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Kirby's Dream Course TAS by snc76976

Essentials

  • Aims for the lowest score (primary goal), and the fastest time
  • Takes damage to get lower score, or save time
  • Reduces moving camera to a cup to save time (Especially its move at 8-6 of the extra course is clear.)
  • Uses a game restart sequence
  • Uses two water-bouncing tricks to get lower score (for 3-5 and 8-2)
  • Emulator used is Snes9x 1.51 rerecording v6
  • Use WIP1 Timing: ON (IMPORTANT)
  • Allow Left+Right / Up+Down: ON (VERY IMPORTANT TO SAVE TIME!)
  • Volume Envelope Height Reading: ON
  • Fake Mute desync workaround: OFF
  • Sync samples with sound CPU: ON

About the game (Quoted from gocha's TAS)

Kirby's Dream Course (known as カービィボウル "Kirby Bowl" in Japan) is a very innovative golf game. The game combines elements from the Kirby series (enemies, environments, and Kirby's ability to absorb skills) with the rules of golf, creating in a unique style of gameplay.
Don't be fooled, this game is harder than it looks.

About the run

My primary goal is to get the lowest score possible with the secondary goal of finishing the game as fast as possible. The following table shows the achieved scores.
CourseScoresTotal
Course 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 18
Course 21 1 1 1 1 1 1 18
Course 32 1 1 1 1 1 1 19
Course 41 1 1 1 1 1 1 18
Course 51 1 2 2 1 1 1 110
Course 61 1 1 1 1 1 1 18
Course 71 1 1 1 1 1 1 18
Course 81 1 1 1 1 1 1 18
Extra 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 18
Extra 21 1 1 1 1 1 1 18
Extra 32 1 1 1 2 1 1 110
Extra 41 1 1 1 1 1 1 18
Extra 51 1 1 1 1 1 1 18
Extra 61 1 1 1 1 1 1 18
Extra 71 1 1 1 1 1 1 18
Extra 81 1 1 1 1 1 1 18
In fact, RAM cleaning by instant resetting is incomplete, and the water-bouncing memory is not cleaned when instant resetting the game.
  • When Kirby has maximum top spin and he is on the water until first bounce, the memory is renewed.
  • First two bounces on the water just after the memory renewal never sink in the pond. (It is used at normal course 3-5.)
  • After that two bounces, the quantity of the slowdown by the water becomes smaller than usual until restored for some kind of causes. (It is used at normal course 8-2.)
(Quoted from gocha's TAS)
The final battle with Dedede is not necessary to unlock all of the secrets in the game, but it is required to see the ending, so I have included it for completeness sake. Besides, Kirby must defeat Dedede to fulfill his goal of restoring the beautiful starlit sky, right? I fight Dedede in normal mode rather than extra mode. In extra mode, Kirby deals half as much damage to Dedede, which prolongs the battle but makes it none the more interesting.

Time improvements (vs. my own old TAS)

CourseFrames
Course 1-214
Course 1-337
Course 1-52
Course 4-861
Course 5-454
Course 5-550
Course 6-16
Course 6-2171
Course 6-828
Course 7-27
Course 8-41
Extra 1-12
Extra 2-840
Extra 3-32
Extra 3-75
Extra 5-5168
Extra 6-673
Extra 6-72
Extra 6-826
Extra 7-2126
Extra 8-31
Total1007
And 8 frames by reducing lags.

Thanks

  • Gocha helped me for course 3-5 in one, and I quoted his some comments. Thank you very much.
Enjoy the run!
I had set to cancel because I found this run is improvable at least 30 seconds, so I submit new one sometime again!

FractalFusion: Set to delayed because the author is reported to be actively working on improvements.
FractalFusion: Currently inquiring about the author's status in regards to purported improvements.


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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #2688: snc76976's SNES Kirby's Dream Course in 1:10:48.97
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From what I see, this looks like only a time improvement - the score in your notes appear to be the same. So I guess we have hit the score limit?
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Could anybody do a cutsceneless encode, please? Gocha?
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This encode shaves off 4 megs off the old one I did. Archive.org Linky Direct Linky WARNING: Archive.org streaming may be #&)*'d up. Try the direct link if it is. The direct link is fine, I assure you. I have no idea what's wrong with archive.org's streaming as of late.
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moozooh wrote:
Could anybody do a cutsceneless encode, please? Gocha?
Huh? *yawns* Nice improvement. I voted yes.
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You did remember the final fight this time right?
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You did remember the final fight this time right?
I always cut it intentionally because I think it's not so much changed and not very entertaining... Anyway: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UNEAGYAN
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Yeah, I see your point now. Not very entertaining.
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Thanks Velitha! Voting yes because it was a friggin golf game
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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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I couldn't tell offhand what the improvements were when watching this, but this is at least as good as the previous version in any case, and my mind was successfully blown by some of the solutions once again. Resounding yes!
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snc has already made several improvements. They look great. http://dic.nicovideo.jp/v/sm10936764 http://dic.nicovideo.jp/v/sm10979768 I think snc had better to: - cancel the submission, if he plans more improvements. - otherwise, replace the submission movie. (note: in this case, you don't need to cancel this submission. Ask the site admin instead.) What do you think?
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Very elegant solution for 3-8! I agree with gocha in regards to improvements. Furthermore, I suggest putting this submission on hold (instead of canceling) until snc stops finding new stuff. Thankfully the newly found improvements aren't going to affect judgment in any unwanted way.
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Does anyone know whether snc is still working on improvements? If not, I'll set the submission status back to new.
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om, nom, nom... crunchy!
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I had set to cancel because I found this run is improvable at least 30 seconds, so I submit new one sometime again.