emulator and rom information:
- emulator used: FCEUX 2.6.5
- base rom used: Punch-Out!! (U) [!].nes
About the game:
Difficult? Punch-Out!! is a rom hack of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, which was partially inspired by the Title Defense mode of Punch-Out!! for the Wii. The patch can be found here.
This hack changes every opponent's patterns and makes it so every punch you take sends you down, with the exception of Super Macho Man and Mike Tyson.
Comments:
It took a few tries to get this TAS to a point where I felt it was submission-worthy, but I finally managed to do it this time. Here are the in-game times for each fight, and the improvements over my last TAS which can be found here.
- Glass Joe: 47.61
Slightly different order compared to my previous TAS, same time.
- Von Kaiser: 34.61 (was 35.48)
Kaiser's get-up patern is different than the original MTPO, with one uppercut and then a jab. I originally overlooked this and stuck to a strat that was close to the original game, but I recently found this improvement. This also saves 16 frames of real time.
- Piston Honda 1: 39.61
- Don Flamenco 1: 14.00
- King Hippo: 53.48
- Great Tiger: 36.97
- Bald Bull 1: 56.61
Same frame, different phase 3.
- Piston Honda 2: 43.82 (was 43.97)
It turns out that ducking both jabs is faster than dodging one of them. This should have been obvious, but it wasn't for me at the time.
- Soda Popinski: 27.97 (was 27.99)
Using a right misdirected gut punch saved a frame on this fight.
- Bald Bull 2: 1:11.00
- Don Flamenco 2: 54.97
- Mr. Sandman: 2:40.48 (was 2:40.82)
I'm not exactly sure how this improvement works, but waiting for his pattern in this version is still faster in some cases.
- Super Macho Man: 47.48 (was 48.00)
I didn't think this was possible... This improvement saves some frames in game time, but loses 16 frames of real time due to switching phase 1's ending to a gut punch.
- Mike Tyson/Mr. Dream: 1:59.97
- Total: 13:28.58 (was 13:30.48)
Special thanks:
Thanks go out to:
- McHazard, for TASing the original MTPO; some of this TAS wouldn't have been as optimized without him.
- Pap, for playing through this hack on his YouTube channel, which helped me get into it.
- Summoningsalt, Zallard1 and Sinister1, for their tutorials and speedruns which helped me get into MTPO.
- Wonton Supah Tavious: for pointing out improvements over one of my earlier TASes and getting me back into this hack.
- Hexadecimal Mantis, for creating this hack.
nymx: Claiming for judging.
nymx: Replaced movie file with update against the correct patch/rom combo.
nymx: Compared against a human run and this does very well. From my account, it appears to be roughly 1 1/2 minutes faster. Good job!
Accepting.
despoa: Processing...