#9120: Randomno's Windows Chrome Dino in 02:37.63

Browser: IA32 build (basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20240518-3219d2d-uxp-e76fa74573-xpmod-ia32.7z) here.
VB Script to make shortcut: here.
Game: Sourced from Chromium 127.0.6491.0.
- Go to chrome-win\locales folder and remove everything except for en-GB.pak. Alternatively, you can set Chromium to that locale yourself (provided it's not your default locale already):
  - Settings -> Languages -> Preferred languages -> Add languages -> English (United Kingdom) -> Add
  - Click the dotted button beside that locale and check Display Chromium in this language, then hit Relaunch.
- Visit chrome://network-error/-106 and save the page as a.htm.
- Comment out line 6684: put // in front of jstProcess(new JsEvalContext(window.loadTimeDataRaw), document.body);.
- On line 6801 change width to 552:
  - width="600" -> width="552"
  - style="width: 600px; height: 150px;" -> style="width: 552px; height: 150px;"
- Add the 3 audio sources (these are visible with inspect element on the page, but don't get saved).
  - Right-click on the page -> Inspect
  - Go to <div id="offline-resources" jstcache="0">
  - Right-click <template id="audio-resources" jstcache="0"> -> Edit as HTML
  - In the textual field that opens, select everything from <template id="audio-resources" jstcache="0"> up to last </audio> inclusively, but not including the last line containing </template>.
  - Right-click -> Copy.
  - Open a.htm in a text editor, select <template id="audio-resources" jstcache="0">, paste, and save the file.
- Resulting HTML file.

Take the basilisk folder and the other two files to make the ISO. MD5: 7cb998e8a82cb51d9963486cc740571f

After running the verification movie:

windowsxp.img - f83e79d593a6552d807f2aadcdd642be
windowsxp.ga686bx.nvr - 8ad827a30f924dad3146b2bfac70ed7b

Keep the CD in for the movie.

About the movie

As you probably know, this game is hidden on the no internet screen on Chrome browsers. It was hard to find a browser that would run it in PCem. The latest supported Chrome version would freeze completely, and the latest supported Firefox version wouldn't run the game properly (since it was never designed for non-Chrome browsers). I eventually found this fork of Basilisk that's being maintained for processors without SSE instructions.

The movie ends when the dino reaches the maximum of 13 speed. This can be checked with Runner.instance_.currentSpeed in the browser console. It's also fairly easy to find in memory: it's a double with a value of 6 at the start of the game.

I think the speed only increases on draw frames, so the bad lag makes it take longer. I had to deal with desyncs from loading savestates which meant redoing the movie several times.

feos: Claiming for judging.

feos: Better instructions.

feos: Reproducing the syncing game was the hardest part, and now we can host both the game and the script in userfiles. The ISO image I create from the needed files using our official script has a different hash than the one the author provided, but the movie syncs on both.

The goal seems valid, accepting.

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Submission #9120: Randomno's Windows Chrome Dino in 02:37.63

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About the movie