Hi everyone. I started working on this TAS for Ratatouille about two months ago. It's been going well, but I found a few places where I could save time (the first cooking game and Kitchen 1), and fixing up those places just desyncs the TAS.
Here's a video of my current WIP. I may just start from scratch. The next cooking game is also giving me tons of trouble too, mostly because I don't actually know how to get the minimum required rank without brute-forcing everything.
Link to video
I don't have much to say about the game right now, but if you have any questions about the game or the TAS, or want to help out, please let me know.
Walgrey has made significant progress since 2022, with this video representing current progress:
Link to video
(All user files up to this point: "(6/20)" (12/11/2023), "Redoing (2/17)" (12/11/2023), "WIP (3/20)" (5/5/2024), "WIP (6/20)" (1/13/2025), "WIP (6/20) -37f" (1/14/2025))
However, Walgrey hit a slight roadblock recently in understanding the cooking minigame well enough to efficiently solve it. I happened to see her post mentioning this, and did my own research into it.
After two major passes and a good bit of tinkering later, I can now present my own current movie: "Cook Ch. 2 draft" (1/25/2025).
The basic rundown for how cooking works is that you have to reach a certain points total per star (100pts per star so far), garnishing gives 5 points per garnish, and dishes have a base score, but lose 25 points when undercooked or overcooked (in ch. 1, the base score is 40; in ch. 2, it's 25). Also, the max score for a dish seems to be 50pts. My current route for ch. 2 is 3 dishes cooked perfectly (25pts base + 5pts*5 garnishes each), 1 dish undercooked (0pts base + 5pts*10 garnishes), to just barely make 200pts for the two stars ch. 2 requires.
No new video yet because I'm not quite done optimizing; the remaining potential improvement is to reduce ingredient counts through RNG manipulation. That will likely require redoing the first cooking minigame as well, and I hope to have that done in the next few weeks.
