User Files from TehBerral

I decided to restart the TAS after all on Bizhawk 1.10.0 after I realized that I should've picked hard mode for the last WIP. The only thing it affects is that there are more enemies thrown about and some of them (not all) have higher HP. Sometimes a whopping 2 HP!

Also Treblor actually aims at J during the mini-boss fight in Manhattan.

This game is stupid hard at a lot of points if you're playing real time. My goal is to make it look easy.

If you're wondering why this isn't in the newest version of Bizhawk it's because I've actually been working on this since before my Catwoman TAS was completed -like, December- and already restarted 3 times for emulator revisions. I'm at a good point into TASing this fairly short game and I'm not going to restart (read: delay) it again since it syncs up just fine in the newer version anyhow.

Due to a miscalculation with the damage I would have to take in the Pumpkin Patch I had to redo the exit out of Dr. Finklestein's lab.

On the bright side I took an extra 20+ frames to pick up the extra needed health (in the room outside of the Snake room), yet I leave the area only 12 frames slower. I found a couple small optimizations on the last few screens.

This is where health management is going to be a huge hassle. I've got three minibosses to face in this area, all of which I optimally have to take damage from, and I have to not die while traversing the first half of the area. The second half of the Pumpkin Patch (after the minibosses) gives you an unskippable shrunken head so I just have to survive until then.

$5774 - 2 byte>unsigned = Snake Boss health address.

By the way, the post-boss dance is longer than the fight itself.

Finally seeing a few slight benefits of the Japanese text. Besides that, I'm making good time. I've saved a little less than 4 seconds over my last English wip.

I'm up to Mega Spider who's going to be a pain to optimize (like all of the other bosses). Regardless, I've spent a lot of time finding ways to kill enemies without losing anytime whatsoever, hopefully to add (more) entertainment value to the run.

I'm now restarting the TAS for the eighth time, this time using the Japanese version. This WIP saves 127 frames off of my last English WIP (the Japanese version up to this point only saves 109 frames, the rest came from strat changes).

I haven't gotten far, but I wanted to upload this for archival reasons.

What it says on the tin.

All of this for eleven extra frames (I'm 1194 frames ahead of the publication if you're keeping up).

1183

I redid Scene 3 so that I'm now 557 frames faster than the current publication.

494

Now we're up to 477 frames over the publication.

A 415 frame improvement on the first "Scene" of my first submission/publication.

Roughly 1/4 of the way done. Seriously.

Not gonna lie, I thought "snow forest 1" would have a bit more snow in it.

This game is long (well long to me anyway), I'm not even half way through. At this point I'm going to be taking a slight break from this TAS. Hopefully not too long, though.

Finished one quest in the Pumpkin Patch, but it only gets harder from here to manage health.

I had to restart the TAS after finding a few new movement optimizations. This game is fairly long (compared to other games I've TAS, which isn't saying much) so I'm not even that far into it at this point.

Finally through with the second level.