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Introduction

This movie improves 182 frames off [984] NES Arkanoid "warps, demo glitch" by Baxter in 04:26.28, which was published.. 16 YEARS AGO!
Explanation: 
Movie Frame | Frames # | Explanation
(0)         |      1   | Emulation Difference [This does not count as improvement]
(974)       |      2   | Earlier skip
(4570)      |      1   | Faster Death
(8641)      |      1   | Faster Round 4
(15138)     |    108   | Faster Boss Kill
(15819)     |     70   | Early input optimization
Total:           182
For some reason, and despite being extremely well done, the previous movie did not care much for optimizing the boss or limiting the last movie input. But who knows how the rules regarding movie length were handled back then. I also do not understand why the authors did not notice the 2 easy frames to be obtained by pressing START two frames early. The early death and faster round 4 frames are the most valuable, as they took some heavy optimizing.

Software + Hardware

Rom Information

Rom: Arkanoid (U) [!]
  • SHA1: 230FC31D2C2EB20E78711C82574F29F28117EBA3
  • MD5: 0CCC1A2FE5214354C3FD75A6C81550CC

Emulator

  • EmuHawk 2.9.0 (Core: NESHawk)

Routing Bot

  • Bot: JaffarPlus
  • Routing Core: QuickNES
  • Platform: 'The Jaffanator' - AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X (64 cores, 128 threads) + 256Gb RAM (Average Exploration Performance: 1.3M States/s)
nymx: Claiming for judging.
nymx: The machine continues. Really impressed, once again.
Accepting over [984] NES Arkanoid "warps, demo glitch" by Baxter in 04:26.28 to "Standard" for publication.
Spikestuff: Processing...
nymx: eien86 found 13 more frames. New file sync and has bee uploaded.
feos: In cases when the rerecord count is unknown, or is mostly botted, we used to set it to 0 so the site parser shows it as "unknown", and it looks like it doesn't have this logic anymore. But for publishers 0 rerecords would still mean "unknown" should go to encode subtitles.

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Posted: 5/28/2023 4:33 AM
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This topic is for the purpose of discussing #8297: eien86's NES Arkanoid "warps, demo glitch" in 04:23.02
Posted: 5/28/2023 12:34 PM
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Nice to see an update for this category. Great job finding possible timesavers before reaching the boss battle :) Yes vote.
My homepage --Currently not much motived for TASing as before...-- But I'm still working.
Posted: 5/28/2023 12:56 PM
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Wow....you are turning these BOTed games out like crazy! Are you sure you aren't using a BOT to simulate your presence in front of your monstrous machine? :)
I recently discovered that if you haven't reached a level of frustration with TASing any game, then you haven't done your due diligence. ---- SOYZA: Are you playing a game? NYMX: I'm not playing a game, I'm TASing. SOYZA: Oh...so its not a game...Its for real? ---- Anybody got a Quantum computer I can borrow for 20 minutes? Nevermind...eien's 64 core machine will do. :) ---- BOTing will be the end of all games. --NYMX
Posted: 5/28/2023 1:26 PM
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Thanks for the comments!
nymx wrote:
Wow....you are turning these BOTed games out like crazy! Are you sure you aren't using a BOT to simulate your presence in front of your monstrous machine? :)
I guess we can recruit ChatGPT to replace the human part of my work -- that'd be the end of TASing as we know it ;) For anybody reading this: we're joking. Even though it's partly automated, TASing with bots requires ungodly amounts of human effort in reverse engineering, scripting, calibrating, etc for each game. I am personally spending a couple dozen of hours a week to this as of late.
Posted: 5/30/2023 12:15 PM
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Nice and unexpected improvement. Nothing can stop Jaffar (and eien86)
Posted: 6/4/2023 8:29 AM
Post subject: Please replace movie
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Hi Nymx and Spikestuff, Apologies for submitting this at this point in the process, but I realized a faster boss kill was possible. This movie here contains a ~13 frames faster solution. Please do replace the current submission with it https://tasvideos.org/UserFiles/Info/638214640676891518
Posted: 6/11/2023 12:34 PM
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [5328] NES Arkanoid "warps, demo glitch" by eien86 in 04:23.02