File: Pokemon-Yellow-TAS.swf-(7.98 MB, 160x144, Game)
[_] Pokémon Yellow in 01:09.63 Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)11:12 No.

  One of the more famous Tool Assisted Speedruns out there.

  This works by immediately saving, and pulling power at a precise moment to corrupt the save.

  This sets the counter of pokemon in the party to 0xFF (255). By moving pokemon around in the
  party beyond the normal six, it's possible to edit memory that is used for other things.

  The first modification is switching the"pokemon" in slots two and ten, to set the item count to
  0xFF (255). This allows for additional RAM editing by moving and dropping "items" in a similar
  manner.

  From there the memory storing the current map is set to 0xD0, which launches the trigger
  responsible for bringing up the Hall of Fame and winning the game.

  More info:
  http://tasvideos.org/3256S.html

  >Nach: Tremendous improvement, now you literally skipped the entire game. Accepting.

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>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)11:59 No.

  >glitching so much that you don't even play the game
  >it's winning

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)12:03 No.

  >>2650461
  The TAS folks are a little strange.
  That said, this run is considered extreme even by their standards.

  Actually, the are some pretty interesting arguments out there about at exactly what point you've
  "won" a particular game.

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)12:05 No.

  >>2650465
  i agree that it's impressive work for finding that way. Like, how in the hell ? how can you find
  this ??

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)12:24 No.

  >>2650466
  >Like, how in the hell ? how can you find this ??
  I'm not a TASer, so take all this with a pinch of salt.
  From what I understand, the TAS runs themselves are basically just presentations. Behind the
  scenes there's a group of people who basically research these games as a hobby. For the less
  broken stuff they try to optimise the number of frames (time taken) for each part of the game,
  and come up with fast routes through game. For the more broken stuff they focus on the RAM in an
  emulator, and try to figure out what different addresses control and are set by. Then
  occasionally someone compiles together a bunch of the research and tries to use as much of it as
  possible to do a complete run though a game in less time than the previous run.

  I recommend you look through some of the other videos on the site. If you read the full
  descriptions first it's pretty to see the stuff they've come up with.

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)14:23 No.

  http://youtu.be/EWfC0Z7HYr8?t=3m4s

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)14:40 No.

  >hears the credits theme
  >hums to it from remembrance after all these years
  >gets chills down spine
  i dont like tas runs but this brings back nostalgic feelings. thanks op

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)14:46 No.

  So by their standards, if you get the credits to roll you've beaten the game?

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)14:53 No.

  >>2650540
  more or less
  they have different categories for different types of speed runs
  if you want to actually watch a lot of gameplay then you should stick to the 100% runs

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)14:54 No.

  >>2650543
  Meh, that's kind of silly.

  I'll stick to the 100% runs, I guess.

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)14:59 No.

  >>2650546
  Nobody cares what you think is silly or not. They're doing something spectacular with their runs,
  which are exclusive from the same spectacularness of 100% runs. Take your elitism out of here.

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)15:23 No.

  >>2650550
  I'm not being an elitist, brah. I just don't find it that interesting or really worth getting in
  competitions over. Diffr'ent strokes and all that.

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)15:31 No.

  >>2650550
  Using glitches to get to the credist? Not really spectacular.
  Elitism? That's an opinion (just like your post).

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)15:45 No.

  All these people so jelly about glitch speedruns.

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)15:51 No.

  >>2650582
  Yes.

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)16:43 No.

  >>2650474
  I love that I can see this here...

  I'm a pretty active member of the TAS community and basically, being a glitch-run TASer involves
  more or less what's stated here... wanting to know how the game works at its innermost levels,
  and then breaking it in every possible way with the intention of winning.

  On that note, the community is split up into a number of various subcommunities. Glitch,
  non-glitch, and percentage runs. Glitch TAS involves what I already stated, non-glitch runs
  exploit only the gameplay mechanics to win a game as fast as possible. In this sense, a
  non-glitch TAS involves running a game at the absolute peak level that a human could
  theoretically run the game the way it was originally programmed.

  Percentage run TAS's are more rare, and often intended to simply showcase gameplay strategies for
  various more-conventional speedrunners. The TAS speedrun community actually works pretty close
  with normal speedrunners to help improve human run times.

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)16:45 No.

  >>2650617
  On a separate note I'm proud to say I have the full, un-cut ANSI standard assembly code for
  Metroid 1 on my wall.

  ... Maybe we are a little weird after all.

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)17:04 No.

  >>2650620
  I... I actually wanna see that.

>> [_] Anonymous 01/07/15(Wed)17:12 No.

  >>2650620
  Pics