ashrah stanky leg and better stage selection allows for faster arcade run, i also did a liu kang version because liu kang has a good tactic for onaga, but onaga is jsut one of many enemies, maybe hotaru could be a candidate if he's not bad at onaga?
this movie uses the verifcation movie:
https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638455893821840216
this is a long verification movie, goes through konquest and unlockables and unlocks them in krypt, watch at 200% and copy the .raw for the movie as your memcard A and have a blank memcardB to sync
This should obsolete current Ashrah run, but the tasvideos staff hasn't decided if a SRAM movie can obsolete non-SRAM movie. The more i play, the more i believe these games could have some other secret strategy.
Thanks to my family, my girlfriend and my buddies SJ and Cyresium, they're all supportive people.

eien86: Claiming for judging.

eien86: This movie finishes the game's "Arcade Mode" in its hardest difficulty by using Ashrah, a character included in the normal roster. This movie is much faster than [5431] GC Mortal Kombat: Deception "Arcade Mode" by SJ in 09:48.98 due to the use of better stage routing, enabled by the use of a save game state which had previously unlocked them.
The movie is well optimized and pretty entertaining. As such, it easily satisfies the criteria for acceptability. However, the use of a savegame start sparked a discussion about savegame-start movies. Specifically for this submission, it was relevant to discuss whether a faster savegame-start movie could obsolete a clean start movie. In the end, it was decided that savegame-start submissions can be accepted into a separate category, if they are faster than the normal start ones.
For the reasons above, I'm accepting this movie to Standard, 'Arcade mode, savegame' category.
To the encoder: to reproduce this movie, follow these steps:
  • 1) Run verification movie with a memory slot A loaded, B unloaded
  • 2) After running, a temporary SRAM file will be created: MOVIEA.USA.RAW
  • 3) Rename that file to MemoryCardA.USA.raw
  • 4) Run the submitted movie

EZGames69: Processing...


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Post subject: as usual, desync with Dolphin
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Hi KusogeMan, I was able to run the verification movie and create the save state. However, when I launch the submission movie, the first round against Kobra goes fine (flawless victory) but then the movie desyncs in the second round. Can you please tell me your Dolphin configuration? Especially those in the Options > Configuration > (General / Advanced / GameCube) tabs.
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i dont know if this is clear enough so i'll post here to reinforce it, the verification movie produces a raw memorycard file named MOVIEA as a memcard that isn't the normal one, so i had to rename this to MEMORYCARD.USA raw file to use it for the actual TAS movie. The last thing the movies does is unlock liu kang but it's the old konquest TAS and then item collection, which is down in the link below to see what it looks like. The last part of the verification movie looks like this sped up: https://youtu.be/jxWxDdQ-O6M
I want all good TAS inside TASvideos, it's my motto. TAS i'm interested: Megaman series, specially the RPGs! Where is the mmbn1 all chips TAS we deserve? Where is the Command Mission TAS? i'm slowly moving away from TASing fighting games for speed, maybe it's time to start finding some entertainment value in TASing.
Post subject: Movie published
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [5979] GC Mortal Kombat: Deception "Arcade mode, savegame" by KusogeMan in 07:15.43