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Samtastic
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feos wrote:
Screen transitions take longer on Octoshock in 2.9.1, but IGT is representative of actual gameplay times because it excludes the transitions. This room is 1 in-game frame longer in the new movie, because the jump is timed differently: Why do you take the lower route here? It cost you 54 realtime frames because you have to go back and forth (causing 2 more screen transitions). 3 in-game frames are lost due to the new timesave, because you start the next level facing backwards. But there's also 3 frames lost here: During the next level IGT difference is reduced to 15 frames, hard to tell why, because the strats look identical? On this screen the improvement is reduced to just 2 IGT frames: 2 IGT frames are gained back before the next level starts. During the rest of the game the difference becomes 11 IGT frames of overall improvement.
I do the lower bit first because on PC it saves time. But I think I might find a way to save time using the new strat. For PC I save -0.9 frames doing it. There is a quicker way to set it up by doing a log turn. I might have to set this one to delayed see if I can improve it. I think I can.
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nymx wrote:
GJTASer2018 wrote:
So it sounds like if what I'm reading from Samtastic is correct, the older submissions of this game benefitted from inaccurate emulation (of at least the load times and possibly game framerate too). It looks like the only way out of this mess is to try to resync the older runs to the current BizHawk and see whether there actually is an improvement in the gameplay portions once the resync has been done...
I wonder how much effort that will take. Sam, any thoughts?
Well, the connumity haven't founded anything new for the past few months, but the strats that this run is using is currently the fastest that we use in the PC version of Oddysee. The RF backwards jump saves about 0.9 seconds on PC, but then it makes the game load slower on PSX. The PC version is ultimately the best port for speedrunning and Livepslit can accurately time in-game. 8:54 is quickest in-game PC world record at the moment, and it doesn't do the ultimate DDG at all. The Ultimate DDG can save around 2 seconds in an actual run. The value that I use is the in-game value and it outperforms the old submission by 20 frames, and it includes the latest starts that PC runs use, so this one is the most accurate PSX run.
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What I do notice with the new emulator against the old one is that the older movies don't sync on the new emulator, and the new emulator does have a different FPS compared to the old one. The old movies didn't have accurate timings on the 2.4 emulator either. The new emulator runs the game diffrently, it adds more frames on at startup.
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nymx wrote:
This submission puts me in a difficult position. It has been my experience that any IGT improvements would be acceptable, only if the last frame was the same or better. Sounds like a frame rule is in play, which negates the effort. I'm hanging on to this a bit longer. Sorry for the delay, but it hasn't been an easy situation to resolve.
That's totally understable. Most runners use the PC version as it's one of the quickest versions of the game to speedrun and the get the accurate in-game times on all categories and levels. We found on the PC version the RF backwards jump exit saves about 0.9 seconds compared to the strat used before.
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Yes vote! Nice surprises when Mario and Yoshi jumps into invisible paintings!
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CoolHandMike wrote:
The current submission 12:53.34 looks slower than the previous submission 12:50.09. Any idea why? https://tasvideos.org/8818S
It's to do with the new glitches that are used, like the RuptureFarms glitches, but there's a value that calculates the number of game changes 'in-game' frames. On the old movie, the number of changes stop in at 16301 whilst this movie stops at 16281. So this movie is 20 in-game frames faster. It's most likely the glitch at the end of RF causes the game to load more compared to the old movie but this one is 20 frames faster ingame.
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I managed to improve the Zulags and saved 10 more IGT frames. Now I'm 21 IGT frames ahead from the old movie! https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638519969552980358 Please can it be replaced? Thanks.
Enjoys speedrunning, playing and TASing Oddworld games! Has TASed: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 12.06.13 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Adventures II in 20.03.78 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:08:28.4 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:05:01.65 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:18 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:15 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:!5.44.12 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 13:01.3 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 12:59.95 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:16.27 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:01.07 Currently working on: Waiting for Windows TAS Tools to work so I can TAS PC version of Exoddus.
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Randomno wrote:
Oh there's an open source reimplementation of this, because of course there is https://aliveteam.github.io/
Yes I know about the RELIVE project. They fixed most of the glitches that speedrunners use and they had plans to re-do the audio enigine to match the quality like in the PSX version. It hasn't been worked on yet but it will have more accurate sound to the original PSX version if they add it!
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Randomno wrote:
Tried this out on PCem with a USA Disc version of the game. Seems to work pretty well. Not really interested in TASing this though. (Gave up on concatenating the video files, I'll figure it out some other time...) Link to video Link to video
You have to copy the cutscene files to the game folder for it to load.
Enjoys speedrunning, playing and TASing Oddworld games! Has TASed: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 12.06.13 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Adventures II in 20.03.78 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:08:28.4 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:05:01.65 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:18 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:15 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:!5.44.12 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 13:01.3 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 12:59.95 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:16.27 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:01.07 Currently working on: Waiting for Windows TAS Tools to work so I can TAS PC version of Exoddus.
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notpsx wrote:
Video says BizHawk 2.9. Movie info says 2.9. Technical Stuff paragraph says "Emulator Used: Bizhawk v2.9.1". Thanks paragraph says "latest 2.9 emulator". I'm confused
This movie was done of the very latest Bizhawk emulator version 2.9.1.
Enjoys speedrunning, playing and TASing Oddworld games! Has TASed: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 12.06.13 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Adventures II in 20.03.78 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:08:28.4 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:05:01.65 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:18 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:15 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:!5.44.12 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 13:01.3 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 12:59.95 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:16.27 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:01.07 Currently working on: Waiting for Windows TAS Tools to work so I can TAS PC version of Exoddus.
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DJ_Incendration wrote:
Hi Sam! Great improvement, yes vote!
That was thanks to Nirel for the small improvement. Maybe another little time save will come for any% someday... stay tuned!
Enjoys speedrunning, playing and TASing Oddworld games! Has TASed: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 12.06.13 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Adventures II in 20.03.78 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:08:28.4 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:05:01.65 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:18 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:15 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:!5.44.12 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 13:01.3 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 12:59.95 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:16.27 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:01.07 Currently working on: Waiting for Windows TAS Tools to work so I can TAS PC version of Exoddus.
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New movie done. Now at 12:50.78 - please replace. I'll upload new enocde tomorrow. https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638318745477978976
Enjoys speedrunning, playing and TASing Oddworld games! Has TASed: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 12.06.13 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Adventures II in 20.03.78 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:08:28.4 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:05:01.65 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:18 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:15 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:!5.44.12 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 13:01.3 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 12:59.95 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:16.27 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:01.07 Currently working on: Waiting for Windows TAS Tools to work so I can TAS PC version of Exoddus.
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I need to put this one on hold a bit... new small time saves for any% keep on being discovered...
Enjoys speedrunning, playing and TASing Oddworld games! Has TASed: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 12.06.13 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Adventures II in 20.03.78 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:08:28.4 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:05:01.65 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:18 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:15 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:!5.44.12 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 13:01.3 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 12:59.95 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:16.27 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:01.07 Currently working on: Waiting for Windows TAS Tools to work so I can TAS PC version of Exoddus.
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So as I know Windows XP has issues playing audio at it's best sample rate and has pitch issues wih some sounds... so here's an alternative, I can run the game at it's highest audio sample rate on a custom Windows 98 SE archive I found... I tested the Italian version and it works fine, no audio issues! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RMMeZsQNYi93NSYHiRSKrhz7XCskC9s_/view?usp=sharing And for proof, here's the game being played on XP - this is demonstrating the sound glitches https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L41m1_C51z5TgJkUimHUzLq2jW3BDzXi/view?usp=sharing
Enjoys speedrunning, playing and TASing Oddworld games! Has TASed: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 12.06.13 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Adventures II in 20.03.78 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:08:28.4 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:05:01.65 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:18 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:15 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:!5.44.12 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 13:01.3 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 12:59.95 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:16.27 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:01.07 Currently working on: Waiting for Windows TAS Tools to work so I can TAS PC version of Exoddus.
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Randomno wrote:
If you can get it working in PCem, probably.
Yeah, running it on it's native OS Windows 95 may be an option as Abe has audio issues on Windows XP as I used to have so many XP systems back in the day. The secret area chimies would play the wrong notes as demonstrated in this speedrun video here - it sounds like flashgame quality audio https://youtu.be/6NLpaX0TivI?t=515
Enjoys speedrunning, playing and TASing Oddworld games! Has TASed: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 12.06.13 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Adventures II in 20.03.78 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:08:28.4 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:05:01.65 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:18 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:15 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:!5.44.12 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 13:01.3 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 12:59.95 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:16.27 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:01.07 Currently working on: Waiting for Windows TAS Tools to work so I can TAS PC version of Exoddus.
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Now that LibTAS is an option for TASing Windows games, does anyone know if any of the Abe games work on LibTAS? I think the PC version of Exoddus would be an interesting one to TAS as it has more glitches than the PSX version. For instance, the any% route can be beaten in under 17 minutes due to a glitch known as the Advance Relocation Glitch (ARG). Here's a realtime speedrun of this in action 0 it's also less laggy compared to the PSX version. Also, the 100% route has access to more hidden wells that are impossible to do on the PSX version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssCf2HFjnWg&ab_channel=LegnaX
Enjoys speedrunning, playing and TASing Oddworld games! Has TASed: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 12.06.13 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Adventures II in 20.03.78 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:08:28.4 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:05:01.65 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:18 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:15 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:!5.44.12 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 13:01.3 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 12:59.95 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:16.27 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:01.07 Currently working on: Waiting for Windows TAS Tools to work so I can TAS PC version of Exoddus.
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OK, I have made the new input movie to input the new skip. I will make an ecode for my channel tomorrow. It's now 1:03:49.63! A sub 1:04! https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638158930308051034
Enjoys speedrunning, playing and TASing Oddworld games! Has TASed: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 12.06.13 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Adventures II in 20.03.78 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:08:28.4 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:05:01.65 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:18 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:15 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:!5.44.12 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 13:01.3 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 12:59.95 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:16.27 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:01.07 Currently working on: Waiting for Windows TAS Tools to work so I can TAS PC version of Exoddus.
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FractalFusion wrote:
I watched this but it was hard to see what was going on during DDG/invisibility.
Yeah it looks like I got some more invsibility inputs to do today but thankfully I can record an input movie of what happens when Abe is not behind screen so when Abe does go behind screen I can sync it together! The beauty of inputting text into a text file to operate a controller is amazing!
Enjoys speedrunning, playing and TASing Oddworld games! Has TASed: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 12.06.13 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Adventures II in 20.03.78 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:08:28.4 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:05:01.65 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:18 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:15 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:!5.44.12 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 13:01.3 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 12:59.95 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:16.27 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:01.07 Currently working on: Waiting for Windows TAS Tools to work so I can TAS PC version of Exoddus.
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OK this just came in on the Discord server, a new strat in Scrabanian Temple where you go behind the screen like Bonewerkz! Please could a mod put this on hold as I put this new strat in. Further investigations are needed we may find some more 'offscreen' gameplay like this one. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/716751019685707838/1090714289469403136/2023-03-29_21-03-21-1.mp4 Update: you can't pull the lever off screen, it will crash the game.
Enjoys speedrunning, playing and TASing Oddworld games! Has TASed: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 12.06.13 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Adventures II in 20.03.78 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:08:28.4 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:05:01.65 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:18 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:15 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:!5.44.12 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 13:01.3 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 12:59.95 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:16.27 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:01.07 Currently working on: Waiting for Windows TAS Tools to work so I can TAS PC version of Exoddus.
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nymx wrote:
I finally decided to sit down and watch the entire run. Interesting...I found this TAS to be ODDly entertaining. :)
Thanks for the first yes vote it means a lot! Soon I hope to get a Windows TAS going with Abe. Hopefully I can get Exoddus up and running. The any% TAS of Exoddus on PC has an exciting teleport glitch! There’s already a speedrun of it done by the legend LegnaX! https://youtu.be/ssCf2HFjnWg
Enjoys speedrunning, playing and TASing Oddworld games! Has TASed: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 12.06.13 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Adventures II in 20.03.78 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:08:28.4 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:05:01.65 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:18 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:15 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:!5.44.12 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 13:01.3 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 12:59.95 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:16.27 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:01.07 Currently working on: Waiting for Windows TAS Tools to work so I can TAS PC version of Exoddus.
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InputEvelution wrote:
Just as an idea of how you could potentially set things out: Maybe try to limit it to 1 TAS per year, unless the improvements found are substantial enough to shave off more than 2% of the published run's time.
Sounds like a good plan.. I got an Exoddus 100% TAS in the works and that one is gonna be saving time comparing against a run that was made 2 years ago.
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EZGames69 wrote:
I’m going to suggest that if you have any future improvements for this game or any other game you TAS, instead of submitting a new movie EVERY TIME you find one, you should instead wait until you have a substantial amount of improvements so there’s more to show off. Seeing how this game has a bunch of improvements over many submissions, it doesn’t make sense why you wouldn’t try to consolidate them so we can avoid having a bunch of submissions.
We always have a connumity finding new strats. We haven't found anything major for any% that will skip any zulags yet but there's always ideas floating around.
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Hey I know this run is being published, I need to check to see if I can improve this section here, I notice that in my RTA run, I don't roll too much here which I feel like running towards the lever might be faster, please don't publish this just yet. I want to check something first: https://youtu.be/VgEmGF28ryE?t=544 Update: Tried it, it's still the same. Nothing to update. Go ahead and publish it.
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CoolHandMike wrote:
Yes vote. Interesting couple glitches. Thought the backwards jumping through walls (?) and the invisible glitches were the most entertaining. Also, that's a pretty brutal ending lol.
The jumping through walls I call the 'continuous backwards jump' or some people in the community call it the 'continuous long jump'. The invisible glitch is called the DDG has when you do the glitch, Abe delays his death until he falls of a high ledge. It has a similar behavior to the DDCheat from the PC port of the game which expect to see a TAS through libTAS of Exoddus with all the crazy relocation glitches very soon! Update: Himmdwag is gonna go through this run with me tonight. If he can't find any improvements then this will be good to go.
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Another few milliseconds saved thanks to a better Slog skip in Zulag 1 and Slig dodging in Zulag 3. http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/73958872161409085 This one should be final improvement now.
Enjoys speedrunning, playing and TASing Oddworld games! Has TASed: Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee in 12.06.13 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Adventures II in 20.03.78 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:08:28.4 (with Dooty) Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:05:01.65 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:18 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus in 37:15 Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 100% in 2:!5.44.12 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 13:01.3 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee any% in 12:59.95 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:16.27 Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee 100% in 1:04:01.07 Currently working on: Waiting for Windows TAS Tools to work so I can TAS PC version of Exoddus.