If there are minimal routing differences in that regard a TAS that visits all the doors would be able to obsolete one that merely goes through those which are required.
It's not much different from what's done in the first zone anyway, when a runner uses the "secret" exit to finish it in a matter of seconds.
Maybe doing the first world normally instead of taking the pole exit at the begining will be a nice way to add more content too.
Jaku found glitch to skip Bonus and Pizza games. New time is 12:40 and it is not even optimized
Using some in game tricks and some memory manipulation (3rd party tools) I am able to get rid of both Bonus and Pizza games in Yo! Noid.
Upon investigation, it appears Espyo was correct, Levels 1 and 4 can indeed be skipped for some reason, the subsequent levels can be entered early without completing them, which is stupid. It seems they should be edited out as well, since otherwise it seems pretty arbitrary to keep them in.
Pond is just in time to save Christmas, and save a nice 2983 frames over the previous TAS while he's at it.
Well in the interest of fairness, the improvements you've found are new techniques, rather than better optimisations.
I would only consider sharing if you found something which I cannot improve upon, because then I would admit it's a tie, as opposed to me being in the lead.
And in regards to authorship...you may have an EXTRA special thanks? Thank you for pointing out the potential improvements, but the fact is I've still managed to improve your suggestions even further, to the point where the current run is still 100% my input. Maybe the description on the run's page can certainly give you recognition for your efforts, but I disagree with promoting you to a co-author as a result.
There are no exact rules about crediting other users contribution, instead each one have their inner feel of what is justise.
It is your submission so you have right to decide is it worth to add me as co-author or not.
I do not wanted to start frame war at Christmas and thought it would be much better to reveal all these improvements to you now instead of doing new submission later...
Pond is just in time to save Christmas, and save a nice 2775 frames over the previous TAS while he's at it.
Pond is just in time to save Christmas, and save a nice 2450 frames over the previous TAS while he's at it.
I actually interestingly got the opposite effects with this value. instead of counting the ingame frames it counts the in game lag frames. but this made me figure that there should be a value that counts the very opposite.
turns out it's the very first address (0000, but 00FF0000 on gens). this counts the ingame frames but ignores any frames for loading or lag during gameplay. I even tested to make sure the values would be the same at certain points before you got control of Rick, and they match the ones on gens. so I think it's safe to assume that address 0000 is the one I'll need. Thanks for the help anyway.
It depends on how complex the extra input is, and we generally prefer extra input to be present in the main movie that's submitted and published, but an exception can be made if they provide an extra movie containing this input. See this rule for all the details: http://tasvideos.org/MovieRules.html#PostCompletionInput
If anyone is willing to find some memory values for ingame time that would be appreciated. or just any method to compare gens to bizhawk.
I remember in this game that in a window of the clastle there are secret levels and when you finish these levels you unlock the door of the last ones... right? I'm not remember correctly (my memories of childhood are very vague).
The first secret level is boring autoscroller at train. But the second secret level is truly amazing, probably it is the best in whole game, sad that devs do not included it for main list...
They unlock doors of the castle when you finish them right?
I can't remember why I didn't submit the improvement made one year after the submission.
Maybe it was not optimal?
Extremely late to the party
but holy crap was that a crazy ride! So impressed that someone found a way to improve on the run so drastically. Hats off to Archanfel... CZ is such a pain to run just because of all the randomness and lag, and to find all the new tricks and game breaks. AWESOME STUFF!
Overall, if a submission loses time to existing records due to pure sub-optimality, it will be rejected anyway, so instead you might cancel it.
http://tasvideos.org/MovieRules.html#SpeedOrientedMovieMustBeatAllExistingRecords
The contest is over. Here are the rankings: #5: Team 3: "The FanTAStic Four" in 9:32.939 - movie file #4: Team 1: "The Rockmen" in 9:26.550 - movie file #3: Team 5: "¯\_(ツ)_/¯ in 9:24.836 - movie file #2: Team 7: "🦆" in 9:12:473 - movie file #1: Team 4 in 8:36.416 - movie file
