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This is the TAS that this game deserves! It's unsettling to see the Drones easily overtake the player on the straightaways...even when the player vehicle has max upgrades. Yes vote!
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Thank you for your support throughout the year, friends! Special thanks to fsvgm777 for bearing the brunt of publication, mz for his vision, and particularly feos for his faith.
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Thank you for maintaining this for so long, fsvgm777. I appreciate your effort. If it has become burdensome, it is understandable that you would want to discontinue it.
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ErisK wrote:
About MAME-RR, it seemed to have a different tendency towards RNG. I guess this is the 'weird' one, as MAME0.64, WolfMAME0.106 and FBA-RR they all gave essentially the same results, but not MAME-RR.
I tested Haunted Castle on MAME-RR and FBA-RR to compare them. The only difference that I observed is that the transitions between stages are a few frames longer using FBA-RR. Whether using MAME-RR or FBA-RR, the length of the stages themselves is the same, and the gameplay is identical.
ErisK wrote:
And do you know which players may have built the database for Haunted Castle?
Pugsy's MAME cheat database credits 168 contributors (including some members of TASVideos.org), and Pugsy himself does a lot of work, so it is hard to say. However, at least one cheat for Haunted Castle was contributed by Abystus, who is a prolific and knowledgeable contributor to the database. He likely knows as much as anyone who contributed to Haunted Castle.
ErisK wrote:
Also, do you have an explanation for why the Game Genie doesn't seem to match with how Lua Script works?
I don't have any experience with using Game Genie in an emulator.
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DrD2k9 wrote:
Excellent points.
Firstly, thank you to all those commenting. As frustrating as this debate has been for many of you, it has exposed the perspectives of various members of the community.
I agree with you, DrD2k9. It is to this community's credit that such fervent debate can arise from a rather minor game.
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fsvgm777, I submitted this TAS with the understanding that contradictory directional input is permitted by TASVideos. I recognize that community opinion is mixed regarding the use of this method.
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I appreciate your candor, Spikestuff. Your perspective vis-à-vis alternate goals has merit, with regard to this game particularly. I considered several different goals before starting this TAS, including maximum World Records, as you have suggested. Based on what I had observed, there were proponents of each of these various goals, but no unanimous opinion. From my perspective, I had no experience with alternate goals, and I rather like the stricture of a purely speed-oriented TAS, cumbersome as it may occasionally be.
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feos wrote:
There are clearly more such bugs, since no one depended on absolute determinism among their normal users. Hopefully rewind will uncover more. Or at least help to understand what we need to save that we don't.
Games whose Save State status is "Unsupported" might be a good place to look. The PUNCHOUT.CPP driver fails to include the state of certain timers and counters when creating a save state. Super Punch-Out!! was particularly challenging for maintaining sync when loading from a save state.
mz wrote:
I do a ton of debugging on the ex-MESS part of MAME
Thank you for helping with this, mz. The ex-MESS part of MAME has seen some of the most exciting developments of late!
This was a wise character choice. Team George/Murphy was last year's champion! :)