I don't think this is what folks usually think when it comes to "leading by example".

The Simple Series is a long running franchise by D3 publisher where the games have a basic name to convey the general idea of what they're about. They're usually original budget titles, though some are just rereleases or ports of existing games. The Simple 1500 Jitsuyou Series, which can be roughly translated as the Simple 1500 Practical Series, are less games and more multimedia experiences and life help software whose goal is to provide information with the power of the Playstation before the internet was more widely used.

Simple 1500 Jitsuyou Series Vol.04: Ryouri: Teiban Ryouri Recipe-shuu is essentially a recipe book and cooking tips application software for your Playstation. There's 30 recipes across 3 categories: Chinese, Japanese, and Western (US and European) dishes. Each recipe also has snippets of video showing some of the preparation and cooking process to show how to perform some of the techniques needed to cook some of the food. There's also information on the ingredients used and proper food handling and cooking techniques. Most relevant for this TAS is a quiz where you're tasked on picking the right ingredients needed for a given recipe, although you're free to retry and reference the disc's contents until you get it right. This TAS aims to complete the 10 given recipe ingredient requests in record time.

Since I'm running the Simple Series TAS Jam I should make my own entry for the event. Since it's not a competition and I've seen hosts of other types of jams enter their own, I didn't see why I shouldn't join it as well. Of course, I would choose something completely unexpected and choose something that definitely stretches the definition of "video game". It absolutely fits "multimedia experience" at least even if it's pretty barebones due to the budget compared to 90s interactive dictionaries and such.

If you're wondering who the person is giving the thumbs up, it's Yukio Hattori who's best known as an expert commentator in Iron Chef and the fifth president of the Hattori Nutrition College culinary school. No, I have no explanation why the PSX Data Center's description (as of 18 May 2025) doesn't mention any of this and instead goes off on a different tangent entirely.

RNG for the quiz questions is determined by the frame which the option on the title screen is entered. This works in a queue where the first dish on the list is popped out of the list and the new dish is added at the end of the list. See below for a rough idea of what I mean.

A|F    B|G
B|G    C|H
C|H -> D|I
D|I    E|J
E|J    F|K

You'd think that this would require checking for an optimal set of recipes to complete the set as quickly as possible. However, I tested the frames after the first possible one and every time the time losses got a lot worse despite having faster recipes to input. I have no idea why that's the case but in any case this makes the first possible frame the fastest by virtue of less loading regardless of any RNG going on.

eien86: Claiming for judging.

eien86: A somewhat strange educational game where you need to learn and recognize the ingredients needed to make a series of recipes. Here, the author gets it right very quickly to reach the end of the 10-recipe challenge.

Accepting to Standard

P.S.: The timing seems to be off (in the encode the movie ends faster than what the movie duration states), but I confirmed the movie is properly truncated to the last required input

despoa: Processing...