So you don’t have enough friends to play crazy eights, or poker, or cribbage, or even war? What about solitaire? Oh, you don’t have a deck of cards. Well you should try the NES version of solitaire! Well… maybe not, it’s a pretty shitty game, with very repetitive music, and bad graphics. So how about watch someone else destroy it in 47 seconds? This movie will provide you with almost a full minute of action-packed card sorting action at its most action-packed finest. And even those people with the worst ADHD will find it hard to become bored in such a short time (you know who you are).
Some information:
Aims for fastest completion of one game
Plays at hardest level (3 cards drawn as opposed to the easier 1 card drawn)
FCEU version .16 used
By pressing start on frame 4 I am able to skip a long intro screen, however it glitches the start screen so that the cards disappear once they land. Normally the cards land and spell out “SOLITAIRE”, with some credits underneath, but instead you’re treated to some nice green. I delay the start of the game at the options screen by 1 frame because of better card placements compared to the “optimal” start. Also, the music may seem to be rather messed up, but that’s caused by the cursor moving at such a fast pace.
While this is an April Fools submission (because it’s so off the wall), I do think this game makes a suitable TAS, and may even lead to “Solitaire Wars”, similar to those seen with Monopoly a while ago. But if people don’t like it, it’s understandable. Anyways, enjoy!
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I respectfullydisagree
And unlike one of the two movies above, I didn't submit this, then accept and publish it within 1.5 minutes for my personal gain.
But of course everyone is entitled to their opinion.
You don't like my opinion. That's good. But it's not a reason to be so aggressive.
mmbossman wrote:
And unlike one of the two movies above, I didn't submit this, then accept and publish it within 1.5 minutes for my personal gain.
I already made excuses for that (Even though I feel I shouldn't).
But anyway, when I've published that movie, Bisqwit was in vacancy and he has just finished writing it's wiki before. There was no voting system and I was the 1st judge/publisher/editor. So, alone to manage the site.
Yes, there was no one else.
So, I felt there was nothing wrong to publish the movie. Also, as taking my free time to manage his site, I fell it was my reward for that.
So, I don't owe you or anyone else a single thing for that incident.
And you weren't even there in 2004. So, you don't know what you are talking about.
Call me lame but I love watching simple TASes of games like this with finite possibilities. It may be a bit boring because of what it is, but the work behind the scenes is identical to a TAS like Panel Du Pon, which just happens to have quicker action...
Nice one for April 1st.
So as far as I can tell, there are 2 RNGs that determine deck order. The first one appears to load a preset deck order from the rom. The other actually sort of shuffles the deck when the cards are being dealt.
Trying to parse out 2 RNGs is far, far, far too much work for 45 seconds of gameplay.
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So as far as I can tell, there are 2 RNGs that determine deck order. The first one appears to load a preset deck order from the rom. The other actually sort of shuffles the deck when the cards are being dealt.
Trying to parse out 2 RNGs is far, far, far too much work for 45 seconds of gameplay.
An arguably simpler way would be to just feed the cards and deck into a Solitare solver, and try a few different (early) combonations to see what would be fastest.
Shrug.
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This was pretty fun to watch, mostly due to the hot queen-cards. I searched for solitaire speedruns on youtube and found someone do a solitaire on the windows version in just 6 seconds. I wish the cursor and cards moved as fast as in that video, that would probably cut down the time to 3-4 seconds or so. :D
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Xkeeper wrote:
DarkKobold wrote:
So as far as I can tell, there are 2 RNGs that determine deck order. The first one appears to load a preset deck order from the rom. The other actually sort of shuffles the deck when the cards are being dealt.
Trying to parse out 2 RNGs is far, far, far too much work for 45 seconds of gameplay.
An arguably simpler way would be to just feed the cards and deck into a Solitare solver, and try a few different (early) combonations to see what would be fastest.
Shrug.
This may help in getting a good starting idea of which deck orders are faster, but there are several factors that influence total time, not just deck order. The extremely long animation of moving large sets of cards from one stack to another is one example.
I imagine this is easier than the average TAS but it was really fun watching all the cards flying around so fast.
Also, the Queen of Spades looks (to me) like she's wearing a really kinky outfit.
I genuinely think there should be more ultra-short runs. They seem more intense somehow.
I'm just some random guy. Don't let my words get you riled - I have my opinions but they're only mine.
