I was going to ask if the emulator's accuracy might be a factor, but I found this comment from Omnigamer in the video's comment section:
[quote=Omnigamer]Regardless of how accurate an emulator might be, the simulator I created (spreadsheet) was built solely from the game code. It is mathematical progression, pure and simple. The emulator simply backed up what the simulator gave out. As best as I can tell there was nothing else that could possibly influence the timing other than what I have in the simulator.•[/quote]
So I guess that's out the window?
He's just mad he doesn't have sick skills like the King of Video Games.
Is there any way to try and recreate potential hardware errors that could lead to his impossible time?
[QUOTE=Durrsly;52369168]Is there any way to try and recreate potential hardware errors that could lead to his impossible time?[/QUOTE]
Yes, after completing an astronomical number of different runs with different swapped bits
[QUOTE=BlackPhoenix;52369359]Yes, after completing an astronomical number of different runs with different swapped bits[/QUOTE]
I mean, we can isolate it to things that are probably relevant, namely anything it memory related to controls, the gear shift, and speed.
What makes me skeptical is apparently the guy managed to recreate this several times.
[url]https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/6b60z3/the_35year_wr_solving_atari_2600_dragster/[/url]
Here's a good writeup about it from the guy who made the speadsheet it mentions.
Activision says he was able to do it for them and that's all that matters. But the real question is, why didn't Activision record it? And did they let him bring his own cartridge / system or did he do it on ones that they provided?
In super mario world you can credits warp from the first level with some bugs wizardry during a speedrun, it could just be some unknown bug being used he didn't want to publicize, and bugs are valid in speedruns.
Unless FP thinks using bugs in a speedrun is cheating.
[QUOTE=Mattk50;52370348]In super mario world you can credits warp from the first level with some bugs wizardry during a speedrun, it could just be some unknown bug being used he didn't want to publicize, and bugs are valid in speedruns.
Unless FP thinks using bugs in a speedrun is cheating.[/QUOTE]
It would most likely have been found by someone examining the game's code directly if that was the case.
[QUOTE=Tamschi;52370353]It would most likely have been found by someone examining the game's code directly if that was the case.[/QUOTE]
It took countless years for other games bugs to be discovered to be fair, even after they'd been decompiled.
[QUOTE=Tamschi;52370353]It would most likely have been found by someone examining the game's code directly if that was the case.[/QUOTE]
The credits warp bug Mattk50 mentioned in SMW was only discovered in the last few years or so. And SMW is one of the games that people have examined the code most thoroughly for. To the point where there's been a fully commented disassembly of the game released and SMWCentral.net has a rom and ram map of the game. (Though to be fair an SNES game is a ton more complex than an Atari 2600 game, SMW is 512kb iirc versus this one's 2kb, and SMW is much newer than this game as well.)
[QUOTE=Tamschi;52370353]It would most likely have been found by someone examining the game's code directly if that was the case.[/QUOTE]
Uhh, no. If it was that easy then bugs wouldn't even exist in the first place. Because you know, people are examining the code directly when they're writing it.
[QUOTE=Mattk50;52370388]It took countless years for other games bugs to be discovered to be fair, even after they'd been decompiled.[/QUOTE]
Right, but the main difference here is that this game is [I]very[/I] simple.
It's not difficult to fully recreate the code and examine all possible inputs to the game.
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