moozooh: Indeed, the published run was done with little more than memory watch and some (mostly) naive assumptions based on that, but when you consider that the game is still primarily around eleven minutes of scrolling the screen at a constant rate and waiting for the next part to load, then it's not surprising how little room for improvement there is.
This sounds so underrated! I think it's a great achievement you did with "fewer" technology than we have now (mostly referring to TAS Editor and feos' sexy lua script). It's suprising that we still find a way to save a few frames and the way it impacts other screens.
Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
it can get back to the boss room
00 01 FF FF 02 FF FF 03 04 FF FF 05 FF FF 06 07 FF FF 08 09 0A 0BWanna post this https://www.twitch.tv/videos/60452856 Seems like a power pack save / load issue, but when it glitches for the first time it blinks every frame with the same graphics as that "graphical glitch frame" I was thinking that something like this can be done by killing boss at the same frame as "graphical glitch frame" happens, but seems like it can't be done. Seems like graphical glitch frame can happen only if you hit the boss at certain frame and boss have more than 1 hp. But it was looking so real for me http://i.imgur.com/rGkvsz3.png
Do you have any input file showing that graphical glitch when attacking a boss though?
http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/37785485731968683 Sorry, it starts from save state. Graphics crash happens on frame 700. Also Ninja Gaiden (U) [!] was used
$07:F5A2: 2C 02 20 BIT $2002 (PPU_STATUS)
$07:F5A5: 70 FB BVS $F5A2
$07:F5A7: 2C 02 20 BIT $2002 (PPU_STATUS)
$07:F5AA: 50 FB BVC $F5A7
Here's another soft-lock manipulated from feos' movie:
1. The game can be soft locked, but most of the time it will recover after 2000~5000~13000 lag frames.
2. As Scumtron wrote, since the game uses the 0x6D which looks unmanipulatable, the game will come back to a state where you can press start and loads 0x6D, which is always the place where you did the double KO (only boss1, boss2 tested).
3. You can't warp to another level, because the KO glitch doesn't increases 0x6D only after revisiting the level, so the game takes you the next cutscene after the boss level started.
Only ideas I have as Scumtron suggested is getting more score to have enough time to end a screen and hoping for something spicy.
edit: if you somehow able to go to the boss screen (double ko boss2, freeze timer value, go to boss2 again), the timer will countdown again from 150 and proceeds to next level. Obviously this is impossible and worthless.http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/37696646785204508 Since I couldn't get anything out of this glitch, I'm posting my test movie. The glitch is when you kill the second boss and run out of time at the same frame. Then cutscene and gameplay mechanics get messed up and random crap gets written to level BG blocks. The game can crash or reset, or it can get back to the boss room, but I couldn't get it to do anything else.
The link died before I had time to check it :/
So then the 6-3 glitch isn't possible without a powerpak/ everdrive?
