DK64 Mad Jack in 2:24.561 by Isotarge (Mystery Menu) Isotarge 2016-05-24 | Finally, a good fight! I don't see much improvement happening luck wise, only way to shave off more time is to fix phase 3 path to switch and cut out some slow jumps with the Z+B infinites in phases 4 and 5. Key grab was perfect. I'm done trying to improve this. Played on NTSC-U N64. Attempt number 2970.
Donkey Kong 64: Unused DK TV Demo (Seal Race) Isotarge 2021-12-14 | Probably reading past the end of the inputs, but yeah.To see this in game, set 0x75E5C0 (byte) to 5. It will replace DK's Japes demo.If you're ROM hacking, pointer table 17 contains the DK TV inputs.
Which enemy takes the longest to respawn in DK64? Isotarge 2021-11-09 | It's this guy, by a huge margin.Factory, Game.setPosition(762,803,2377);
Lord of the Sword - Unused Dragon Enemy Isotarge 2019-07-07 | Object index 0x22Tiles are garbled on other map types so I assume it's meant to be spawned in a cave.Unused as far as I know, will confirm once I pull apart the game some more.
[TAS] Lord of the Sword in 13:34.815 by Isotarge Isotarge 2018-01-07 | This is a tool assisted speedrun of Lord of the Sword for the Sega Master System completed in 13:34.815 by Isotarge.For more information, please see the TASVideos submission at http://tasvideos.org/5783S.html
[TAS] Impossible Mission (SMS) in 7:44.264 by Isotarge and The8bitbeast Isotarge 2017-10-17 | See the TASVideos submission at http://tasvideos.org/5676S.html for more informationPlayed on BizHawk 2.2 using TAStudio and ScriptHawk. The game was released in Brazil, so the 60hz option was selected.
[TAS] Taz Mania (SMS) in 7:33.784 (WIP 2) Isotarge 2017-09-27 | Saved just over 10 seconds since WIP 1!The time save was largely due to improvements to the ScriptHawk module for this game, allowing the use of far fewer markers in TAStudio while simultaneously providing a much more detailed and accurate picture of how far ahead or behind I am after making changes to the inputs. These changes give me not only more information but more freedom to experiment without fear of losing track of things.152k rerecords so far, I am really hoping for sub 7:30 but it'll be extremely difficult with current knowledge. Played at 60 FPS (because the game was released in Brazil) on BizHawk 2.2 using TAStudio and ScriptHawk.
[TAS] Taz Mania (SMS) in 7:44.264 (WIP 1) Isotarge 2017-09-03 | 97k rerecords so far and I'm not truly happy with any of the levels, this game is ridiculous to optimize due to the boost mechanic coupled with unpredictable lag and a non-trivial velocity system. It's faster to take damage in the levels due to the shorter score screens at the end. Played at 60FPS because the game was released in Brazil.
Donkey Kong 64 in 42:19 (5 Kong Route) Isotarge 2017-08-29 | Holy shit.2:48 Mad Jack (lol)8:36 Helm12:27 K. Rool42 Minute IGTPlayed on NTSC-U N64.
Donkey Kong 64 in 42:44 (5 Kong Route) Isotarge 2017-08-25 | "Just enough bad in every split to pretend I'm good"2:38 Mad Jack8:31 Helm12:34 K. Rool43 Minute IGTPlayed on NTSC-U N64.
Alternate DK Helm Route (LOTAD) Isotarge 2017-08-24 | If you don't get the high floor out of switch kick here's a handy backup route to use. Turns out DK can do T1 clip so you can use that as the height boost instead of DK room pillar. The skid jump backflip to inbounds is kinda tricky, ship's wheel is a good RTA alternative.
Donkey Kong 64 in 42:52 (5 Kong Route) Isotarge 2017-08-20 | Finally joined the 42 club! Played on NTSC-U N642:37 Mad Jack8:38 Helm12:42 K. Rool (lol)43 Minute IGT
Hideout Helm in 1:15 Isotarge 2017-08-19 | Still a bit to come off this, but pretty nice improvement from my old time of 1:21. Surprisingly the Key was real.
[TAS] Smash 64 - Break the Targets Board the Platforms in 60020 by Isotarge and Mittenz (Japan) Isotarge 2017-08-02 | Please see the TASVideos submission at http://tasvideos.org/5625S.html for more information.Targets total time 2'07"54Platforms total time 3'52"66We also completed this run on the US version of the game, a video is available at youtube.com/watch?v=gWjtiJMGUAcThis run is the result of over 8 months of hard work by myself and Mittenz. Special thanks to the previous TASers of these stages for over a decade's worth of reference videos, routes and inspiration: JPleal10, Haru, BlazeSSB, antdgar and any others we may have missed.Played on BizHawk 2.1.1 with TAStudio and ScriptHawkgithub.com/Isotarge/ScriptHawk
Clankers Cavern Early (NTSC) Isotarge 2017-07-20 | Previously thought to be PAL only due to the clip not working on NTSC, this wasn't the case :)The setup after the clip is slightly different (requiring a beak buster) and a little rough and ready but this serves as more of a proof of concept than anything else.Input file is available at http://www.mediafire.com/file/vyqhibs6vfacx4r/CC+Early+NTSC.bk2Played on BizHawk 2.1.0 with TAStudio and ScriptHawk.
スマブラ (TAS): Fox [BtT] - 871 by Isotarge Isotarge 2017-05-26 | Japanese version has a couple of frames of advantage over US due to fewer freeze frames from attacks, this matters now since I use an earlier cycle than the 8.75 runs did due to the reroute.Thanks to Nicholas Frechette for suggesting I try out this route.
SSB64 (TAS): Fox [BtT] in 879 (Alternate Route) Isotarge 2017-05-25 | Requested by Nicholas FrechetteReference video: youtube.com/watch?v=ywEPY8z-MYU
DK64: Main Menu Cutscene 20 Isotarge 2017-03-09 | github.com/Isotarge/ScriptHawkNote: According to Tom this may be global cutscene 20
Donkey Kong 64: Treehouse - Caves Link Update (Stop n Swop) Isotarge 2017-03-08 | Cutscene 26 in Crystal Caves fades out to the Treehouse cutscene that was previously found by Exchord. Perhaps an action in Caves would open the BK door in the Treehouse and return the player to Crystal Caves?youtube.com/watch?v=kOAATfDXfuYgithub.com/Isotarge/ScriptHawk
DK64: Test Map All Cutscenes (Retail) Isotarge 2017-03-08 | Cutscene 19 at 3:02 solves the mystery of the DK Clone! Turns out he was used to test the main menu animation.github.com/Isotarge/ScriptHawk
スマブラ (TAS): DK [BtT] - 859 by Isotarge Isotarge 2017-01-08 | 4660 rerecords, played on BizHawk 1.11.9 with TAStudio + ScriptHawkI still don't understand the cancel after hitting target 6, if anyone has some insight I'd love to know about it. Still managed to tie JPleal without it, but I think a couple more frames can be saved if I figure it out.
スマブラ (TAS): Samus [BtT] - 887 by Isotarge Isotarge 2016-12-18 | Played on BizHawk 1.11.9 with TAStudio + ScriptHawk.3650 Rerecords.I saved the last few frames by switching to Japanese version. Tried to save a cheeky frame by charging a shot to increase hitbox size during the platform cycle downtime, unfortunately it didn't work out... Cool strategy though so I left it in since it gets 8"87 anyway.My previous best was 8"90 on USA version youtube.com/watch?v=sR-9dmoX5zA
スマブラ (TAS): Pikachu [BtT] - 851 by Isotarge Isotarge 2016-12-17 | Played on BizHawk 1.11.9 with TAStudio + ScriptHawk.2827 Rerecords.My previous best time was 8"57 youtube.com/watch?v=w9FIgXKltrUCheeky tie with Dennis ;) youtube.com/watch?v=DwM87llCj0w
SSB64 (TAS): Mario [BtT] - 795 by Isotarge Isotarge 2016-12-16 | Played on BizHawk 1.11.9 with TAStudio.2338 Rerecords.To watch the complete making of this TAS from start to finish, see twitch.tv/isotarge/v/107776275
SSB64 (TAS): Link [BtT] - 1041 by Isotarge Isotarge 2016-12-14 | 8026 Rerecords.Played on BizHawk 1.11.9 with TAStudio + ScriptHawk.
Rough Seas Isotarge 2016-11-05 | .luaSource code: github.com/Isotarge/ScriptHawk/commit/432f41cdf8250e73465adf68026555ab815637fc
Torchlight II in 28:56 by Isotarge (Any% NG+) Isotarge 2016-11-03 | Very fun run!There's still some time to come off this: Firstly, my gear isn't perfect yet, missing some movement speed gems and I definitely need some mana steal or something to keep up the DPS. Secondly, I messed up the portal trick at the end costing around 30 seconds. I might try to beat this after I sink some more time in to finding better gear.
TFTT Genesis - Mouse Control Isotarge 2016-09-20 | Source code github.com/Isotarge/ScriptHawk/blob/c6c9c89e578c78e2b49d812a2b04310a9339039c/Beta/TFTT%20Mouse.lua
[TAS] The Ninja (UE) in 5:16.54 by Isotarge Isotarge 2016-08-20 | The Ninja is an arcade style shoot-em-up game on the Sega Master System. This run completes the US version of the game as fast as possible.See the submission at http://tasvideos.org/5199S.html for more details.
Cannon Interrupt Skew Isotarge 2016-08-11 | Thanks to Retroben for pointing this out to me twitter.com/retroben999/status/763614856532504580
The Ninja TAS miniWIP by Isotarge - Step 5 Cleanup Isotarge 2016-08-04 | Much better playaround, I might go for 1% ratio but not sure whether I can fit enough shots in
The Ninja TAS WIP 4 in 5:17.45 by Isotarge Isotarge 2016-08-01 | Date 2016-07-2826893 Rerecords Full playlist youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN11Tfw8a5zZxGKD96um4bxfkpE8rigNmThis WIP marks the first appearance of frame perfect shot spam outside of an autoscroller. This involves blocking out the optimal movement + boss fight for a level with as few extra shots as possible, then working backwards through the level from the boss fight right back to the first input, brute force testing both types of shots on every frame to make sure it doesn't desync due to added lag or add extra kills. These days it takes me roughly 30 minutes to block out a level optimally, and then between 2 and 4 hours for the frame perfect shot spam depending on how long and complicated the level is and how much caffeine I consume throughout the process.Level 1 was completely redone, with much improved movement to get the blue scroll and a trick shot to kill the enemy which contained the red scroll. Level 2 is untouched from the previous WIP. Level 3 includes some minor lag reduction improvements, I'm still not happy with this level and need to redo it. Level 4 shot spam is greatly improved, although not frame perfect at the time of this WIP, and the movement to the green scroll was redone. It ended up being faster to stop completely near the statue and shoot from further right then to keep moving left at all times and backtrack to the right. Level 5 has some added playaround but loses some time to hit ratio because of it. Overall it's better than the old version in my opinion but needs further optimization and the playaround could still use some work. Level 6 in this WIP is at the blocked out state, with roughly optimal movement but the frame perfect shot spam was yet to be implemented. Level 7 was completely redone with 1% ratio and much better playaround. Level 8 shot spam is now frame perfect and the movement was greatly optimized compared to the previous WIP. This level is very close to what will appear in the final run. Level 9 movement and lag management was optimized. I managed to achieve 1% hit ratio on level 10 by using the left side of the stairs for shot spam. The movement for level 13 was redone, resulting in the boss spawning sooner and a faster kill.My current progress at the time of writing is 5:17.19 with frame perfect shot spam for both level 4 and 6 but unfortunately frame perfect shot spam makes this game quite desync prone, so that button file doesn't finish the game but instead desyncs in either level 6 or 8 depending on the ratio for earlier levels. I'm on the fence about whether I should redo the frame perfect shot spam for levels 6 and 8 or whether I should just finish the TAS in order of the levels at this point and see what desyncs as I go. The only downside to doing it in order is that level 3 is extremely difficult to optimize due to some lag frames at the start causing optimal movement, transform spacing, and shot spam to be difficult to decide on.
The Ninja TAS WIP 3 in 5:19.71 by Isotarge Isotarge 2016-08-01 | Date 2016-06-277872 RerecordsFull playlist youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN11Tfw8a5zZxGKD96um4bxfkpE8rigNmThis WIP has significant changes for a few levels, including a completely new level 8 route which spawns the boss as soon as possible and backtracks for the green scroll, killing the boss through the wall after collecting it. The route was very new at the time of this WIP and as such the shot spam and movement for the level were not optimized, but even so it was still faster than the old route overall. The idea of facing left or right in to solid objects for extra shot spam when moving upwards was applied in a few places. Level 1 shows the first appearance of the U + L + R glitch for some playaround. Level 2 was completely redone, with a frame perfect hit ratio and a much needed improvement in playaround. As far as I am aware there are no further optimizations that can be made in level 2, and this version is very similar to what will appear in the final run, with probably only some minor playaround changes to be made.
The Ninja TAS WIP 2 in 5:21.93 by Isotarge Isotarge 2016-08-01 | Date 2015-07-09Unknown RerecordsFull playlist youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN11Tfw8a5zZxGKD96um4bxfkpE8rigNmThis is the oldest record of the run that aimed purely for speed over style, so many unnecessary enemy kills were taken out. The fastest strategy is to keep all 7 enemy slots filled from the start of the level, essentially turning the levels into pacifist runs until the boss. This strategy prevents enemies from spawning, significantly reducing lag but also reducing the hit count for a much lower hit ratio after shot spam, saving 1 frame per percentage point on score screens. Thankfully hitting enemy projectiles does not count as a hit, so some style is retained by doing this with no time penalty. Enemy projectiles cause lag, so destroying them works out faster in most cases. The movement is sloppy by my current standards, and shot spam was nowhere near frame perfect, so significant time was lost in ratios. The boss kills are much better than the previous WIP and the red scroll was delayed until level 2, allowing a cleaner level 1 movement route with a fun little musical sync moment after collecting the green scroll.At this point I was more concerned about desyncs than shot spam as I did not have a firm grasp on how to replicate optimal movement quickly and of what exactly caused the desyncs, so the shot spam in levels 2 and 5 was designed to reuse old movement inputs, with the player staying in the same position after firing shots. Reusing the old movement inputs reduces the amount of shots that are possible compared to the current strategy of moving as close to the edge of the level or a wall as possible for potentially frame perfect shot spam of 60 per second, provided the area isn't very laggy. At this point TAStudio actions did not count towards rerecords, so the actual rerecord count of this run is unknown. The project was again put on hold after this WIP, as I switched from this game to Lord of the Sword, see http://tasvideos.org/2986M.html for my Lord of the Sword run.
The Ninja TAS WIP 1 by Isotarge Isotarge 2016-08-01 | Date 2012-05-25Unknown RerecordsFull playlist youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN11Tfw8a5zZxGKD96um4bxfkpE8rigNmThis is the oldest record of the project that I have. It all started in a very early version of BizHawk, pre BKM, pre BK2. The extension for the movie file was .TAS and it was a single plaintext file with a small header for sync settings followed by an input roll, instead of a zipped set of files. TAStudio, amazingly, was included with the version of BizHawk that I was using, and I looked at this tool in awe, it was exactly the interface I wanted to use to create the run but unfortunately it was not very functional at the time. Additionally, I did not know how to properly use traditional rerecording tools at the time so the entire run was constructed by editing the .TAS file in Notepad with the inputs I thought I needed and playing back the result from the start every time, checking for style, desyncs, and deaths.I never finished the game using this technique, probably due to the increasing time needed to check my work as the run got longer, and as such the project was put on hold until 2015 when TAStudio was much more mature. My first run that finished the game was based on Jok-R's run http://tasvideos.org/4193S.html and the faster Level 1 WIP http://tasvideos.org/userfiles/info/12945909439195601 with a final time of 5:38.65, although because of significant optimizations in movement, boss fights, and shot spam, almost none of the inputs from those submissions remain today.At the time of this WIP, speed was not a priority for the project so 100% hit ratio was a common occurrence. Without speed being a priority, there are some pretty cool enemy kills left in the run that I had to take out for lower hit ratio in later playthroughs. The movement and boss fights are extremely slow and unoptimized compared to my current standards but it's still a good watch and interesting from a historical perspective. This is the very beginning of my TAS career and despite its many flaws, I still cherish this video.
Donkey Kong 64 Unused Blooper Cutscene Isotarge 2016-06-15 | Cutscene index 1 on the blooper map is unused, here's a video of the cutscene in it's full glory.
Banjo-Kazooie Any% + Sandcastle Cheats Speedrun in 1:17:11 by Isotarge Isotarge 2016-05-17 | Pretty good apart from FP EarlyRegion: PAL N64FFM: YesRBA: YesSandcastle cheats: YesCHEAT THE MANSION OF GHOSTS ARE NOW YOUR HOSTSCHEAT THIS ONES GOOD AS YOU CAN ENTER THE WOODCHEAT DONT BE A DUMBO GO SEE MUMBOIGT: 1:13:21SM: 1:00GL: ~23:37MM: 2:51TTC: 8:49CC: 6:08BGS: 3:38FP: 3:52GV: 3:56MMM: 6:00RBB: 5:00CCW: 8:32
DK64: Bananaporter animation on Kiosk Isotarge 2016-05-11 | If you set the player's movement state to bananaporter without activating a pad it warps you to the origin of the map, same as retail. The animation is slightly different on Kiosk, though. Banana fairy is unrelated.
