Hello I'm so happy that I'm done with this Tool-assisted-speedrun, this tas took me so long to make because i started looking for glitches and Skips.
Yes i started doing Glitch Hunting 6 Months ago when I was messing around on Mortal Kombat Armageddon Konquest Mode. The Very First glitch i found was Weapon Cancel Glitch. ill explain that glitch in a bit. So anyways this TAS took me long to make, because my dolphin been having problems with disc and i found out that i can't have a Wii remote and GameCube controller connected so shout out to CasualPokePlayer for Helping me.
Also this Konquest Mode is very hard to glitch.
So now let's talk about this TAS
MAIN GOAL OF THIS TAS: BEATING KONQUEST MODE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE
NEW MOVEMENT
There is this New Technique i came up with called Pause Cancel . so Pause Cancel is when you Pause the Game to do a certain Movement very Fast like Taven Can Roll then you press pause and as you can see he goes back to his position very quickly so he get through tight angles best examples for this
Botan Jungle. He Can also Cancel his attacks Like Punching, Kicking and also his Special Moves, the special moves that won't work is ground pound and TimeStop, and Teleport they can't cancel like the others.
Also you can destroy enemies very quickly with pause cancel best example is when Taven fought the Tengu Clan on Articka.
BOTAN JUNGLE
So the first thing you see is the new movement that came up with is pause canceling, so there is like 3 Fights in Botan Jungle Kobra, Jerek and Kabal. The Main goal is to hit 82 seconds on every fight, i sometimes hit 83 seconds if im lucky. So When Taven fought Kobra as you can see he keep using Ground Pound Special Move so that way i can Manipulate the CPU to Jump so that way Taven Get Extra Cripsy Damage. you going to be seeing me abusing Ground Pound in every fight just to defeat the enemy very fast. Now in Armageddon Konquest Mode there will be Training Session to get through but its not really Similar Deception Konquest Mode. But it does teach the basics of the game unlike Deception which teaches how to play other characters.
There is 2 Brawl Fights in Botan Jungle that was like before taven gets done with his Training Session.
Weapon Cancel GLitch
This is the very FIRST Glitch i came up during my Glitch hunting during 6 Months ago
you will be able to see the differences when you watch this video.
So how can you do Weapon Cancel Glitch. The Main Trick is when you go up to the weapon at certain timing you press the block button then grab the weapon and then you Roll and spam ground pound to cancel the animation of this is the most important part you must have no blue power in order for this glitch to work. i did tested all the Weapons in Konquest Mode that you can grab and some of them don't work and some of them not worth to weapon cancel. also fun fact if you try to way Weapon Cancel GLitch on TekuninWarship it's creates a SoftLock also the enemy's doesn't spawn so pretty much you are stuck.
TEMPLE OF ARGUS
So there is not much to Temple Argus there is only 2 Brawl Fights, and some Traps to avoid. But i do want to talk about the 2nd Brawl fight, Now the 2nd part of the Brawl the fastest way to get through this is kick or uppercut enemy's out of the cliffs and sometimes Ground Pound can also help depends on the situation you in.
TEKUNINWARSHIP
Now this is the part where the TAS Gets really good :)
In Tekuninwarship the main objective is to get out the ship as fast as possible, there is a time limit.
So there is one important part i want you guys to know about...
CHEST SKIPS
What is a Chest Skip?
ill try my best to explain this. A Chest Skip is where when Taven presses the block button for keeping the chest to not spawning, the best options you got is rolling so that a chest won't spawn, the chest skip starts when Taven get done with his first brawl on Tekuninwarship where he sends his enemy up to the fan so when see him start blocking by the door that's when he is doing the chest skips, before he got his fireball ability, in certain frames when i accepted the fireball special move, i press roll button so that way it cancels out the chest from spawning.
There is about like 6 or 5 Chest Skips in this game i think, thats pretty much it.
i also used the Fireball Special Very Effective that is like Taven best Special Move in the game
i did manage to improve Sektor Fight a Lot.
Articka
Now for Articka there is like tons of Brawl Fights and 2 Fights, Sonya and Rain.
you can also see how powerful the Fire Ball Special Move if it was used correctly!
in some Brawl Fights, you see that Skull Bar can't even keep up just because Taven is defeating the enemy's super super fast.
ICE BEAST Chest Skip
Here is the example of a chest Skip.
The best way to defeat the Ice Beast is using Fireballs i think he takes like 5 hits until he downed. every time when icebeast does a slam on the ground he can give you only 2 things which is Power Krystals and Healing thing, so i pretty much manipulate the RNG im not sure if im using this term correctly and also im new to this whole thing. You will also see i use pause cancel to cancel the animation when Taven get's hit by Ice Beast Slam.
Tengu Clan Brawl
i know i said this many times this is the true power of pause canceling used on Tengu Leader. There is not much to this whole Brawl the best is way to defeat the other enemy's with Fireballs and kick them to the campfire to just defeat them super quickly.
The Weapon in Articka i can't Weapon Cancel, its not possible.
The Last Part of Articka is the last brawl Fight the only way to do this fast is to use fireballs on the archers and i use the Power Krystals to Finish this quickly.
LIN KUEI PALACE
Alright look i hate tasing this part because it's really annoying but let's just do it.
For the First Brawl Fight you will need Fireballs to Finish the Job, i also hit the objects to gain more blue energy so i can use fireball more.
2nd Brawl Fight: There is a Weapon Called Ice Weapon The best attack for that weapon is the uppercut so it can kill them faster
Frost Chest Skip
This is when Taven Get's done with his Ice Weapon Brawl Fight you will see a very big ice that he gets to break so before he breaks the ice usually the chest just spawns right now but you can just skip it by just getting the right angle, while you are rolling and you get to skip the chest and you hear that it doesn't spawn.
1st Fight Frost Same thing like the others
2rd Fight is Sub-Zero, same thing just aiming for 82 sec or 83 sec
After Defeating Sub-Zero you will have to avoid traps to pull down the lever so we can have access to the other area.
3rd Brawl Fight: Same thing
3rd Fight is Smoke Same thing
4th Fight Noob-Saibot Samething
CHARRED MOUNTAIN
So Charred Mountain is very short
there is only 1 fight and 1 Brawl Fight.
Just need to defeat Fujin
thats it.
Red Dragon Caverns
So First Fight which is the Brawl Fight you Gain the ability to stop Time which is the most useful special move.
1st Fight: Mavado Defeat him fast as possible
My Favorite Part of the TAS
This is a VERY NEW SKIP THAT I NEVER THOUGHT IT WAS POSSIBLE!
THE KANO SKIP
Let me tell you guys i freaking out when i found this skip then i went on Discord and KusogeMan that i did something Insane Lol!
Sereena Brawl Fight
So the best way to defeat them is use the fire explosion that i did but you will have to lure them into it. Thats why i been grabbing these things that can help me increase my health and blue energy just to defeat them Faster. Time Stop Very useful in the Sereena Fight.
2nd Fight: Reptile Same thing.
NETHEREALEM
So For Netherealm
there are 2 fights and 3 brawl fights.
1st Brawl Fight: The Best way of Defeating Zombies is fireball or sending them off the cliffs.
1st Fight: Drahmin
2nd Brawl Fight: Use The Weapon more and i didn't use fireballs that much because I need to save up my blue energy just for the next part.
3rd Part: I need to use the ground pound to hit the switches to access to another area.
4th Brawl Fight: To get through this quickly you need to kill the zombies to just gain power krystals
2nd Fight: Lei Mei
SHINNOK SPIRE
1st: Brawl Destroy all the Skulls quickly
2nd: Use Fireballs on the demon similar to Ice Beast on Articka also Pause Canceling.
3rd Part is: Havik
4th: To get through this quickly put the enemy's death trap wall.
5th Brawl Fight: Using the Flame Sword and use Fireballs to get through this quickly
Last Floor: Defeat Sheeva and Kintaro.
SHAO KAHN FORTRESS
1st: So the first thing you do is to kill the archers and avoid traps, so that way you will have access to other areas.
2nd: use ground pound on the enemy by the cliffs and kill them instantly.
3rd Part: Pull Down the lever
4th Part: go the other side and do the same like ground pound and use the special move and Pull Down the lever when the fight is done.
Brawl Fight At the Elevator
So as you notice that the enemy's have shields, i do think its best to not waste not so much blue energy if i really need it.
1st Fight: Mileena, the Fastest way is to lure him into death trap to get done this quickly.
2nd Brawl Fight: so this part i use the fireballs on the enemy before the battle started but i did tested this brawl fight and tried to defeat the enemy before the battle starts but the weird part is it said outstanding like i defeated them all but i still cant get through the locked door so it wouldn't matter.
The Excutioner Fight
So for this fight best special for this is time stop ability and for the ground pound is to use switch to damage the Excutioner, i also made sure to the power krystals very fast and very effectively.
3rd Elevator Brawl: i get to have a weapon so now i use pause canceling to get it done fast like always.
SHAO KAHN STATUE BOSS FIGHT
Not Much to it use Fireballs on the 4 rings and then Ground Pound to damage the Statue and do it 2 very quickly.
also i use my time stop to be safe and maybe i shouldn't use it but either way its fine.
2nd Fight: Goro
4th Brawl Fight: Just Fireballs
3rd Fight: Reiko
Last Training Session:
Just Grab the blaze things just get it done.
Last Fight for Shao Kahn Fortress
4th Fight: Raiden.
EDENIA
For the First Brawl Fight the enemy don't have a lot of Health so i just punch them and use ground pound.
2nd Brawl Fight: Same thing
TAVEN INVISIBLE GLITCH
i just wanted to show you guys this glitch for fun but there is no advantage of using it and you can still lose Health and get hit which sucks Lol.
SKULL BOSS FIGHT
So For this Boss you can use Fireball, also throw the enemy's into the skulls to damage them but i also need to be careful to the part they started breathing out fire because you can lose health very very FAST!
After the SKULL BOSS FIGHT
so Before Taven gets done with the Skull Fight he uses a teleport to skip 6 CHESTS but there are some very big risks of using this Chest Skip in RTA because if you try to do this Chest Skip Taven will be invisible and will be stuck or maybe you can still move your character but the camera angle is stuck the only thing you can is restart the whole SKULL BOSS BATTLE FIGHT.
1st Fight: Scorpion
2nd Fight Deagon
FINAL FIGHT: BLAZE
Then TAS is done...
ThunderAxe31: Replacing with a file that points to a confirmed dump hash and removes 6231 blank frames at the end.
ThunderAxe31: Not having any real-time record to compare it with, my closest reference were the PS2 runs. Turns out that while the game mechanics are mostly unchanged, there are difference on technical level, most notably loading times being much faster and the ability to skip cutscenes for the PS2. But once we disregard those version differences, we can see that this submission is much faster regarding actual gameplay segments, despite using the hardest difficulty setting. Also, I could see there has been a good amount of research of game-specific mechanics in order to perform TAS-only strategies. Well done! Accepting.
