Also I did post in newbie before posting here, but still no response. After actually going into bizhawk code, I found that they don't have debugging or breakpoints supported yet. It's really frustrating when they say they have a feature and do the bare minimum in a way that makes it useless.
Potential credits warp theory: http://pastebin.com/yX7T9ujV
Vulkan supports Geforce 400 and newer. DirectX 12 I believe requires a Geforce 600 or newer.
Definitely not. He is just spelling his name out. Like 20 frames wasted maybe. So that should be absolutely fine then :P
I talked with Trog now and he will submit his TAS here after the livestream reveal and uploading the TAS to his YouTube. The showcase of the TAS with commentary will happen in 2 weeks, so it should happen rather fast. Then you guys can discuss it out :D
Here's something to consider. Since the game receives GBA commands via the controller port, it's actually not necessary for the player to use a GBA to send the commands. The player could provide these commands through the controller port through other means (e.g. TASLink). We allow this for Super Mario World total control TAS. The game being TASed here is Wind Waker on GameCube. The GBA hardware is not strictly required from my perspective. Perhaps strict GBA emulation could be a separate branch though if this assumption really breaks things.
recently released a big update to a memory mapper program for the Zelda 64 engine called Spectrum
No, but NTSC/PAL doesn't have to do the quest to get the 5th triforce chart that the japanese version has to do, which saves around 5 minutes. There is one skip that JP has over NTSC/PAL though which is the barrier cutscene skip (another instance of void warping to skip a cutscene).
On another note, there was a theory quickly formed that you could skip earth and wind temple by going into hyrule a 3rd time with the triforce at ff3 by skipping the helmaroc cutscene and then going into ganondorf's lair again to play that sequence of cutscenes since the animation set would be correct. Unsurprisingly however The Wind Waker decided to say, "Fuck You," as it turns out that the cutscene in ganondorf's lair will only ever play once even though the previous helmaroc cutscene can be played an infinite amount of times. If you enter the zone again, you simply spawn in the room with nothing happening, and savewarping will take you back to windfall island for some reason. Another interesting thing to note is that on the NTSC/PAL versions of the game, it actually is possible to pull the master sword in Hyrule 2 due to two lines of code being removed from how the game determines what layer you're supposed to be on, the only problem is we have the wrong animation set. It is possible to skip switching animation sets by skipping the helmaroc entrance cutscene at ff2 but once again the cutscene in ganondorf's lair says "fuck you" since it's a cutscene that only works with the second animation set, and therefor crashes with animation set 1.
Overall this saves about 1:30 which is pretty sick It also closes the gap between Italian and Japanese a little bit more. If we can find a few more cutscene skips, italian may end up being faster
Not RTA viable I suppose.
Any other cutscene skips?
Do you think there will be a way to pull off N64 GIM in Deku?
So, for anyone who doesn't know, I'm redoing the TAS with the improved knowledge that I now have of the game. It's going to be on the German version since the German version saves ~5 seconds over the English version.
If we're to do a TAS of the Japanese version, better do the one on the GameCube, although resetting on GameCube takes a lot longer than the N64, but the Flying Zora glitch makes up for it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't turboing A while sidehopping leak frames here and there?
Just to clarify: I'm going to be working on improving the GIM routes regardless of whether they work on N64 or not. I don't really care about what can/can't be submitted to this site, this forum is a good place to talk about TASing OoT and so I'm going to do exactly that. To be honest, both the GIM and non-GIM route are cool and having fully optimised TASes of both will be a good contribution to the TASing and speedrunning scene.
