Topic by DarkestPhoenyx

Posted: 5/28/2017 2:58 AM

Post subject: Shovel Knight

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DarkestPhoenyx

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After speedrunning this game, I have become interested in TASing it, but have found that none have been done yet. Is there a way to make a TAS of Shovel Knight possible?

Posted: 5/28/2017 3:27 AM
(Edited: 5/28/2017 9:39 AM)

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Short Answer: No. Long Answer: No + reason (which you were provided). (This applies to Resurrection too iirc, don't quote me on that.) Edit: Yup, don't quote me on Resurrection. v

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Posted: 5/28/2017 9:34 AM

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Thanks to YaLTeR, it's theoretically possible to run Shovel Knight in Hourglass-Resurrection on XP. But there's no way to record the inputs into a movie file, and nothing has been done to check if the current clock-simulation is sync-stable (it most likely isn't).

Posted: 11/1/2017 7:34 PM

Post subject: Shovel Knight TAS Revisited

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DarkestPhoenyx

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There have been various discussions about this in the past, and all of them said that it was impossible at the time, but just yesterday (10/31/17) someone uploaded a TAS of the first stage of Shovel Knight Plague of Shadows (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVtZM74Y1jY). I am fairly sure that it is a TAS and not an RTA because of the extra bomb boost jump to get closer to the boss, which I am sure is very precise. Previously on Reddit and on TASVideos Forums people just said that it wasn't possible yet (https://www.reddit.com/r/ShovelKnight/comments/6a85uj/shovel_knight_tas/?st=j9hfkchc&sh=a55e2606). I am not at all experienced in TASing or anything related to it, so I hoped someone here could help. If anyone has knowledge on this topic, could you tell me what emulator and ROM this is? (no, I can't ask the creator of the video, because YouTube comments have not been working for me for a few weeks now.)

Posted: 11/1/2017 11:10 PM

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Posted: 11/2/2017 9:50 AM

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Hey. I made this TAS of the first stage. It was done on the Linux DRM-free version of the game (3.0A) using my own TAS tool for Linux games (https://github.com/clementgallet/libTAS). It works fine with this game (input recording, savestates), except that I still get rare crashes on state loading :(

Posted: 11/3/2017 8:23 PM

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keylie wrote:

Hey. I made this TAS of the first stage. It was done on the Linux DRM-free version of the game (3.0A) using my own TAS tool for Linux games (https://github.com/clementgallet/libTAS). It works fine with this game (input recording, savestates), except that I still get rare crashes on state loading :(

That's awesome. Are you going to do the whole game?

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Posted: 11/4/2017 7:21 PM

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