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The difference in the beginning is only about 10 frames. I provided a video to make the frame differences easier to measure.
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Forgot to tell, you can view my inputs using https://github.com/Scepheo/Yaife/releases/tag/v0.8.0
I don't know, I was just trying earliest frame everywhere. Maybe this game is inconsistent, or maybe there are some less known aspects of the physics.
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Hourglass allows the game to produce audio, but it fails to capture it to AVI.
Default Hourglass settings without initial frame advancing synced the movie fine for me every time.
I saved 72 frames on the first minute of gameplay with only 270 rerecords (Hourglass is much less pleasant than something with input editor, but it only crashed a few times!) Hard to tell what the biggest issue is, looks like it's just not optimized throughout.
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I asked Ruffle devs because I suddenly remembered PC applications don't have to tie input polling to video rate at all.
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If the game can run on a machine like this (or anything else PCem/86Box supports) running Windows XP or Debian 12, that might eliminate all of the verification/encoding problems.
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I can record my libtas workflow if you want, because there are useful things that may not be obvious to newcomers. To be efficient you need to know what you want and how to get it without too much overwhelming routine.
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I didn't manually check optimization in #8609: Technoturnovers's Flash K.O.L.M. in 07:08.50 because it looked quick and was visibly faster than the human record. But after #8601: Technoturnovers's Flash Ball Revamped IV: Amplitude in 10:34.15 I decided to take a closer look at this submission, and every room is improvable by working with the game's physics a bit better.
Wiki: GameResources/CommonTricks#JumpingOffLedges describes one example of movement when a game has acceleration, but the same applies to bumping corners in other directions: it slows you down and you have to accelerate again.
Also with double and triple jump, depending on which direction you're moving, you often need to find an optimal frame when to do a midair jump, because after a certain height you start falling. And even if you avoid downward speed, variable upward speed at different points in the jump means you need to keep the highest overall speed across all 3 jumps, just enough to get you on a platform (if you need to jump again ASAP), or around it (if you need to go down ASAP).
I haven't studied the jumping arc in this game (you often need to watch memory for that, or in case of a Flash game, read its code), but let's imagine it's coded like this:
and you need to jump on a high platform, to jump up from it again ASAP. For regular play it feels natural to do regular jumps, and if their height is not enough, do double and triple jumps. But in a speedrun, you end up having too many slow periods in your jumps, because they get slower after the first 3 frames (in our imaginary case), and even slower after the next 4 frames. For that reason, for all the multiple jumps you have to do, you need to test if you can get on the needed platform by only using the fastest segment of each jump (3 pixels per frame), meaning you hit the jump button every 3 frames. If that's not enough, start adding the second fastest segments to each jump until you've exhausted both speeds (3ppf and 2 ppf), hitting the jump button every 7 frames. Only then start adding the 8th frame to each jump (1ppf), and so on.
I haven't done this in my test, because it takes time to figure things out and to test them, while I only needed to try my most basic thoughts on each level, to see how easy it is to improve.
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I ended up saving 00:04.08 seconds, but the jumps are absolutely still improvable. Since most of the game consists of jumping and running, I think the opportunities missed in this submission are significant, and I'd like to see a better movie instead. Ideally one that's faster than mine, even if it's only a couple frames saved in each room.
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Still, one 3rd party video without a ruffle splash screen is not enough to define a movie rule for all Flash submissions. An FP test on the other hand would be quite conclusive (and verifiable).
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Awesome finds!
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Need more info. Wasn't the whole Baby Pac-Man machine some kind of a fixed thing? A TAS of the whole thing sounds legitimate, and versions rarely co-exist as separate branches, because they are usually not too different.
The simulation itself looks like a legit video game to me, but I don't know that scene at all to assess simulation quality.
Judges and publishers buy games on steam and similar sites if they have to, so registration is not a problem.
While the setup looks crazy, it would make sense to have a movie that installs everything but the game, and then the game could be different for each actual TAS. That way one would be able to install the emulator (simulator) once and keep that disk image, using it for every new TAS, just like we're meant to keep the image with xp just installed.
Sounds ok to me, especially if it can make the whole thing simpler.
After completing the first full loop, max score is a valid end point.
Wiki: MovieRules#MovieMustBeComplete
Only things you can collect 100% of would be needed for such a goal. "At least one fruit per stage" sounds like there are more, but they are not important?
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Amazing job, voted yes!
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Currently the NG game entry uses ruffle too, but I can't check what it was using back then, because even archived copies from 2009 somehow launch it with ruffle too.
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Every new movie format requires a movie parser implemented on the site to display the metadata correctly.
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It's running in ruffle in that video, and running it in FP at a rate higher than the game's reported value would show that it can indeed react faster (or not). Are there records using both FP and autoclicker?
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How do you know this?
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If you run it in Adobe Flash Player in PCem, set game scale to 100% while running it on some high resolution monitor, and set monitor refresh rate to 100, does it become possible to click objects every frame and affect them? If yes, that sounds like a reason to allow arbitrary framerate shenanigans for Flash, much like we allowed off-screen inputs (which this run is using I presume).
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Since it looks like redoing the whole run, rather than patching a few places, it would be better to cancel and submit the new version when it's done.
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Awesome game! Though I was only able to reach level 35 in real time, it has great TAS potential due to 4-way acceleration and lots of maneuvering.
So I tested it myself and on the first 3k frames I saved 433 frames, which cost me about 2 hours. I didn't try tweaking the prior movement after reaching level end for the first time, so those should be improvable further.
The main advice is, you need to be more deliberate with your inputs. Since holding a direction increases your speed, you want to hold directions as long as possible before you need to change them.
Another thing is similar to how racing cars use to move in real life. If you need to move around a corner, you could reach it ASAP and only slow down to avoid hitting a wall after it, but instead you can slow down sooner and start accelerating sooner on a straighter travel line.
I made a comparison video too:
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Didn't know about this. What happens if you give it an empty archive named pong?
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Can't you compare them yourself? To me it looked like it was gradually getting faster and faster every room or so.
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It's just game setup, not continuing after some prior completion. And there's no other way to do it right now anyway.
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I don't understand.
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