That's awesome! I've tried out your script and found it could make the run very informative. Thanks a lot. By the way, I just found an invalid enemie's Hp appears at Arris Dome Rafters if you press the down key there. Here are scripts to fix the problem, I'm not sure this is the right solution though.
I can not reproduce the problem. gui.transparency(0) works correctly for me.
gui.transparency(3)
gui.drawbox(x, y, x2, y2, "#FFFFFF")
gui.transparency(0)
gui.text(x, y, "Fuzzy pickle!")
so there's a new request.... some way of handling events such as (manual) savestate-loading/saving (not sure if there's other interesting events?)
Any bug reports or feature requests? I'm listening...
while blocking do
readinput()
modifyguidisplaystuff()
if joypad5.start ~= nil then snes9x.frameadvance()
--Sleep(5)
end
But is it all emulated perfectly? ;)
Bosses go down insanely fast, so I consider them the highlight of the movie.
Did you pick up programming as a supplement to another interest (TAS'ing), were you already learning or educated in programming when you discovered TAS'es, or were they two different interests that just happens to mold together very well?
Just out of curiosity, has anyone figured out what circumstances make the robots in Stage 6 explode? My guess is that it's completely random, which means I would have to look in the game's memory to be able to manipulate them. Unfortunately, I know nothing about RAM watching...
Doesn't improvement 12 beta fix the problem?
Reminds me of when I created this topic?
It's touch-and-go for me to say the least, but the only thing stopping it from working perfectly were finding out how to correctly determine what a lag frame was, and make sure that the amount of lag does correspond with a "poked" score.
looks very nice to me tbh, you plan to expand it? :) would be great to see a more general version (e.g. one that does not assume that holding right+Y is best, and one that might start flying? :D)
Also, Anyone who thinks they are able to manipulate the RNG in this game well, I would love your help in the future. Otherwise I'd say I'm doing fairly optimally, disregarding acknowledged laziness sacrificing a few frames here and there, in my test run.
local buttons = { Y = 1, right = 1 }
local sol = savestate.create(5)
savestate.save(sol)
--start movie recording to random filename, set speed to maximum
while true do
joypad.set(1, buttons)
--if mario dies, reload.
if (memory.readbyte(0x7e0071)) == 9 then
savestate.load(sol)
--compare input to previous inputs, dump results into a buttons table
end
--TODO: pseudo-randomize input, weighted according to previous attempts
--but for now, just jump up and down like an idiot
resetbuttons = math.random(0,20)
if resetbuttons == 1 then
buttons.B = math.random(0,2)
if buttons.B == 0 then buttons.B = nil end
end
--incrementally save every N frames
--detect instant death
--detect end of level, drop out of warp
snes9x.frameadvance();
endAnything else requested?