MESHUGGAH: See? People can miss things.

It took me nearly a day to realize this couldn't be more ironic. (judging you for something that's not even part of your role: fallin in to this mistake myself here by not looking for the informations (Arc's 2010 improvement post) of this game's thread; not taking this submission as seriously as I did with other TASes) I'm planning to make another stab on this game from the beginning probably soon. This will be a good reason for me to finally stop doing level 1 WIPs and also for finally making a newbie HUD template (which will probably use this game as an example). edit: like this. Unfortunately still requires some LUA scripting and programming knowledge but with some tweaking you should be able to use it.

Language: lua
--[[ MESHUGGAH's HUD Template

This template features an example to NES Rush'n Attack

v	contains RAM addresses of position values (hexadecimal)
p	positon values stored here after reading memory from location v (memory.readbyte)
pp	previous position values stored here to compare with new positions on next frame

--]]

-- Variable array: P1 X, P1 Y, P2 X, P2 Y, Camera X
local v = {
0x503,
0x505,
0x523,
0x525,
0x31
}

-- data structure for rush'n attack, 32 bytes per object
-- question mark notes boolean
-- 0x500 alive?, state, 02, X, subX, Y, subY, 08, 09, 0A, 0B, 0C, 0D, palette, sprite
-- 0x510 in jump?, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 0A, 0B, 0C, 0D, 0E, sprite timer

-- Position array
local p = {} for i = 1, table.getn(v) do p[i] = 0 end

-- Previous position array
local pp = {} for k,v in pairs(p) do pp[k] = v end

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

local function objects()

	-- display ID if alive
	for i = 0, 15 do
		if memory.readbyte(0x500+i*32) ~= 0 then
			gui.text(memory.readbyte(v[1]+i*32),memory.readbyte(v[2]+i*32)+40,i,"#FFFFFFFF","#FF000080")
		end
	end
	
	--gui.text(1,9,
end

local function hud()
	-- Display object's ID and a simple box around them (not actual hitbox positions)
	objects()

	-- Read new positions
	for i = 1, table.getn(v) do p[i] = memory.readbyte(v[i]) end
	
	-- Anything else you would like to display?
	gui.text(1,1,string.format("CamX %3d (%d)",p[5],pp[5]-p[5]),"#FFFFFFFF","#00000080")
	
	-- Display positions for players
	gui.text(p[1],p[2]+48,string.format("X %3d (%d)\nY %d (%d)",p[1],pp[1]-p[1],p[2],pp[2]-p[2]),"#FFFFFFFF","#00000080")
	gui.text(p[3],p[4]+48,string.format("X %3d (%d)\nY %d (%d)",p[3],pp[3]-p[3],p[4],pp[4]-p[4]),"#FFFFFFFF","#00000080")
	
	-- Store positions to compare them in next frame
	for k,v in pairs(p) do pp[k] = v end
end

emu.registerafter(hud)