I can confirm that this one syncs. However, in the final cutscene one textbox was not cleared as quickly as possible, and there were unnecessary inputs at the end. Here is a version which fixes both issues: User movie #638667544697225272.
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So, every race has a start point and an end point - the path the race actually takes doesn't matter. Ideally, you do not perform any race resets, and the path between the end of a race and the start of its subsequent one should be as short as possible.
Okay, I was being kind of stubborn before, that's on me. Here is a movie which ends input the moment player control effectively ends - when the screen snaps to black in the room with all the food jumping around. This is probably when RTA timing would end, and it's when the in-game timer actually ends. User movie #638639393242789052
Nate...since we have "sync" verification now...I'm judging this, based off of your video. There is only one thing that I would ask of you. Can you confirm that last scene really requires those inputs? If not, can you cut them back as far as you can a provide me with a replacement?
Please, provide an update input file which reaches the actual ending!
There's one major problem you probably didn't notice. The game crashed. In chapter 15, the game crashes on the final hit of Doc Ock. The end cutscene just... doesn't play. Ever. I have absolutely no idea why this happened, and I couldn't reverse it without redoing a giant chunk of the TAS. So instead, I just spliced the end cutscene in. This means it probably won't be eligible to be posted to the TASVideos channel, but I decided to submit it anyway, just to see what'll happen. There is some kind of precedent for this, as [3822] DS Super Mario 64 DS "jumpless" by Adeal in 55:05.13 does not complete the credits.
I wonder if an ingame reset would fix whatever is going on. Have you tried to run the tas on different emulator versions to see if it is emulator related?
You mentioned that you would have to redo a lot of the tas to not have the game crash after defeating Doc Oct. What exactly would have to be done to fix the tas so the end credits play?
Is that a real bug, or an emulator bug? Is there any way to find out? Does this game normally crash? I can't recall that ever happening except going through the game long enough after using that Peter Parker at street bug.
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In stage 1 (and perhaps in subsequent stages), wouldn't it be better to place the second set of cannons along the shore for cannon balls to have a shorter flight time?
Is there any specific advantages to using the joystick version over the trackball one? (Or is it just because MAMEHawk doesn't seem to have proper trackball support right now?)
Is there any hope for mankind? What if you played with frame advance but no savestates/rewind, could you ever get a deathless run? Or is it too overtuned?
EDIT: I hadn't looked until now, but this problem is mentioned earlier in the thread, with a slight solution.
I'm having troubles syncing this. I played back the verification movie, then the submission movie, but it desyncs at the beginning. What am I doing wrong?
