Castle adventure done 587.6ms faster.
For info about the game and settings used, see the previous submission: #3675: Truncated's DOS Castle Adventure in 00:20.04

Improvements:

Route change:

Magic Wand is picked after the Key instead of before it. Even if this route has more walking, it saves one room transition (the castle is not euclidean), saving about 208ms total.

Shorter commands:

"GET" is shorter than "TAKE" and does the same thing. Saves about 10.6ms.

Subframe optimization

Using subframe input to move as soon as possible after each event that clears the keyboard buffer (executing extended command or changing room). Saves about 369ms.

turska: Judging.

turska: The speed at which the player can punch keys under TAS conditions makes monsters completely irrelevant. The run becomes an exercise in route planning.
Route planning for clearing the game is not very complex. The map (viewable here [remove dead link]) is static and the objectives are simple and small in number.
Subframe optimization is nice, but it only makes the trivial execution slightly more tedious.
As such, I am rejecting this run for game choice.

turska: Unrejecting under the neo-TASVideos publication system.

turska: Accepting for publication in the Vault.


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CoolKirby wrote:
Why was this immediately accepted? No one even posted yet. I thought it was decided that this run isn't technically impressive because anyone could do the same thing in the same amount of time in real-time.
It was immediately accepted because I'd judged the run before, and based on the judging I'd done, it was clear to me that this run was fit for the Vault. Avoiding the enemies like done in the run and the subframe optimization is not possible in real-time. The run is pretty low on complexity, but since it is a record of the game and a legit TAS, it's enough to make Vault.
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