Ok it definitely was bothering me to not know for sure whether Wing or Jet was faster for Spring Breeze, so I spent a lot of time improving both routes...
I found many new optimizations with Jet, and now it's back to being faster than Wing by over a second lol. At this point I convinced myself that it's impossible to improve the Wing route to beat Jet again but you never know...
Jet is obviously much cooler than Wing so I'm satisfied with this outcome.
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Here's the Jet route:
https://youtu.be/9gdreqZgBsI
I am working on Dyna Blade next, with some ideas on how to improve it, hopefully by more than 2 seconds. I'd like to continue TASing this game but I'll just think of doing one chapter at a time because a full TAS is a long long way out there.
I got very inspired watching Sample's 100% TAS, so I decided to try and improve Spring Breeze. I'm very satisfied with the result.
If my calculations are right, this saves around 2 seconds of gameplay over Sample's TAS. It's hard to tell because I am also losing multiple seconds from loading times. I used BizHawk, which I know for this game emulates loading times more accurately than desmume, which I suspect is what he used.
Most of the time save (100 frames) comes from a route change near the end where I opt to switch to stone earlier. The rest is just maybe 20 or 30 frames of very minor optimization. I ended up recreating mostly the same movement despite trying out multiple things.
The crazy part is that I tried a whole different route where I mix for Jet instead of Wing and both route end up at almost the same time even though they are nothing alike. Despite my best efforts the Jet route is just 43 frames slower.
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So, The 150 stars run looks great so far,and I see that 20 of the 150 stars are done. So I've been wondering if you have any route planned for the 130 stars left? Anyway I decided I might aswell try to plan a route myself. After a few hours, this is what I've came up with
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10HNRk8ORnz7aIl_4bW8TLbQ7biO-IRoSIgFzIG_QgG4/pubhtml
Please tell me what you think about this route, or tell me if you have a better one.
