Fun fact - the TAS for this game was uploaded to nicovideo about a day later than the one for OoT, but it passed 100k views before the OoT TAS did (though not by a huge margin) :D
You might recall that Hero Core, by the same dev, has 'Reallyjoel's Dad' difficulty which is possible only for a TAS:
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Hyper Princess Pitch also has a similarly absurdly tough secret difficulty, 'Reallyjoel's Mom'. It looks like it would be a challenge to try and beat in TAS.
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What improvement will be found for OoT any% next? Ocarina items without a bottle? A variant of Down+A that you can do in Gohma's room? Death Hole Wrong Warp in non-3D OoT? ;)
This glitches all battles to end when you try to send out a Pokémon, and for the case of trainers the game assumes you have defeated them!
This is not a glitch - it is deliberately programmed into the game to end the battle if it notices you have no alive pokemon. GETTING to this state is a glitch, but what happens is not. (There's also a similar failsafe where if you haven't gotten any pokemon yet, the battle won't even start. This was used in the last submission by TheZZAZZGlitch.)
Finished watching - yes vote. Thanks a lot for making this! Having a TASed example of the RTA route pushed to perfection should make it easier for glitchcity guys like MrWint and TheZZAZZGlitch to study and maybe find improvements on the map distortion techniques used :) And of course this will be great to show to people and see their reactions :D Lovely disco colours after the elite four. Too bad they couldn't go on even longer :)
(Is anyone planning on uploading this to nicovideo?)
This is probably the biggest part of Pokemon TASes, as luck influences Pokemon starting stats, criticals, what Pokémon goes first if speed is tied, the damage range of a hit, if they hit or not, wild encounters, etc.. For the most part luck can be manipulated by delaying input for a few frames at very specific times. Wild encounters can sometimes be manipulated based on your movement patterns.
I thought that gen 2 used the same RNG as gen 1. That is, every single thing related to input influences the RNG unpredictably (pressing buttons, releasing buttons, timing, etc) which is how MrWint could make a bot to optimally TAS pokemon blue by trying different input until it got the luck it wanted.
I think that if the bad clone/map distort route is faster, it will be the accepted TAS.
And if it is slower, then they should be allowed to duke it out (speed vs entertainment, what is more important?)
(It will also encourage further exploration of how the glitches work, to have a well optimized TAS showing it off.)
Therefore, I would submit it.
Lmao this hack got wrecked. I'm glad you could only horizontally underflow once because otherwise not enough of the game would get shown off. I think that doing a normal+camhack side by side encode would be the best way to show off this TAS (kind of like the sonic 2 submission) as both where the camera is and where sonic is are of interest esp. in the third stage.
Oh, if sites count too, then:
http://regexpal.com/ - Regexpal, an online regex (javascript flavour) tester that will show mistakes in your regex, and highlight every match your regex would make on a body of text.
Wow! Excellent example of how TASes can be transformative w/r/t the original game content, expected way to play and experience. I love the notes and documentation, you've put a lot of work into everything.
If you're still interested in helicopter games, may I recommend Fire Hawk?
