My brain was wondering how a video of only 0.2 seconds would work. Can you even say an entire word in that time? And how is that enough to explain all of Super Mario Bros. 3 TAS?
I was kind of disappointed to see the video lenght makes sense, and my brain was just not awake yet.
Hah. I thought the opposite. “A video about a speedrun that short is gonna have to be really long”.
Don’t know if you ended up watching it, but effectively they’re able to randomly execute code during the loading screen using a bug caused by audio generation vs controller polling. So by using TAS tools they can spam the controller to cause an audio bug that let’s them jump to executing code from Ram that they are able to manipulate using controller inputs.
TLDR: Using a bug in the audio processing, they can use controller inputs to write arbitrary code that jumps them to the end of the game.
*by cheating
TAS stands for tool assisted speedrun.
TAS is cool as people can use it to find the most optimal way to finish a game. Sometimes tricks are too hard for people to do or at least they are believed to be to hard for people to do. Sometimes TAS “only” tricks end up being done by people.
Just a fancy word for cheating
With tool assistance?
Yeah, that’s cheating.
It’s not cheating, it’s just its own category of speedrun.
How do you cheat in tool assisted speedruns? Using a romhack?
The entire run is cheating by nature
The whole point is that it’s a TAS. This is a whole category of speed running. It would be cheating to submit a TAS as an actual speed run but submitting a TAS as a TAS is clearly not cheating.
