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has anyone tried to see if you can manipulate the AI? can you move left then right, or are you stuck going left once you press it?
IIRC you can decelerate, but I don’t know if that’d be helpful in a speedrun (or if it’s being used while turning already)
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I thought this was just a cheating April Fools run, but it’s actually legit? wow, interesting
Rena wrote:
there's a lot more potential. Waiting for Big Boo to turn visible and for Bowser to come back? That's boring. Poke their timers and make them respawn immediately! Ordinary level/game end sequences? Poke into VRAM and rewrite the messages to something funny!
I agree with this, it could be published as a playaround, right?
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Mothrayas wrote:
Patashu wrote:
Or what if the input file was X frames late on one of the emulators? It's the same input, except you started one console a frame late - horrors, a desync! - but wait, it still works!
That is technically still different input.
I don’t think it does…
but yeah the idea of different versions of the same game was the same as what I thought
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FaschZ, since you’re a speedrunner, couldn’t you just run the game once on emulator to unlock T.T. and have that as the verification movie? I’d expect you to be able to create that faster than anybody else on this forum
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Patashu wrote:
Kurabupengin wrote:
A run with a completed file will be NOT accepted and if they would, a verification movie is going to be needed and nobody wants to do that crap anyways...
Wouldn't making the verification movie take a small fraction of the time the polished TAS would take?
isn’t he right in saying that it wouldn’t be accepted, though? wasn’t that the reason why Swordless’s run was rejected? the fact that you need a completed save file to transfer over data with a glitch
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Zeupar wrote:
ALAKTORN wrote:
I guess we could have a “GT code” and a “non GT code” branch or whatever, but if we accept the GT code run first, then no one will want to TAS the slower non GT code run…
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Garrison wrote:
the realtime Super Metroid community has divorced runs that use GT Code into its own categories as well for the exact same reasons, so one would assume that the TAS community would do the same.
I guess we could have a “GT code” and a “non GT code” branch or whatever, but if we accept the GT code run first, then no one will want to TAS the slower non GT code run…
wait… Garrison? I know you, I used to watch your DKC2 races
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I don’t like this “screw the rules, it’s entertaining” mentality. that’s completely arbitrary and is bound to bite us back in the future
if the run is possible even without the use of the code, why even use it in the first place? sure it’s faster, but that’s a given considering the fact that you’re using a cheatcode
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byrz wrote:
Monkey Ball games don't have RNG in the engine but for some reason, entering a stage at a different frame usually gives different output with the exact same input. Sometimes some stages might sync.
have you checked whether it’s an issue about lag frames?
you should post the movie file for the improved levels, someone may be able to make it sync
