Phantom Brave TAS - Part 1/6 (up to episode 3)

Tool-assisted speedrun (TAS): recorded using savestates and frame advance, to "play" better than humanly possible. (also manipulates luck)


I've wanted to see at least one of NIS's SRPG's getting owned in record time for a while already (I've beaten them all now), but Disgaea DS (with the newly available DS re-recording) isn't that great and no one had done PlayStation 2 re-recording yet, so I picked up PCSX2 0.9.6's source, tried doing it myself (partly to see if I could), and got basic re-recording features working after a few days. Then I started this run ...

I picked this game over the more popular Disgaea since it should be the shortest (probably no more than 2 hours, I've beaten the main story in 6½ hours on my second playthrough) and it's considered the hardest in the series.

This first part goes until halfway through episode 3, with all story/dialogue parts fast-forwarded by about 10x to fit more action within the length limit. (Work in progress)

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• TAS
• tool
• assisted
• speedrun
• PlayStation
• PS2
• PCSX2
• NIS
• Nippon
• Ichi
• video
• game
• Phantom
• Brave
• Marona
• Ash

[retrotails]

Holy crap, how long did it take to make a 32MB RAM save state??

[Acmlm1]

1-2 seconds for every save/load, which isn't so bad really (not sure how much of it is from compressing the savestate) ... but that's on a computer fast enough to run the game at full speed.

[DeIpolo]

Heh, took me a bit of time before realising this is a Phantom Brave TAS from the title.

Why the b?

[Acmlm1]

I took my time writing the description and the video finished uploading by then, it should look better now (hehe).

[IanNewYasha]

What's the hotkey for frame advance in PCSX2-RR?? Did I miss it in the manual or something??

[Sceptera]

on the PSP version is it even possible to do that level trick anymore cause theres no R2 trigger for you to use it

[SegaBroadcast]

How are you going to record the AVI

[XBladenoJutsu]

Holy crap this is amazing. Not only is it awesome but... PS2 TAS is... wow.

[AKheon]

Great luck manipulating.

Surprised to see PS2 TASes this early, but positively so.

[rogueyoshi]

very interesting...

[Surlentkun]

Replace "said" with "sad" in my comment. Damn typos [...]

[Surlentkun]

Actually pretty interesting how far the emulator PCSX2 goes. I don't own the game so I cannot tell which effects are not or wrong emulated yet. As for the game, it looks fun, but actually it is said it only is so short (taken from the video description). I only tied it with Disgaea some years ago and it worked, albeit slow on my old machine.

By the way, nice (easy) way to level up reviving people. And it is not that common yet that SRPGs are TAS-ed either; until now probably, heh. Good work!