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Guess I'll have to wait for the AVI on this one - my lowly 1000MHz Pentium 3 is utterly incapable of running 4 instances of FCE Ultra at anything more than about 67% speed each.
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If hexediting is reasonably possible with this game (i.e. if the RNG gets reset at the beginning of each level), you might try redoing some of the earlier levels with the particular RAM watches I provided - with luck, a bit more time could be shaved off.
Of course, if it doesn't work, best to just finish this run and then start on an improved one. By the time you're done, you'll have found lots of ways to gain speed, just as I did with Sonic 2. How thoroughly are you using frame advance, and what slowdown ratio are you using otherwise?
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This run is fully assisted, using 47K rerecords to pull off a reasonably impressive run, both pacifist (except for bosses) and not taking damage.
The unassisted thing is something else, and doesn't belong on this site.
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AKA wrote:
The first level looked like it could be majorly walked over (the irony), all you need is a mushroom and then to remove a block in the ceiling and run forever until you reach the flagpole.
Quietust wrote:
Trask wrote:
Mr. Kelly R. Flewin wrote:
I mean heck... did anyone see that one part where he actually could break the brick ceiling? And the fact there's a hole above the flag? HELLO! McFly!!!
I'm willing to bet there's an invisible coin block above the block he broke. I find it hard to believe there'd be such a massive oversight when all the rest of the design is so deliberately sadistic.
More likely you can't actually use the flagpole from up that high - you'd get caught against the ceiling block and then automatically walk to the right forever.
And, of course, it would have to turn out that I was completely wrong...
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A few additional useful memory addresses:
FF8DDE - Toejam's horizontal speed (signed 16-bit)
FF8E5E - Earl's horizontal speed (signed 16-bit)
FF8DE6 - Toejam's vertical speed (signed 16-bit)
FF8E66 - Earl's vertical speed (signed 16-bit)
Horizontal speed starts at 256 and increases 8 per frame (including the first frame, so you really start at 264), but jumping while moving immediately sets horizontal speed to 512 - if a short jump lasts less than 32 frames, do one when starting from a standstill.
Horizontal speed normally maxes at 768, but a panic button will set it to 1024 and sliding across snowy hills can potentially reach 1536. Swimming underwater pushes you to 768, but the water slows you down so you have to swim as quickly as possible.
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For such a high rerecord count, the sim section was extremely poorly done - you should be using frame advance for all menu navigation, and you should never miss your targets.
The action segments were mostly okay, though.
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Super Jars count is located at address FFA91A (unsigned, presumably 2 bytes), confirmed by using a code to lock it greater than zero and give myself infinite jars
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Trask wrote:
Mr. Kelly R. Flewin wrote:
I mean heck... did anyone see that one part where he actually could break the brick ceiling? And the fact there's a hole above the flag? HELLO! McFly!!!
I'm willing to bet there's an invisible coin block above the block he broke. I find it hard to believe there'd be such a massive oversight when all the rest of the design is so deliberately sadistic.
More likely you can't actually use the flagpole from up that high - you'd get caught against the ceiling block and then automatically walk to the right forever.
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NrgSpoon wrote:
Anything, really.
Mystic Towers.
Oh, and I fully support the Oxyd series as well, though it could easily get very tedious in some of the later levels (which are extremely large).
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7 rerecords is a bit, umm, low?
Considering Genisto's playthrough had over five thousand rerecords and didn't focus on speed, something tells me you aren't trying nearly hard enough.
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For the record, the currently published run is 15:34.77 long, making this one a 7.52 second improvement. This is actually significant, considering the currently published run was only a 5.55 second improvement over the one it obsoleted.
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Saturn wrote:
jaysmad:
It is possible to get this Missile, maybe just not the way you try. :-)
That would seem to imply that either one of the other items in the game grants you the ability to destroy crumble blocks from the side, or collecting the item requires exploiting a bug in the game to pass through walls - I used the X-ray scope around that area, and there are no other paths to that missile pack.
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Switches 1/2/3 control pricing:
000 (0) - 1 credit per coin
001 (1) - 1/2 credit per coin
010 (2) - 1/3 credits per coin
011 (3) - 2 credits per coin
100 (4) - 3 credits per coin
101 (5) - 4 credits per coin
110 (6) - 5 credits per coin
111 (7) - Free Play
Switch 4 controls the number of lives you start with:
0 - 3 lives
1 - 2 lives
Switches 5/6 control how often you get an extra life:
00 (0) - 100 coins
01 (1) - 150 coins
10 (2) - 200 coins
11 (3) - 250 coins
Switch 7 controls the timer speed:
0 - Slow
1 - Fast
Switch 8 controls how many lives you get when you continue:
0 - 4 lives
1 - 3 lives
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Plus, it appears that you didn't use a single rerecord.
This isn't SDA or TwinGalaxies - you're expected to fully use the capabilities of the emulator to rewind the game and record it in slow motion to get it perfect.
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Anything, really.