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I think this kind of Atari game is not TASable yet?
But it would be extremely cool. Here in this video the player has to be meticulously careful around everything due to the dangerousness of enemies and the size of his hitbox. But a TAS could do an intricate dance, carve the tightest path possible, care little for lasers that might turn on, etc. It would be short and sweet and completely inhuman.
Talking about simple things on TASes;
SubmissionText wrote:
Mario went through the brick an extra time to manipulate screen X position and to make the castle maze more interesting, with no time loss (though slightly slower).
Now I'm confused, but I loved it, too. Well, I'm not insane, not yet, so Yes vote, to both of you guys.
He means it was slower but it wasn't slow enough to lose a 21 frame rule. (If you don't know what this means, the game can only advance to a new stage every 21 frames on a global timer, so you can only gain or lose time in 21 frame increments.)
Here's the #1 tip: Be iterative. Don't set out to make the absolute maximum hyper optimized TAS on your first pass through the game. Make a test-run where you don't try to be perfect but just fast/no obvious mistakes, do glitchhunting and routing/strat finding, try to improve the testrun, etc etc until you have a nice final product.
(#2 tip is: Share WIPs and lasoo someone into proofchecking them and butting heads with you for routing/optimization ideas, because a second head can see what the first misses)
Since the game is so short, why not write a bot to rapidly try variations on good paths and record the fastest one? Or would a bot never find the god strat?
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Oh, I see. Lots of sites require the user to have some kind of "fidelity" to the comunity before one can download, or upload something to the site. Isn't it time to adopt something similar here? For example, you must have that amount of posts before you're able to submit a movie, or you must vote in a certain number of runs. I know a troll can also post and vote, if his main objective is "trolling", but it may discourage some of them.
Disagree. Many of our best TASes are from Japanese TASers who are not interested in posting in the forum, but we appreciate their work very much regardless.
I'm looking forward to the definitive version of this TAS for sure. Great to see you two breaking it open! Maybe we'll get to stage 2 this month, hehe!
Oh, there HAS to be a glitch that causes the game to crash first ?? thats truly the only way to get started with Arbritary Code Execution ??
darn. Cause i dont think theres any glitches to crash megaman 3. :(
Either crashing or memory corruption/editing (like Symphony of the Night)
You may as well do it as often as possible if it doesn't waste time! If people want to see the game as intended, that's what longplays are for, after all.
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Expecting some good shit from Yong Yong this time.
Prepare to be disappointed, then. The game is severly broken, has all kind of (bad) glitches, but most importantly, is so broken that it is completely unplayable in every emulator (except hhugboy), so it isn't even possible to make a TAS of it as of yet.
How can a game be so broken that cycle-accurate emulators can't emulate it? That is impressive.
Tell us about it, then. What is notable about it? Would it make a good TAS, and if so, why? Are there any notable glitch/playthrough videos on youtube/elsewhere?
