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Posted: 11/18/2019 1:42 AM
(Edited: 2/9/2020 1:05 PM)
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Alyosha
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http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/59377544391501511 It turns out changing the dash button in game is much faster, I did that and then resynced up to the refights. I lost a second to bad spider RNG. Also, it seems that it would be slightly faster to go magna -> chill -> spark -> morph rather then spark -> morph -> magna -> chill. I did a test run with that route, but I lost a few frames here and there and wheel gator didn't work so I ended up slower, here's a test TAS with that route (I think an optimized version should be 1 second or so faster.) http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/59377615098181647 Anyway that's probably all the effort I will be putting into this one. Anyone can feel free to try from these files.
Posted: 11/20/2019 6:32 PM
(Edited: 12/2/2019 12:28 AM)
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Alyosha
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GBA TASer of 2023 Homebrew TAS of 2023 Gameboy TASer of 2022 NES TASer of 2015
I realized I made a few mistakes and went back and made some improvements to the new route. I am now 3 seocnds ahead of the published TAS up to the start of the sigma stages. http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/59437582906677118 I'm still going to try to get a better wheel gator fight a few more times before continuing on, but it looks like I should be able to have an actual improvements by the end of this.
Posted: 11/26/2019 6:42 PM
(Edited: 12/2/2019 12:28 AM)
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Alyosha
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GBA TASer of 2023 Homebrew TAS of 2023 Gameboy TASer of 2022 NES TASer of 2015
I have been grinding away at refights trying to get decent RNG. I also had to go back and change the boss order in order to get good spider RNG. After all of that I have finally made it by the refights with an actual improvement. http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/59570921781781631 This is about one second improvement in game play over the existing movie. It's not much but an improvement is an improvement. It's actually closer to 3 seconds of improvement, but I'm not counting using charged shots on the shuriken boss, which can be trivially patched into the original run. I was about 5 seconds ahead going into the boss fights, but RNG has been destroying me. This is the best I could do after dozens of different paths and iterations through sigma 2 and the refights. No doubt someone can find a better RNG setup with enough time grinding it, but I'm happy just to make it to the end of the game at this point with real savings.
Posted: 11/28/2019 1:29 AM
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Alyosha
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Editor, Emulator Coder, Expert player (3822)
Joined: 11/30/2014
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GBA TASer of 2023 Homebrew TAS of 2023 Gameboy TASer of 2022 NES TASer of 2015
http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/59599426135136939 I went back one more time to the refights and found a better route. It's not optimal in terms of pathing but it's 3 seconds faster overall compared to what I had before. I still lost some time on sigma's first fight, so I'll have to go back and test different RNG patterns to see fi I can make some time back, but otherwise this run is done and will be submitted once the next BizHawk release is ready.
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