terrible idea for a gimmick hacking tool
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best way to make a TAS:
if frame == 730 or frame == 816 or frame == 930 or frame == 1090 then
press_a()
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now I need an algorithm to push these numbers smaller while still getting the same result.
like, play the rom, run this, take screenshot at frame 2000. then try lowering one by 5%, re-run, see if we get the same screenshot. -
why do things manually that'll take maybe 5 minutes when you could spend an hour writing automation to do it for you in 30 minutes?
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you never know when the next time you'll need to optimize time-to-donald-duck-speaking on some GBA game
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@endrift speaking of screenshots, where do they go?
I tried emu:screenshot("filename.png") but filename.png doesn't seem to appear anywhere (not in the screenshots folder I set in paths, or the same as the rom, or C:\) so I have to do an absolute path
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Foone🏳️⚧️ last edited by [email protected]
why can't I bisect my TAS for the GBA game about donald duck
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I'm always disappointed in computers ability to let me be brute force stupid.
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I manually did it: The first frame you can push "A" to skip the logos is 622.
621 is too early.
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@foone uhh I think it's relative paths, so that's probably %HOME% if you launched mGBA normally
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@endrift hmm. I think that might have ended up as C:\Program Files\mGBA? Which my user doesn't have permissions to write to
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@foone yeah that would be a problem
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@endrift not a major one, just a bit of a confusing one since there was no error.
another question: am I right that you can't turn on turbo from a script? and there's no "always turbo" option, like turning off all throttles in bizhawk?
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673 for the main menu.
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@foone correct. That would require hooking into the frontend, which the scripting subsystem does not yet do
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frame 766 is the earliest you can press A for New GAme
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@endrift ahh, missed that! thanks!
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@endrift and I just crashed it. unfortunately I have no debugger or anything installed here so it just vanished... is there a log file I could look at?
