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General

  • Emulator used: JPC-RR r10.13 (should sync on r10 - r10.16, r11 - r11.2)
  • No special settings
  • Manipulates luck
  • Abuses programming errors in game
  • Takes damage to save time
  • Does not use death
  • Plays at hard difficulty

About game:

Lada: The ultimate challenge is single-player driving game. The goal is to reach the end of the level (this game only has a single level). In the way, there is lots of traffic, some of it outright malicious. Fortunately, you have installed rocket launcher and machine gun to your car...

Why I did this:

I got hint about this game from Brushy. Download page had note that this game is pretty short. It also appeared to be at least somewhat decent for a TASing purposes ("Road Fighter with lots of violence").

BIOS/OS/game versions used:

The BIOS/OS versions are identical to #2651: Ilari's DOS Skyroads in 15:55.92.
The game is downloadable from http://www.kann1sto.com/games/lada.zip

diskinfo report about game image used:

General data:

FieldValue
NameLada
File name/home/Ilari/repositories/jpcrr/projects/lada/../../disklibrary/Lada
TypeHDD
Tracks16
Sides16
Sectors63
Total sectors16128
Primary extent size2552
Storage Method3
Sectors present1522
Claimed Disk ID07e8c823badd945f11a9374cd444da90

File table:

TimestampMD5SizeName
N/AN/A3/
1990010100000033c05495fefbcd21c8a09cc2849b9f5c697319/LADA.DAT
199001010000009a4600f520d9835eb732a056580e4ee11619/LADA.DOC
19900101000000dc7cfd9ca4a62b8b96f2f4050ff2dbde58166/LADA.EXE

Tricks:

  • I wait little over 2 frames so first bonus is rockets.
  • I don't waste rockets by firing them to various non-car targets for luck manipulation.
  • Before second "rock section", I manipulate almost all bonuses to be weapon bonuses (there's couple of health bonuses for when I can't manipulate a weapon bonus)
  • After the second "rock section", I go on rampage and destroy loads of vehicles with no regard to ammo nor luck manipulation.

Statistics:

  • Vehicles destroyed (not counting suicides): 272
  • Final score: 2 063 943
  • Rockets collected: 160
  • Rockets fired: 160
  • Bullets collected: 1100
  • Bullets fired: 415

Closing comments:

The crazy driving is intentional. Its firstly very difficult to drive straight in realtime due to inertia, and secondly just driving straight looks boring, it looks better to drive like drunk and occasionally apply huge steering inputs. When concentrating fire is done, it is done, and no shot is missed (the shots that appear to "miss" actually connect outside the screen, as evidenced by score increase and explosion scrolling in or vehicle taking "less" damage before blowing up).

Suggested screenshot


Nach: For the last couple of seconds this run begins to feel a bit repetitive. Overall though, it's more fun than cow tipping - domino rally style - off a pier. Accepting.
sgrunt: This will be published momentarily.

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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #2870: Ilari's DOS Lada: The Ultimate Challenge in 04:22.47
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This was short but it still got old after a while. Going with no for game choice. And thanks for the download, sgrunt.
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Pretty entertaining, maybe because I recall playing this game.
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This was kinda boring. It got old really fast.
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Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
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Thanks for posting the encode! I'm amused by the amount of mayhem you can cause (especially knocking trucks 3 times your size into water and sand), but the game is just too repetitive after a point. I could go either way about getting it published, so Meh.
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It took me until the end of the movie to realize just what Lada they were referring to. Then I laughed. A good length movie for its variety. Voted yes, enjoyed. Why don't you kill more of the blue cars by ramming? You seem to avoid them far, far more than the red ones.
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eternaljwh wrote:
Why don't you kill more of the blue cars by ramming? You seem to avoid them far, far more than the red ones.
It's for luck manipulation. If you ram cars, others spawn and get in your way.
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Sounds more like working with sprite limits than luck manipulation.
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Patashu wrote:
Sounds more like working with sprite limits than luck manipulation.
Nope, I'm pretty sure it's luck manipulation. That's what Ilari told me, at least.
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eternaljwh wrote:
Why don't you kill more of the blue cars by ramming? You seem to avoid them far, far more than the red ones.
The reason for that is that places where one could send blue vehicles (I think they are actually tractors) to their doom by collisions are very rare. I don't know the exact cause (perhaps it is slow speed given to them, as speed limits also apply horizontally) but if you slam a blue vehicle, it is pushed quite little, far less than any other type of vehicle with exception of motorcycle. Most vehicles push very nicely. With motorcycles, the same thing about pushing is true, but at least those have so little hit points that another vehicle is enough to kill it after damage I do to it by slamming. This limits tractor slamming to mostly pushing them to path of another vehicle that would cause grief later. As for luck manipulation purposes, pushing vehicle to its doom uses the same amount of RNG numbers as destroying it with bullets. It might not affect the luck in same way however, because game might throw the RNG for random spawn and timer to next spawn (might not actually spawn anything) between what would be last moment to kill it with weapons normally and when it dies when pushing it to its doom.
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That was interesting enough. Made me laugh how bad of a game this was, though. Good ol' DOS.
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I very much agree with this post.
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I was disappointed at the idea of it being a spy hunter type overhead auto-scroller. However, I was impressed by the sheer amount of mayhem in this TAS! It might be a bit repetitive, but it is only 4 minutes. The length is good for the type of TAS. I vote a solid yes.
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It's perhaps a bit long but it's chaotic and destructive enough to be interesting. Yes vote. Keep those DOS games coming! A.C. ******
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The submission message mention of inertia making controlling more difficult is an important note in my opinion. It is not as easy as it looks.
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Apologies for the shortness of the game... There wasn't much time!
Sorry, this game isn't only short, but the sound effects are really annoying. Good run on a bad game. Voting no. A "pacifist" version of this run might be more enjoyable. I don't know if that's possible.
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Bisqwit wrote:
The submission message mention of inertia making controlling more difficult is an important note in my opinion. It is not as easy as it looks.
Yes, this game is really really really hard to beat.
A "pacifist" version of this run might be more enjoyable. I don't know if that's possible.
I doubt that a pacifist run is possible, since the screen is constantly filled with drunken Russians. It might be possible, but I doubt it. There are some very narrow paths and there you'll quickly find yourself in a situation where there's a drunk Russian in front of you and several other drunk Russians bumping into your car and making you bump in the car in front of you damaging your precious Lada and eventually destroying it.
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Yes. Somewhat repetitive, but it's too short for it to get annoying and there is plenty of stuff going on all the time.
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On the whole, I think this is exciting enough to be published.
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [1659] DOS Lada: The Ultimate Challenge by Ilari in 04:22.47
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nesfreak wrote:
I wanted to ask you if it is okay that I use your video as an example of a series on YouTube that I started that's called "Obscure Game Reviews"?
Sure.