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Posted: 1/23/2017 11:50 PM
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Sieluvaras
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Thanks @Samsara I'll definitely look into that too. (oh my... this list ist growing quickly xD ) Since SMW is the most (afaik) popular game on the SNES, i was kinda hoping it's pretty good documented :D
Posted: 1/23/2017 10:32 PM
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Sieluvaras
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@moozooh i guess i'm familiar with basic speed running strats in general. although it's not in jump and run games. it's more like mmo's. playing games uhm.. "efficent"? not wasting much time. the basic mindset of speedruns (i guess). in this case it was getting a char to max level as fast as possible. but anyway :D so my next steps are: - doing some (speed)runs - and "Move on to frame advance and memory watch" i know that LUA is mainly used to simplify things like movement patterns or the search for specific variable values / conditions ... whatever. i don't know (yet) :) seems like the next weekend is 20+ hours of playing super mario world xD thanks to you as well :)
Posted: 1/23/2017 10:14 PM
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Sieluvaras
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thanks @Invariel i guess you're the one who moved this thread. i'm aware of the (e.g. analytic) skills i've developed due to my job. but tbh i know nothing about that "crazy memory stuff" some of you guys do. i'm more like "oh.. that's hex... right?!" xD but yeah, at least i live in the same world as the devs do/did. so "common dev sense" should get me far :D i'll definitely look into this resources! (thanks again, mate). maybe this was the direction i needed :) oh, did i say thank you? ;)
Posted: 1/23/2017 9:48 PM
Post subject: New to ... well a lot
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Sieluvaras
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hi folks :) since i didn't find a "new member" threat, i'll put it here. i've been watching the TAS block on AGDQ for the last few years (or at least the vids of it). and i'm still lacking words for this piece of art. anyway, i've decided to "play" with this stuff myself. i'm a software developer (boring business shit like ERP, CRM, Logistics and so on) and so i'm familiar with some things. let me give you a quick summary of my skills. - .NET - PHP - HTML - Javascript - MSSQL - MySQL i know that most of this won't help in this case... :'D so i need you guys to tell me what _will_ help me. you don't have to tell me how to walk.... just in which direction ;) i decided to focus on "super mario world" for multiple reasons. it seems to be kinda "indestructible"(AGDQ 2016, WTF?!) plus there's some uhm.. "personal thing from my childhood" *coughs* ;) starting with an emulator is kinda obvious. i guess i'll take a closer look at bizhawk. bought an xbox controller for my pc today. this should be enough for some first steps, right? so my next steps are: - play the game (again) - play the game with speed run strats? - TAS it? - find glitches?? / use known glitches?? - ??? - profit the final goal is to break it... for real... total control what i've read (and heard) so far, LUA is definitely on the "to do list" :) some basic understanding of assembler maybe? (since i guess it's written in assembler) what else? gimme something to work with. thanks! p.s. sorry for "bad" english. my german is way better xD EDIT: i thought of this more like a "who i am" but i guess it's still a newbie question and this is the right place. thanks @mod :)