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.