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Pen Pals is a short story-oriented RPG Maker game by Anatola Howard.
Pen Pals is a game about finding your mom, accompanied by your abusive friend called Pal. Roaming the towns called Onion Town, and Understanding. There are some ghosts.
For this TAS, I use System Time to get a good Pal layout, it is required that he joins our team.
In the next location, after talking to Pal, I skip the dialogue that is on a straight line. For certain reasons, there are no events on the left and right sides that trigger dialogues.
I don't really have much to say about the game, it's just second half of it is just walking around and skipping dialogues, so it's not very interesting to discuss.

eien86: Claiming for judging.

eien86: Waiting for an answer to this question about an RTA WR being faster https://tasvideos.org/Forum/Posts/536969

eien86: Alright, so the movie looks sharp and optimized to a casual viewer's eye. I am certain it is also optimized frame-wise. These things notwithstanding, there exist an RTA WR that seems faster. However, the differences in emulator version might explain this, so there's no certain way to compare these.
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Found this RTA run for the EasyRPG version that seems faster than this movie. Is there an explanation for this? https://www.speedrun.com/penpals/runs/zg74j4dz
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This RTA run was recorded 6 years ago, EasyRPG was not as stable back then as it is now, that's why this run on EasyRPG is faster than my TAS. I compared the start of New Game with RTA and my TAS, and there is a 1 second difference. I checked the release dates, and it is possible that RTA used version 0.6.0. At that time, this version was not entirely stable. It is also possible that the runner used 0.5.3 after seeing the speedrun date from Space Funeral https://www.speedrun.com/pl-PL/space_funeral/runs/zp40pxgz and it is possible that the runner did not download the new version at that time.
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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. ---- [6648] Windows penpals by Tegron in 02:32.47