Here's the #1 tip: Be iterative. Don't set out to make the absolute maximum hyper optimized TAS on your first pass through the game. Make a test-run where you don't try to be perfect but just fast/no obvious mistakes, do glitchhunting and routing/strat finding, try to improve the testrun, etc etc until you have a nice final product.
(#2 tip is: Share WIPs and lasoo someone into proofchecking them and butting heads with you for routing/optimization ideas, because a second head can see what the first misses)
Since the game is so short, why not write a bot to rapidly try variations on good paths and record the fastest one? Or would a bot never find the god strat?
a person who joined two days ago, was online for barely over a minute
Oh, I see. Lots of sites require the user to have some kind of "fidelity" to the comunity before one can download, or upload something to the site. Isn't it time to adopt something similar here? For example, you must have that amount of posts before you're able to submit a movie, or you must vote in a certain number of runs. I know a troll can also post and vote, if his main objective is "trolling", but it may discourage some of them.
Disagree. Many of our best TASes are from Japanese TASers who are not interested in posting in the forum, but we appreciate their work very much regardless.
I'm looking forward to the definitive version of this TAS for sure. Great to see you two breaking it open! Maybe we'll get to stage 2 this month, hehe!
Oh, there HAS to be a glitch that causes the game to crash first ?? thats truly the only way to get started with Arbritary Code Execution ??
darn. Cause i dont think theres any glitches to crash megaman 3. :(
Either crashing or memory corruption/editing (like Symphony of the Night)
You may as well do it as often as possible if it doesn't waste time! If people want to see the game as intended, that's what longplays are for, after all.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xuaxnkdaxp5fiha/54539_FINISHEDWORLDMAPHALF%203200.png
Here's a version of your map that fits under gamefaq's 400kb limit.
Steps:
1) Load in Paint.net
2) Resize to 3200x3200
3) Save as a png with 8-bit colour depth and 0 dithering
4) Run it through optipng which losslessly compresses PNGs
It's possible that some other program/method will compress it even further.
Expecting some good shit from Yong Yong this time.
Prepare to be disappointed, then. The game is severly broken, has all kind of (bad) glitches, but most importantly, is so broken that it is completely unplayable in every emulator (except hhugboy), so it isn't even possible to make a TAS of it as of yet.
How can a game be so broken that cycle-accurate emulators can't emulate it? That is impressive.
Tell us about it, then. What is notable about it? Would it make a good TAS, and if so, why? Are there any notable glitch/playthrough videos on youtube/elsewhere?
I see that the youtube tags come in minority and non specific. We should add very specific tags and in great mayority, even on search results with grammar and spelling mistakes then.
I read once that if you add too many tags then Youtube's search algorithm weighs each of them with less importance, so you only want to put in tags that will make a difference.
It should be noted, BTW, that there's a second loop after the TAS ends that's just the same thing but a bit faster, and what happens after that is unknown. 'first loop' would be good as a catgory name.
first making the TAS the input files are in segments
convert the segments to avi put the avis in
correct order in Movie Maker thensaving to wmv now
the file is single segment
You don't have to do this. A TAS can have hard and softresets (even disc swaps on PS1) and still be one contiguous file. Whatever you're doing to segment the TAS is unnecessary, it should all be one file.
