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Posted: 11/21/2011 9:30 PM
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chessjerk
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Just watched this awesome run. Yes vote from me!
Posted: 11/18/2011 3:22 PM
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Do you mind sharing what those bits and pieces of strategies are? I am curious. If not, that's OK.
Posted: 11/15/2011 5:03 PM
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chessjerk
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Thanks, adelikat. Were you still working on an improvement to the DWIV TAS? Did you ever get the de-synch problems fixed? Did you have improvements in mind when you were going through the second version of the TAS? In any case, I did want to thank you for the current TAS from which I used some ideas for my unassisted runs. Without the TAS, I'm confident my run would not be as fast as it is.
Posted: 11/15/2011 4:38 PM
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Has anyone actually come up with a battle by battle strategy for a TAS? Or is it too soon for that, since apparently you can't get past the opening battle? My thoughts: For a calculator run similar to my unassisted run, the only place where any significant time can be saved is in Chapter 1 (better starting JP in various jobs, faster JP grinding, etc.). Assuming a similar setup to mine, once you get to Math Skill, every battle is over in one turn (two for Zodiac beasts, four for the final boss), and since I already do that, the only significant time saving after Chapter 1 will be in not taking the time to save, which costs me about 5-10 seconds per save. For a non-calculator run, would it be a similar run to my 6:55 Ninja run (I know this run is very unoptimized, but I'm not sure by how much)? Or, would the idea be to get to Monk (which sadly can't be scroll glitched), and learn Counter or Hamedo as fast as possible. The problem would lie in whether Hamedo-critical hits can kill everything at a low level and without good equips that raise physical attack.
Posted: 11/14/2011 3:11 AM
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I for one would definitely like to see a TAS for both calculator and non-calculator runs. On another note, I just finished improving my calculator unassisted run for SDA. The final time was around 4:22 (about a 22 minute improvement). I guess a TAS could get this under 4 hours, maybe?
Posted: 11/7/2011 1:12 PM
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My updated run on SDA was just posted with a time of 4:52. Check it out: http://speeddemosarchive.com/DragonWarrior4.html
Posted: 9/27/2011 2:40 AM
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Great job! Is the audio out of sync for anyone else? It's fine in the beginning, but it gets progressively off as it goes on.
Posted: 9/13/2011 4:48 PM
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I can't imagine how it was even considered "good" quality back then. Anyway, a new SDA run was verified a while back, so it will be hopefully be posted soon. Updates seem slow over there at the moment.
Posted: 8/24/2011 1:14 PM
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While I wait for my updated SDA run to be posted, I checked out the 1:52:31.52 run and here's some differences that I noticed: Chapter 1: At night in Izmit, Ragnar talked to the kid outside the school instead of Alex. During both suicides, Ragnar used a critical on himself and a hit from the enemy to die. Chapter 2: Chameleon Humanoid battle done quicker. (3 turns) Alena doesn't level up via a Metal Slime before the tournament. Chapter 3: Taloon gets a Broad Sword drop at the beginning instead of Chain Mail. I'm not sure what happened with the gathering of equipment inside the cave and the selling at the armor seller in Bonmalmo, but it looked different. Taloon got the Broad Sword and Half Plate drops outside Endor instead of Lakanaba, saved two Wings. Chapter 4: Didn't notice any differences here, maybe a quicker suicide in the cave west of Kievs? Chapter 5: Doesn't get the free coins in the cave, doesn't buy a Wizard Ring with said coins. Various path changes after getting the ship The hero goes to the shrine south of Endor to fight a Metal Babble and level up enough to learn Outside for the Padequia cave. Doesn't use Alena and Ragnar at all (suicides them ASAP). Abuses Taloon by giving him Ragnar's Sword of Malice (I think?) and letting him destroy bosses by building up strength and letting his merchant army unleash three double-powered critical hits at everything. It was definitely interesting to watch (although difficult since it wasn't English). Did I miss anything?
Posted: 1/4/2011 4:16 AM
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Glad to see this as a potential for a TAS. I wanted to point out that I did do a run for SDA without using Math Skill. I'm not sure if it has been referenced yet, but here is a link: http://www.archive.org/details/FinalFantasyTactics_Ninjas_655 Some people that I've talked to definitely found this run much more interesting (albeit much slower than my Math Skill run, obviously).
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