I would argue that manipulating the RNG to get an exit tile as quickly as possible would be at least worth a low Moon.
Best of luck with this, but note that the mods have decided they don't want runs of this game on the site :(
Theoretically speaking the only difference between a human and a machine is the speed. The pc is precise and way more fast while humans are not so you can basiclly say the same about all the movies in this site... they can "theoretically" be made by a human if he's fast and precise enough (pacifist runs for example).
I was curious too, so I tried. Took me about 3 minutes to figure out what the "route" was, and 2 tries to successfully execute it. So the glitch itself is easy to pull off. I gave it about 5 emulator unassisted tries and my best was about 780 frames (about 100 frames slower than this submission).
I honestly question how many No votes are from folks who never grew up when the Atari 2600 was brand new and cutting edge.
3.- It's atari, you can't really ask much to it on graphics, sound and appealing.
What a beautiful game!
After a deep analysis of the code, we will describe what exactly happened here.
Pacifist goals are great for unassisted runs, but rarely translate well into TASes
With the exception of frame perfection, the technical quality of this particular TAS is extremely low in my opinion because of this. A similar point was recently discussed in Post #323143 about the controversial rejection of #3667: mtvf1's GBA MegaMan Battle Chip Challenge "no code" in 2:41:48.80.
Multimedia Fusion games... that's a can of worms that should remain firmly closed.