Link's Awakening DX "warp glitch" TAS by hogehoge61

Game objectives

  • Emulator used: VBA Rerecording 1.7.2 v21, enable “Enable Up/Down and Left/Right”
  • Abuses programming errors
  • Uses game restart sequence
  • Aims for fastest time
  • Takes damage to save time
  • Steals a shovel and a bow
  • Uses death to save time
  • Uses warps
  • Manipulates luck

To the Sword

  • The protagonist's name was changed to 'V'. There is no particular reason for this.
  • 1 frame gained from a boost off the Bow-wow.
  • 3 frames saved by optimizing the damage boost off the octorok.
  • 3 frames gained through a damage boost using the urchins on the beach.
  • L/R/D are pressed during the spin immediately after taking the sword, but there is no particular reason for it.

Stealing from the Shop

  • 4 frames gained for some unknown reason (?).
  • 3 frames lost due to the cycle in the shopkeeper's orientation.
  • At the game over screen after being killed by the shopkeeper L/R/D was pressed, but it does not have any purpose.
  • 1 frame loss due to the shopkeeper's orientation cycle.

Setting up the Warping Glitch

  • 2 frames gained by using a corner boost.
  • 1 frame saved for some unknown reason (?).
  • 3 frames gained from optimizing the Bow-wow boost.
  • 12 frames saved by applying the A/B/Up/Down bug to a spin attack to kill the 2 octoroks.

Doghouse Glitch

  • 25 frames saved by optimizing the use of bugged tiles.
  • 3 frames saved by eliminating the lag when opening and closing the menu.

Last boss

1st Form
  • Unchanged.
2nd Form
  • Unchanged.
3rd Form
  • 7 frames gained by hitting with the very end of the first spin attack.
4th Form
  • Unchanged.
5th Form
  • Killed with a spin attack, for no particular reason.
6th Form
  • 15 frames saved by speeding up eye opening even further.
total 75 frames saving.

Special Thanks

  • #TASers
And thank you for reading our submission, enjoy the run!

mmbossman: Accepting as an improvement to the published movie.
ShinyDoofy: Processing...


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Very nice run! Definitely a lot of fun, even if the warp glitch confused the heck outta me. Outside of that, I was entertained "THIEF" ;). That alone rocked! V for Vendetta against the shop keeper? ;) Mr. Kelly R. Flewin
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THIEF has stolen my precious thing... my heart! Conglaturations, it's finally submitted! I voted yes before I see the submission :P
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This was an unexpected submission. I knew that the run was improveable, but not how much. Very nice run at least, yes yes.
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wow it's about an improvement of 1.25 second does changed name for "V" cost an extra frame? :D Sometime links make very weird dreams.. better to wake up quickly :)
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Yay, more youtube food! Will upload when encode around. ^.^
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You can watch this movie from this URL. http://dic.nicovideo.jp/v/sm6908719
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Not everyone has a nicovideo account, otherwise I would actually watch it. I would make an account, but I can't exactly read Japanese. ;_;
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Great job. Definite yes vote here :)
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Flygon wrote:
Not everyone has a nicovideo account, otherwise I would actually watch it. I would make an account, but I can't exactly read Japanese. ;_;
Just do what I did :) Wing it ^^ I did and I managed to get an account. ^^ Mind you, it also helped that when scrolling over certain things, there was enough english to know what I was trying. Mr. Kelly R. Flewin
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I wonder... what required so many rerecords for this run?
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Flygon wrote:
Not everyone has a nicovideo account, otherwise I would actually watch it.
You don't need an account to watch that video, which you would know if you had clicked it.
Flygon wrote:
I would make an account, but I can't exactly read Japanese. ;_;
There are tons of English tutorials on this on the net… which you would know if you had searched for them. >_>
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
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I know you can turn off the scrolling text by clicking the little pac-man button on the bottom right, so I'm not complaining (and it's nice to have an encode at all, so I'm grateful). But seriously, what IS all that text saying? Buncha vvvvvs and wwwwwwws. Am I missing some international font files? My browser normally shows Japanese text. And how can anyone even watch the video with all that stuff scrolling? Is it commentary or ads? Just curious. The TAS itself looks great. I've watched the run this one will obsolete, and it's nice that there's no big changes but I still enjoy watching it. This game is just a fun one to watch. I love that such a trippy and bizarre game is equally strange and breakable (even after they took out the select warp trick from the non-DX version). I don't see this particular game getting many more improvements unless there are new glitches found.
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Acheron86 wrote:
But seriously, what IS all that text saying? Buncha vvvvvs and wwwwwwws. Am I missing some international font files? My browser normally shows Japanese text. And how can anyone even watch the video with all that stuff scrolling? Is it commentary or ads? Just curious.
If I remember right, "w" is short from "warui", and "wwwwwww" is analogous to "lol" or "lolololol" for most purposes. This is viewers' comments on the stuff happening in the video at current point in time, from what I can tell.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
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Very nice TAS! While making my own version of this (the currently published run), I had wondered if things like boss manipulation could potentially be improved. I wasn't expecting this many other optimizations, though - I'm very impressed that you were able to squeeze frames in so many places (e.g. I though most of the bow-wow bouncing in the previous TAS was perfect). I also thought your boss battle was quite entertaining, which was good to see. I suppose it's only fair that you obsolete my run after I obsoleted yours :) I'm giving this a yes vote.
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Congrats,hogehoge61! Your run was finally finished! I voted YES. >Acheron86 What moozooh said is right. But not "warui". "warai" is correct.
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There's no reason not to publish this. Shame it looses its charm after multiple improvements.
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Yes.
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hogehoge61 has made a video which shows differences of both LADX runs. http://dic.nicovideo.jp/v/sm7120786
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Yes vote. Tip for everyone watching this on nicovideo. You can turn off those annoying japanese words on the bottom right of the video. Took me a while to figure out.
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Slowking wrote:
Tip for everyone watching this on nicovideo. You can turn off those annoying japanese words on the bottom right of the video.
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Omg I overlooked that part of your post. Kill me now, I don't deserve to live.
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Slowking wrote:
Omg I overlooked that part of your post. Kill me now, I don't deserve to live.
My sarcasm detector is going off. I was being jovial in my original post; it's too bad that you can never really indicate intent over the internet. I was merely entertained by the oversight, nothing more. (This ends a discussion about a thing on a forum.)
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Is it me or are the credits utterly broken? / vs As it turns out, hogehoge61's encode used "Smart" interframe blending, which makes those flickering letters appear transparent. The last publication's encode didn't feature this option. Any preferences on this? Personally I'd prefer the transparent letters, although they go against the frames not being altered/dropped/duped rule.