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This is an improvement of 123 frames (4.92 sec) from my previous User File.

Introduction:

  • "Prince of Persia: Special Edition" is an Adobe Flash game created by Ubisoft that was meant as a promotional game for the upcoming 3D title from the time "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time". This game only contains one level with a boss fight (Jaffar). The physics and visuals of this game are practically the same as the MacOS/Macintosh version. Basically, really slow and awkward.

Objectives:

  • Beat the game as fast as possible without the menu exploit.
  • Small glitch included
  • Obliterate Jaffar

Routing:

  • Well, finding any speedruns of this game were scarce. Also, from the PoP speedrunning community. Eventually, I came across maybe one good speedrun that didn't use the menu exploit which was a 2:05 IGT. However, this run didn't use the same route as the runner went around the gate room. So, I made a base TAS without testing other techniques so that I had a slightly better run to compare the techniques with. I'll show screenshots of a Google Doc I made for this.

Gate Clip:

  • While the transition of the gate is moving down, the prince can still make it through the gate with a long jump.

Google Doc Screenshots:

  • Green = Fastest Strat
  • Yellow = Strat saves time over previous TAS. But, not the fastest.
  • Red = Strat is slower than previous TAS or doesn't work/line up with other areas.

Special Thanks:

  • To eien86 for getting me hooked with his many Prince of Persia TASes!
  • The PoP speedruning community for helping me with optimization feedback from my first TAS!

Suggested Screenshots:

  • Frame 718 and Frame 2228
eien86: Claiming for judging.
eien86: Request for info to make this movie sync: Forum/Posts/534303
eien86: I'm a fan of quirky ports of Prince of Persia, and this one is not an exception. This is a small Flash throwback demo that came as promotional material for "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time". It has a small level and a boss fight. Due to its unresponsive controls, it is exceptionally difficult for casual gameplay. However, Rxser here dominates it with ease, including a nice gate skip. The run looks pretty optimized and is an fast and entertaining watch.
Accepting to Standard
P.S: Next time please include all necessary information for sync. Here you forgot to mention you used the AdFree.swf main file. This is acceptable, but needs to be communicated.
fsvgm777: Processing.

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Posted: 19 days ago
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TASVideoAgent
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #9495: Rxser's Flash Prince of Persia: Special Edition in 02:02.72
Posted: 18 days ago
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Always special to see a TASer in the PoP scene. The run looks well explored and optimized. Yes vote.
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Posted: 18 days ago
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GMP wrote:
Always special to see a TASer in the PoP scene. The run looks well explored and optimized. Yes vote.
Thank you! In the future, I plan on a "100%" run of this game and maybe a MacOS TAS if I can figure out how it works. Although, I don't think there's much about MacOS PoP runs either.
Posted: 9 days ago
Post subject: Desync
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Unfortunately I am getting a desync. jaffar:~/ruffle-nighly-2024-12-15$ libTAS -r PoP_SEv2.ltm ./ruffle --no-gui -g gl PoP1_SE/Swf/Prince.swf I noticed the file I used: PoP1_SE/Swf/Prince.swf has MD5: 7184c60f5dfc957d1a405fc2791ff83d SHA1: 51582b3e1659a637e21c516f9ec9f79a404f90e1 Which doesn't coincide with the ones you indicate in your publication 395809fc740ea76750aa934533799c2a 2dce9e0c8b9f4110942eb72e2f1c5947 Please tell me exactly the command you used to run the movie, which swf file you used, and its SHA1/MD5 hash value.
Posted: 9 days ago
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"2dce9e0c8b9f4110942eb72e2f1c5947" is the MD5 hash for the Linux "ruffle" executable, available here: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/releases/tag/nightly-2024-12-15 Game starts from "AdFree.swf" - this and other required files can be found here: 
395809fc740ea76750aa934533799c2a http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/AdFree.swf
fe0d8376435bf5cb23f34bb403576617 http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/Boss_Music.swf
bfb7e075ac0e85ae3e6a252a99edce5d http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/Ending_Music.swf
de99081657fda18cb1c092a2e18cced2 http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/Initial.swf
f4f875ebe997b26c141deb795f8ac4a7 http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/Intro_Music.swf
55fe4d3d0953ca9f9eaad9953889ff14 http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/Level_Start_Chime.swf
006a43892b2907f4fb699f1bae877cd3 http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/Postcard_Thumb.swf
9de3cb4ef4dcc93a421e32d1f480f363 http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/PreOrder.swf
04782cce4900c2c93fb0969a2dcf585c http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/Title_Music.swf
"http://" may need to be replaced with one of the following: 
https://web.archive.org/web/0id_/http://
https://unstable.life/updater-data/12-1/Legacy/htdocs/
https://archive.org/download/FP90Data/FP90Data.zip/htdocs/
https://infinity.unstable.life/Flashpoint/Legacy/htdocs/
Posted: 9 days ago
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BlackWinnerYoshi wrote:
"2dce9e0c8b9f4110942eb72e2f1c5947" is the MD5 hash for the Linux "ruffle" executable, available here: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/releases/tag/nightly-2024-12-15 Game starts from "AdFree.swf" - this and other required files can be found here: 
395809fc740ea76750aa934533799c2a http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/AdFree.swf
fe0d8376435bf5cb23f34bb403576617 http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/Boss_Music.swf
bfb7e075ac0e85ae3e6a252a99edce5d http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/Ending_Music.swf
de99081657fda18cb1c092a2e18cced2 http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/Initial.swf
f4f875ebe997b26c141deb795f8ac4a7 http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/Intro_Music.swf
55fe4d3d0953ca9f9eaad9953889ff14 http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/Level_Start_Chime.swf
006a43892b2907f4fb699f1bae877cd3 http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/Postcard_Thumb.swf
9de3cb4ef4dcc93a421e32d1f480f363 http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/PreOrder.swf
04782cce4900c2c93fb0969a2dcf585c http://www.prince-of-persia.com/minigame/flash/Title_Music.swf
"http://" may need to be replaced with one of the following: 
https://web.archive.org/web/0id_/http://
https://unstable.life/updater-data/12-1/Legacy/htdocs/
https://archive.org/download/FP90Data/FP90Data.zip/htdocs/
https://infinity.unstable.life/Flashpoint/Legacy/htdocs/
Thanks, this solved the issue
Posted: 3 days ago
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [6373] Flash Prince of Persia: Special Edition by Rxser in 02:02.72
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