Looks good. Interesting how you managed to get the spell powerups, and still save over a minute.

I made a WIP of this game a long time ago but quit because I found the game quite dull to TAS. I haven't compared our two movies all the way through, but it seems that I'm 216 frames ahead after the first level. You gain some time on me on level 2, and I haven't checked any more levels after this (I'm very tired and need to sleep :P ) Anyway, you might want to check out the WIP I have, my guess is that we used different strategies here and there so combining our two movies will hopefully save even more time. :) Here's the WIP I have, it's about 30% through the game. Here are the RAM addresses I have: 006D X|position | | 008E Attack|power 008D Attack|meter 0089 Max|AP 05EE Weapon 0705 Enemy|HP 01FE Lag|when|!=|74 007C Dex|level 05B3 Time|stop|time | | | | 0091 Current HP 0093 Current MP 0725 Boss|hits Sorry for bringing this up now that you've submitted the run and all, but I had no idea anyone was working on Astyanax. I know it can be a pain having to redo a run just after you've submitted it, so I won't blame you or anything if you want to stick with this submission. Perhaps my run isn't much faster than yours after all, and doesn't warrant a new submission. And yes, the game is pretty stupid overall, it lags a lot and enemies and bosses move around in patterns that makes the game very hard to TAS. :(

[...] And sorry for sumbiting my movie before you

Good job on improving a really old movie, dragonxyk! Since Randil's WIP has some different techniques that save some time, will you be starting an improved run soon, or will you just stick with this submission? I have a hard time voting yes to a movie with some known improvements, but the previous movie is over 3 years old, and it looks like an incredibly difficult game to play, and certainly a tough one to TAS too. In any case, I think you did a good job and small improvements be damned, I vote yes.