As my Tamagotchi joke TAS comes ever closer to being halfway done, with day to day interruptions albeit, I keep having to pause my TAS so I can figure out more routes.
One thing I'm trying to figure out is how to read RAM addresses and how to use the disassembler, but for right now I'm just focusing on visual learning;
NOTES
Before I go on about my route, I need to add a few footnotes.
First off, I wait a couple frames inbetween everything I do because since this is a practice TAS I will upload to YouTube, I want to see how the hunger timers and wellness timers function.
FRONTEND START
press A to skip to main menu
goto OPTIONS, set game speed to fast
This way my little blobs will die--I MEAN, age faster :)
EXIT options
select NEW GAME
select CHOOSE EGG
select HEARTS EGG
name egg SWEET (My sister Sophia suggested that.)
hatch SWEET then go to DR BANZOO MENU
select CHOOSE EGG
select YOSHI EGG
name egg TNT (Also my sister's suggestion)
hatch TNT then repeat process for naming &?!'.0
I noticed during my TAS that the outcome of what happens after birth is different each time the game is started.
feed ALL THREE
During this I go to the menu and quickly scroll through Dr. Banzoo's Explain menu just as a playaround, for entertainment. Hopefully with gamespeed on FAST I can grow some Tamagotchis in a short amount of time.
play SMILE GAME with SWEET
Here I use a ton of savestates in order to get the Smile game completely right. The object of the game is to guess which way your Tamagotchi will look. This game always increases happiness, so I always play this one the most.
During the process I found it seems it doesn't matter what food you give them when they're hungry, but I found a secret which I don't use here; if you hatch a Tamagotchi from a black egg and feed it nothing but carrots until it's six, it turns into Mimitch, a Tamagotchi that is BOSS at the math minigame.
complete SMILE GAME then feed CAKE to SWEET
switch to TNT
feed TNT MEAT [/code]
While playing normally I have gotten pretty good at the game, I still own a cartridge from 1996 that STILL WORKS and I have been able to grow a tama to at least 2 years old. Alternatively there have been times where they die on me at baby stage, so I could say my skill level is hit-miss with this game.
feed &?!'.0 CAKE <-- This fills 1 hunger and 1 happiness.
as a playaround, stuff SWEET full of CAKE and ICE CREAM <--This is for the "til death" part and is part of the playaround. I'm cruel >:P
While I force feed this poor bloke, I'd like to share a sad story. When I first played this game as a child, I kept feeding my first Tamagotchi fully of cake, and I just kept feeding it. Suddenly without warning the screen started flashing, and the game showed me my pet was dead. Here, I attempt to relive that terror for your entertainment :P
feed SWEET CAKE then switch to TNT
PRAISE TNT then switch to &?!'.0
wait a few frames for happy animation to stop, then feed &?!'.0 MEAT
What I'm doing here is trying to stay correspondent to their names; SWEET will only occasionally eat meat while the rest of his diet is sweets, while TNT and the corrupted name eat primarily meat and bread.
By this time, 1 Day is spent. They should be going to sleep soon.
I wait a few frames before switching back to SWEET.
At this point I'm going to try to keep their hunger and happiness all the way up at all times, so they evolve quickly, so I'll be feeding them lots of sweets and playing lots of Smile Games.
At baby stage they're hard to take care of, and when they go to sleep, you can't do anything except set the clock ahead. This means if they go to sleep while sick, they risk death a lot more. Feeding them too many sweets can make them sick, but that's why we have the medicine button :)
Now that SWEET is bouncing around, there's not much else to do so I wait a few frames before switching to TNT. On TNT, I purposely wait until the sun is all the way up before switching to &?!'.0.