User Files from Darkman425

Emulator used: BizHawk 2.11, DOXBox-X core

Thanks to slamo for informing me about the Pause bug. I've implemented it to save quite a bit of time.

This is meant to replace the input file for #9974: Darkman425's DOS Best of ZZT "Royal Treasures" in 01:08.900.

I forgot that I had this lying around. Probably best that it's here rather than sitting around in some random folder on my computer.

Emulator used: BizHawk 2.7

This came from an older computer from which I made my Final Fantasy Legend 1 TAS. This doesn't have all of the info from The Final Fantasy Legend game resources page but it has all of the relevant ones I used in producing the TAS.

Emulator used: BizHawk 2.7

Uploading this to bare bones RAM watch to at least give anyone else some sort of start if they want to look into this version of Gunstar Heroes a bit deeper.

Emulator used: BizHawk 2.7

Kind of bare bones but it should have the basic Mega Man X & Y positions as well as boss HP.

Emulator used: BizHawk 2.10, mgba core

Encode if you want to waste 50 minutes of your time: https://youtu.be/J6NG5Ahie44

There's no verification movie for the SaveRAM since it game from one made from a casual playthrough.

The GBA version has a bug where !Calm works on the opposite of the intended targets, as in stopping anything NOT tagged as a magical beast. This makes Omega stoppable with Beastmasters. I just thought to make a silly TAS to see if it was even possible with reflected Blitz whip procs and 4 Yellow Dragons to beat Omega at around where most people are leveled by the end of the game. It's also why this isn't remotely optimized in strategy, though at least RNG manipulation through waiting on when to input commands (seems to change every 2 frames and also affected by any inputs done after the action is locked in) meant that I got the minimum number of procs needed to win with this terrible strategy. I just wanted to excise this stupid thought exercise from my system while the 2025 Final Fantasy V Four Job Fiesta was ongoing.

For #9717: NemoRuby & Darkman425's Genesis Mega Man: The Wily Wars "zipless" in 1:37:19.85.

Emulator used: BizHawk 2.10, mGBA core

This is mainly for figuring out what RAM address are needed to disable flashing in Crash Party USA. Freezing RAM address 0x4778 to 0 when in the minigame disables the function to switch the color used to flash the screen a given color.

Emulator used: FCEUX 2.6.6

The fan translation patch for Dead Zone is available on the Stardust Crusaders Translations website: http://yojimbo.eludevisibility.org/

The fan translation is also available for download here: https://romhack.ing/database/hacks/entry/XDbyupEBtmQqFDluRZS3

https://youtu.be/VgVN1y0zeMI

English fan translated TAS companion to the regular Dead Zone submission found here: #9254: Darkman425's FDS Dead Zone in 09:12.61

Emulator used: BizHawk 2.9.1

The game is available here: https://tic80.com/play?cart=1097

If you do check out the developer's stuff, I gotta give a small NSFW warning on some of their works outside of the TIC-80 website.

I've had this completed but probably not refined TAS input file for around for about a year. I intended to come back to this to see if there's something I missed when it comes to finishing stages early. The air dash is fast but meter management is important to keep going fast. I just haven't had the drive to come back to this for a while. With some interest in TASing TIC-80 games right now, I might as well put this up for others to see if they can improve on it. I'll accept co-authorship if anyone does go through and improve things. The game is sync friendly so single stage improvements are easy to implement.

Emulator used: BizHawk 2.9.1, Gambatte core

Just a heads up, I do all the RNG manipulation without a bot. That doesn't excuse accidentally getting an extra PutrePup bronze medal pretty far back before beating the BossTroll, though fixing that would require redoing 2 days worth of heavy RNG manipulation. The worst part of the RNG manipulation so far has been the BossTroll fight as fire attacks have a 30% hit rate and I couldn't get RNG to behave well enough with manual checking to get a 2 round fight.

Despite that big gaffe with the extra medal, I will press on at a later time since as far as I know there's nobody who has had any progress for an all gold medals TAS that has gotten this far. For now I should focus on other things.

Current progress: 23/165 gold medals

NOTE: This is for the Game Boy Color version of Dragon Warrior III only!

This isn't a super fancy RAM watch file as it doesn't have any specific RNG addresses. I don't know how I'd find them but changing inputs and/or delaying inputs works decently enough for figuring this stuff out. An important part for each active character slot is the partial values for stats. Due to an added check to the international versions of the game, these partial values are checked for the Pachisi bug. The important ones are what I assume to be the STR and AGI partial values as those are involved with triggering the level up bug part of the of Pachisi bug.

Emulator used: BizHawk 2.9.1, Gambatte core

I got frustrated with doing the RNG grind for this game in Retro Achievements for the moment. Like, frustrated enough to get the idea of seeing what a potential "all gold medals" TAS could be. Turns out a lot of waiting for RNG medal drops. As Silver medals require 2 Bronze medals and Gold medals require 2 Silver medals for each monster in the game, the actual odds for a Gold medal in a reasonable time is dire.

At least this proof of concept does have a certain party in mind to get through this. A Hero with a personality with a good strength, agility, and intelligence growth, and three mages with two of them having a personality for good agility and intelligence growth. I went with the sexy personality for the Hero as that provides great stat growths across the board and Smart for the two recruited mages for the agility and intelligence. The one already in the tavern is ordinary, which isn't the biggest dealbreaker since it's just base stat growth. Ultimately the plan is to do the Pachisi level up bug for all the main party members to 99 quickly. I might route in changing one of the mages into a sage for better weapon choices but that's definitely pending.

#8475: Jack-Retro's Arcade Marble Madness II in 08:06.13

This input file is ahead of the submission by 327 frames across the first 5 levels.

This is mainly for resyncing this submission so it starts from a verifiable SRAM rather than an unverifiable save state:

#8475: Jack-Retro's Arcade Marble Madness II in 08:06.13

Due to how sync settings work, accessing the service menu and then continuing with the rest of the TAS in the MAMEHawk core isn't possible as DIP switch settings require core reboots. This input file instead generates a SRAM from a fresh boot with the Service Menu DIP switch ON. In the service menu the Game Settings are adjusted as such:

Once this is done by the input file, stop the input file playback. Then the Service Menu DIP switch should be set back to OFF and the core should be rebooted. If done correctly, the SRAM should save with the tutorial messages off when starting a credit from the beginning. It's now possible to make a new input file without any tutorial messages if one is done starting with the SRAM generated.

This is for this submission:

#8582: Suru486's SNES Super Mario World: Quest for Gaming "98-Exit" in 1:44:46.41

Mostly wanted to try my hand at what looked like improvable sections in a handful of levels. Uploading this here in case the author wants to improve those bits further, or at least see what I managed. It's definitely not totally optimal as I'm no SMW super expert.

Original publication: [66] NES Arkanoid "warpless" by Genisto in 16:30.467

Emulator used: BizHawk 2.9.1, NesHawk core

I was watching dwangoAC's stream working on verification tests for the Arkanoid TASes but this one didn't sync on stream. I got curious about how hard it would be to sync this on a modern NES emulator. With a minor modification adjusting the time when first input past the title screen starts, I got this old input file originally made in Famtasia to sync. This should in theory make this more likely to be console verifiable. I also edited the header to match the original rerecord count of the original publication.

Emulator used: BizHawk 2.9.1

Not sure if the final boss HP RAM watch is completely correct as that value is seemingly used for other variables as well but it was good enough to find the frame of death for RTA timing. Power chip watch is incomplete as there are 3 variables that track their own counts.

Emulator used: BizHawk 2.9.1, NESHawk core

This was done as a test for #8309: longbao's NES Rockman Claw in 19:11.40.

This test file checks a segment done with as much jumping as possible.

I accidentally uploaded an untrimmed file the last time.

Emulator used: BizHawk 2.9.1, NESHawk core

This was done as a test for #8309: longbao's NES Rockman Claw in 19:11.40.

This test file checks a segment done with as little jumping as possible.

Emulator: BizHawk 2.6.2

This is a fix for Mikewillplays. This is not my file.

For this thread: Forum/Topics/24419

Emulator used: BizHawk 2.9

Arcade game version: ddragon3

This is a simple but effective RAM watch sheet of enemy HP values. There are 4 addresses the game uses to track enemy HP.

Emulator used: BizHawk 2.8

To compare with: #8143: Eduardo_EVF's Genesis Show do Milhão Volume 2 "One Million of Reais" in 05:03.57

Main time saves were pressing Up instead of Down to reach answer slot 4 and delaying the B press to lock in answers to get shorter load times between questions.

This answers 5 questions but is 21 frames ahead by that point.

131 frames faster moving through Mu compared to this submission:

#8045: Eduardo_EVF's GB DuckTales 2 in 14:37.94

I didn't do the boss fight since the boss RNG works differently from the NES version and doesn't seem to care about Scrooge's X-position.

Emulator used: BizHawk 2.8

Oops. By the way, even though this is a Saturn exclusive game I went by MARP rules where the settings have to be at whatever defaults are set upon loading the game. Thus there's no adjusting top speed. There are turns and tight maneuvers that require slowing down so adjusting top speed might actually be detrimental for maintaining a consistent coin chain.

Anyways I tried out the analog for this game and it works fine. Probably wouldn't need that for a TAS if all I'm going for is the fastest score counterstop. On the other hand, going for the largest bonus at the end (coins * time * 1000) would want finer adjustments. The problem is that I kinda forgot where that analog viewer lua file was so I just kinda manually did it with a controller. Thus the inputs are a terrible mess but this is a good baseline for both fastest coutnerstop and largest end bonus. I might get back to this later.