Posted: 1/9/2012 7:42 PM
Post subject: Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
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Nuy
Joined: 7/31/2011
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Soul Reaver is game developed by Crystal Dynamics and Eidos. It was released in 1999-2000 for the Sony Playstation, Windows, and Sega Dreamcast; it was later ported to the Playstation network in 2009. With that very small bit of history out of the way, Soul Reaver is a rather lengthy game. It contains puzzles and unskipable cutscenes, but removes loading screens. Anywhoo, Discussion topic and what-not.
Posted: 1/9/2012 8:26 PM
Post subject: glitches
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antd
Joined: 3/18/2006
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Location: Great Britain
quite glitchy
Posted: 1/10/2012 1:29 AM
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skychase
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I know it's possible to get the force glyph without Melchiah's ability, but it's useless -_-
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Posted: 1/16/2012 9:08 PM
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Nuy
Joined: 7/31/2011
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Location: Florida
The run shall be done on PSXjin 2.0.2 Anywho, I haven't actually beaten the game yet, so progress shall be slow. Since after the second boss, you're virtually forced into a no damage run for optimal speed(To keep the soul reaver), I've decided to make it consistent and have no damage taken in the entire run. As far as route planning goes, this is obviously NOT going to be a 100% run, so no spells(Glyphs) shall be collected. This also means no Health powerups, even though the one on the way to Kain (1st encounter) is right in the way, it triggers a LONG cutscene. The main route plan is on it's way, so still waiting for that. This is the only RAM address I've bothered to get. As far as I can tell, it's the speed. 000D0398 Standard walking goes at a constant 59-60, and jumping greatly increases this speed, however after landing you have to wait a short while to jump again. This may be avoidable with crouch-cancelling but further testing might be needed. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as this is my first TAS.
Posted: 1/16/2012 9:11 PM
Post subject: glitch
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antd
Joined: 3/18/2006
Posts: 971
Location: Great Britain
test for glitches along the way
Posted: 1/17/2012 1:15 AM
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immortal_butler_Jeeves
Joined: 12/30/2011
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Hey Nu, If you want to talk about the route or anything I'll be checking in every so often. Also, did you determine if save/reset would be viable?? This will very literally save at least 30 minutes compared to running every where.
Posted: 1/17/2012 9:24 PM
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skychase
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What about this glitch ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5HqSWEqQhA
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Posted: 1/17/2012 9:34 PM
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Nuy
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Location: Florida
Is that the PC version or the PS1 version? I recall that glitch being PC only, but I could be mistaken. Edit: I did some testing and, L1 does indeed cancel the 30- some frames to requires to be able to jump again. However, doing this requires pausing, so it's not as fast as just running everywhere. Edit 2: Actually forget that. It's barely faster. over the course of 1000~ frames it saved about 10~ It's annoying to watch too >.>
Posted: 2/7/2012 1:30 AM
(Edited: 4/24/2012 8:29 PM)
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exileut
Joined: 2/15/2009
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000D0394 may be your speed address. Normal running is (counting render frames) 0,0,10,20,20,23,23,26,27,28,29,31,33,33,37,37,39,40,43,44,46,53,54,59,60,61 Speed can be off by 1-4 based on what area you are in and character/camera position. Single frame jumping while running(much faster than holding jump): 0, 175, 149, 83 (5x), 86, 89, 93, 97, 101, 105, 109 114, 117, 121, 125, 129, 133, 0, 72, 66 (5x) You can jump every 58 frames You can jump 2 frames after moving to increase speed from 0 to 175 immediately. Gliding speed is 50-52 Walking is 18-22 ANYWAY. Based on these numbers jumping seems to be the fastest form of acceleration/movement by far. Time at cutscene 2
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Posted: 2/7/2012 2:34 PM
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Nuy
Joined: 7/31/2011
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Location: Florida
This'll be fun.. Anyway, help is greatly appreciate, though all I need at this point is the X, Y, and Z positions. I'm not very skilled with RAM Search so the odds of me finding those positions by the end of the month is slim to none. I also still need to know if Save & Reset is a viable option in the run. Not only that, but I also need to know what Warp Gates I should/shouldn't activate.
Posted: 2/7/2012 2:48 PM
Post subject: reference
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antd
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Location: Great Britain
don't forget to use this as a general reference http://speeddemosarchive.com/SoulReaver.html
Posted: 2/7/2012 2:56 PM
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Nuy
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I can't. This schools internet is terrible, so I can't download it.
Posted: 2/9/2012 6:23 AM
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exileut
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Nuy wrote:
I can't. This schools internet is terrible, so I can't download it.
Hey the site's up. Requested input file I'd say 10 frames max from better movement. Good luck!
Working on: Legend of Legaia, Vagrant Story
Posted: 2/11/2012 2:53 PM
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Torn338
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Joined: 3/27/2010
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You know, I was actually looking into this many months back, but I didn't see it as run I'd be entirely interested in doing... But guess it was because I didn't have much motivation to do it then... I could possibly help you out with this if I can get around to it.
Posted: 2/11/2012 4:50 PM
Post subject: LoK soul reaver wip1: youtube
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antd
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Location: Great Britain
Link to video
exileut wrote:
Requested input file I'd say 10 frames max from better movement. Good luck!
Posted: 2/11/2012 9:00 PM
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exileut
Joined: 2/15/2009
Posts: 329
I don't mind helping Nuy on this run. But I don't have the time/energy to work on it full time.
Working on: Legend of Legaia, Vagrant Story
Posted: 2/14/2012 3:16 AM
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Nuy
Joined: 7/31/2011
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Location: Florida
I got these 2byte values while trying to find the Z axis
    000D0004 001F4098
they MIGHT be the Z axis but I have my doubts. Can anyone confirm this? -----
skychase wrote:
What about this glitch ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5HqSWEqQhA
After trying numerous times with numerous version and region types, I do believe I was correct. It appears to be PC only, but if someone can prove me wrong I'd be very happy, as it would skip so many boring block puzzles and scavenger hunts.
Posted: 7/8/2015 2:29 PM
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DaeMord
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Hey, so we have managed to discover/develop a ton of new glitches for this game, that should all being well work on PC and PSx, would love to see a TAS of this game done with any of the new stuff, anybody interested in such a task, Appologese for the thread necro resurection.
Posted: 7/8/2015 2:33 PM
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Samsara
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DaeMord wrote:
Hey, so we have managed to discover/develop a ton of new glitches for this game, that should all being well work on PC and PSx, would love to see a TAS of this game done with any of the new stuff, anybody interested in such a task, Appologese for the thread necro resurection.
Any links to these new glitches? Also, thread necroing is totally fine here. Appropriate even, if I'm remembering this game correctly.
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Posted: 7/8/2015 2:51 PM
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DaeMord
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Just to give you an idea of some of them, these are all bad videos and will happily sort out proper instructional ones if people are interested in TAS'ing this, also feel free to pm me for skype details if you wish to talk but following is some vids showing new stuff Kain2's dungeon without dumah http://www.twitch.tv/zlamp/c/6907410 Flying in 30 FPS PC http://www.twitch.tv/daemord/c/6938738 (should also work with this method on psx from our understanding of this glitch) We also have double jump in the game but no videos of that, we also have potential research into wrong warping but would really like some help with memory address research to expand that. The main core of the glitches found so far involve what we call "time stop" where we are able to move around with the ring menu up, producing interesting glitches. As well as double jump (does what it says on the tin) and discovered as of er 24 hours recent, the ability to fly in 30 FPS, hoping this should cover, for more or demo's say what you want and we will work on providing, for a full run of this game (All Bosses which is the current active catagory) involving most known glitches apart from flying please see this video here http://www.twitch.tv/daemord/c/6912385 on my twitch channel you will also see an any% run which does everything else known except the current dumah skips in kain2. Hope this helps someone
Posted: 7/8/2015 3:54 PM
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Ncromancien
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Hey guys, I have made a little video of me messing around with the Speed Glitch / Flying Glitch showing the key I'm pressing on my xbox 360 controller, I hope it helps :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NW9o_0ZRTw ( Sorry for the voices and the music, we were working on those glitches for a while and I started music ^^' )
Posted: 7/12/2015 2:11 AM
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exileut
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I guess I spent a few hours on this game a few years ago.
Working on: Legend of Legaia, Vagrant Story
Posted: 9/10/2015 7:57 AM
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The_Brookman
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I was never able to reproduce this but ONE time I was able to phase through a gate in spectral realm instantly, without the slow animation. It was related to how I was moving into the gate as i switched from material to spectral realm. Good luck I hope you can duplicate this as it would save a lot of time. the glitch show case is CRAZY. wow. not surprised tho.