Posts for SonicX3

Posted: 2/2/2009 5:05 PM
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SonicX3
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Joined: 3/26/2008
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Location: Austria
thanks ^^ i entered a little battle (3 xanaflagues) to get familiar with the ram watch an search ... ok, there are only about 70 adresses which chance in battle, more or less, some in pattern, some random, so i guess i should be able to figure out what is what, but a little "noobish" question, everything that that is not static should show up, looking for changes, right? such as animations, sounds and of course the rng(s)? is there a way to export these values from ramwatch/search? i guess not ... data size i a good question to ... guess i go search for a more "colorfull" battle, hope i find those old savestats ^^# --- add: jup, found them, and they are working, dont know which version of gens i used that time, but an very old *g* k, this will not be an easy one, had a file in battle with lashiec, one command left for attack, 7 frames long chaz using rever, than one frame rika doubleslash, than chaz rever again, until jet i found only patterns which does not match what i see ... that stuff needs brain work and time --- add2: and what are those tracer tools? what can be done with them?
Posted: 1/31/2009 3:43 PM
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SonicX3
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im through with the guides on this site, excellent work, even a watching memory guide, now i can immagin what to do, looks like im going to start a few fights today ^^, first step, learning game mechanics. besides a little request: if i dont show aktivity within at least 10 days, please wake me up!
Posted: 1/30/2009 7:04 PM
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SonicX3
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well, i checked some other games and it seems i will stick with this one ... i thougt of dune, alisha dragoon or landstalker ... but theres more aktivity in those threads. "reading" hex is nothing new for me, and watching ram should be something to learn for me ... well, dont know what to make of those dump files, but i'm going to figure that out ... looks like i'm in ... again ...
Posted: 1/30/2009 12:50 PM
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SonicX3
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first of all: sorry guys for just vanishing and not telling anything ... and now coming nearly a year later back ... i startet working that time, and my free time got cut to about 4 hours a day, which i needed for myself ... my idea of a 100% well, bullshit, it would be a walkthrough, and in my opinion not a publishable one ... so the ones left is still the fastest possible speedrun, but i have to get more familiar with the game, especialy with the bosses, so i survive the hard ones ... my motivation for this game is not realy high at the moment ..., and i think i try another one first, something shorter, to get into tasing.
Posted: 3/27/2008 6:31 PM
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SonicX3
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Ambitious ..., well, primary, i do this one for myself, i know that an atempt at a fastest possible any% run is impossible for me at this moment, i would have to do too much restarts and too long optimations i certenly would drop this off in the middle, i know myself to much (and my laziness ;)), so im going to do this 100% run, i think it is easier (even if much longer) considering the problems of the previous trys, and i won't go for speed that much. im doing this to 1. get my own game movie, and 2. get used to this TAS stuff ^^, if this whole thing suits me, maybe im going to do more, but first this one :) (even if its not that pretty, and long pointless walking and collecting treasures, i dont think that this video will be that much entertaining) well, i just started so everything is open, im still thinking about my route, dont know when to do those side quests, yo ... lot of reading walkthroughs and looking at maps is lying bevor me. hope to get the next 30k frames soon ^^
Posted: 3/27/2008 8:38 AM
Post subject: PS4 100% TAD
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SonicX3
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hello everyone! first of all, sorry for my poor english, and second, thanks to all TASers, helpers and of corse those who run this site, you all are doing great work and its real fun for me to watch those TASvideos (and non-assisted demos as well). the reason im posting here is quite simple, and i still can't believe it yet what i am doing. i searched for a PS4 speeddemo (TAS or nonTAS), and found nothing, than i searched the forums ... in the SDA PS4 thread only stands that someone (who's name i forgot ^^#) probably is trying one someday, well ..., and here, cool! a video! even if its not complete ... gmv? what? how do i play this? well, i than read through the guidelines, the rules, the tricks and everything else, installed Gens9.5b, searched for the correct rom and played the movie, great stuff i have to say! and than ... ok, movie endet, and i sit there with the rom and the emulator ... not too long ago i said i would never do a speeddemo or a TAS ... until yesterday ... i loadet the rom again, started the movie record and tried a little. well, its fun ^^. i'm used to save stat abusing long time, but not to slow down the game or frameadvance, but that stuffs just great ^^ ------ now, i'm trying to to a 100% TAD of this game (yeah, TAD, because Speed is not my ultimate priority (that is to keep my motivation high, and if i overdo it, its gonna drop fast =/...). why?, since the last two attempts failed and i am the type to try to complete every game i play at 100%. if i would try an any% run i know that i would stop as well in the middle/end of the run, and just want to make a movie of the game! it doesnt matters to me if it gets submitted or not, i can post and seed it by myself, but i want at least a finished movie of this game for this world (and well, there aren't lots of 100% playtroughs of rpg out there, so this is quite a motivation for me, and well, its easier, more items, less to buy, more mesetas, better equipment -> probably dead lashiec and profund darkness? =^.^= (and i like long rpg movies)) ok, for what i am going is: - 100% (all chests and sidequests (something missing?)) sidegoals - not killing too much party members (its boring for me with just the last man standing ...) - keep a good real time/frame count ratio (like i said, going fo a perfekt run on the first try, and first TAD(/S) would be a to big impackt on my motivation, like ... wasting 1h of my life to improve 120 frames in a battle? no thanks, i dont have _that_ much free time to spare) so, i am not going to redo a larger part of my movie if it isnt necessary for a few seconds, first i want a complete one, finest tuning can be done in the second play through, just making the first one first. but i want, need and ask your help with this one! i wont redo large parts, so i have to cut the time bevor the recording, i _want_ to keep the frames as low as possible, but i won't overdo it. there i ask your help: - nice leveling spots (and level sugestions), i think about overleveling a little, but not much to make it a little easier) first leveling im planning with the newts in the valley before tonoe (just waste all gra's rune has) - route optimation (chests souldnt be a problem, but to buy things at the right time and place, the time to a side quest and when to level up for now im going close to a walkthrough, although its a run trough now ... - the choice about death and life (i dont know how much i need or not need certain charakters,... i dont want rika or chaz to die (they ARE the whole time with me), hahn is already dead in my actual video, about alys i dont know, but i think shes going to die as well (well, more than once), grys? dont know ... he IS some time with me and maybe usefull to take damage in battles rune is going to life for certain demi not i think wren will stay alive too and raja too (and i plan to use him in the last battle) kyra, well, i love her, but for this short time? dont think so ... seth? hmm, if this place has good xp than im going to waste all his techs and skills and than kill him (one or twice ... dont know) - macro setups/combos for leveling/boss fights i dont know ... bashing until dead? (-.-"), im going to think about this one bevor the actual fight ... - everything i forgot --- well i've startet and have recorded about 20000 frames until now, i think im going to make a web-backup on my webspace every 30k frames, and post it here if an update has been done (a *.rar package with the .gmv file and the save stats) the path will be like this: http://www.sonic-projects.de/tas/ps4_xxx.rar (xxx = running number based on update count, like 001, 002, 013 ,...) im going to tell you all when the first one is up! and im going to take my time with this run, i dont have that much real time, and i wont push myself. this is my first, an probably last TAS ever well thats it ... did i forget something? ^^ ------ edited 10:31: ok, first update, made it to the vallymaze and havent startet leveling jet, the only battel until now is the boss fight in the academy basement, and well, dont know if this is good one or not about 27k frames 'til now heres the link: http://www.sonic-projects.de/tas/ps4_001.rar