User Files from CoolKirby

To help optimize most movement and text advancing.

1 empty frame removed from end of #7408: p0008874's GB Wordle in 00:04.03 and synced to SameBoy with official GBA BIOS (for console verification like this one) without losing time! Sub 4 seconds now.

Ready to replace the submitted file. I don't want coauthor credit.

Same as this submission other than the intro, see annotations:

Useful for knowing what answer a question will have (or freezing it), and when you can press inputs.

Couldn't hold onto 75 more frames from the beginning of #10069: Geferulf's DOS System Shock in 02:30.029. Desyncs around frame 600 or so.

Saves 420 frames (5.992 seconds) over #10069: Geferulf's DOS System Shock in 02:30.029 by mashing RMB to defeat the final boss. More savings should be possible.

Uses this disc, with BizHawk's Config>File Extensions>.iso set to DOS.

Also known as Emmental cheese. Roughly a minute more of collision detection abuse, showing that you can keep clipping it until you reach the edge of the screen and your banana is wasted. It does appear you can hit your opponent this way too. Also includes a couple of hangtime throws (as previously demonstrated) and an idea of how long it would take to break every piece of every building (over 5 times longer than this).

Suggested by KusogeMan.

11-second BOWEP setup on Windows 3.11 in BizHawk. First, follow the instructions to set up the OS.

Then, make an XML with 1) the resulting HDD, 2) the BOWEP .img (MD5 12eb3112a0a6e086a3bf36e609810a03), and 3) this ISO (made from this freeware MIDI synth using iso_maker).

This sets up Best of Microsoft Entertainment Pack/BOWEP (1994) for TASes by:

1) Installing the 13 games.

2) Changing screen resolution to 640x480. Since these games only render gameplay to a small area, this makes them easier to see while TASing and in encodes.

3) (Chip's only) Adding MIDI support to the OS. If you won't use Chip's Challenge, you can export as early as frame 493, but everyone who wants to sync your input may have to do the same.

This installs the games to the C: root so they can be launched directly with e.g. windows\win chips.exe (which is 3 frames faster than cd windows, win c:chips.exe). You can press C and Tab on the same frame to "autocomplete" "Chips.exe" for you.

You can use the 1994 preset for your TASes, as this pack was released that year, regardless of when the games themselves released. This userfile can probably stay uncataloged as a general tool for all 13 games.

The free MIDI synth installed here works for all programs, so it should probably be added to the DOSBox-x page linked above. Ideally hosted by TASVideos instead. If you're having an issue like Emil_Borg described below, try restarting BizHawk or your computer. The cause of the MSCDEX issue is still unknown, but hasn't occurred yet with the newer fmsynth ISO linked above.

Possible improvements: Rodent's Revenge should be Large size and maybe Blazing speed – this will need testing. Tetris may need to start on a round other than 6, the default. TetraVex should start on either 2x2 or 6x6 grid size to be acceptable to Standard (3x3 is default), and Tut's Tomb may need different scoring in its Options. An updated or second verification file would be needed for these.

To make the game fullscreen in only 3 frames, type Alt, then Space, then X. That's it!

So far, 70 FPS technically works for e.g. Chip or Rodent, but may be tedious work due to the amount of blank frames to advance past. For an actual TAS, a different framerate may need to be set in DOS>Settings.

Needed to run this submission and a couple of userfiles.

An example of increasing entertainment value by hiding the banana's location offscreen.

Runs on the same XML as my submission.

Normally this would halt the banana's movement, but it seems to miss the building's collision here.

Runs on the same XML as my submission.

Adds GBC BIOS to beginning of run and CycleCount to the end. With the same BIOS intro as #5947: Jigwally's GBC Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition in 04:20.55, it's clearer this is slower.

GBA BIOS would've added 14 more frames, and Jigwally's uses the GBC one too so it's useful for comparison.

Converted max12187566's .fcm, then copied the input into a new .fm2 in FCEUX 2.6.6. No input was changed.

A full TAS by iMathII and cstrakm, using the fastest known skips for every 150cc track, including the Extra (SNES) Cups. This one has a faster mid-run reset than iMathII's original video and trims a blank frame from the end, and also adds 2 frames to sync to SRAM generated by a verification file (Forum/Posts/531655).

A replacement input file for https://tasvideos.org/9292S . Uses BizHawk 2.9.1, mGBA core. Not converted/tested in GBAHawk but it'd be a good idea.

Game version: Mario Kart Advance (Japan).gba

A full TAS by author iMathII, using the fastest known skips (except for two suboptimal tracks) for every 150cc track, including the Extra (SNES) Cups. This one has a fast mid-run reset.

The original input file for https://tasvideos.org/9292S . Uses BizHawk 2.9.1, mGBA core. Not converted/tested in GBAHawk but it'd be a good idea.

Game version: Mario Kart Advance (Japan).gba

Just for the record. Half of the completed TAS, starting from a power-on/clean save and only doing the 150cc GBA cups, with cutscenes not yet skippable.

BizHawk 2.9.1, mGBA core, J ROM (Mario Kart Advance, not MKSC)

Unlocks all cups and cutscene skips for the 150cc class. The gameplay is not the best, but fulfills its purpose.

N64 Tigger's Honey Hunt, 7 frames faster strat for Round 3 but bad resulting RNG causes me to lose them.

N64 Tigger's Honey Hunt, 5 frames faster strat for Round 2 but bad resulting RNG causes me to lose them. Includes a pause/unpause to save another frame.

199 frames (3.3167 seconds) saved from Level 6, though it ends there as Level 7 desyncs (not a full run). Level 6 is an RNG level we don't fully understand yet, but these were the fastest throws I could get in a single four-round game.

Demonstrates different things the ground rotate glitch can do, like printing graphics to the screen, crashing, and automatically resetting the game.

Uses BizHawk 2.6.3. Doesn't sync in 2.7. Author's commentary is included as Subtitles.

Found a new glitch that lets you hop on water under certain conditions. I've tentatively named it Phantom Log. Apparently when you touch the corner of a passing log's hitbox, you have an 11-frame window to hop onto a water tile adjacent to it. Though on frame 2318, Frogger seems to be able to stay on water for up to 40 frames with only one edge of a log near him. More testing is needed.

There are also water tiles like the first one I step on that are always safe to land on. Maybe the developers forgot to set them as hazardous.

Having hitboxes visible might make this easier to diagnose. They shouldn't be too hard to find with RAM Watch.

Uses BizHawk 2.6.3. Author's commentary is included as Subtitles. They appear at a Y-Position of 480 if your BizHawk window is big enough.

Redid the whole glitch section to match FCEUX's less accurate emulation. The final Start input now is usually needed to be held for a second frame to prevent a crash (and allow a warp to the credits instead).

Unless frames were saved before the slope clip, I can't see any way to improve this further.

A more organized watch file than the official address set.

Feel free to further organize however you like!

Made with BizHawk 1.11.6, but can run in BizHawk 2.2 by copying the input into a new bk2. BizHawk 2.2.1's minAnalogX&Y change breaks the Up and Left analog stick shortcuts, apparently due to a bug in Daikatana. But even this can be worked around by changing UDLR to analog stick positions, allowing it to sync in the newest BizHawk. I might provide an updated file in the future.

Includes author's commentary as Subtitles.