Submission #10114: eien86's DOS Druglord in 05:06.378

IBM PC DOS
baseline
(Submitted: TAS_CD.iso )
Bizhawk 2.11 (Core: DOSBox-X)
21473 (cycle count 306378)
70.08662501876766
7113
PowerOn
d9190ab510e7d2b74ee8953a95bd46d3
Submitted by eien86 on 12/25/2025 6:50 PM
Submission Comments

Introduction

Druglord is a reimagining/improvement of 1984's Drug Wars, a trading game where you buy low and sell high, arbitrating the price of goods across cities. You may take high interest loans to leverage your position while taking market risk. However, through the magic of TAS, risk is not an issue, so loans are basically free money.
The game has random events where problems may arise, like unpleasant situations where your liquidity gets subtracted from you, or unfriendly encounters with law enforcement. Other events, where the price of goods shoot up or down may be manipulated in your favor.
The goal of the game is to reach 300 status points, which grants you an honorary title. My strategy for this game was to take loans until I have plenty of liquidity and try to avoid problems as much as I could.
This movie can be improved, especially trying to evade or reduce the number of encounters with uniformed agents. However, the depth of RNG manipulation required would be very high, so I am content with the end result here.

Software + Hardware

Emulator

  • EmuHawk 2.11 (Core: DOSBox-X)

ROM

Source File: DRUGLORD.zip
SHA1: ec6af0b96bd2b3ad7d92c360335776901beef903
Whose contents were loaded into a TAS_CD.iso with the windows version of the create iso tool.

nymx: Claiming for judging.
nymx: I find this TAS to be very funny. It was humorous to see your wipe out the cop resistance. In fact, I had to watch it again...for that reason. Cops didn't have a chance against the power of TASing!
All looks good.
Accepting to "Standard".
fsvgm777: Processing.
Last Edited by fsvgm777 on 12/31/2025 10:52 AM
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