Ok, section 4-2 is done. The rest should not take that much time.
Edit: Here it is.
Link to video
A few comments:
- The big bullets at section 4-1 gives 100 points per frame for a total of 500 points.
- Section 4-2 is really a mess, sorry.
- In that section, black turrets have a rotating pattern, so sometimes in the cycle, the orientation of these shots are very good so I can absorb almost every bullet from all turrets. That is why you will see me staying longer in black.
- Also, the hitbox of the central dome does not match the sprite, so you can get into the dome by the top, absorbing more black bullets
- For the first mini boss, I found by trial and errors a location where my 12 lasers don't break the chains. From there, I waited as long as possible before killing the rest of the turrets to have 30s left (optimal)
- For the second mini boss, I intentionally left one turret when releasing the lasers. In the classic route, you can kill the top left gun (6 lasers) and the two bottom black pods (3 lasers each) in one pass, with a precise location. By having a left turret, the top left gun is not killed (5 lasers), and I can leach his 7-way shot for a few frames and still get the maximum time.
- Not much to say about the boss, I killed him at the exact frame where the timer went from 93s to 92s, so I got 93s :)
This game has very hard to reproduce but game-breaking glitches. Maybe it is possible to get a credits warp or level warp from them?
Check out the descriptions of my videos for savestates you can open in shmupmame. For example, load this savestate https://www.dropbox.com/s/1szywtvsi90nf7z/0.sta?dl=0 with rom omegaf if you want to try and get the debug menu yourself (you'll want to use insert to fastforward a lot, probably)
For me the glitch started like this:
Link to video
And by loading state and running it by again with different input I get different results with low probability, including a debug menu and a debug frame advance mode:
Link to videoLink to video
Unrelated to me, a different person discovered a similar glitch that froze the game, displayed ? on the screen, then warped them from stage 2 to stage 1:
Link to video
Wow, I think this must be the fastest TAS in all of tasvideos history.
I feel like the only way I could keep up with it is if I downloaded an encode and frame advanced it (which I might have to do, hah)
Small correction to the Blue House Skip annotation: You're not standing on the wall for a frame, you're actually standing on one of the crates inside of the house for a frame.
(Yes vote, this TAS is mindblowing)
Are you sure? You literally can't half-finish a TAS and finish it in a later session in MAME-RR? That seems like a pretty big oversight to me if true...
