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This run is faster 2 minutes and 41 seconds than My previous run.
  • I used Snes9x 1.43 v17 svn93 (Also, it syncs with r64)
  • Aims for fastest time
  • Abuses programming errors
  • Manipulates Luck
  • Takes damage to save time
This emulator can be found here.

Differences

Bowser's Keep(1st time)~Mario's Pad
Unchanged.
0 frames saved.(Total 0)
Mushroom Way
I got no coins from tresure box.
5 frames saved.(5)
Mushroom Kingdom (1st time)
I optimized movement.
I sold "Hammer".
I didn't get a Frog coin.
224 frames saved.(229)
Bandit's way
I optimized movement.
I got less 17 Exp.
508 frames saved.(737)
Mushroom Kingdom (2nd time)
I didn't receive "Cricket Pie" from Mister.
993 frames saved. (1730)
Kero Sewers
I didn't get star.
Characters' level up is once (before was twice).
1203 frames saved.(2933)
EMidas River
I optimized movement.
4 frames saved.(2937)
Tadpole Pond (1st time)
I optimized movement.
I didn't give "Cricket Pie" to Frogfucius.
885 frames saved.(3822)
Rose Way
Unchanged.
0 frames saved.(3822)
Rose Town
I didn't get any Frog coin.
1190 frames saved.(5012)
Forest Maze
I didn't get any Frog coin and open the equip window. I didn't get "FroggieStick".
808 frames saved.(5820)
Moleville
I optimized movement and the mine cart ride(1:51:40→1:51:38).
All of the battle part is slower than before, because of Characters' less level.
I bought 5 "Work Pants".
Characters' level up is 4 times (before was 3).
432 frames slower.(5388)
Booster pass
I optimized movement.
I didn't get a Frog coin.
97 frames saved.(5485)
Booster Tower
I optimized movement, the battle with Booster.
I didn't get any Frog coin.
I used "Lucky jewel" in Knife Guy.
Characters' level up is twice (before was once).
600 frames slower.(4885)
Booster Hill
I got 16 flowers.
1 frames slower.(4884)
Marrymore
I optimized movement and the battle with Bundt.
I didn't get a Frog coin.
Characters' level up is twice (before was 3).
391 frames saved.(5275)
Mushroom Kingdom (3rd time)
I received "Cricket Pie" from Mister.
930 frames slower.(4345)
Tadpole Pond (2nd time)
I gave "Cricket Pie" to Frogfucius.
905 frame slower.(3440)
Star Hill
I optimized movement.
2 frames saved.(3442)
Seaside Town (1st time)
I bought 2 "Fire Bomb" and 2 "Ice Bomb".
0 frames saved.(3442)
Sea
I didn't get a Frog coin.
Characters' level up is 5 (before was 3).
52 frames saved.(3494)
Sunken ship
I optimized movement.
Characters' level up is 7 (before was 8).
1017 frames saved.(4511)
Seaside Town (2nd time)
I optimized the battle of Yaridovich.
I didn't buy "Exp. Booster" and "Lucky Hammer".
Characters' level up is 0 (before was once).
853 frames saved.(5364)
Land's End (1st time)
I optimized movement.
I used only Lucky Bonus once.
I didn't open the equip window before Belome.
Characters' level up is 10 times (before was 14).
4004 frames saved.(9368)
Monstro Town
Unchanged.
0 frames saved.(9368)
Land's End (2nd time)
I optimized movement and Sergent Flutter's mission(7:23→7:10).
6 frames saved.(9374)
Bean Valley
I optimized movement.
376 frames saved.(9750)
Nimbus Land (1st time)
I optimized movement.
Characters' level up is 3 times (before was twice).
313 frames slower.(9437)
Barrel Volcano
I optimized movement and the battle with Axem Rangers.
I got more 33 Exp by star.
455 frames saved.(9892)
Nimbus Land (2nd time)
I optimized movement.
49 frame saved.(9941)
Bowser's Keep (2nd time)
I optimized movement.
I used Geno from Magikoopa.
329 frames saved.(10270)
Gate
I optimized movement and the battles with Count Down and Gunyork.
I opened the menu window before Smithy in order to change Peach to Geno. Her Attack power is lower 17 points than Geno.
559 frames slower. (9711)

Thanks to

らくぅ : I watched his single-segmented run and I learned better movements from it. His video is here(Part1). If you want to watch the rest, just copy "sm" number. "sm" number is above the video.(ex. Part2 is 7260825).
  • #TASers : A Japanese IRC channel, this channel inspires me always.
Enjoy my run! (＞ヮ＜)
cpadolf: Accepting as an improvement to the published movie.
OmnipotentEntity: Encoding.

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Posted: 11/7/2009 8:35 PM
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TASVideoAgent
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #2439: illayaya's SNES Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars in 2:31:09.70
Posted: 11/7/2009 8:59 PM
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hopper
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"Forest Maze I didn't get any Frog coin and open the equip window. I didn't get "FroggieStick". 808 frames slower.(5820)" I think you mean 808 frames saved, otherwise it should be (4204).
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Posted: 11/7/2009 9:03 PM
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illayaya
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Thanks, fixed.
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Posted: 11/7/2009 10:02 PM
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Flygon
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I get the feeling this game is nearly impossible to perfect. =P I'll be happy to watch this when an encode is made (Lets just say that my past experience with SNES emulators was... less then pleasant, that, and I don't actually think I have the disk space to actually get past the logo+movie combining stage).
Posted: 11/7/2009 10:08 PM
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andrewg
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Flygon wrote:
I get the feeling this game is nearly impossible to perfect. =P I'll be happy to watch this when an encode is made (Lets just say that my past experience with SNES emulators was... less then pleasant, that, and I don't actually think I have the disk space to actually get past the logo+movie combining stage).
I don't think many RPGs can come even close to perfection.
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Posted: 11/7/2009 11:39 PM
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Highness
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Wow! I got to watch this!! :D Thanks
Posted: 11/8/2009 1:10 AM
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mklip2001
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Nice little changes! It must be tricky to try new level-up strategies, since you gain time in some places and lose time in others. It also felt like this run used more standard, lower-damage attacks to save time at the end of battles, which also made the battles more interesting. Yes vote.
Used to be a frequent submissions commenter. My new computer has had some issues running emulators, so I've been here more sporadically. Still haven't gotten around to actually TASing yet... I was going to improve Kid Dracula for GB. It seems I was beaten to it, though, with a recent awesome run by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. (http://tasvideos.org/2928M.html.) Thanks to goofydylan8 for running Gargoyle's Quest 2 because I mentioned the game! (http://tasvideos.org/2001M.html) Thanks to feos and MESHUGGAH for taking up runs of Duck Tales 2 because of my old signature! Thanks also to Samsara for finishing a Treasure Master run. From the submission comments:
Shoutouts and thanks to mklip2001 for arguably being the nicest and most supportive person on the forums.
Posted: 11/8/2009 2:55 AM
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Captain_Forehead
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andrewg wrote:
Flygon wrote:
I get the feeling this game is nearly impossible to perfect. =P I'll be happy to watch this when an encode is made (Lets just say that my past experience with SNES emulators was... less then pleasant, that, and I don't actually think I have the disk space to actually get past the logo+movie combining stage).
I don't think many RPGs can come even close to perfection.
Yeah, Super Mario RPG is probably the closest RPG game that's close to perfection, well maybe Final Fantasy (NES) I'm not sure. Still, I liked this improvement, yes vote.
Posted: 11/8/2009 3:19 AM
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I been following along with this game as well as the others. It takes a lot of nerve to pull a 2-hour movie and I respect that. A yes vote for improvement and endurance!
Posted: 11/8/2009 4:51 AM
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compucomp
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I like the killing off of your allies to save time in early battles. However, I don't get why waiting a long time to hand Cricket Pie to Frogfucious saves time, it seems that sequence is mandatory anyway.
Posted: 11/8/2009 10:45 AM
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Highness
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Wow! That was an awesome run. Glad to see such an improvement. It's pretty daring. :) Would be nice to have a LUA script that automatically skips the dialogs though. This is definitely a YES-vote. Thank you!
Posted: 11/8/2009 11:18 AM
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Flygon
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Highness wrote:
Would be nice to have a LUA script that automatically skips the dialogs though.
I agree completely with this statement. I also retract my previous statement, I shall be indeed encoding this game tomorrow after I finish my IT exam in the morning. And if I get the spare time, I will encode the run with the said LUA script if it is posted.
Posted: 11/8/2009 1:33 PM
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If you do encode it, remember, audio at 32000 Hz.
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Posted: 11/8/2009 8:16 PM
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compucomp wrote:
I like the killing off of your allies to save time in early battles. However, I don't get why waiting a long time to hand Cricket Pie to Frogfucious saves time, it seems that sequence is mandatory anyway.
I don't know about that either, but I presume that handling the Cricket Pie this way is slightly more on the way. A rough analysis of the submission text suggests that early on, at least 1878 frames were saved related to the Cricket Pie: 993 (Mushroom Kingdom 2nd time) + 885 (Tadpole Pond 1st time) + (some time from not getting Froggie Stick in Forest Maze section) However, 1835 frames were lost later on: 930 (Mushroom Kingdom 3rd time) + 905 (Tadpole Pond 2nd time) This still amounts to at least 43 frames saved, though the savings could have also been from other factors. In any case, it doesn't seem like Mallow needs the Froggie stick early on, and in fact he's dead in a number of the fights and/or only is used to power up everyone else first turn. Also, the total number of trips to Tadpole Pond or Mushroom Kingdom hasn't changed, since you need to talk to Frogfucius before Star Hill anyway.
Used to be a frequent submissions commenter. My new computer has had some issues running emulators, so I've been here more sporadically. Still haven't gotten around to actually TASing yet... I was going to improve Kid Dracula for GB. It seems I was beaten to it, though, with a recent awesome run by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. (http://tasvideos.org/2928M.html.) Thanks to goofydylan8 for running Gargoyle's Quest 2 because I mentioned the game! (http://tasvideos.org/2001M.html) Thanks to feos and MESHUGGAH for taking up runs of Duck Tales 2 because of my old signature! Thanks also to Samsara for finishing a Treasure Master run. From the submission comments:
Shoutouts and thanks to mklip2001 for arguably being the nicest and most supportive person on the forums.
Posted: 11/8/2009 9:40 PM
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Kirkq
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If someone wants to look for more dialog related bytes add them to these. This will skip text boxes, but not forced sequences. (Discussion pauses with no text boxes aren't skipped.) Light Skipping 
while true do
text=memory.readbyte(0x7E0210)
	if text<=3 then
	snes9x.speedmode("normal")
	else snes9x.speedmode("turbo")
	end
snes9x.frameadvance()
end
Skips text boxes and overworld map only. Medium Skipping 
while true do
text=memory.readbyte(0x7E0210)
mapshopstatus=memory.readbyte(0x7E0009)
shopstatus=memory.readbyte(0x7E0068)
	if (text>=3) or ((mapshopstatus==223) and (shopstatus~=0)) then
	snes9x.speedmode("turbo")
	else snes9x.speedmode("normal")
	end
snes9x.frameadvance()
end
This one skips just about any time that mario's regular sprite isn't on the screen in an area. It doesn't skip Midas River type interactions. Skips Text boxes, overworld map, most cutscenes where mario isn't on screen, and all shop interactions. Heavy Skipping 
while true do
text=memory.readbyte(0x7E0210)
mapshop=memory.readbyte(0x7E0009)
	if (text>=3) or (mapshop==223) then
	snes9x.speedmode("turbo")
	else snes9x.speedmode("normal")
	end
snes9x.frameadvance()
end
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Posted: 11/12/2009 9:44 AM
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illayaya
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Thanks, everyone^^
compucomp wrote:
I like the killing off of your allies to save time in early battles. However, I don't get why waiting a long time to hand Cricket Pie to Frogfucious saves time, it seems that sequence is mandatory anyway.
mklip2001 said is right. And Mallow is very weaker than before run. So, he couldn't much damage to Bowyer if he equiped FroggieStick.
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Posted: 11/15/2009 3:00 AM
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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. ---- [1389] SNES Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars by illayaya in 2:31:09.70
Posted: 11/15/2009 8:48 PM
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that was fun! I must not have watched one of these in a while because that Mack skip took me by complete surprise. my only complaint is that the constant jumping in the barrel part of midas river and the statue polishing parts got pretty annoying! I understand that's the only thing you can do during the waiting parts, but maybe going with the music or some other pattern would have been more interesting. I liked the way you passed time waiting on moving platforms in bowser's castle at the end, for example. anyway, that's a minor thing, the rest of it was great. I've always been curious - how small does the window get by the end for continuing the multiple jump thing?
Posted: 11/17/2009 7:36 AM
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The scene where you entered Croco's location gave me the idea to trigger the cutscene and then go back to get invincible and run in there to take Croco out quickly...but you lose the invincibility anyway as soon as you enter the place where Croco runs around.
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Posted: 12/23/2010 4:55 PM
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Sorry if the question is stupid or newbish, but it seems that in some battles you have infinite items... How do you do that???
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Posted: 12/23/2010 4:57 PM
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"Get a freebie" can be manipulated to always get the item back after use.
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Posted: 12/23/2010 6:19 PM
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Kirkq wrote:
"Get a freebie" can be manipulated to always get the item back after use.
So, when you use an item then "get a freebie", your item is not used? That's awesome to know! What are the chances to "get a freebie"?
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