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A Barbie: Magic Genie Adventure speedrunner found that minigames can be exited early by pressing select when the "success jingle" plays, saving 1.5 seconds on most minigames and 2.5 seconds on the last minigame for a total 10-second time save over #8403: PinkyNoice, OtakuTAS & RetroEdit's GBC Barbie: Magic Genie Adventure in 07:36.85. (on the last minigame Magic Rainbow Potion, you can press select when the last rotation finishes).

(previous user files: 008, header fix, boot resync)

A few months ago, I decided to test GBAHawk's multiplayer support using Game & Watch Gallery 4. After a few UI bugs were fixed, it seemed to function pretty well. I semi-optimized this TAS test, but there's probably a little bit more time save from better RNG in Donkey Kong 3 at the very least. This movie is missing the two Classic multiplayer modes, but those do also appear to function in the emulator.

It's very exciting to have multiplayer support so this game could finally be properly beaten. It's still a massive undertaking to optimize, but at least it's possible!

This movie was created in GBAHawk 2.1.1, but still syncs in 2.1.3, the most recent version at time of writing.

I completed a full 100% run because it was more straightforward than any%.

This is a mix of rewind and manual editing. Certain levels are relatively optimized, while others are bad (2-1 for instance).

This needs a fair bit more work to be ready to submit, but it's a solid baseline.

(Previous movie: WIP_001)

<< prev / WIP_005

I redid 1-1, 1-2, and 1-3 basically from scratch. The main improvement is a new fighting glitch where moving with precise timing while shooting will shoot more projectiles and basically defeat enemies twice as fast.

This was a surface-level second-pass. There are still probably a few seconds of further improvements, but this is already 04:24.08 ahead of my previous movie after only three levels. Some further improvement is complicated by the pistons: they block the path, and you can be stuck in a cycle where you're not saving any time on the part of the level prior to the pistons (essentially a frame-rule; although technically, you can probably save time by reducing lag).

I didn't fully apply the projectile glitch to 1-1, but in my testing, it would only save a few seconds because of having to wait numerous seconds for an extremely poor piston cycle, and I preferred the piston damage boost stylistically for now. 1-2 was pretty clean. 1-3 could maybe be faster by damage-boosting up through the toxic waste pipe instead of destroying the computer console to disable it.

One other potential improvement might be turning off the music and/or the sound effects at the beginning of the run. That would probably reduce the amount of lag, with net gains after just a few levels.

A resync of [1736] GBA Wario Land 4 "Hard" by andymac in 40:04.88 to BizHawk 2.9.1.

See my resync page for more details.

A successful resync of [3228] GBA The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap by Tompa & quo in 1:40:02.18 from VBA-RR v24 svn422 to BizHawk 2.9.1. The lag/load time adjustments were almost completely automated: this required only one manual adjustment for the last input at the end.

Edit (2023-10-29): Ah, I just realized there was a oversight in my automated resync script. So the manual resync at the end wasn't due to game incompatibility.

Apparently, VBA-rr movies *can* be resynced. It just required better knowledge of the scripting behavior and movie format.

Attempted resync of [1478] GBA Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow by Kriole in 20:58.62 to BizHawk 2.9.1.

This movie was able to sync surprisingly far with some lag adjustments, but had different enemy movement patterns that damaged the player and desynced in the room at frame 14402 or 4:03 (https://youtu.be/xPpXbxOxceM?t=243).

One of my RTA speedruns from a few months ago. I decided to upload this so that at least one complete any% movie exists on the site, even though this wouldn't be very good as a TAS.

This theoretically saves 42 frames over my previous best 5-4 route, mostly from a better Puss in Boots climbing setup at the beginning.

However, it desyncs on the second Fairy Godmother candy cane throw for unknown reasons. There might be a way to salvage it, but it's a complex level and I have no immediate plans to investigate further or redo the rest of the level to incorporate the time save.

The second revision of my WIP movie for Shrek 2 (GBA)! See further details in the accompanying post in Forum/Posts/522769.