User Files from dekutony

Like the title says. This impoves the Easiest difficulty TAS by nearly 5 seconds, mostly (if not entirely) due to the harder/smarter AI tech rolling more often. This is specially notable with Shermie and Miss X. The rest is more of the same except for some more annoying, smarter AI from Shiki and Whip, who were not cooperating that much, having me to adjust the combo for them specifically. Leona was kind of the same, but it wasn't as bad. Shiki and Leona have slightly lower health for some reason so I can go for a slightly faster finisher. I get an item reward after the final match due to the higher difficulty.

In retrospect, the general strategy and move inputs are almost (and in some instances, completely) identical to the easiest difficulty, save for some mild annoyances in a couple of fights. That whole dialogue thing is still stressful but at least this was a faster TAS in the end...

Done in easy difficulty. Mai was used just like the RTA WR. It actually saves roughly over 47 seconds over RTA. Submission coming soon.

First WIP of this cute little fighting game. Mai is chosen just like in the RTA WR.

EDIT: Please note this WIP is slow and outdated.

Thankfully inserting the GBC version via Transfer Pak works here (thanks Multi-disk Bundler). Also tried to do a Time Trial on Indianapolis with Huey just to get used to the game and it's controls. The Ares64 core was used for this.

RAM Watch of all the interesting addresses I could find in this game.

It barely beats the gold time with an IGT of 11.89 and I'm gonna be honest here, I'm pretty skeptical about this time since it's barely faster than the gold. Am I missing something? Is there a way to make much tighter turns without slowing down too much? Is it just because of my spacing between all the cones? I'm not entirely sure right now. There's no RTA equivalent for these levels, only the main Championship levels, so I'm doing this with little to no info.

I finished the second lesson (15.14 in-game time now, managed to save a couple of frames) and after this lesson, the game is going to get a bit harder to TAS, hoping for the best, I have a 12 second time to beat.

This is a WIP for Mickey's Speedway USA for the Game Boy Color. This TAS aims for the fastest in-game times instead of real time. Right now it beats the first of 5 classes in 14.82 seconds. Minnie was chosen due to her great handling and fast acceleration (Daisy has the same stats). Compared to someone like Pete/Goofy who was slower by only a few frames despite the high top speed. Perhaps Mickey/Donald is faster in the first 2 classes, but I know for a fact that the other 3 are going to be a pain in the butt for him. In the regular grand prix mode it's the opposite case, since you're going through an obstacle course here pretty much. The slightly slower top speed is actually a benefit since it gives you more room for much tighter turns, and fast acceleration is important to gain your top speed earlier after stopping and driving in reverse too.

EDIT: On second thought, Mickey might be the slowest after some more testing by like a full second. LOL

34 frames ahead so far. Final level is beating me up right now...

I've been working on an improvement to my old TAS since yesterday, but I'm stuck at the final level because of one specific skip with a damage boost that's unbelievably precise (how did I do that nearly a decade ago?), so I made this quick watch file just to see if it helps me a little.

Slower than RTA. Different route taken and it was slower.

SWF MD5: e7f7252cf06bc1eac652a68fdfd30595 sonic_xs.swf

ruffle version: Ruffle 0.1.0-nightly (3c71ed2aca0769d48492579c3bd919b07ed9a55c 2025-01-18)

Done World 1.

This beats the only level in 29 seconds. Can it be done faster? Probably...

Settings: libTAS 1.4.6

Ruffle 0.1.0-nightly (7638326440a58240ae904c2492fb0c2c2ad81d42 2025-01-04)

b7e74d83d04cc47ed8b30b35bf163012 kirby_egg_catcher.swf

--no-gui command used

I got stuck at a specific egg because a bomb is in the way. This was an attempt to get a max score for the max amount of eggs possible, which is 240 eggs.

I don't grab the powerup in the first level because there's another one in the second one that doesn't take that long to get in comparison. Also 3DS TASing yaaaayyy

This is a TAS of a SpongeBob Flash game based of the TV special of the same name. This movie forgoes the use of an in-game code that unlocks a power up that by grabbing it, performs a fast super jump that breaks through blocks and at a higher altitude. It's potentally faster to use this compared to not using the in-game code.

Because of this detail, I'm not sure if I should submit this.

Settings: libTAS 1.4.6

Ruffle 0.1.0-nightly (7638326440a58240ae904c2492fb0c2c2ad81d42 2025-01-04)

d941331129a74dd3942612c44a575dbb main.swf

--no-gui command used

Settings: same as pmw2

FPS: 12

Game: chili_time.swf (got it through flashpoint once again)

SWF MD5: 020368b742f39a9ff44cda3b12835b5b

I clicked as frame perfectly as I could, but the CPU opponent still beat me. I knew he was a cheater but HOLY FRICK

testing ruffle in libTAS v1.4.6.

Using: Ruffle 0.1.0-nightly (49ee3b329ae02c1253c6198e2b3be971d071ea32 2024-12-11)

swf md5: 6264c7ef5d70e6ed07292b0e0aea50c6

--no-gui is used.

Timing: clock_gettime() monotonic

This was a sync disaster. And it's all the fault of the first fish boss. It just keeps changing it's attacking pattern no matter what. It used to sync the first couple of times, but if I tweak just one setting or try to record video, it just desyncs. It's a big shame.

This is an improvement to the old 2020 TAS. It saves considerable time over the current publication thanks to resetting the game when the sports event begins instead of pausing the game to skip them. Also my positioning when talking to Howdy is shifted to the left so I walk a shorter distance after clearing the textboxes.

All of this was discovered by Japanese runner Hideseek72.

Currently though I'm stuck at resyncing the rest of the TAS from when Bijou starts walking into the room.

white streak, speeds by.... on the first two levels.

testing this hack because of yeth. a published yeth tas would be pretty funny i think. im not doing it tho. someone else can do better, just did this out of boredom.

Oh, yeah. It's finally that time.

This was made to test a weird thing that happens in this game on the Genplus-gx core. The game can crash once you collect a KONG letter. It didn't THIS TIME when I collect it in this movie. But when not recording a movie, when I collect a letter, the game freezes!!! This doesn't happen in any other emulators I've tried, incluing BlastEm, Gens, and even Kega Fusion.

This is a TAStest of the homebrew game Super Mario Bros. Mini. It beats World 9-1 from the B Quest. This was done in the 2.0.3 version of the game.

This is an improvement to my POWA! TAS by nearly 1 second. World 1-3 specifically was improved. 2-2 was improved by 1 frame. The new final in-game time is now 10:33.

Can't continue this on BizHawk due to the mission itself freezing the game after a certain point. Same happens on real hardware, so this is only possible on DeSmuME. ...and, uh... i don't wanna lmao