These eyes in dino 2 are definitely touching.
This was discussed (for far too long) on Discord whether the pink segments are touching. I think we concluded that they are as they share an adjacent pixel, with adjacent including diagonals (or, there are other ways to come to that conclusion). If anyone has a rigorous method to determine this I'd like to know. I think it's somewhat unanswerable, as the four color theorem applies to abstract shapes, rather than pixels, especially pixel art with an outline.
This looks like a great shooter and truly hope Doom experts get to TAS it and submit a run.
This is the thing: their approach to this game and mine are not entirely mutually exclusive; if we were to join forces in the future, we could even be talking about optimality here.
I would search for minor improvements but because bloon hitboxes are RNG they wouldn't sync, which seems quite frustrating.
In stage 28, I noticed that you left an array of balloons untouched on the bottom. Wouldn't save time to break those instead of the ones close to the top? Because the dart would take less time to get to the edge of the screen.
1. Astro Barrier (2006)
2. Thinicetrobarrier (2008)
3. Astro Barrier (anywhere from 2008-2013, irrelevant for now)
4. Astro Barrier (2014) (it might have actually been late 2013, also irrelevant for now)
As I said last time, I prefer 2006 mainly for superficial reasons: it requires less modification to run, it looks nicer (or at least, more authentic for a retro-style game), and it actually has an end screen. However, later versions appear to be faster:
1. Pressing Enter at the start of the game goes straight to level 1, skipping the tutorial screen (-3f)
2. The targets on level 1 are in a slightly different starting position, but this can be worked around (0f)
3. After level 5 a continue button pops up as the rest of the game was restricted to members in 2010. While clicking this loses a couple frames, it's possible to shoot at this point and so get a better setup for level 6. (-6f)
Result is 3838 frames. After making the changes above, everything else synced, so I doubt there are any other relevant differences, but I haven't confirmed. I talked a bit here about running the modern version and why it's annoying. If the text was implemented properly it would add 1 frame at start.
Link to video
Also to note, this TAS doesn't sync on Thinicetrobarrier because the hitboxes for the final level's targets are different.
So yeah, this is more confusion and doubt that I didn't really want.
User movie #638198112091871221
I do have a few thoughts about the description/categories in the publication
https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/637925771447673508 Also, i saved 3 frames on it. meaning that's a little bit unoptimal, let me know if you can sync it.
What's hash for AstroBarrier2006.swf? The only AstroBarrier.swf i could find gave me green screen of death.
To clarify, I'm assuming this means that the game pre-determines two lines from a pool of 3 or more that can randomly play after a puzzle, and that manipulating the absolute fastest line each time would both require manipulating it into being one of those two lines while also manipulating it to appear in the first place?
If so, have you figured out what influences these things?
Also, is there an estimate on how much time could be saved from this?