Yesterday I finished a TAS of the game You Have to Win the Game v1.01 in libTAS which clocks in at 4:58 IGT, but I was wondering if utilizing older builds would be valid too. I ask this because, in v1.01, a password entry room is added right before the end where the player must jump through labeled portals to enter the correct password to win the game, but in older revisions this room doesn't exist and instead the player has to input the password through the terminal. This would save over 20 seconds. As far as I'm concerned, inputting commands through a terminal would usually be considered a debug feature, but in the in-game Input settings, the keybinds for bringing up the terminal can be remapped, implying that it's a feature. Not to mention it's the only way to beat the game in builds without the password room. However there are a plethora of old builds stored inside this public Pastebin page (by the game author, I should mention) and they're all .exe files, meaning that they can only be played on Windows. I do recall trying the newer Steam build in Hourglass in Windows XP many years ago and it working fine for the most part. Anyhow, for reference, the speedrun.com RTA leaderboards for the game utilize the October 24, 2013 Update 2 build. I have yet to verify whether all builds after it discard the terminal password in favor of the password room or not. My question is, under these circumstances I mentioned, would it be acceptable to TAS any of these old builds to skip the password room entirely?
At some point me and VidGadeomes are going to TAS the Linux version of New ‘n’ Tasty and I have a question here for a judge.
I can do a glitchy any% run similar to Oddysee with the DDG but this game also has a glitch where you can teleport upwards through the screen. In order to be teleporting extremely fast, I have to bind 2 keys of Restart Checkpoint together and I can configure this in version 1.0 easily.
Also in order to skip Scrabania of the game, I need to make a save in any slot of the game where I completed Scrabania and Paramonia so a verification movie would have to be made/
Apparently, Contra III doesn't seem to have SRAM feature, and the game simply goes back to the intro sequence after the player presses START on the FINAL SCORE screen in question. Does this mean the "game end glitch" category is still valid since the game behaves the same when beaten with that glitch?
Where can we consider that a track is complete ? - When the In-Game Timer stops. - When the character stops moving. (in private eye both were at the same time) - An other ending point.
Also what about Smurfs Rescue in Gargamel's Castle? Do we keep it like this because all skills are loaded automatically by the game or do we have to redo it because we could chose next skills before the game loads them and if so what is the completion point of skills? when the character stops or when the music ends or an other thing?
**Second question : For the last track,what goal should be reached ? - ending the tracks without avoiding obstacles (sure not) - ending the track avoiding obstacles and privilege the IGT ( all tracks will be completed with the fastest IGT even when there is 2 random tracks) - ending the track and privilege the TAS time ( all tracks will be complete as quickly as possible unless the last track)
If different separate games are available in a game could we make the rules eazier by saying that all games have to be done within one movie ? Or if it's not mentioned which of the games has to be done ? Maybe adding these points in the rules would be interresting. Thanks in advance and sorry. If i don't have to redo one or all these TASes, let me know.
This determinism problem is just that TASes made on Windows won't sync on other operating systems, and vice versa. So while not using the versions that has that problem would be preferable, it is still possible to TAS on them. (Also, the problem technically existed before 5.0-10039 but wasn't as exposed back then.)
And the executable I needed to run was runner, not UNDERTALE.Language: shellsudo apt-get install libopenal1:i386 libssl1.0.0:i386 libglu1-mesa:i386
