With a ROM cartdridge system the question is trivial: Just reset the system with the ROM cartridge in (all this emulated, of course), and it just starts in a second (and in a deterministic way at that) and that's it. However, what if the system only supports programs in cassettes? You can't just start up the system and make it load the game from a cassette because it would take at least 5 minutes to do so, 10 minutes at worst. (Yes, it really was like that back then with those systems. We had to wait at worst 10 minutes before we could start playing a game. Ah the times...) Many emulators of such systems support speed-loading: They detect when a game is being loaded (using the system's ROM routines) and switch to turbo mode in which they load the game as fast as the hosting computer allows (in modern PCs that means the game will load in a fraction of a second instead of 10 minutes). However, this is basically "non-standard" in that it's not doing what the original system is doing. (Also there exist a few games which bypass the loading routines in the system's ROM and use their own, in which case it's more difficult for the emulator to automatically do this.)
Wind Waker any% (looks like it is already going to be close to the OoT level of glitching)
- You can't go above the barrier, zombie hovering just doesn't make it high enough.
Link is Jebus!"Aims for in-game time" http://tasvideos.org/Movies-C1012Y.html This may or may not be tagged on relevant movies. Most games don't even really have an explicit in-game timer, but many that do have an in-game run. Also see the Goldeneye and Perfect Dark TASes on the workbench.
We have many runs on this site that aim for in-game time, and the normal mode category might be what is best suited for such.
Yeah this is a bit of an issue. Since the leaderboard only keeps track of Megaman Normal times, I think it may be allowable to have that as a category. To my understanding DLC has a really minimal impact on the game, so maybe that is something better reserved for youtube demonstrations. IMO there are multiple valid categories. I think these are the best 4 personally: Megaman Normal (Is hard mode actually much different for speed purposes? -- maybe this isn't a great category.) Megaman Hard Proto Man Hard Bass Hard
ya true that, whoever got our hopes up for mupen pluss deserves some serious spanking
There are a few known time savers for the any% run. I started an improvement at one point but I haven't worked on it for a while--I may finish it eventually, we'll see. If I do decide to complete it it wouldn't be too long from now.
And I had kind of forgotten about Wii TASing entirely. Yeah, that one's probably going to need some sort of TAS input plugin, and also sounds hideously complicated.
