Cave Story TAS

Because apparently you don't need emulation to do this anymore:



YOU ARE NOT PREPARED.
The submission info can be read here, if you want to know how this was possible. Features mention of ex-forum-user upthorn!

 

How the fuck is that possible.

 

Saw this earlier today.

My mind is completely blown. Agh....

 

Saw this earlier today.

My mind is completely blown. Agh....

Sweet, I was hoping you'd see it Some of those damage boosts don't actually look too unreasonable, but there was still a ton of stuff I wasn't expecting. So much for knowing the game properly

 

Sweet, I was hoping you'd see it Some of those damage boosts don't actually look too unreasonable, but there was still a ton of stuff I wasn't expecting. So much for knowing the game properly

It was like...

a long series of "I didn't know you could do that" 's and like...I know the game pretty well I guess I'm behind the times these days hahah.

I had seen the previous TAS and was like welp I can't do that and this one makes me go WELP I CAN NEVER DREAM OF DOING THAT.

The booster + machine gun combo is so ridiculous to watch..and yea everything else too. Like a proper speedrun is not ever going to come close to looking that ridiculous hahah.

 

48:53-
No. He isn't gonna-
48:54-
Technical Difficulties on my side of the computer screen

 

From how he plays, it seems that jumping is slightly faster than running?

 

From how he plays, it seems that jumping is slightly faster than running?

It seems he is jumping MORE THAN running

 

As it says in the specs, you encounter horizontal friction whilst walking but not while in air, so if you stay airborne then you can preserve being boosted by an enemy or booster or something longer.

 

I just started watching this.

I thought it was only mildly cool until he started to ride the beetle to get past the Igor cutscene, and at that point the "holy shit" factor started to reveal the real awesomeness.
EDIT: This guy sure knows how to fly.

EDIT2: He still has 6 life by hell? WTF!?

 

haha awesome and i've been hanging out on tasvideos.org so much lately

chad, did you ever even finish that one you were working on? you were being so pixel-perfect about it, it seemed like it was gonna be amazing
but i guess that's kinda the breaks when doing tas stuff, you'll work your ass off and realize some japanese guy's still gonna do it a million times better than you

with how much i play and replay old games i think of doing speedruns a lot and even do my own 'personal' speedruns, but at most i'd try non-tool-assisted/non-pixel-perfect/pretty-much-not-trying-to-be-faster-than-anyone-just-doing-it-because-it's-fun

 

The booster + machine gun combo is so ridiculous to watch..and yea everything else too. Like a proper speedrun is not ever going to come close to looking that ridiculous hahah.

Yeah. I've been wanting to pull off a booster + machine gun combo like that for ages. O_O

 

Wow:eek:. well i guess he set the standerded speedrun of the whole game, huh? I propose that we try to beat that time ,or at least finish the game in under two hours . I'd like to do it, but due to school and problems with the hell run ( 7:00:1),My video wold be a disapointment

So what do yo say to that

 

Wow:eek:. well i guess he set the standerded speedrun of the whole game, huh? I propose that we try to beat that time ,or at least finish the game in under two hours . I'd like to do it, but due to school and problems with the hell run ( 7:00:1),My video wold be a disapointment

So what do yo say to that

Uhm, I think it would be pretty damn impossible to beat a TAS with a speedrun. The only possible way we could be that record is if we made an even better TAS, which isn't happening.

You know, there is a different standard for TAS runs and regular speedruns.

Yeah, I think that came out right.

 

If you want to know how this was possible. Features mention of ex-forum-user upthorn!

Oh hi. I was just checking in to see if news of the TAS had made it back here yet.

The TAS was made possible by use of a tool that nitsuja (who isn't Japanese) wrote to provide determinism, savestates, and input-recording to windows games. It basically works by loading the game as though it was a debugger and forcing it to load a specially-made DLL, which intercepts a variety of system calls (like TimeGetTime) and provides emulated values which will theoretically always be the same if the executable takes the same codepath. Additionally it intercepts several library functions for screen-drawing, audio output, and keyboard-reading, so it can record input and play it back, as well as dumping avis with sound.
Savestates are accomplished mostly by just making a copy of the game's memory to save, and writing it back to load, but some systems have shown stability problems with this.

 

jnfkajnfasdf;adsfugnegineal hi ._. Thanks for stopping by, I really didn't know if you remembered this place or not.