A new TAS would use the flying trick that prevents flying energy units to be drained and it would probably use save-warping, where applicable. 2010 WIP VBA21 Requires vba-over.ini, I think.
I suggest Buu's Fury first IMO
HP / Ki / Fly Energy / Pow growth:
The Pow information (damage dealt) is taken from a test that was run against a crab enemy 500~2000 hits. However, it seems enemies do have a Defense stat so this is only for reference. I have not figured out well enough how Dmg dealt / Defense stuff works yet.
Lv1: 105HP 100Ki 6Fly 78~104dmg (91 average)
Lv2: 200HP 150Ki 7Fly 150~199dmg (174)
Lv3: 325HP 200Ki 8Fly 244~324dmg (286)
Lv4: 435HP 300Ki 9Fly 434~326dmg (380)
Lv5: 600HP 350Ki 10Fly 450~498dmg (524)
Lv6: 900Hp 1000Ki 11Fly 675~898dmg (784)
Lv7: 1100HP 1000Ki 12Fly 825~1097dmg (959)
Lv8: 1300HP 1000Ki 13Fly 975~1297dmg (1130)
Lv9: 1500HP 2000Ki 14Fly 1125~1497dmg (1312)
Lv10: 1700HP 5000Ki 15Fly 1275~1696dmg (1484)
Lv11: 2000HP 6000Ki 18Fly 1500~1996dmg (1748)
Lv12: 3000HP 7000Ki 21Fly 2250~2994dmg (2622)
Lv13: 4000HP 8000Ki 25Fly 3000~3992dmg (3490)
Lv14: 500HP, 9000Ki, 30Fly 3750~4990dmg (4378)
Lv15: 6000HP 10,000Ki 33Fly 4500~5988dmg (5248)
Lv16: 7000HP 18,000Ki 35Fly 4746~6986dmg (6122)
Lv17: 8000HP 25,000Ki 40Fly 6000~7984dmg (6992)
Lv18: 9000HP 45,000Ki 45Fly 6750~8982dmg (7870)
Lv19: 10,000HP 60,000Ki 50Fly 7500~9980dmg (8742)
Lv20: 20,000HP 65,000Ki 55Fly 15000~19960dmg (17480)
Lv21: 40,000HP 75,000Ki 60Fly 30000~39921dmg (~34970)
Lv22: 50,000HP 95,000Ki 70Fly 37500~44902dmg (~43650)
Lv23: 80,000HP 110,000Ki 80Fly 60000~79843dmg (~69922)
Lv24: 100,000HP 120,000Ki 90Fly 75000~99804dmg (~87370)
Lv25: 150,000HP 150,000Ki 99Fly 112500~149707dmg (~131130)
Misc info:
- The ingame timer can overflow, unless it stops at a certain time stamp (it didn't stop at 99:59:59, but may stop at an arbitrary time stamp so this should be tested). Nothing special happens, the number is messed up and turns negative until it reaches 0 to count up again. You would have to wait 136 years of realtime for this to happen though.
- Like with the above case, Experience can also overflow. At a certain point you will reach Level 0 and have a strange amount of HP and Ki. Eventually you will get Level 1 again and be weak.
- When you are at a higher level, the same enemy will deal more damage to you.
- I guess I should note here, that the Ginyu force battle can be skipped by flying in the top 
TODO:
- Find each enemy's health address
- Make a general list of things that increase Goku's experience throughout the game. From this list we can then judge what level we will be at when at certain points in the game
- Add Enemy display to lua (show various things like type of enemy, Exp when killed, pos, defense, health...)
- TAS the game
It can now display various data for each enemy in the game, such as health, damage received (i.e. damage I dealt to it with my last attack), experience it will give when killed, defense.
I have spent a lot of time to make this and fixed a lot of things. If someone finds my script malfunction or behave strange, please message me.
Unfortunately I have not figured out yet how the defense value plays into the damage calculation. The algorithm is a mystery still, but at least we can now see it. Maybe someone else can find it out.
(Unless the def value is wrong, but it shouldn't be. I edited it and it behaved as if it was a Def related value)
I guess this is my todo now:
- How does RNG work? Is it based on the global timer of the game?
- Find out how invincibility works, find invincibility span addresses for goku / enemies
- Check for stat differences between US and EU version
- Find out damage algorithm <-- RNG plays into this?
- TAS the game ... or not. Idk
EDIT:
OK I'm really not sure on that defense thing so maybe the value the script is displaying is wrong... I only can tell this:
If that value (it has to be 4 byte instead of 1 byte btw) is 0 then you deal almost always high dmg but if it's a relatively high value then sometimes you deal miserable damage inbetween. There can be "flop hits" that deal much less, and I think it's dependent on that value.
EDIT:
I updated the script again. The new link is at the beginning of this post.
Also facts about invincibility:
- When an enemy hits you, there will be 16 frames where you can still hit the enemy. But if you don't, then the enemy will become invincible for 45 frames thereafter.
I.e. when you get hit, the enemy becomes briefly invincible.
- When you hit an enemy, he becomes invincible for 80 frames right after.
If either of those two timers (the 45 one or the 80 one) is active, the enemy can't be hurt.
So you can hit an enemy every 80 frames (1.33 seconds) at best.
As I pointed out before, only when your attack makes a distinctive sound (crashing sound when punching), your attack deals damage. Otherwise it deals no damage.
*magazines: 350exp
*takes 6 energy across trees
chaotzu: 500exp
tien:500exp
old man(3 stones):350exp, speed
*boat: 200exp
*yamcha:500exp
*puar:500exp
*flowers:400exp
*sue:500exp
*radditz:
8000hp
at lv5 dealing 589dmg max
4000exp
snake woman:
3000hp
can be killed in 3 hits
3500exp
killing a soul:
4000hp (4 hits)
1000exp
*3 ghosts:
500exp each
*kaio:
1500exp, speed, kame wave
dino:
18000hp
4000exp
three robbers:
7000hp each
6500exp
capsules:
1st: 1500exp
2nd: -
*nappa:
14000hp
1084 max dmg at lv7
20,000exp
*vegeta:
16000hp
1444 max dmg at lv9
20000hp
1412 max dmg at lv9
30,000exp
killing a soldier:
10000hp (6 hits)
1964 maxdmg at lv11
10,000exp
three trees:
7,000exp
*namek temple:
30,000exp, speed
recoom:
60000hp
40000exp
burter:
90000hp
70000exp
jeeze:
90000hp
70000exp
ginyu:
150000hp
5964dmg max at lv15
90000exp
*freeza:
300,000hp
1996dmg max at lv11 = 201 sec
300,000exp
400,000hp
6986dmg max at lv16
500,000exp
600,000hp
19960 dmg max at lv20
800,000exp
1,000,000hp
49414 dmg max at lv22
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it takes like 55 sec to kill all of ginyu
force except ginyu.
It takes 55 + 33 = 88 sec to kill all of
ginyu force including ginyu.
ALL GINYU FORCE DEAD:
freeza (with puaryamcha, all ginyu force
dead, no grinding)
lv16: 300,000 hp / 6986 = 55 sec
lv19: 400,000 / 9980 = 52 sec
lv22: 600,000 / 44902 = 17 sec
lv22?: 1,000,000 / 49414 = 26 sec
ALL GINYU FORCE EXCEPT GINYU DEAD:
freeza (with puaryamcha, all ginyu force
dead except ginyu, no grinding)
lv15: 300,000 hp / 5988 = 86 sec
lv18: 400,000 / 8982 = 57 sec
lv22: 600,000 / 44902 = 17 sec
lv22: 1,000,000 / 47460 = 27 sec
This took longer by 37 sec.
Flight into the warp detour wasn't
considered.
Killing ginyu is worth it.
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take puar yamcha at any case,
otherwise it wastes 6 sec at radditz and
possibly more in subsequent fights.
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Snake queen takes 6 sec to beat and
gives 3500 exp. That would influence the
following fights. It is worthwhile to kill
her.
not killing snake queen means you fight
nappa
lv7: 14000hp / 1097 = 17 sec
vs killing snake queen:
nappa
lv8: 14000hp / 1297 = 14 sec
vegeta 1st phase without snakequeen
Lv9: 16000hp / 1497 = 14 sec
vegeta 1st phase with snakequeen exp
Lv10: 16000 / 1696 = 12 sec
vegeta 2nd phase without snakeq
lv9: 20000 / 1497 = 18 sec
vegeta 2nd phase with snakeq
lv10: 20000 / 1696 = 16 sec
...possible subsequent fights where
even more time can be saved possibly...
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