User Files from RetroEdit

A proof-of-concept for a faster Dribble boss, saving 52 frames compared to #10155: Pellets's GBA WarioWare: Twisted! in 27:52.312.

This uses some inputs from #10155: Pellets's GBA WarioWare: Twisted! in 27:52.312.

A proof-of-concept for the Jimmy boss trick, saving 129 frames compared to #10155: Pellets's GBA WarioWare: Twisted! in 27:52.312.

I think it might be impossible to go faster, since the game is very cycle-based.

A 23-frame improvement to the start of #10155: Pellets's GBA WarioWare: Twisted! in 27:52.312

Improves "Step On It", the sixth microgame in the movie via pause-based RNG manip.

A 7 frame improvement to #10154: Pellets's GBA WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! in 29:16.209

A resync of #9984: ThunderAxe31's GBA Pac-Man World "maximum kills, all items" in 38:04.693 to GBAHawk v2.3.2, because ThunderAxe was interested in console-verifying it.

The game does use the EEPROM-512 save type though, so for the actual verification, save times possibly need to be moderately adjusted.

Continuation of this movie by me and Walgrey.

A sweet time save of 00:07.651!

(Time breakdown: Cook Ch. 1: -101 frames, Cook Ch. 2: -361 frames, other levels: +5 frames)

I redid Cook Ch. 1 and Cook Ch. 2 to take advantage of RNG manips so we needed fewer ingredients per dish, and tweaked Mabel's Farmhouse and Kitchen 1 to collect a different number of items to setup this RNG (RNG is largely controlled by number of items collected).

Probably not done here... we'll see. The other levels could definitely be re-optimized, especially since my level tweaks were primarily focused on a quick RNG proof-of-concept, not on perfect optimization. Cook Ch. 2 might have another second to save through further RNG manip and experimentation.

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)

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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 04:24.083 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.