowed the sidebar idea from FatRatKnight.

See http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7680

This will desync at the first boss, this is intended (didn't sync the rest)

rom: Super Mario World 64(Unl).bin

Made no attempt to sync the rest, use it as you will.

Poor quality, first time lua, etc.

Currently serves as a glorified ram watch (with some colors) and as a hitbox viewer for Yoh.

rom: Shaman King - Master of Spirits (U) half of area 3

wtf I hate backdashes now

rom: Shaman King - Master of Spirits (U)

1317 frames ahead of the published run. Submission soon.

osman rom

rom is osman.zip

better guardian kills

I don't even recognise this game anymore..

osman rom

If it syncs, score should be 152544.

full run, jjsquawk rom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMJ6jHX-qSY

jjsquawk rom

st1

jjsquawk rom

12472 frames ahead.

shoutouts to stupid bosses

11548 frames ahead, 2972 over old version.

devil world mercedia

rom devilw

help

7f ahead

11560 frames ahead. 2718 over old version.

shoutouts to grabs

3362 frames over the published run.

1105 frames ahead

1065 frames ahead

up to st3

875 frames ahead

135 frames ahead

sadly not picking up powerups doens't go as smoothly as expected

1 frame ahead at turrets (but I picked up an extra powerup.)

I should stop TASing this game.

shoutouts to tormented

5 frames ahead, then I get rekt by end of level timùer

8573 frames ahead (2:22.53 seconds.)

8070 frames ahead (2:14.30 seconds.)

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm23906982

This is NOT MINE; reuploading here for preservation purposes. Enable Local Video Memory and Force Japanese Locale.

If someone who owns the game could do a proper encode, that'd be cool.

8486 frames ahead (2:21.43 seconds.)

Posting this here for anyone who's interested. Hit a wall on Garage (last room of the run) with subpar RNG and horrible lag which I didn't notice, and I'm not up for redoing a lot of cursor movement.

lol

non tool assisted 100% human skill

8842 frames ahead (2:27.36 seconds.)

14%

7%

8941 frames ahead (2:29.01 seconds.)

Likely the final version of this segment.

Substantial improvement over Fractal's run.

cya

try improving this suckers

8545 frames ahead, around 100 'lost'. Shoutouts to loading screens!

Taking a huge risk by not upgrading my health bar until a specific level around 10 minutes later in the game, for a strat that will avoid a save&load, and a loading screen (about 8-11 seconds saved with the new settings which lag immensly more on loading screens, thanks to the garbage way ACAC handles loading.) This means certain levels need to have their route redone. I'm pretty confident it is possible to go through the TAS without losing too much time with five health until then (I've only lost one second due to alternate 5 health strats). There's only one jump I'm not confident at all is doable in a 5 health setting, which is coming up right now; if it's unable to be done, I'll have to redo the two previous levels to do 6 health strats.

8696 frames ahead, 'lost' 700 because of more accurate settings

9630 frames 'ahead' (2:40.50 seconds.) The two movies aren't accurately comparable now, starting from this level.

hell on earth

rom is ddpdojblk

9056 frames ahead (2:30.93 seconds).

Ending screen should look like this: http://imgur.com/t2rgtI9.png

8527 frames ahead (2:22.11 seconds).

4444 frames ahead (1:14.06 seconds).

making backups; this is currently 658 frames ahead

no resets!

1-7 is now 54:13

no, no, you're not watching a platformer!

aka: how to double the rerecords of your movie on a retarded level

shoutouts to entity limits you da real MVPs

shoutouts to wooden boxes (i shit on metal boxes all day)

solid wooden crate dropping

i mean ASSASIN'S CREED - ALTAIRS CHRONICLES FOR THE DS A WONDERFUL GAME

SHOUTOUTS TO CROUCH-TO-RUN ANIMATION CANCEL

no danific

better movement (going diagonally and landing on the edge), saving 56 frames

decent

shoutouts to rapid crouching (xd)

got a bit angry here

aka LOADING SCREENS: THE GAME (4x speed in them, they make up half of the movie)

half wip of that other area up to pickpocketing dumpster tier mini""""game"""" would not bang

saving around 50 frames

shoutouts to bridge skip and outpost skip very fun skips

idk

dirty

18 frames saved

looks 18% less sloppy

(U)(Micronauts) rom

By Silverbawxer. All credit to him.