For Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone (GBC), there's a glitch where if you use a card combo out of battle, you can death warp anywhere any time. The previous run, due to lack of cards, the combo chosen causes the screen to flicker a lot. Like, from using the bug, to the rest of the game: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/698993369321308240/1003722532307881984/SPOILER_HP1_Flicker.gif Warning: Flashing lights, do not click if sensitive. How long is this sequence? I'm ~15 minutes in to an hour long run, so 45 minutes of flicker. Choosing a different combo loses ~5 frames per use (so around 45-60 frames lost since I will death warp multiple times) , but does not cause the game to look like that. The current run has 4.8/10, clearly Vault material. Is this tradeoff fine?
So I just finished a TAS of FEZ of the category 0%. The principle is that you play the game normally, then open menu, and click reset run. The run starts when you click "reset run". For encode, just starting from a savestate is absolutely possible. Could that run be accepted?
You shouldn't need a degree in computer science to get into this hobby.
I've been reviewing the rules and I see that "Board Games" are now allowed. There is a game that I TASed for fun, over a year ago. When I was done...it puzzled me, since it didn't turn out as I expected. The game is Yahtzee, and my wife is an expert at the game. I asked her to confirm my moves and she told me that something is not getting calculated correctly in the game. So, my question is...would a Yahtzee game, submitted as Max Score, be accepted...even though the game breaks in calculating it? I'm getting 1535, when we know that the max possible score is 1575. So, my guess is...that the developers couldn't confirm their game to this extreme.
I was trying the MAME Hawk for TASing 1943 a bit, but I only got the Europe version to load on the emulator. Whenever MAME Hawk gets available for submission, is it allowed to submit europe versions of games?
If it's the only version that works then yes. But how does it all work on actual MAME?
Some games for Nintendo 3DS let you buy in-game stuff for Play Coins, some of which may simplify game completion. The emulator, Citra, lets you set any amount of coins. Is it considered the same as using in-game cheat codes?
Save file format:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1geZ1gV5U3fqSEEmVxeVEbIDEfK8GEVM2xRUdVjIM_DI/edit?usp=sharing
Would grabbing everything normally, then dupe the last requirement be fine for 100% completion? Or would it be a new category in playground?
Additionally, that screen disappears after beating the game, since the counter resets to 0%. Would resetting the game before going to the final boss to show it off be fine?
Full completion requirements such as completing levels, collecting items, or incrementing a progress counter must be met through gameplay means only. Requirements may not be bypassed through heavy glitching or memory/save corruption.
- Glitches and memory corruption may still be used as long as they do not directly affect requirements.
Additionally, that screen disappears after beating the game, since the counter resets to 0%. Would resetting the game before going to the final boss to show it off be fine?
I've just finished a TAS of The Lost Strawberry but I have a kind of important question: The game has a very weird artstyle which is not helped by the honestly hideous color palette it uses by default. I can change the palette from the PICO-8 pause menu, but doing so would obviously be slower for no gameplay benefit so I choose not to do it. However, I'm bothered by the fact that the game is hard to follow (and at times hard to look at) in its default palette. I have yet to test if the TAS will sync if starting from a previous visit to the pause Menu done solely to adjust the palette, then reset. Could this be discussed with the publishers in case of a potential publication?
This is gonna be a weird one. So, there's this game that I want to TAS for speed called GG Aleste II/Power Strike II (Game Gear). It's a shmup with the unfortunate issue of (very slow) infinite score leeching so speed is a more appropriate goal. The problem is that the only speed leaderboards for the game that I know of are on the Aleste Collection, which have replays but only has a Japanese release on Switch and PS4. I couldn't find many runs of the game to completion for that version online so I can't be certain of an exact fastest possible completion time, though I think I have a rough idea of the best time. Am I still expected to know these times for beating all known records if it requires either buying the collection (possibly twice if the systems have separate leaderboards) or knowing some folks who can check and verify those times for me?
Would the fact that TAS cannot obtain this source of points hurt its judging due to suboptimality? Is the fact that the trick has been done on the Switch version going to hurt the argument for potential version differences?
Furthermore, since SWH is an unity game, reverse engineering the code is reasonably easy. Are there any issues with me using reverse-engineered code to potentially prove this discrepancy in behavior between versions? Would it be required to argue that the suboptimality comes from version differences?
Does that tech also not work on the original Mac version before porting? Or that requires actual Mac?
