Question. what does NG+ bring to the table that a fresh game doesn't? I know cards and levels carry over but why do NG+ since we already would need a verification movie that gets those cards and levels for it?
1. A possible improvement would be somehow manipulate the RNG for the gnome throwing minigame. I'm not sure how feasible it would be to even test which starting RNG value gives the best tosses for Ron in a row, but I'm aware the for some reason, even if there's only a single input frame difference at the very beginning of the game, makes Ron's toss distance quite different. 2. Not exactly an improvement, but I noticed that enemies seems to stop spawning after the Weeping willow fight "cutscene", until you reach the school itself. I tried finding some flag for it, but failed. If there were some ways to "preserve" this no-spawn state, it would make manipulating npcs a bit easier. 3. Is there anything that can kill you in the overworld like the ad nauseum curse miniquest from the first game? Not sure how relevant to the run it would be, but just curious. 4. Outside cards, combinations, enemy folio and levels, what constitutes as "100%" for this game?
Unfortunately, it also disables encounters until you reach Hagrid. Is there any way to get into a battle with Ron being sick?
5. Can't skip going to detention cutscene by pausing. Enemy encounters are disabled as well, and the dungeons shortcut is locked.
6. Can't skip recruiting Hermonie and Ron to the party. Dungeons shortcut is locked, and pressing start crashes like most other times.
7. You can skip the snake cutscene oddly. Press Start right before the trigger, then
go to equip and hold B. Right after the equip screen exits hold Start. This skips the cutscene(s), and allows you to walk to the exit.
https://youtu.be/riX5_eaLP5M
8. Can't skip petrified cat cutscene. Pausing doesn't work, and no enemies will appear. Doesn't appear to be able to walk around either.
9. Trying to pause at Prof. Binn's class cutscene gave
http://imgur.com/emFUdT8
Gonna test some more a bit. How's testing the dialogue boxes so far?1. That is amazing. I need to learn that for RTA. 2. It is pointless, though used to be used in RTA. The one cutscene that I really want to be able to skip is the Snape cutscene going to the Slytherin Common Room when under the Polyjuice Potion. This is just from quick testing Text boxes: Harry's Room English US: 37 English UK: 37 French: 43 Dutch: 40 Spanish: 37 Italian: 37 Netherlands: 42 Swedish: 39 Danish: 40 Portuguese: 40 So I guess based on these numbers, not saying that they will keep the same pattern throughout the game though, we have 4 languages to work with.
SystemID GB
03D0 d u 0 WRAM x
03D4 d u 0 WRAM y
1. If you pressed "A" at the very last frame of the pixie minigame, the sound effect for charging the wand lasts until you save the game. 2. Every 1 "A" button press causes 1 lag during the pixie minigame, but it also increments the RNG by 3. Also this means not pressing anything except moving the wand around saves time to due lag reduction. 3. The snitch for the first quidditch match appears to use these addressesCopy this and save as a .wch file to use. 4. It appears to snitch always appear at the top left for the first game (unless I missed something). The RNG determines bludger spawns along with the direction and destination the snitch will go to. 2 ways to manipulate it include delaying 3 frames in the overworld, or wasting 1 frame in the pixie minigame by pressing A. It seems making the snitch head downright towards the center-ish while Harry moves up left is fastest for the first match.SystemID GB 03D0 d u 0 WRAM x 03D4 d u 0 WRAM y
By the time the gnome toss is reached, at least 2-4 frames have been wasted due to additional lag, and the run then desyncs due to same RNG, but timer is different by 2.
Edit: After the gnome toss, RNG is off by 2. It further diverges by the bank, but at least the "time spent" timer is rather close:
http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/53578226177494078
This has a total delay of 2592 frames.
The most feasible way to affect Gnome toss RNG seems to be:
a) Pausing at different times in gnome pull
b) Doing different things in gnome pull
c) Delaying pressing A at the last instruction menu for gnome toss.The issue is that we don't actually know where they spawn and we need to see if we can find them in the game somewhere otherwise the full 100% for the game isn't possible.
