No vote as the main loop is sub-optimal. And yes, I watched it loop from world 1 to world 3 and back.
Voting "No" for the above reason and because I am not going to be the one who encodes this.
Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
In regards to optimization, I find it a bit of a conceptual mind fuck the idea of optimizing an infinitely long TAS lol However, I did attempt to do so, but it is far from trivial. Anything requiring subpixel precision such as the acceleration tricks at the beginning of levels or the flagpole glitch were impossible to successfully sync on every loop. And for enemies, you can't just avoid them. You have to avoid the entire spectrum of possible locations an enemy could be (even in this game that has no RNG, there is variations in enemy patterns). I'm not saying that this is an "optimal" looping pattern but I am saying that an optimal one would look quite different than from a normal TAS.
Looking good so far. Frame 580,000. Will it go to infinite? I guess we will have to see.
I’ve been watching it for a while, and I don’t really see a change in enemy pattern…
Cool, ∞. I'll just sit here, grab some popcorn and watch it over. :p
+fsvgm777 never censoring anything.
Cool, ∞. I'll just sit here, grab some popcorn and watch it over. :p
I wonder how many iterations it would take for score/lives/position to sync up such that the exact memory state of the game was identical to a previous one. Once you can show this, you know it will go on forever.
I wonder how many iterations it would take for score/lives/position to sync up such that the exact memory state of the game was identical to a previous one. Once you can show this, you know it will go on forever.
