- Emulator used: dega-1.14a
- Aims for fastest time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Adventure
Comments
My second TAS, and also my second TAS of a King's Quest port.
About the game
This game is a port of the original King's Quest, for the Sega Master System. Now, unlike the KQV port for the NES, the graphics in this port have actually been upgraded from the original rather than downgraded. This game also plays much faster than the KQV port, and it's much shorter, so I think this one really made for a better TAS than KQV did.
About the run
This is an any% run, as there are plenty of items you don't need to pick up in order to finish the game. I just got the bare essentials, except I also picked up the slingshot and the pebbles as it's faster to kill the giant than wait for him to fall asleep.
Notes
- The aforementioned programming errors I abused aren't that many (only two, in fact), and I didn't save a whole lot of time by abusing them, but every frame counts, right? Anyway, you'll probably spot them, but in case you don't:
- I crossed a river by walking behind a tree instead of using the bridge.
- I entered the door leading to the long stairway from the back.
- The witch was home when I entered her house. The only real difference this made to the run, was that I had to position myself a little differently when stealing her cheese, which was about five frames or so slower than if she hadn't been home. I could have "luck manipulated" her away, but that would have cost more time than I would have gained from it.
- I know it looks like it's faster to walk around the table on the left side when acquiring the fiddle, but walking on the right side is actually a whopping four frames faster.
NesVideoAgent: Hi! I am a robot. I took a few screenshots
of this movie and placed them here.
Oh! I also corrected the ROM name.
- You indicated
King's Quest (UE) [!].sms - I updated it to
King's Quest - Quest for the Crown (U) [!].sms
Truncated: I think this is cool, so I will accept it.