I don't know how to watch RAM and make script. I just learn actions from current run. Could you help me compare actions for find best way? :)
You can find RAM easily using this guide:
http://tasvideos.org/MemorySearch.html
Find the address for higher/lower axis (call it Y) by jumping, asserting it just raised, landing, asserting it lowered, and repeating until you find it. (Or try doing it in the opposite direction - Y might be lower at higher elevations for example, so you need to try both ways)
Then look at the memory addresses surrounding Y position and you'll usually find X and Z position nearby and maybe even more useful things!
This game doesn't emulate real well. The sound/music is really bad in all the versions of MAME I've tested, and it has some graphical issues in some cases. The gameplay still remains pretty accurate from my experience, but the other issues are really distracting for me. :P
This is definitely an amazing game, though! A TAS of this should probably just be single player with Ryno because he is undeniably the fastest. A 4P TAS would be really interesting, but significantly slower due to the insane amount of lag and enemies.
Whatever MURPHAGATOR is emulating it in does the music fine:
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I'm not really familiar with RBA, but what does this do and what makes it faster?
Normally you have to go through a really complicated ritual to get bottle on B that takes 10+ minutes.
Now literally all you need is a bottle and a sword and you can do it anywhere that has water.
RBA lets you write values to inventory and give you stuff for free based on certain rules, like what item is on C-Right and what item is in the bottle.
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edit: Affects the following categories: No WW, 100%, All Dungeons (It has different RBA route and now it will be faster almost certainly), Bingo (until Bingo gets updated), maybe some others I've forgotten. Doesn't speed up any% because you don't do RBA in any%.
Hmm...I think I would have preferred watching the Marathon mode rather than the Time Trial mode, simply because the gameplay is more continuous. Any thoughts?
don't you think it would be easier to use VBA as the GBA? Would it be awesome if you could use that for 4-swords adventures?
But they did at this point, but it wasn't working very well. The GBA core is still pretty young, but proves to be working far more effectively than linking up to VBA. I don't know why. In some months we may be able to finally get Four Swords Adventures TASed, but that may take a while. Just hold your horses till then.
Well, a Four Swords Adventures 1 player TAS would be faster than a 4 player TAS actually, and you can already TAS that, IIRC Tompa and Got4n wanted to do it but they had other obligations to do first.
Glitches
Self-destructing enemies
If you enter the code ''DOOM'' 20 times in a row (code used to make enemies/items harder) then instead of all the enemies becoming impossibly hard, they destroy themselves! Whenever you see an enemy, they self-destruct! Also, whenever you see a weapon pick-up, or checkpoint sign, it will automatically act like you've already shot it!
It looks like 'DOOM' makes the enemies arbitrarily stronger every time you enter it (until overflow). So entering it any particular number of times is quite arbitrary, except for 0.
Thanks, and the last question:
Why do I can't comment my submission on YouTube? I can answer the questions about the run.
Well, normal flow is that there is a 'Reply' link below the comment, you click it, type in the box, click 'Post' and it works.
What part doesn't work for you and what happens instead?
I can't comment the video using my tablet and my PC is not with me now. I can only complain. Anyway I've written back on users's channels.
The TASVideosChannel videos have old youtube comment systems, from before the Google+ integration.
So maybe somehow you're viewing it in a way that can't handle its existence? If you can comment on every other video on youtube and just not ones on TASVideosChannel, that would probably be it.
Yeah, audio problems are common with tasvideos encodes (a lot of audio work post-encode has to be done on Gamecube TASes because Dolphin encodes the audio very badly, for example), so I would submit it anyway if that's the only problem.
Thanks, and the last question:
Why do I can't comment my submission on YouTube? I can answer the questions about the run.
Well, normal flow is that there is a 'Reply' link below the comment, you click it, type in the box, click 'Post' and it works.
What part doesn't work for you and what happens instead?
Yeah! This is my first publication! Now I'm player. 5 is probably my score. What is it exactly and how many points can I get per a publication?
http://tasvideos.org/ForumRanks.html#AutomaticallyAssignedForumRanks
It seems like it will increase if:
-Your movie gets more ratings (not in the forum poll, but on the site itself)
-Your movie's average rating increases
-Your movie is in a better category (star > moon > vault)
...And this calculation is summed over all non-obsoleted movies you have.
It's just for fun, of course.
http://www.twitch.tv/sockfolder
Sockfolder has finished glitch analysis of Laki teleport.
Make sure our TASing friend on nicovideo finds out all of the relevant information ;)
I'll vote yes. Regarding a no underflow run, I'm not sure if it would actually be that entertaining, since while it makes you have to avoid enemies, it also increases waiting time for things like obstacles.
This is a notoriously difficult game to avoid taking damage in. The game is out to get you every screen of the way. That alone makes it impressive to see a TAS that has to avoid taking damage.
On a different note, how exactly does the Cloud-Bowser glitch work, and how does it skip phases?
It's a classic type of glitch - the game uses the same memory addresses for Bowser's animation timer as it does for the position of the lakitu cloud. Normally both would never exist at the same time, but when they do, you can override the timer by moving the cloud.
SADX is notorious for having skips that don't work because a later mission doesn't show up, unfortunately (or maybe fortunately, so you can see all the missions! ;) )
