Moon Patrol
Moon Patrol is a 1982 arcade video game developed and released by Irem. It was licensed to Williams for distribution in North America. The player controls a Moon buggy which can jump over and shoot obstacles on a horizontally scrolling landscape as well as shoot aerial attackers. -wikipedia
TASing
This was one of my favorite arcade classics. After I figured out the the ROM situations for a number of arcade games (for use with bizhawk), I finally decided to give this a try. I actually was surprised how easy it was TASing this game. In fact, most of this game was a simple exercise in RNG manipulation and applying my 8 years of TAS experience. The only trouble was figuring out a route around one set of mines...which I eventually gave up and slowed down. This slowness was the only one that occurs in the entire run.
Tools
- BizHawk 2.9.0
Ending
Moon Patrol has two courses...the regular course and the "Champion Stage". I don't know why the game has "Champion Stage 2", since it is a repeat of "Champion Stage 1". If there is any question about this, I can take the inputs and re-sync to get that extra course....as the only difference is RNG.
Here is a TAS of this game, which did "Champion Course 2"...which you can play side-by-side to see that "Champion Course 1" are the same.
Thanks
- darkman425 for his understanding on arcade ROM construction.
- LogansGamingRoom For reminding me of this game, after your Atari submission.
nymx: Updating moving file with technique that cuts 403 frames.
nymx: Updated with newer encode to reflect the recent cuts made.
Darkman425: Claiming for judging.
Darkman425: The patrolling looks good to me. Accepting to Standard.
fsvgm777: Processing.