Hi all,
This is to let you know I'm working on a bot-driven TAS for the genesis Prince of Persia 2 (1996) cart. This is an almost complete game has never been released and it only surfaced/leaked relatively recently. I cannot post the link to the information page because it also contains a link to the rom and goes against forum rules, but a quick google search would suffice but I quote:
The unreleased Mega Drive port of Prince of Persia 2. It was dumped by Jurai and released by drx on August 11, 2006. [...] This game was canned for unknown reasons.
The game is almost complete because there is a bug that prevents you to get onto the horse that takes you to the last few levels of the game. To overcome this, a fix patch has been released: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3755/
As of now, I've linked the BlastEm! emulator to my route generating bot, Jaffar2 (https://github.com/SergioMartin86/jaffar2) and I'm working with the PoP speedrunning community to bring the full TAS to life. I estimate to to take 6-12 more months to complete.
The purpose of making the TAS is to satisfy our own curiosity and lust for TAS, but also to eventually port the movements to the DOS version of PoP2. Early tests indicate that the ports are mostly similar and tricks work equally in both ports. We work on genesis because a bot-driven TAS for DOS games is still very much in the horizon.
THAT being said, my question would be: would this genesis version be acceptable for publication here once it's done? I know it's very far fetched from the ground rules (it's a non-published game and it needs a patch), but then again I know judges have some degree of freedom to take discretional decisions.
Don't worry, it's ok if it doesn't quality. We won't can the project if it isn't and we'll probably come back later on with the DOS version of the TAS. But for now I'm curious to know whether this particular port could work it out here.
