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After 6 long years here's a new movie, 1 frame faster than published TAS (actually 3 frames, but two of them are faster boot by the emu)

A lot more work (weeks/months) remains and possibly more frames to be saved (starting from 5-3 onwards), but this is the proof you can expect a new TAS sometime later this year.

This could have not been possible without the invaluable assistance I got from Scumtron since weeks now.

According to Scum, these 5 fewer ninpo could be saved later on. The rest of the movie syncs, so we might be in business.

Last few levels of the game. All the frames we had saved were lost in 5-1 due to the impossibly complicated setup. Hope remains and the search goes on tho. I just discovered a way to save 5 ninpo in 5-2b. This extra ninpo might help in saving frames later, e.g.,

5-2a: If we can save 15 ninpo, we can use a tactic to save 1 frame here, where we don't grab the +10 ninpo to setup a -0.5px position and we use the spin slash at the end. It is possible that either the setup or the spin slash isn't necessary tho. 15 is just the upper bound.

5-2c: Seems like the current TAS waits for a frame or two to avoid the football guys, not to waste ninpo in a spin-slash. Now we got the power, perhaps we can outright kill them.

Fingers crossed.

I had to sacrifice one frame in the previous' stage boss because of some weird timing effect that added 3 frames to the countdown. Perhaps it passed the second barrier, which, if true, is pretty tragic.

Deja vu. Same situation now in 04-03c, 2 frames and 1 pixel ahead and a ladder skip at the end. Let's see if this time we can capitalize it into a frame.

The published TAS says it sacrifices 1/2px to get a better setup for the ladder. However, I managed to get a full pixel ahead (although with alternating 1/2, 1 patterns). I want to share this file with Scum to see if we can capitalize this into a frame.

Necessary backup for sanity. We're working on too many alternatives and it's good to store current best.

This movie achieves a red ninja boss kill 4 frames faster than current TAS if you hack the weapon ID

0x00C9 = 128 (fire wheel)

At frame 13440.

Scum and I will try to find to get the fire wheel efficiently and also finishing this boss without taking damage in the end, since that allegedly messes with the bullet skip later

Resynced movie for the linux-generated game image

Ok, so this game is insane. Got to 06-11 4 frames ahead of the current TAS, however 3 of them had to be lost in order to get a good tosser pattern for the skip in 06-11. Exactly 1 frame before the stage, and 2 frames at the beginning.

Scum had found a similar result, and tried to fit the rest of the movie and found that a 1 frame TAS should now be attainable. Half game remains, still crossing fingers. Hopefully we'll find more frames to shave somewhere.

Using Scum's alternate strategy, I save an extra frame. All of this is most likely going to be lost to a bad tosser, but worth investigating.

Confirmed 2-frame save in 03-07. Scum tells me I need 2 more frames to get the good pattern before the tosser skip in 06-11

Here, 3 frames are saved compared to the current TAS on 03-07. However, since we grabbed the fire circle, it is not possible to realize the skip on 03-08 (we kill the bat).

A 1-frame save on stage 03-07, it seems to stays throughout 03-08's early skip. If this save hopefully sticks, then we might have a new TAS incoming. Crossing fingers.

Still haven't ran the bot on dracula, so it could be more. But at least here's proof that there's a new TAS for CV1

At Stage 7-0 with 21 frames improvement already. Still a few weeks from anything remotely publishable

Already made a 16 frame improvement (1 frame rule) on stage 5-1. Incoming new TAS if everything goes well.

Final version of the movie emulated on NesHawk

See frame 13730 for a glitch (part of the Up+B family) executed on NesHawk