Toothache's project has suddenly turned into a 4 person collaboration: Him, me, Roland and Cheetah7071. Nitrodon might participate too.
Anyway, I'm looking at some planning decisions for the run. So far I've found the following:
Boss data
-Roy must get a C support with Thany by the time Murdock is faced. It hasn’t been tested if this is viable or not.
-Thany must have D rank in swords by the time Murdock is faced. This hasn’t been verified either as being viable.
-Scott will be killed in 2 phases. Thany needs a minimum of 8 levels with +str and +spd. She can either use an iron lance and quadruple crit or a steel lance and double crit for the 2RKO.
-Narshen will be killed by a killer lance double crit. The wyrmslayer is another option.
-Roartz will be killed by a killer lance double crit. If Percival gets 4 levels by then, he can also pull a ORKO with a hammer.
-Murdock will be killed by a single armorslayer crit followed by a regular armorslayer hit.
-Zephiel will be killed by a brave lance quadruple crit.
The remaining bosses aren't a problem.
Chapter specific stuff
A route is used in both cases. That means we recruit Lalum and go Ilia route.
In chapter 21, I worked out a strategy where Thany doesn’t use up a single weapon use except on Murdock. I made a VBM to illustrate this:
http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/857522935/Chapter21Sketch.vbm
The finer details of the chapter plan will be worked out when we get there. The only reason I did this was to get some data on how many javelins and other weapons we’ll need to buy.
In chapter 22, you need about 23 str and 20 spd to have reliable offense. Marcus has 9 base strength so it's pretty likely he won’t get used in that chapter. However, a lv 20/0 Allen could probably manage just fine, as can Percival if we choose to recruit him.
To do
We need 3 chapter 1 TASes. One is a 3 turn where Lance is sacrificed. The second is a 4 turn where the village is skipped, and the third is a 4 turn with the village visited (it gives 5k gold).
Roland promised to do a TAS of chapter 12 in 21 turns and one of chapter 12 + 12x low turned to determine which is faster.
I am still working out the weapon usage over the run (mainly javelins).
Where is this feature in SNES9x v1.43 or 1.51? I read a thread here that it's supposed to be built in, but I can't find the feature in the menus.
Also, is there a way to run algorithms when making a TAS? For example, "if memory address X has value Y then hold A for 13 frames". I really would like a way to eliminate excessive trial and error in TASing.