I'm not opposed to different RAM initializations, assuming they are cherry picked from known ones from actual consoles.
If a TAS uses a certain RAM initialization, it should be fully disclosed in the description. Then users and judges can decide if 'Seems reasonable enough' or 'lol no, put the cosmic rays away'
Bad game, bad plot, good speedgame. Remember, if you TAS it, it becomes canon in the TASVideos universe!
Unfortunately the fastest known runs are not on youtube, they're on twitch, both by JaggerG:
http://www.twitch.tv/jaggerg/c/3934340 Metroid: Other M 100% in 3:10:15 http://www.twitch.tv/jaggerg/c/3718608 Other M any% Second Ending in 2:26:42
Could you make fixed window class for BizHawk? It's alway change in every new version, examplle in 1.7.2: WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.3d90434_r13_ad1
Could you tell us why you want such a thing? We might could attach additional information for the window that your thing-which-you-shouldnt-be-using could pick up to identify it.
He's writing a program designed to send input to multiple TASing emulators at once to support the making of 'X games 1 input' TASes.
Hmm, if you're limited to various sections of code already existing in the game, that's no longer truly arbitrary execution anymore, right?
You'd think so, but return oriented programming is as strong a programming model as the original program (e.g. arbitrary execution is possible) and has been used to get root access in a lot of real life programs.
For anyone who TASes this in the future, make sure to check out the list of twiddles here:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~vannevar/tyrian/codes.html
Twiddles being fighting game like inputs that produce abilities depending on what ship you are.
A TAS, of course, should show off as many twiddles as possible as part of the gameplay, since many people have no idea of all of them.
They also make playing in Super Tyrian mode really appealing, since as you can see in http://members.iinet.net.au/~vannevar/tyrian/engtwid.html this ship has the most twiddles by far, so tons of variety is possible here.
Plus, I doubt many people who've tried Super Tyrian mode have even been able to beat it. I can't even remember if I got past two levels of it as a kid. It's brutal.
I also never knew about the latter three tricks here: http://members.iinet.net.au/~vannevar/tyrian/general.html
Clever!!
I'm glad this topic is created! Help me to find the game on SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive 2 (I don't remember how many buttons do it support (3 or 6)). I have watched my friend playing it only once in our childhood so I don't remember much details! Second controller was broken so I don't remember if we could play together.
? - not sure
It's a shooter/beat'em up/adventure with top view. At the beginning you can choose 1 of 4 (or 3 at least) men with 3 different characteristics: health (green), power (red) and ?sth? (blue). The main hero walks in levels like in Rambo 3 and beats enemies, he can find ?boxes? with weapons like bazooka or machine gun or take them from ?enemies?, can beat enemies with them if ammo ended. The storyline contains objective: save birds (probably eagles)!
I looked for similar descriptions and screenshots on some sites containing enough big list of games, but still not found.
Maybe it's this game? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growl_(video_game)
It was an arcade game but got a genesis port, the plot was that you're rangers rescuing animals from poachers, you can use rocket launchers and whips and it's a beat'em'up. And this sounds like your description of the character select:
'The player begins the game by choosing from one of four different forest rangers, each with a different amount of health, attack strength, and jumping height.'
Watching the last video, paths seem more optimized and RNG is more manipulated.
When he takes the water Djinn during the level, he chooses to heal his team during the fight, which takes time, but a few times the healed characters don't take any hit after being healed, so maybe a few time could be won here.
I don't know if it's possible to avoid every random fight like in Pokémon Red. This would save a lot of unnecessary fights.
I know that in RTA it's not possible to avoid every random fight. RNG only advances when you do something that advances RNG (any random visual or battle related thing). Maybe there's something for TAS I don't know about.
^^ Yeah I knew that. However, if the game would draw any more of the screen with the moving enemies, that's what I was looking for. Not to say the hack wouldn't probably be a lot of work itself.
If making the screen larger caused more enemies to be loaded, pretty sure the TAS would desync right away.
