GBA Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga TAS WIP 3

Tool-assisted

I was really lazy about TASing the mine carts minigame.

You will notice I kill Queen Bean with Mario's Hammer which deals only 1 damage. That's right, Queen Bean only had 1 HP left. There's no way to skip this round...

Waiting ~4 frames before starting the Popple & Bowser battle gave me the best luck. Delaying a battle like this only works on some bosses and enemies. It didn't work on Dragohoho so that's why I had to deal with the bad luck (having to select a reel twice) I got.

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[IndigoStarturds]

Hey, great job with the TAS. It's really awesome stuff. I was just wondering (again), what's this about, the "waiting before a battle" thing? Does the time you wait before initiating a battle affect your luck? If so, is it for the Lucky Hits or the bonus reel? I'm really curious about this, I thought the only value that affected luck was the Stache Points.

[mugg1991]

@IndigoStarturds

Stache seems to increase the chance of lucky hits, but you can deliberately manipulate them and the reels by waiting before a battle, even if the two RNG addresses 02001e60 and 02001e64 don't change. Apparently some battles can't be manipulated by waiting, but only by having different RNG values.

[mugg1991]

@mugg1991

By waiting, you can also manipulate item drops (in non-boss battles)

[eg0u5078]

Any chance of an update?

[mugg1991]

@eg0u5078

No, this will be on hold for many months.

[xXSevenesXx]

Wäre es nicht effektiver einen anderen Wert aufzustufen, damit der Angriffswert mehr als nur um 2 erhöht werden kann? Oder würde das zu viele Level Ups beanspruchen und sich letztendlich nicht lohnen?

[mugg1991]

@xXSevenesXx

wenn ich pow nicht erhöhe, bin ich schwächer im nächsten battle was manchmal bedeutet dass ich eine extra runde brauchte und es bringt ohnehin nichts. 1x 3 bekommen statt 2x 2 ist schlechter. ich werd aber später luck erhöhen weil ich dann teurer meine items später verkaufen kann.

[farkar78]

that was great! keep it going!

[Moist64]

Keep em coming man!!

[IndigoStarturds]

@mugg1991 Wow, I was aware of the RNG addresses, and my second guess was that maybe waiting affected those, but apparently that's not the case, huh? That's really interesting. Thanks for the info.

[xXSevenesXx]

@mugg1991

Okay, verstehe.

Ich freue mich schon auf den fertigen Run.

Schau ich mir dann sofort an.

Viel Glück weiterhin!