Introduction
This movie obsoletes [3542] A2600 Frogger by Alyosha in 01:34.62. There, Alyosha discovered that delaying the start by 2 frames, you get dealt a better hand on the first stages. But he also mentions that probably an exhaustive bot-based method might find a better solution for the overall game. Here it is.
Software + Hardware
Rom Information
Rom: Frogger (1982) (Parker Bros)
- SHA1: E859B935A36494F3C4B4BF5547392600FB9C96F0
- MD5: 081E2C114C9C20B61ACF25FC95C71BF4
Emulator
- EmuHawk 2.8.0 (Core: Atari2600Hawk)
Routing Bot
- Bot: JaffarPlus
- Routing Core: Stella - Disabled TIA
- Platform: 'The Jaffanator' - AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X (64 cores, 128 threads) + 256Gb RAM (Average Exploration Performance: 0.7M States/s)
Comparison Movie
Timing Table
Old New Diff
Stage Initial Total Initial Total Stage Total
Boot 0 441 0 441 0 0
1 441 424 441 424 0 0
Transition 865 436 865 436 0 0
2 1301 506 1301 404 -102 -102
Transition 1807 436 1705 436 0 0
3 2243 352 2141 444 92 92
Transition 2595 436 2585 436 0 0
4 3031 588 3021 382 -206 -206
Transition 3619 436 3403 436 0 0
5 4055 642 3839 430 -212 -212
Transition 4697 436 4269 436 0 0
6 5133 536 4705 372 -164 -164
Movie End 5669 5077 -592
This is my anticipated April's fools submission. It's a serious movie tho. Where's the joke? I spent around 50 hours adapting the Stella emulator to run with my bot. Atari 2600 emulation is extremely complicated due to the interaction between the different chips, especially the TIA. I am so tired of this, I wanna go back to NES.
nymx: Claiming for judging.
nymx: This was a pleasuRe to judgE. I'm always exciTed to see boted woRk. Cutting almOst 10 Seconds is jusT shockIng. ExCellent work! (Read between the lines eien!)
Work qualifies for "No Major Skips".
Accepting to "Standard".
despoa: Processing...