User Files for Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King

Just one more boss before the last area.

Done with the Graveyard. Just on miniboss (which won't take long) one real boss and the final area to go.

Done with the most annoying part of the game.

The Ice section of the graveyard is finally done.

Saved 199 frames cleaning up lower HT.

Done with lower Halloween Town, but I'm still looking to tweek some things.

Graveyard doneish

Gotten back to working on this game. The graveyard should be done soon.

Optimizing bomb usage was a nightmare.

New stuff starting around frame 36370

Due to a miscalculation with the damage I would have to take in the Pumpkin Patch I had to redo the exit out of Dr. Finklestein's lab.

On the bright side I took an extra 20+ frames to pick up the extra needed health (in the room outside of the Snake room), yet I leave the area only 12 frames slower. I found a couple small optimizations on the last few screens.

This is where health management is going to be a huge hassle. I've got three minibosses to face in this area, all of which I optimally have to take damage from, and I have to not die while traversing the first half of the area. The second half of the Pumpkin Patch (after the minibosses) gives you an unskippable shrunken head so I just have to survive until then.

$5774 - 2 byte>unsigned = Snake Boss health address.

By the way, the post-boss dance is longer than the fight itself.

Finally seeing a few slight benefits of the Japanese text. Besides that, I'm making good time. I've saved a little less than 4 seconds over my last English wip.

I'm up to Mega Spider who's going to be a pain to optimize (like all of the other bosses). Regardless, I've spent a lot of time finding ways to kill enemies without losing anytime whatsoever, hopefully to add (more) entertainment value to the run.

I'm now restarting the TAS for the eighth time, this time using the Japanese version. This WIP saves 127 frames off of my last English WIP (the Japanese version up to this point only saves 109 frames, the rest came from strat changes).

I haven't gotten far, but I wanted to upload this for archival reasons.

This game is long (well long to me anyway), I'm not even half way through. At this point I'm going to be taking a slight break from this TAS. Hopefully not too long, though.

Finished one quest in the Pumpkin Patch, but it only gets harder from here to manage health.

I had to restart the TAS after finding a few new movement optimizations. This game is fairly long (compared to other games I've TAS, which isn't saying much) so I'm not even that far into it at this point.

Finally through with the second level.

1st level completed

This covers the first level up until the first boss. More research is required before fighting this guy (an HP address would be nice for instance).