Hello! I've helped out with BizHawk development, some site development, and done some TASing as well.
I'm highly interested in GBA accuracy at the moment, particularly in the context of TASing and speedrunning. I've found the current set of GBA emulators has a number of timing inaccuracies that affect the integrity of speedrun timing for a number of games, but I'm hopeful that these issues will be resolved over the course of the next few years.
Scripts
See my GitHub page for all of my code.
- retro_tas: General purpose TAS tools
Games of interest
| Icon | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ❌ | [Unused] I was author or coauthor on a rejected TAS of the game |
| ✅ | I was author or coauthor on a submitted/published TAS of the game |
| 🗒️ | I have my own WIP movie file uploaded to the site |
| 🔍 | I've done some research, but I haven't posted any significant movies of my own. |
| 🔄 | I've resynced a prior publication movie. See my resyncs subpage for more details. |
- Donkey Kong series
- 🔍 Donkey Kong Country (GBA): I've done some research on the RNG to help with TASing efforts in 2023. Update 2024: multiple new optimized TASes authored by illayaya.
- Donkey Kong Land: The newly discovered "superjump" glitch (September 2023) has a lot of interesting TAS potential for improving the existing 100% publication and submitting an any% TAS.
- 🔍🔄 Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (GBA): I'm somewhat interested in looking for improvements to help with new submissions.
- 🔍 Donkey Kong Land 2: From some screen-by-screen comparisons with a video-only TAS, I found some improvements to the published TAS for 100% from 2020.
- 🔄 DK: King of Swing: There are some known improvements for the publications, and I might be interested in looking for more.
- Game & Watch series
- 🗒️ Game & Watch Gallery: I have a 75% complete first-pass WIP TAS of this game.
- 🗒️ Game & Watch Gallery 3: As of August 2024, I am actively working on an improvement to the canceled submission by PiePusher11 and dabbling with 120 stars (which is the game's version of 100%).
- 🔍 Game & Watch Gallery 4: I've done some research on this game.
- ✅ Game & Watch: Parachute x Octopus: Along with Fortranm, I was coauthor on this TAS.
- Shrek series
- ✅🔄 Shrek 2 (GBA): I finished a TAS of this! It's my first solo submission.
- I also created a 100% proof-of-concept.
- 🔍 Shrek 2: Beg for Mercy: A full TAS was recently uploaded (28 August 2023). I know of some improvements of my own I'm hoping to add soon.
- 🗒️ Shrek the Third (GBA): I completed a 100% movie, but it still needs polished.
- ✅🔄 Shrek 2 (GBA): I finished a TAS of this! It's my first solo submission.
- Miscellaneous
- 🗒️ Mario's Picross: I sort of forgot I had a WIP TAS of this. There was one optimization roadblock that I needed to research.
- 🔍 Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls: I might TAS this when GBA emulation is accurate enough to match real-console's RNG. It has scanline-specific RNG for the boat 15-puzzle minigame.
- ✅ Barbie: Magic Genie Adventure: I helped with the TAS for this and created a script that lights up a dark level.
- 🗒️ The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer (GBA): I have a WIP low-optimization TAS
- Madagascar: Operation Penguin: there's a partially complete TAS uploaded, and it has some really cool fluid movement
- Alyosha now authored a published TAS that incorporates the old WIP.
- Catz (GBA): The TCRF page provides a bit of context. It's just a rebrand of the Japanese release Nakayoshi Pet Advance 3. I've dabbled with this.