User Files from eien86

https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/637964055937122633

Resynced to Bizhawk

This is a movie that showcases that it is possible to get fast warp to stage8 using the TAS route.

Fast Warp 8 was previously demonstrated on console by ktwo (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1565313484), but now we've got it in a TAS.

Next steps:

1) Resync this to NESHawk

2) Use the bot to Refine the route to get the warp faster

NES Castlevania Pacifist%, Final V1 - 561 frames faster (9.35s)

Reached death 521 frames ahead, but the optimal strat desyncs. Gotta check with Challenger.

Found a way to manip the timer countdown to save 2 more frames

Resynced for NESHawk for encoding.

Had to add some sword slashes to prevent the DPMC bug from messing with the inputs

compared to https://tasvideos.org/Userfiles/Info/33669363111907735. Note that the cited movie has unsync'ed unfinalized stages, from 6-01. Regardless of whether that represents a comparative advantage or disadvantage, it is the best reference I can possibly find.

This version features a 15 frame faster kill of Stage 5 boss, and a manually planned (by me) and bot-executed re-route of the entire Stage 6 and last bosses.

The Demon boss is killed pacifist. That is, nothing is harmed except for the heart. To reach it passing the head, Ryu has to take damage. So be it.

Remaining steps: - Add Entertainment value - Resync to neshawk core using Scum's tool - Write submission notes

Note to possible downloaders: if you work hard enough, you'll find plenty of opportunities for optimization. I dare you find them and challenge my submission.

compared to https://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/33669363111907735

I'm tired of this

[addendum] so I realized that I was doing things wrong. When you want to obsolete an existing movie AND the game has a globally carried element (global timer, RNG, etc), you should start from the end and go backwards. This way you minimize the amount of resyncing you need to do. If you start from the beginning like I just did, you'll find nothing but frustration. So save yourself from draining all the fun from TASing and try obsoleting movies backwards.

compared to https://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/33669363111907735

Thanks to Scum, who found a way to fool the game timer.

7 Frames ahead of https://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/33669363111907735 Stuck in stage 4-1 now

11 Frames ahead of https://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/33669363111907735

Stuck in stage 3-2 now, cannot help but lose 7 frames

A small demo resync to show that the US version of the game is slower than the euro one.

First finished version of Another World, solved in 10:56. Submission to come soon.

Temporary encode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm27Hj26Ew4

For entertainment value, here's the movie with additional moves after killing the demon

New submission for NG TAS

Scum managed to save the full 4 frames passing the tosser in 5-1. These 4 frames were just enough to get us a so-so pattern for the tosser in 5-3, which the bot found a way to pass with -2 frames (compared to published TAS, -1 frame compared to currently submitted TAS).

Now it's a matter of synchronizing the rest of the movie. However, the tosser on 6-1 is proving to be a headache as well... let's see

Movie resynced to original 5 1/4 inch game floppy disk

SHA1 e36ed1ac686460d104c23780d8b2231371f33de7

New version of the Barbarian movie, using the correct late 80's setup

Submission https://tasvideos.org/Forum/Topics/23356

This is a resync to BizHawk 2.8+EmuHawk core. Feel free to use this movie for the submission instead of the QuickNES one.

You can save two more frames if you are willing to was all your ninpo

After 6 long years here's a new movie, 1 frame faster than published TAS (actually 3 frames, but two of them are faster boot by the emu)

A lot more work (weeks/months) remains and possibly more frames to be saved (starting from 5-3 onwards), but this is the proof you can expect a new TAS sometime later this year.

This could have not been possible without the invaluable assistance I got from Scumtron since weeks now.

According to Scum, these 5 fewer ninpo could be saved later on. The rest of the movie syncs, so we might be in business.

Last few levels of the game. All the frames we had saved were lost in 5-1 due to the impossibly complicated setup. Hope remains and the search goes on tho. I just discovered a way to save 5 ninpo in 5-2b. This extra ninpo might help in saving frames later, e.g.,

5-2a: If we can save 15 ninpo, we can use a tactic to save 1 frame here, where we don't grab the +10 ninpo to setup a -0.5px position and we use the spin slash at the end. It is possible that either the setup or the spin slash isn't necessary tho. 15 is just the upper bound.

5-2c: Seems like the current TAS waits for a frame or two to avoid the football guys, not to waste ninpo in a spin-slash. Now we got the power, perhaps we can outright kill them.

Fingers crossed.

I had to sacrifice one frame in the previous' stage boss because of some weird timing effect that added 3 frames to the countdown. Perhaps it passed the second barrier, which, if true, is pretty tragic.

Deja vu. Same situation now in 04-03c, 2 frames and 1 pixel ahead and a ladder skip at the end. Let's see if this time we can capitalize it into a frame.