Did you do anything to manipulate where the next cherry spawns? Since the source code is available, you should have the information necessary to do so. Also, it might be helpful to mention that this is Snake 1.0 by Calin Galeriu et al., to avoid confusion with other possible snake homebrews for the GBA.
On an assumption, I'm going to state this can be improved. During your input you create gaps within yourself where the cherries would later spawn at and making you do another pattern in order to grab it. In terms of entertainment? No Vote.
This game is TASed already) https://youtu.be/kTIPpbIbkos
That's an example of using a hidden coin block to enter a wall, one of the easiest tricks. Warpless TAS and RTA runs of FDS SMB2J use it to go through the pipe in 6-1 all the time.
When you come out of the warp, run to the edge of the pipe and jump so you hit one of the blocks. Release the jump button and keep running, and if you hit the wall correctly, you should pass through. Interestingly, this is much easier to pull off than it sounds, and the difficulty (e.g. frame perfect inputs) of strategies doesn't even matter in TAS. If anybody's considering making or improving on a SMB2j warpless TAS that doesn't already use this, it may be a useful trick.
Although it may be faster to just skip the pipe altogether, idk.
Any thoughts?
EDIT: Just learned from this TAS that it is way faster to skip the pipe. Oh well.And if you want TASes that are 'easier' to beat, you can see lists of published TASes by year at http://tasvideos.org/Movies-Y2005.html (for 2006, 2007, 2008, etc. just replace the year in the URL) For 2005 there's a bit of a survivor bias, in that there's an on-going project to obsolete every 2005 TAS so the remaining ones are the hardest to do, but 2006 to like 2010 should have less of this bias. EDIT: Or if you want to TAS a game that has a speedrun but no TAS yet, check out http://tasvideos.org/SDARunsWithoutAPublishedTAS.html
Also, if you don't mind the very dated gameplay experience, Atari 2600 has many possibilities for TASes where you can learn a lot in a pretty simple environment.
Hello and welcome! So, are you basically asking for suggestion about games that are easy to TAS? Well, I'm not able to suggest you any titles, because all the games I've picked up turned out to be hard to optimize... But I still have some directions. The first TAS I worked on was an improvement of a published run, and that allowed me to get used with the TASing tools and getting experience at my own pace. I suggest you to try to beat a currently published TAS as well: this will be simpler than starting a project from scratch, because you will be able to access to the documentation provided by the movie that you want to beat and its movie file. I also suggest you to use TAStudio tool from BizHawk. Don't be afraid to make mistakes and to ask help if you have any troubles! ;) Good luck!
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