Currently project in long-term stasis but it is not abandoned and one day it be finished. It is one of my favorite Sega Genesis games. So i really want to make full force TAS for it.
After completing improvement for "fastest 999999" in NES Tetris i will try to reanimate Adventures of Batman & Robin after years of lethargic sleep.
Upd: Tried to reanimate it right now, perhaps i can slowly work on it parallely with tetris project.
Defeated that damn boss so stage 3-3 is finally finished:
Link to video
I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Current projects: NES: Tetris "fastest 999999" (improvement, with r57shell)
Genesis: Adventures of Batman & Robin (with Truncated); Pocahontas; Comix Zone (improvement); Mickey Mania (improvement); RoboCop versus The Terminator (improvement); Gargoyles (with feos)
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't
12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!"
Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet
MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish
[Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person
MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol
Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing
I was wondering if there was on any updates to the TAS yet. I have no experience in TASing and I know I don't have the time for it, but as a runner of this game I would like to help out as best as I can to help move this project in the right direction.
Decided to look into a 1 player run. I'm not too concerned about being "perfect" but at the very least providing a good effort.
Link to video
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't
12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!"
Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet
MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish
[Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person
MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol
Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing
I have overhauled the entirety of the first level and moved on to the other levels, have yet to get to the Joker stage.
Link to video
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't
12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!"
Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet
MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish
[Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person
MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol
Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing
Truncated asked me to determine spawn delay in some of the autoscroller enemies, so I ended up test-TASing it with 1 player (I used cheats to get to that level, but otherwise I can provide the movie).
All enemies have a value at object offset $2E (from base address of the object) that determines how many frames later the next object will spawn. For most enemies that value is hardcoded to either be 120 or 180. For some enemies the delay starts ticking right after you've killed them instead of when they spawn, so you have to kill them ASAP. And for the third type of enemies, the delay is 180 + random value determined by RNG, which is in turn affected by shooting.
Shooting also affects the type of enemy that spawns and its posision. Sometimes you can manipulate long chain enemies to have short chains, with delay after you kill them, so that helps a lot.
Killing them optimally can be hard, especially without a spread weapon (and Truncated told me blue weapon doesn't affect RNG, so you have to use red). Each shot needs to eliminate one of the links in the chain, only then you can kill the top clown. Links don't become available for shooting right away, they have to scroll in enough, which starts from lowest, so you have to be on their level vertically, and then go up. You want to be right in front of the top clown when you do the last shot, but going too far to the right messes up elimination of links. At least not every enemy has to be killed optimally.
In the end, I got the level to last for 6631 frame (the time when $0xFFFFF5 equals 1026). Most delays seems to be set, even between last clown and level end.
Link to video
Script for BizHawk
https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk/blob/master/Assets/Lua/Genesis/The%20Adventures%20of%20Batman%20and%20Robin.lua
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't
12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!"
Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet
MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish
[Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person
MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol
Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing
