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Dimon12321 wrote:
Why do enter a password at the beginning? Or is it a cutscene?
1. it skips the opening cutscene to save time
2. it unlocks a secret difficulty, which is the hardest in the game. using the hardest difficulty is preferred.
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i like fast paced sections in tases, and i appreciated the baba yaga storyline. it’s a yes vote from me. also, you can change the branch name to “maximum score” for simplicity purposes.
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Samsara wrote:
Going to make a quick note of this for future runs: The first input per match can be done two frames earlier (before the first lag frame instead of after it). From what I tested, this seems to save 3 frames per fight, though it would require completely redoing the run to account for the different RNG. Nowhere near enough to reject, of course, this is less than a second of total improvement and the rest of the run looks optimal.
cool find. i‘ll start implementing this improvement after school.
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feos wrote:
I didn't mean to state that it would be rejected. I researched things that looked interesting, to have a discussion about them, so whatever happens next is agreed about. I asked other judges and they didn't feel it was worth rejecting. Because in the end we don't know if the overall RNG aligns in a way that makes the possible improvement really huge.
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OtakuTAS wrote:
- Rush to publish a submission that has been waited to be processed for over a month and a half (sudden rush), hours after mine is submitted and you've seen it
correction: spikestuff actually commented on this about 1 hour after they published chard's tas, so they wouldn't have seen it before then.
if i were you, i would just ignore them. you don't want to end up getting banned.
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feos wrote:
EDIT: feos is currently working on a script in order to beat this game faster.
Uh, no? You'll have to test picking up coins at different times manually. The only thing I noticed is fceux taseditor doesn't want to keep markers intact if you load branches, so it would be easier to do this in hawk, marking frames when coins spawn and using branches for different routing.
that’ll take forever, and i don’t have the motivation to do that. plus i easily get motion sickness, so this improvement would basically be torture. i’m cancelling this tas until further notice. thanks for starting the improvement.
i may finish the improvement in the future and re-submit this run, but for now it’s cancelled.
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feos wrote:
I made a script to check for missed coins, by breaking when address $01:CB59 is executed, which is when a coin reaches the top border and disappears, because it hasn't been picked up.
And you've missed 2 coins, at frames 12744 and 45324. Was it intentional/unavoidable?
1. well done on that, and the fact you found a way to save time!
2. i didn’t realise i had missed those coins.
i wonder if it could be possible to use your script to redo the tas?