Posted: 2/12/2014 6:53 AM
Post subject: How do people find RAM addresses?
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ahuynh
Joined: 1/10/2014
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Hello TASVideos, I go by ahuynh, or on some websites, BassOmegaX. I speedrun Devil May Cry 1 in real time, and I'm probably the only person who is interested in that game. Maybe I'll TAS it once PS2 emulation is good enough. But what I'm more interested in is locating memory values within the RAM. I know that some people locate memory values within the RAM in order to find information to help optimize the game when TASing. I know for popular games, there is a list already made. However, I am interested in finding values for DMC, which I'm pretty sure no one has done. To be more specific, in DMC, the game is divided into missions, and each mission is given a ranking. I want to find out how damage taken affects the ranking to a very precise level(taking damage lowers ranking points but by how much). In DMC1, the game never explicitly tells you this information, unlike all of the later games. Due to a lack of understanding, some people have previously called DMC1's ranking system "glitched," but in reality there is nothing wrong with it, but in order for me to have found that out, I had to do lots of play testing on console. Is there a process, some kind of tutorial that would help me find what I am looking for?
Posted: 2/12/2014 8:26 AM
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solarplex
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for health, you can just do unknown initial searching and keep searching for a decreased value. I found health, but I think it would take someone with serious debugging skills to figure out the calculation( or addresses ) you are looking for.
Posted: 2/12/2014 9:37 AM
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Spikestuff
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A DMC TAS exists on nico. For your information... If you want to look into it. Click Here this is latest known PCSX2-rr out atm. - 2010* Issue is you need to set everything up. LILIPAD DOES NOT CRASH PCSX2-RR (controller plugins) for tassing. *The google one is 2009 and everyone grabs that one.
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Posted: 2/13/2014 12:54 AM
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RachelB
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Just search unknown value, do something that would increase the score, then search increase value, do something that would decrease the score, and search decreased value. Repeat that until you find the right one.