No, its not a typo, its catsle.
After reading the newbie guide on tas editor, it gave me the boost I needed to do my first TAS. I wanted to do a game that never been done, yet wasn't super boring. So I decided to use an homebrew game to which I have the actual physical cartridge.
The game share some similarities with Castlevania, but obviously much simpler.
More info: http://gradualgames.blogspot.ca/2012/04/nomolos-storming-catsle-release.html
Alas the roms full rom hasn't been dumped/released yet and I don't have a mean to dump it myself, so for this WIP/Test Run/practice I used the demo rom.
Rom download (freeware): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58633607/nomolos_demo.nes
I used the latest FCEUX due to the magnificent tas editor in it. The run does synch on bizhawk except it doesn't pick hardest (unfair) difficulty at the start probably due to one more lag frame at the start, but that doesn't matter in this game as gameplay is exactly the same, difficulty only change amount of health you have, which I don't lose anyway.
Physic in this game are pretty simple, there is no acceleration, its full speed or not moving on the x axe. So unless you have to turn around for some reason, as long as your X position increase by 2 each frame, you are going as fast as you can.
I try to only kill enemy when I don't have a choice, to reduce lag or not have to slow down to pass between em.
Here is a crappy encode of lvl 1 (I have low monthly bandwith allocation), made with bizhawk for easier AVI dumping.
Link to video
And here is the fm2 file: http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/download/5913241019306657
Finished level 2 (thus completing the demo...), removed some waiting frame in the beginning, and added one at title screen so the run synch on both FCEUX and Bizhawk on Unfair difficulty.
Link to videoFM2bkm
Ooh, I've never heard of this game before. It looks like a fairly simple side scroller, but the TAS seems fast and fluid enough. I'm looking forward to see more.
Unless the full game gets dumped/released, that's all there is to it
Full game has boss fight and hopefully a few other things. I never actually played my cart, its still in its unopened box, and most likely never will.
Finally got around to find the full game rom.
So I did up to after the first boss fight. Had to modify some part of the first level to get it to sync, but 2nd level sync perfectly.
So 2 more level and a boss fight.
Link to video[/video]
