A new TAS would use the flying trick that prevents flying energy units to be drained and it would probably use save-warping, where applicable. 2010 WIP VBA21 Requires vba-over.ini, I think.
I think the Gameboy version is a lot more demanding and complex than the NES version. There are 50 Levels in total. There's a glitch where you can climb down a solid block if you enter it when it almost fully rematerializes. Here is my first attempt at TASing this game. I didn't do a good job at luck-manipulation, so I canceled this. My second attempt starts at level 16 (the highest without needing a password). What is bugging me now, though, is some kind of RNG which determines the likeliness of a bad guy to drop his stolen gold pile. I don't see a way to play through the room where I stopped the WIP. Currently at Level 17. WIP
I've been trying for hours to make an encode, but all of the codecs I have keep making a 4 GB avi, which is invalid (AVI format can only support up to a 2 GB file size) and the resulting file doesn't play back in any movie player. I wish I knew a way to make Mupen split each section of the run at 2 GB, but I have no idea how to do that. I'll keep trying though, since I'm sure Nahoc's busy with making the run.
I have three questions: 1.) How do you walk in place?
This is a kind of a special state in "Left+Right mode". It happens sometimes when you slow down the speed on the ground with "Left+Right mode". It looks like walking without moving, in fact, the X-speed goes "1, 255, 1, 255..."and it will never stop, so the X-subpixel goes "x, x-16 ,x, x-16...". When "x"=0, "x-16" turns to be 240, X-pixel has changed, Mario is shaking and the screen begin to scroll. That makes the "moonwalk" acton useful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNzPjLB3mxk Pianta Village #2, Piantissimo text skip This glitch happens if you talk to the girl at the finish right before Piantissimo arrives. So after you click away the girl's dialogue you get the shine. It saves time because her dialogue is shorter. However, I can't get this to work on emulator. If I talk to her early, he runs through the girl and nothing happens. If I talk to her on a very specific frame, both Piantissimo's and the girl's sound effect play but Piantissimo's dialogue appears.
I like the "Thank You!" version better, with the bonus stage in the background, followed by the enemy roll call and then the "The End" screen.