Tool-assisted speedruns

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Tool-assisted speedruns

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http://tasvideos.org/Movies-DOS.html

There's a tool-assisted speedrun of Keen 5 in 2 minutes and 42 seconds.
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And Duke Nukem, and SkyRoads. Neat!

Coincidentally I was watching a bunch of TASes today. Some more to download and view!
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I want to see the rest of the Duke 1 episode speedruns. Heck, how about Duke II speedruns?

What 'tools' did they use in these runs?
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Some emulators and stuff also support "recording", with which you can record and later playback a file containing a series of timings and key inputs, and they hack that.

Sometimes they code their own tools, or use scripts, etcetera. I bet it's a bit more complicated for DOS games since this seems to be running from a virtual machine and not an actual emulator like DOSBox, though. Maybe a specifically programmed key press simulator?
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Post by Levellass »

Hah, I remember fiddling Keen demo files like that.

How did he get from level 1 to the Korath base?
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He got pushed off a pole by a Little Ampton... it's a bug that puts Keen a tile lower when he goes through a door (such as the exit), which of course sends him to an unknown offset, which warps him to Korath.
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Galaxieretter wrote:I want to see the rest of the Duke 1 episode speedruns. Heck, how about Duke II speedruns?
The creator of the Duke Nukem 1 episode 1 speedrun is working on episode 2.
Galaxieretter wrote:What 'tools' did they use in these runs?
JPC-RR. It's a rerecording version of JPC, an x86 emulator written in Java. Classic DOS Games uses JPC for running DOS games in a web browser.
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