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This is the TAS that this game deserves! It's unsettling to see the Drones easily overtake the player on the straightaways...even when the player vehicle has max upgrades. Yes vote!
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Thank you for your support throughout the year, friends! Special thanks to fsvgm777 for bearing the brunt of publication, mz for his vision, and particularly feos for his faith.
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Thank you for maintaining this for so long, fsvgm777. I appreciate your effort. If it has become burdensome, it is understandable that you would want to discontinue it.
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I tested Haunted Castle on MAME-RR and FBA-RR to compare them. The only difference that I observed is that the transitions between stages are a few frames longer using FBA-RR. Whether using MAME-RR or FBA-RR, the length of the stages themselves is the same, and the gameplay is identical.
Pugsy's MAME cheat database credits 168 contributors (including some members of TASVideos.org), and Pugsy himself does a lot of work, so it is hard to say. However, at least one cheat for Haunted Castle was contributed by Abystus, who is a prolific and knowledgeable contributor to the database. He likely knows as much as anyone who contributed to Haunted Castle.
I don't have any experience with using Game Genie in an emulator.
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fsvgm777, I submitted this TAS with the understanding that contradictory directional input is permitted by TASVideos. I recognize that community opinion is mixed regarding the use of this method.
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I appreciate your candor, Spikestuff. Your perspective vis-à-vis alternate goals has merit, with regard to this game particularly. I considered several different goals before starting this TAS, including maximum World Records, as you have suggested. Based on what I had observed, there were proponents of each of these various goals, but no unanimous opinion. From my perspective, I had no experience with alternate goals, and I rather like the stricture of a purely speed-oriented TAS, cumbersome as it may occasionally be.
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Games whose Save State status is "Unsupported" might be a good place to look. The PUNCHOUT.CPP driver fails to include the state of certain timers and counters when creating a save state. Super Punch-Out!! was particularly challenging for maintaining sync when loading from a save state.
Thank you for helping with this, mz. The ex-MESS part of MAME has seen some of the most exciting developments of late!