Game objectives

  • Emulator used: DeSmuME 0.9.5
  • Clears the game faster than published run
  • Does not destroy Police vehicles.

Comments

Last week, I accidentally found a way to mainipulate the vehicles on the road. So I started this run.

Stage Comments

Salt In The Wound

I recorded a new movie, paste the last movie's input in, then from that I editted it repeatly to find the fastest way to obtain a Red Dukes. This took 0 rerecords.
During the ride, I added around 2000 frames all with the "B" button pressed, then added the camerea change later. This is when I found out that you can only change the camerea on a laggy frame. I manually tried most of the possible frames that, when the camarea angle is changed, results in a road without cars. This also took 0 rerecords.
During the start of the mission, I paste the input from the last movie, then editted to be 2 frames faster.
The boat chase is one of the 2 parts that actually require rerecording. As the stage frequently consist of lag spanning multiple frames, input that is pasted into it will desync. I mainipulated 3 jetty's to group together so that I can destroy the Helicopter. I grouped them up again to cause a huge explosion at the bridge. The rest is prety much the same as before. This took the majority of the 2882 rerecords used.
The moment I arrived on the island, I was immediately slapped with a 4 star wanted level. Luckily, the police were too busy eating donuts mysteriously absent during the chase, so I sped ahead of Kenny and stopped in front of the Penthouse.
I killed Kenny, therefore I'm a bastard.
I skipped the ending by pressing Start.
I then used a bot to kill off half of the movie's input.

Addresses Used

  • Character Speed: 02340CA9
  • Character Health: 02340CB1
  • Red Dukes Speed: 02342E5A
  • Comet Speed: 0234635E
  • Bullets Fired: 021F1318
  • Boat Health: 023474A5
  • Kenny's Health: 0233E72D
Suggested Screenshot: Frame 1677

adelikat: Accepting for publication because you killed Kenny, you bastard.
Aktan: processing...
flygon: Suggested YouTube link for Aktan when publishing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irj-O1hfyK4&fmt=37
It still has 5 and a half hours at the time of writing to go of uploading, but it will be the High Definition encode.


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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #2630: jlun2's DS Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars in 03:42.93
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AWESOME! yay
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Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
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voting yes, but wouldn't killing Kenny be faster if you had weapons?
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Yes vote, it's an improvement of an already incredible TAS.
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Funny, silly, and you can't tell anything happened with the save glitch. Yes vote.
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I like the frame count.
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oh my god, you killed kenny. cool run
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Yes voted, though the above poster stole my you-killed-Kenny joke :( I particularly enjoyed how the aforementioned Kenny, armed with a katana, was helpless against 30hz punching :D I still think it would be interesting to see a minimum-missions run without the save glitch, but that would have to be a different category.
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A nice and subtle improvement. Yes.
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Awesome
It's hard to look this good. My TAS projects
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Kerio wrote:
voting yes, but wouldn't killing Kenny be faster if you had weapons?
Yes it would but getting a weapon in this kind of run is a bit too long. The Police car has a shotty but the vehicle's max speed is less than the Dukes. The other way is to kill a purple Triad member nearby your safehouse, that method is also too long. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xb8c04_gee-tee-ayy-chineenaa-toowwn-warrss_videogames
Entered Boat Chase 2 frames faster.
I am amazed if the 2 frames was done by landing into the water first.. I always thought it was slower. I had a tough time optimizing that part for the demostration run. Nice find with the manipulation exploit by contently changing the camera angles. That should make it a bit easier now to clear a no save glitch run. An obvious yes.
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13337est frame count ever. Yes voted and encoding in HD.
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Wow, this was more entertaining than I had thought. I like it how it's all about fast car rides and explosions! I also think this is a good addition to the site because this game is really popular. Voting yes, although it's already accepted.
Post subject: Movie published
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [1498] DS Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars "save glitch" by jlun2 in 03:42.93
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Okay, who thinks they're cool enough to attempt a warpless run now?
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