Table of contents
Introduction
I like TASing racing games.
Category Choice
This game contains 9 different tracks. After beating all of them, the game loops back to the first one. This movie completes one cycle.
Software + Hardware
Rom Information
- Name: Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat (U)
- ROM: Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat (U) [!].nes
- SHA1: 238A5A46DB79AC6E5252DC902F5BBDA669FA4DD7
- MD5: F1781F33DC3E5A9FEA34B7E3B890A5AC
Emulator
- EmuHawk 2.10 (Core: QuickerNES)
Routing Bot
- Bot: JaffarPlus
- Routing Core: QuickerNES
- Platform:
- 2 x AMD Epyc 7742 (128 cores, 256 threads) + 384Gb RAM
- Exploration Rate: 1.20 Mstates/s
Strategy
My work in this game was pretty similar to that in [5294] NES Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off Road by eien86 in 50:31.34.
There is a money/shop component that requires some planning ahead. I decided to pursue engine performance first, as I reckon that would have the largest effect if bought early on. For the races themselves I tried to cheese collision with others as much as possible. I also try to reduce the amount and duration of pit stops. I'm pretty sure some deeper strategic planning might result in a faster movie, but I will until somebody wants to take that challenge.
Darkman425: Claiming for judging.
Darkman425: From my understanding, unlike the arcade version of this game the NES version loops through the tracks indefinitely if the player can somehow win against the cheating AI. That make the goal choice good.
Speaking of the cheating AI, I love how the fastest solutions found by the bot after using the initial turbo boosts from the shop was to abuse constant collisions with Danny Sullivan's car since he has way more turbo that can technically be abused by the player. Nice work!
Accepting to Standard.
despoa: Processing...
Darkman425: Replacing input file with one that removes blank input.