I wanted to check the beginning of the movie and I saved like 20 frames on the first 2 presses skipping the intro… but the game’s ridiculous, you have to hold down a button to skip them as fast as possible, if you just press it it doesn’t work. I don’t get it.
Edit: 24 frames ahead after skipping the first 2 cutscenes. I absolutely do not understand the logic behind the inputs, but I’ll try to make it work as best as I can.
Edit2: I think you can hold down a button for 5 frames and the game will consider is as being pressed on all 5 frames (so you can start holding it 5 frames before a cutscene starts for example). After that it ignores it. Though it doesn’t seem to always work… this thing’s a mystery.
27 frames saved after the 3 cutscenes.
Wow I fucking hate this emulator so much. I somehow got myself into comparing against a fucked up movie file. NK didn’t lose anything in the intro.
Uhm I think I saved 1 frame entering Options now though. ò_o
2 frames saved going to Start. 3 frames choosing Rikimaru. 4 frames ahead starting the level. Now to see how lag reacts and whether the movie syncs or not…
Black screen after stage 1 screen: old: 2689/748 new: 2687/748 ends up only saving 2 frames for some reason, lol. I noticed those menu loads seem to work in 30fps sometimes… for example pressing X 1 frame faster would save 2 frames in the end. This time it was in reverse, saving 4 only gave 2… idk. Edit: 2686/748 by purposefully losing a frame at the Start press, whelp. The RAM seems to be exactly the same, so hopefully everything syncs. :) The way the first stage loads seems ridiculous though.
Saved 3 frames in the menus, everything synced. :)
http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/18269789872301701
Still gotta test the bomb idea on Katanal, possibly try to optimize the fight even more without the bomb, improve the run to Echigoya and then comparing to the old movie to make sure that no frames were lost somewhere. By the way, taking that bomb would probably lose a ton of frames because if you start the level a few frames slower, suddenly the loading time gets much longer. It’s weird.
Btw for Stage 2 I have 2 ideas: use the hook early to go on top of a roof and then finish with infinite jumps (maybe fall down somewhere to use the LFS); or going the normal route and initiating infinite jumps by going on top of that wheeled thing made of wood so you have enough air time to do them.
Hmm didn't understand it, but it will help 3 boost items and a grenade after done stage 3
