Posted: 4/20/2011 3:03 PM
Post subject: Is it an atari 2600 TAS?
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nesrocks
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Doing 1 million points in frostbite without losing a single life is extreeeemely unlikely, considering you get 1 or 2 lives each round and the cap is 9, the game was designed so you lose some lives now and then even early on. At the insane speeds and seemingly random crab and shell AI, I doubt someone can do this. Also, it looks totally emulated. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmMoZcHDsYo&feature=related The user has several atari 2600 videos upload with "perfect" runs (finishing without losing a single life, but lots of missed shots).
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Posted: 4/21/2011 5:59 AM
(Edited: 4/21/2011 6:06 AM)
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Lex
Joined: 6/25/2007
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The playstyle looks human. Besides, it's always the same pattern, as he said himself. Some players can get a groove going and do something like this for an hour. I'm not saying your theory of it being a TAS is wrong. I'm just presenting the idea that it's possible that it's not tool-assisted; playing the devil's advocate. It does seem insane / extremely unlikely to me that any human could pull off the gameplay in the sixth part of that run, especially without a single death. Stella, considered the best Atari 2600 emulator from a quick Google search, has a fully-featured debugger for Atari 2600 games. I just got Stella to try it out, but I don't understand how to run the game in the debugger so it didn't go very well. This may be the key to whatever this guy may have done to make those videos. Also, vmware workstation and vmware player have playback-syncing recording capabilities. They are also possible keys to the magic door of TASing Atari 2600 games.
Posted: 4/21/2011 6:03 AM
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Flygon
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I would very much like to see Stella be modified for rerecording support, incidentally. It basically has every other feature required, and is incredibly encoding friendly (I've already encoded quite a few demos from it with great success!).
Posted: 4/22/2011 5:47 AM
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Flygon wrote:
I would very much like to see Stella be modified for rerecording support, incidentally. It basically has every other feature required, and is incredibly encoding friendly (I've already encoded quite a few demos from it with great success!).
I, for one, would love to see a TAS of H.E.R.O., Adventure, Pitfall 1 and 2
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Posted: 8/9/2012 5:12 AM
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MattyXB
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Yeah, Atari 2600 is great. I also would like to see: Dragonfire (to the white Dragon, then the Levels always repeat) Raiders of the Lost Ark (one from the first great Adventures, maybe with eastereggs and hidden things)
Last TAS finished: Final Fantasy Adventure (4.0 Warp Glitch Run) WIP in the moment: Tail Gator (GB) Matty