User Files for Top Gear 2

• LV = 1:50.81 (didn't make this faster because of difficulty choice effecting car CPU outcome)
• LA = 17.44
• NY = 1:40.96
• SF = 2:49.40 (Inertia Method)

Game:

• File Name: Top Gear 2 (U) [!]
• Region: NTSC/USA
• Genre: Racing, Simulation

Movie Info:

• System: Super Nintendo Entertainment System
• Emulator: Bizhawk 2.9.1
• Core: BSNES V115+
• TAS Timing = 7:40.61 (FPS = 60.0988)
• RTA Timing = 7:20 (FPS = 60.0988) *RTA Starts at Las Vegas Upgrade Menu*
• Frame Count: = 27,682
• Re-record Count: = 19,728
• SHA1: 8AC5DAB79B319DEB525DE73F9A51877DF7A7ED9F
• MD5: C9FC87528511770DB888B28A4C506F46

Movie Tags:

• Bizhawk 2.9.1
• Major Skip Glitch
• Heavy Glitch Abuse
• Abuses Programming Errors
• Heavy Luck Manipulation
• Uses a Game Restart Sequence (Frame 33) (frame 481)
• Takes Damage to Save Time
• Uses Hardest Difficulty

(Law of motion formula)

Key balance points to the formula are as stated:

• The container was at rest, and you attempted to move it (when driving forward normally)
• The container was in motion, and you attempted to stop it (when the car releases the "X" press aka Gas and crashes into the merge barrier)
• The container was moving in one direction, and you attempted to change its direction. (when the car is traveling towards a direction at a suspected point and changing it's direction influences the outcome)

• LV = 1:50.81 (didn't make this faster because of difficulty choice effecting car CPU outcome)
• LA = 17.45
• NY = 1:40.96
• SF = 2:50 (Inertia Method) (can maybe make the start slightly faster, not sure)

New Times

• LV ~ 1'5058
• LA ~ 17'19
• NY ~ 1'4098
• SF ~ 2'2640 (inertia method)

Movie Goals

• Bizhawk 2.9.1 (BSNES V115+)
• Uses Easy Difficulty (faster than Hard Difficulty)
• Major Skip Glitch
• Heavy Luck Manipulation
• Heavy Glitch Abuse
• Takes Intentional Damage
• Uses Game Restart Sequence(s)

New Times

• Las Vegas ~ 1:50.81 (no change)
• Los Angeles ~ 019.85 (4 seconds faster)
• New York ~ 1:41.10 (28 frames slower)
• San Fransisco ~ 2:19.70 (Inertia Method)

New Times

• Las Vegas ~ 1'5081 (0.19s) faster
• Los Angeles ~ 0'2506 (1.22s) faster
• New York ~ 1'4064 (0.40s) faster
• San Francisco ~ 2'2338 (Inertia Method)

New Times

• Las Vegas ~ 1'5100 (stayed the same)
• Los Angeles ~ 0'2628 2.18s faster
• New York ~ 1'4104 0.29s slower
• San Fran ~ 2'1118 3.02s faster

New Times

• Las Vegas - 1'5100 ~ 3f faster
• Los Angeles - 0'2846 ~ 1.77s faster
• New York - 1'4075 ~ -2f slower
• San Fransisco - 2'0661 ~ 2.45s faster

• Uses Bizhawk 2.9.1 (BSNES v115+)
• Aims for fastest Completion Time
• Abuses Programming Erros (Speed Glitch)
• Heavy Glitch Abuse (Wall Glitches)
• Takes Damage to save time (car Armor Diagram)
• Uses a Game Restart Sequence (usual frame 33 soft restart)
• Genre: Racing

Movie Goals:

• Uses Bizhawk 2.9.1 (BSNESV115+)
• Aims for Fastest Completion
• Abuses Programming Errors
• Heavy RNG Manipulation
• Uses Hardest Difficulty
• Uses an In-Game Password (already stored in memory)
• Uses Soft Resets
• Clever Use of Ending Input Early Stylistic Choice

Race Times

• Los Vegas: 1:51.06
• Los Angeles: 30.23
• New York: 1:40.69
• San Francisco: 2:02.76

Travel to Any Country

• Travel to Any Country is a developer intended way to travel from the start of the game to the end using a stored password in memory to access its content. The game has multiple different passwords, some known and some hidden. This password is to skip to The United States allows the player to only play the last 4 race to beat the game. The game initially has 64 tracks, that of which 61 1/2 are skipped to obtain victory. The Password is: 3V53-<GPG-V<34-2H2TP-HDC33

Why the Fully Stocked Car?

• Unlike the movie for demonstration purposes, this movie aims to beat the game in the shortest amount of time possible aka Fastest Completion. The fully stocked car allows maximum speed gain in the shortest amount of time possible.

Car Details:

• Engine Class: 4
• Tire Class: Wet 4
• Tire Class: Dry 0
• Gearbox Class: 4
• Nitro Class: 3 (later upgraded to 4)
• 4 = bottom right of each Class

Why Should I Care About this Run?

• This run is a culmination of 10 years of hard work boiled down into 8 minutes of gameplay. While on the surface this doesn't seem meaningful, it means something to me. I've spent countless years trying to perfect what I consider my "Magnum Opus." All Tracks will always be a separate importance which undoubtedly is still being perfected to this day.

What is so special about this? I thought this was humanly doable.

• Well in that regard yes, in the short answer, no. Why not? Well, RNG has to be manipulated on a frame for 1/60th of a second that of which each individual frames must follow a sequence of inputs nearly impossible for humans to accomplish. If a certain RNG pattern lands on the 4th frame of the Start press that follows, it must be pressed on the 4th frame, same with the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st possible frame prior and any other frames after.

What is this glitch I see on Race #2?

• Race 2's glitch is what is called a "wall glitch" in the game's memory their certain flags that need to occur in a short amount of time, and if the rendered position is considered too far out of bounds the region of the wall gets its flag set to the "finish the race" position, in this case 1st. Not all walls and position act the same, some require special setups and this one requires precise timing, speed and position. This glitch was initially found by a community member by Yoschimidstu

How Come you Drive Using Manual?

• Driving in Manual allows me to take advantage of increasing speed of the car in a faster amount of time compared to letting the game automatically do it for me using the Automatic Transmission. If I use Automatic, I can't control my speed variables and makes it, so the speed gain is significantly slower.

Where is the Money Coming From?

• The money amount of $150,000 is coming from the password glitch which places me from a "continued" placement, despite never racing in the United States the fake placement is from identifying where the game needs to be at a current state in order to compete against the CPU cars.

Why is The United States Only Completed?

• The United States is the 16th country in the game and the final country to beat in order to finish the game by reaching the credits.

I See You Fazing Through Objects, this seems like Cheating!

• In fact, it's not! The game has some objects like Road Mergers to tell the player where to turn next. What the game doesn't tell you is that if you drive very carefully in-between these mergers you can go on the outside of them. Doing this, makes the turn that would have been too sharp initially, to allow me to keep speed throughout.

How Come you are Losing Frames on the Start Press?

• I did this due to manipulating the Opponent RNG so I could have a faster Nitro start. If I were to press it on the first available frame, I would get blocked and have to drive slower. So I went through and made sure I could find the fastest possible start to a race.

How come you slow down at the end of San Fransisco? Wouldn't it be faster to keep pressing X?

• This is where the stylistic choice comes into play. Unlike the previous movies before it, the time the game gives me will still end up being the same regardless of if I hold or release X. Cutting off holding X guarantees a faster movie, even if the initial thought would be the opposite.

I thought the movie for All Tracks "Had" to have to the A press on the final textbox where the money is counted, and the player position is shown!

• While this is an opinion, it's not exactly required. All this does is allows the movie to be longer for no reason and makes the arbitrary input to exist. The overall difference is stopping at a "Stylistic Choice" rather than a required one. Yes, the movie for All Tracks has this and didn't include the additional point I bring up here.

Why Not 2 Players?

• I've had the idea to try it, but, ultimately, decided against it. The game becomes less enjoyable due to sound overload and the lag is crazy to control. In Hindsight this would be a cool one-off thing, it's something that could be done sometime if I so choose.

How Come you Play on the Hardest Difficulty?

• Hardest Difficulty aka Championship is Top Gear 2's hardest difficulty. By choosing this difficulty I eliminate any possible early cars to show up on laps 2 or 3 to change how the outcome is affected. If Normal or Easy are chosen the mode actually becomes harder the faster, you go, and not in the best outcome possible. Cars can be anywhere on lower difficulties and staying with the hardest makes the run better.

This file indicates 39 frames. What Context does this infer?

• I labeled these 39 frames not because it's only 43 frames faster than the previous submission, but the number of frames I saved from the user file movie of 8:08.36

Possible Improvements

• For now, none. I can't think of anything. If by some miracle that there is time save, feel free to add yourself as a co-author.

SHA1: 8AC5DAB79B319DEB525DE73F9A51877DF7A7ED9F

Movie Goals:

• Uses Bizhawk 2.9.1 (BSNESV115+)
• Aims for Fastest Completion
• Abuses Programming Errors
• Heavy RNG Manipulation
• Uses Hardest Difficulty
• Uses an In-Game Password (already stored in memory)
• Uses Soft Resets
• Clever Use of Ending Input Early Stylistic Choice

Race Times

• Los Vegas: 1:51.06
• Los Angeles: 30.23
• New York: 1:40.75
• San Francisco: 2:02.86 (slower IGT/Less Input to save time)

Travel to Any Country

• Travel to Any Country is a developer intended way to travel from the start of the game to the end using a stored password in memory to access its content. The game has multiple different passwords, some known and some hidden. This password is to skip to The United States allows the player to only play the last 4 race to beat the game. The game initially has 64 tracks, that of which 61 1/2 are skipped to obtain victory. The Password is: 3V53-<GPG-V<34-2H2TP-HDC33

Why the Fully Stocked Car?

• Unlike the movie for demonstration purposes, this movie aims to beat the game in the shortest amount of time possible aka Fastest Completion. The fully stocked car allows maximum speed gain in the shortest amount of time possible.

Car Details:

• Engine Class: 4
• Tire Class: Wet 4
• Tire Class: Dry 0
• Gearbox Class: 4
• Nitro Class: 3 (later upgraded to 4)
• 4 = bottom right of each Class

What is so special about this? I thought this was humanly doable.

• Well in that regard yes, in the short answer, no. Why not? Well, RNG has to be manipulated on a frame for 1/60th of a second that of which each individual frames must follow a sequence of inputs nearly impossible for humans to accomplish. If a certain RNG pattern lands on the 4th frame of the Start press that follows, it must be pressed on the 4th frame, same with the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st possible frame prior and any other frames after.

What is this glitch I see on Race #2?

• Race 2's glitch is what is called a "wall glitch" in the game's memory their certain flags that need to occur in a short amount of time, and if the rendered position is considered too far out of bounds the region of the wall gets its flag set to the "finish the race" position, in this case 1st. Not all walls and position act the same, some require special setups and this one requires precise timing, speed and position. This glitch was initially found by a community member by Yoschimidstu

Movie Goals:

• Uses Bizhawk 2.9.1 (BSNESV115+)
• Aims for Fastest Completion
• Abuses Programming Errors
• Heavy RNG Manipulation
• Uses Hardest Difficulty
• Uses an In-Game Password (already stored in memory)
• Uses Soft Resets
• Clever Use of Ending Input Early

Race Times

• Los Vegas: 1:51.06
• Los Angeles: 30.23
• New York: 1:40.75
• San Francisco: 2:02.83

Travel to Any Country

• Travel to Any Country is a developer intended way to travel from the start of the game to the end using a stored password in memory to access its content. The game has multiple different passwords, some known and some hidden. This password is to skip to The United States allows the player to only play the last 4 race to beat the game. The game initially has 64 tracks, that of which 61 1/2 are skipped to obtain victory. The Password is: 3V53-<GPG-V<34-2H2TP-HDC33

Why the Fully Stocked Car?

• Unlike the movie for demonstration purposes, this movie aims to beat the game in the shortest amount of time possible aka Fastest Completion. The fully stocked car allows maximum speed gain in the shortest amount of time possible.

Car Details:

• Engine Class: 4
• Tire Class: Wet 4
• Tire Class: Dry 0
• Gearbox Class: 4
• Nitro Class: 3 (later upgraded to 4)
• 4 = bottom right of each Class

What is so special about this? I thought this was humanly doable.

• Well in that regard yes, in the short answer, no. Why not? Well, RNG has to be manipulated on a frame for 1/60th of a second that of which each individual frames must follow a sequence of inputs nearly impossible for humans to accomplish. If a certain RNG pattern lands on the 4th frame of the Start press that follows, it must be pressed on the 4th frame, same with the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st possible frame prior and any other frames after.

What is this glitch I see on Race #2?

• Race 2's glitch is what is called a "wall glitch" in the game's memory their certain flags that need to occur in a short amount of time, and if the rendered position is considered too far out of bounds the region of the wall gets its flag set to the "finish the race" position, in this case 1st. Not all walls and position act the same, some require special setups and this one requires precise timing, speed and position. This glitch was initially found by a community member by Yoschimidstu

Movie Goals:

• Uses Bizhawk 2.9.1 (BSNESV115+)
• Aims for Fastest Completion
• Abuses Programming Errors
• Heavy RNG Manipulation
• Uses Hard Difficulty
• Uses an in-game Password (already stored in memory)
• Uses a Soft Reset
• Clever Use of Ending Input Early

Race Times

• Los Vegas: 1:51.06
• Los Angeles: 30.23
• New York: 1:40.75
• San Francisco: 2:02.88

Travel to Any Country

• Travel to Any Country is a developer intended way to travel from the start of the game to the end using a stored password in memory to access its content. The game has multiple different passwords, some known and some hidden. This password is to skip to The United States allows the player to only play the last 4 race to beat the game. The game initially has 64 tracks, that of which 61 1/2 are skipped to obtain victory. The Password is: 3V53-<GPG-V<34-2H2TP-HDC33

Why the Fully Stocked Car?

• Unlike the movie for demonstration purposes, this movie aims to beat the game in the shortest amount of time possible aka Fastest Completion. The fully stocked car allows maximum speed gain in the shortest amount of time possible.

Car Details:

• Engine Class: 4
• Tire Class: Wet 4
• Tire Class: Dry 0
• Gearbox Class: 4
• Nitro Class: 3 (later upgraded to 4)
• 4 = bottom right of each Class

What is so special about this? I thought this was humanly doable.

• Well in that regard yes, in the short answer, no. Why not? Well, RNG has to be manipulated on a frame for 1/60th of a second that of which each individual frames must follow a sequence of inputs nearly impossible for humans to accomplish. If a certain RNG pattern lands on the 4th frame of the Start press that follows, it must be pressed on the 4th frame, same with the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st possible frame prior and any other frames after.

What is this glitch I see on Race #2?

• Race 2's glitch is what is called a "wall glitch" in the game's memory their certain flags that need to occur in a short amount of time, and if the rendered position is considered too far out of bounds the region of the wall gets its flag set to the "finish the race" position, in this case 1st. Not all walls and position act the same, some require special setups and this one requires precise timing, speed and position. This glitch was initially found by a community member by Yoschimidstu

I thought password related movies are not allowed.

• This is where confusion comes in. You see, the game CAN allow a player to input a password if they so choose, and that alone doesn't quantify the required conditions for the rules. However, in this case, the game ALREADY stored the password for me to use, which negates any requirement to input the password manually.

• might try and mess around with more walls to see if time save is possible*

What's New

• Cologne Track Skip 3/3 laps
• Delhi Track Skip 3/3 laps
• Seville Wall Glitch Improvement 3/3 laps
• Improved Downshift Boosting | 180 and below 2nd Gear 210 -> 4th Gear 228 -> 6th Gear

Tracks Skipped

• London
• Sheffield
• Banff
• Hugh Sitton
• Bordeaux
• Cologne
• Meteora (Yes the bump is faster)
• Santorini
• Bombay
• Delhi
• Taj Mahall
• Dublin
• Galway
• Pisa
• Hiroshima
• Mexico
• Peru
• Seville
• Geneva
• Grunwald
• Los Angeles

Tracks Yet to be Skipped

• Toronto (yet to be found)
• Aswan (Impossible?)
• Nice (yet to be found)
• Mykonos (yet to be found)
• Limerick (Impossible?)
• Florence (yet to be found)
• Tokyo (yet to be found)
• Copenhagen (yet to be found)
• Chile (yet to be found)

Project Details

• Started from a new state from the 113K rerecord movie file
• Had some hiatus for about 5 months or so

Movie Details

• Uses Bizhawk 2.6.2
• Plays Hardest Difficulty
• Manipulates RNG
• Heavy Glitch Abuse
• Improves the Previous Movie -> 2:06:39.41

Improvements?

• Skip the 9 Tracks Listed
• Maybe better RNG

What is X used for in this run

What About Nitros

1. Nitros are used for emergencies only, in the case I need to rebound off of outside objects to stay afloat in 1st place.

Q&A

What's New:

Tracks Raced:

Races Skipped Outright & or Laps Skipped:

Potential Track Skips:

Game Info:

• Top Gear 2 for the Super Nintendo is a 2.5D arcade-style racing game. Travel the world, and claim to be the world's best racer. Race through *46 gorgeous tracks*. Twist, Turn, 'Jump' my way to victory.

Game Elements:

• Each track has its different elements such as Snow, Rain, Nighttime & Sunshine.

Collecting:

• Throughout, I'll be able to collect money which allows me to buy certain upgrades, from Engines, Gearboxes, Wet & Dry Tires, Nitros, and Car Armor. The game offers different car color variants that I can choose from, however, only the Red Car color is used.

The Route: (leaving out tracks that don't have an upgrade)

• Ayers Rock = $10K | Gearbox 2/$0
• Loch Ness = $30K Nitro/$0
• Niagra Falls = $54K Engine 3/Wet Tires/$0
• Cairo = $50K Gearbox/$0
• Munich = $80K Engine 4/$0

The run category:

• Filed Under: 'All Tracks' Glitched New Game

Movie Goals

• Aims for fastest completion
• Improves over currently published movie
• Uses Hardest Difficulty
• Uses Heavy Glitch Abuse

Frame Info

• Improved main menu by 2 frames - Instead of 3 down presses, input 2 down presses | after Options, input 2 up presses

• Better Gear Optimizing - boost with 1st gear until 165 MPH then sit in 2nd gear until 200 MPH and then gear up to 4th gear, once in 4th gear wait until 223/228 to gear up to 6th.

• Better Driving - I improve the driving segments of the run (the most vital part lol). Less outside stripe hits, stay on the track more until leaving for required maneuvering.

Trick Info

• H.E.N.T:

• H.E.N.D:

• Turn Throttling:

• Side Turning:

Countries & Races:

• Australasia - Auckland, Ayers Rock, Canterbury Plains, Sydney

• Britain - Loch Ness, London, Sheffield, Stonehenge

• Canada - Banff, Niagra Falls, Toronto, Vancouver

• Egypt - Abu Sunbul, Aswan, Cairo, Hugh Sitton (Giza Pyramids)

• France - Bordeaux, Monaco, Nice, Paris

• Germany - Bavaria, Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich

• Greece - Athens, Meteora, Mykonos, Santorini

• India - Amber Port, Bombay, Delhi, Taj Mahal

• Ireland - Dublin, Galway, Killarney, Limerick

• Italy - Florence, Pisa, Rome, Sicily

• Japan - Hiroshima, Kyoto, Toyko, Yokohama

• Scandinavia - Copenhagen, Helsinki, Reykjavik, Stockholm

• South America - Chile, Mexico, Peru, Rio De Janeiro

• Spain - Andalusia, Barcelona, Madrid, Seville

• Switzerland - Geneva, Grunwald, Lucerne, Zurich

• The United States - Los Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco

Races that don't actually exist (18 in total):

• London
• Sheffield
• Banff
• Hugh Sittion
• Bordeaux
• Meteora
• Santorini
• Bombay
• Taj Mahal
• Dublin
• Galway
• Pisa
• Mexico
• Peru
• Seville
• Geneva
• Grunwald
• Los Angeles

Stinky races that I have actually do

• Auckland - *Sonic quote*
• Ayers Rock
• Canterbury
• Plains
• Sydney
• Loch Ness
• Stonehenge
• Niagra Falls
• Toronto - roadblocks, blocking the wall? Stupid
• Vancouver
• Abu Sunbul
• Aswan - you shall be broken 1 day
• Cairo
• Monaco
• Nice - but why
• Paris
• Bavaria
• Cologne - looking at you
• Frankfurt
• Munich
• Athens
• Mykonos - yeah, but, why tho
• Amber Port
• Delhi
• Killarney
• Limerick
• Florence
• Rome
• Sicily
• Kyoto
• Toyko - <- you are a pain (not the person reading this)
• Yokohama
• Copenhagen - having the potential, but, nothing to give (like me)
• Helsinki
• Reykjavik
• Stockholm
• Chile - probably would work if it wasn't for that turn
• Rio De Janeiro
• Andalusia
• Barcelona
• Madrid
• Lucerne
• Zurich
• Los Vegas
• New York
• San Francisco

Improved by?