I did a small test because I wanted to see if the game was hex friendly at all. I delayed the last hit on the first boss enough to lose a frame rule, then pushed the rest of the input forward to match the lost time. The resulting run managed to get all the way through the second stage and most of the way through the third before desyncing, so saving those frame rules might be a viable quick fix. TASeditor: do you remember any of the specific places where it can be done from the watching you did? Barring that, while it would be nice to have those techniques implemented in the run, I'm not sure that the possible time save that would come from them is enough to justify outright rejection.
the author hasn't made a submission since 12 years, so he might not be up to date with todays standards, I don't think he used TAS Editor or lua scripting. He needs to get to todays standards before he is able to make a good TAS. While it's true that there isn't a big problem with his run, there still are small things that need to be worked on, I think it might be possible to save a second or two, if he tries.
I have a couple questions I would like to have clarified. First: What is the reason for the time losses in the early levels? Is there an inherent disadvantage to 2 players that would explain the difference? It seems a bit much to be explained entirely by lag. Second: If two players have an inherent disadvantage, does this mean it's not a fastest completion? Should I be judging this as a new branch or an obsoletion? I will be looking into this myself, but I want to hear opinions from other people as well.
Good job on improving a really old movie, dragonxyk! Since Randil's WIP has some different techniques that save some time, will you be starting an improved run soon, or will you just stick with this submission? I have a hard time voting yes to a movie with some known improvements, but the previous movie is over 3 years old, and it looks like an incredibly difficult game to play, and certainly a tough one to TAS too. In any case, I think you did a good job and small improvements be damned, I vote yes.
I desync shortly into stage 1... are you using any special settings?
I made a WIP of this game a long time ago but quit because I found the game quite dull to TAS. I haven't compared our two movies all the way through, but it seems that I'm 216 frames ahead after the first level. You gain some time on me on level 2, and I haven't checked any more levels after this (I'm very tired and need to sleep :P ) Anyway, you might want to check out the WIP I have, my guess is that we used different strategies here and there so combining our two movies will hopefully save even more time. :) Here's the WIP I have, it's about 30% through the game. Here are the RAM addresses I have: 006D X|position | | 008E Attack|power 008D Attack|meter 0089 Max|AP 05EE Weapon 0705 Enemy|HP 01FE Lag|when|!=|74 007C Dex|level 05B3 Time|stop|time | | | | 0091 Current HP 0093 Current MP 0725 Boss|hits Sorry for bringing this up now that you've submitted the run and all, but I had no idea anyone was working on Astyanax. I know it can be a pain having to redo a run just after you've submitted it, so I won't blame you or anything if you want to stick with this submission. Perhaps my run isn't much faster than yours after all, and doesn't warrant a new submission. And yes, the game is pretty stupid overall, it lags a lot and enemies and bosses move around in patterns that makes the game very hard to TAS. :(
Looks good. Interesting how you managed to get the spell powerups, and still save over a minute.
I voted no believe it or not. I love this game, and it's cool that it's faster, but it was way more boring than the last two player run. It wasn't as funny, and I only really needed to look at one of the chipmunks. With the last run, you had to watch it twice. One time watching what Chip was doing, the other time watching what Dale was doing. This run doesn't have as much to look at, so it's not as fun. I'll be backing up the old run instead. My no vote doesn't really matter though since it's going to be published no matter what. Which is a shame since the last run was overall funner to watch.
I remember dragonxyk have finish this run,play length is 5:20.If the Robot moves faster,this game will be more interestint.