You say that you're running out of NES games worth TASing, MESHUGGAH, but that's hardly true - tasvideos doesn't have a TAS of Athena ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKT4ea97WKo ), for example!
(wink wink)
I tried on BizHawk today and it looks like the playback does not desync when changing weapons. However, there is still an insane input delay that makes TASing this extremely frustrating (press input, fast forward 10 frames, go back, correct input, etc.). Everything has to be input many frames beforehand.
Is that part of the game's programming or Bizhawk specific?
It also sounds like a problem that would be solved well by a TASEditor equivalent.
It looks like the thing where you dive recover and land while ascending, except you dive recover and land while descending, and the next time you fall off you start falling faster.
Yes, some games only call the RNG when they absolutely have to (this one apparently!), vs some games advance the RNG for all sorts of gameplay-unrelated reasons (based on input, based on the frame count, etc) to keep it hard to predict (Pokemon gen 1/2, Symphony of the Night)
This went way beyond my expectations! I still feel the swag washing over me even after it ended. Great job!
DrJones wrote:
I was watching this run wondering all the time how could you get all trinkets without dying, and got surprised when you reached certain trinket screen and some spikes were not there. Then I read the description and found that you played in "no-death mode" which probably makes changes to allow for 100% completion.
You just identified the one change, besides removing checkpoints, that it makes.
