Submission #5400: StarvinStruthers's GB The Little Mermaid in 06:42.23

FINAL INPUT FRAME: 24,104

GAME OBJECTIVES:

• swim around
• defeat ursula
• live happily ever after with eric

EMULATOR USED:

• bizhawk 1.11.9.1

MOVIE OBJECTIVES:

• fast
• manipulate boss rng

BOSS NOTES:

• all bosses move and/or summon spawns on a timer
• boss timers are affected by damage dealt to the boss
• rng is easily manipulated with directional inputs during the right frames
• some bosses it is faster to wait to deal damage as to not wait even longer for more ammo

SHARK:

• 4 hp
• spawns fish (no rng)

EELS:

• 3 hp (2x)
• spawns crabs (crab placement is rng)
• crabs spawn when previous crabs leave screen
• manipulate crabs to spawn them closer together
• it seems the eels will move if you have not hit them for some time
• i thought it would be fast to keep the eels in place but this fight proves otherwise
• eels have very short iframes

WALRUS:

• 4 hp
• spawns shells or ice blocks (rng)
• shells enable faster damage to walrus compared to ice blocks
• was able to get all shells and no ice blocks

SEAHORSE:

• 5 hp
• spawns fish or spikes (rng)
• cannot deal damage to seahorse with spikes
• atroz gave me lemons
• i made lemonade

URSULA:

• 5 hp
• spawns fish or seahorses (rng)
• neither enemy spawn is faster or slower for dealing damage to ursula in this tas
• can cause enemies to appear early by shooting extra shots

BIG URSULA:

• 7 hp
• spawns fish (fish coming from the right or left is rng)
• the rng in this fight has no effect on time

CAN THIS TAS BE IMPROVED?:

• the boss fights are the only critical parts of this game
• i think the rng manipulations here are pretty solid
• but there will always be something i'm sure i missed