[TAS] DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3 - Broly vs. Great Traveler (Mission 100)
Got my motivation back after several days of moping around, so I decided to start with another BT3 TAS. This one features Broly, and some instances of Broly-specific things like tanking Ki blasts while charging energy.
So, I have some explaining to do. Read the description for how I was able to do all of this.
I was able to find a Virtual Machine program that allowed tools effectively identical to savestates found in most game console emulators. The thing with these savestates (Known as "Snapshots") is that a single Snapshot has to store the entire Virtual Machine's RAM in order to function correctly. When emulating consoles, it isn't that much of a deal, as they have extremely small amounts of RAM compared to today (Even the Wii only had around 50-60MB of RAM). These Virtual Machines (Depending on the Operating System) require much, much more RAM than that, in the range of Gigabytes as opposed to Megabytes. Larger Snapshots requires more and more space, and takes longer and longer to load, so it's a good amount of hassle.
Thankfully, Pac-Man CE DX+ can run on a figurative toaster (With its system requirements on Steam citing only 1GB of RAM and a 1GHz Processor), so I was able to cut down on requirements down to what Steam said. As a consequence, the game still stuttered a frequent amount on a Windows XP Virtual Machine (Combined with probable issues due to the game running in a Virtual Machine in it of itself). I wasn't able to port the finished replay over to the version on my actual laptop, so I had to record the Virtual Machine through FFSplit. Sorry for the stuttering (I tried fixing it), the audio oddities (I couldn't fix them), and the rendering error near the end; I'll try to fix them next time, if I do this again.
As for how I exactly did this, I simply ran Pac-Man CE DX + and Cheat Manager within the Virtual Machine at the same time and set the game's speed to 0.25x. It wasn't entirely perfect, but it's the closest that I've gotten to TASing PC games that aren't compatible with Hourglass (A very old program that allowed you to TAS a very small amount of Windows Applications). This specific method also only works with games that have its own functioning version of Input Recording, so there won't be many games that can be done in this fashion.
Finally, I know that this isn't the highest score. I'm pretty sure there's a better route that I didn't take or plan out, but working with this is frustrating, and I didn't want to waste any more of my time with it.
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This is a Tool Assisted Superplay. Visit http://tasvideos.org for more information.
This uses a "Level 140" Goku, with every single stat maxed out. Given how ridiculous this fight is at higher difficulties, I don't think the extra stats matter all that much.
Using SSJ3 + Hyper Mode, the Gotenks CPU teleports behind absolutely every attack that causes knockback alongside a large amount of stun-only attacks, to the point where I was only able to do the basic KKKK and PKK cancel combos with an above-zero success rate.
I intentionally let Gotenks attempt his Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack on me to show that it actually doesn't cause any damage if you win the defense prompt (As shown by "Perfect!" instead of "KO!" appearing when I defeat him).
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*And every time a non-Stitch Face Turnip is pulled, the video becomes more contrasted.
https://imgur.com/a/mmCY98Z Most of you wanted this.
This was initially going to be 5%, but I quickly realized we would be here for a much longer time.
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For some reason, I didn't make the background stock video immediately after I made the stage hack. I decided to take a small break from TASing Subspace to make this.
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My Mods: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/67ce97vfa4xh9pn/AAAILWUMsqJ1I9NxHLwpsvaCa?dl=0
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