Arkanoid

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Author's notes

Introduction

This movie improves 182 frames off 984M (TASVideos), which was published.. 16 YEARS AGO!

Explanation:

Movie Frame | Frames # | Explanation
(0)         |      1   | Emulation Difference [This does not count as improvement]
(974)       |      2   | Earlier skip
(4570)      |      1   | Faster Death
(8641)      |      1   | Faster Round 4
(15138)     |    108   | Faster Boss Kill
(15819)     |     70   | Early input optimization
Total:           182

For some reason, and despite being extremely well done, the previous movie did not care much for optimizing the boss or limiting the last movie input. But who knows how the rules regarding movie length were handled back then. I also do not understand why the authors did not notice the 2 easy frames to be obtained by pressing START two frames early. The early death and faster round 4 frames are the most valuable, as they took some heavy optimizing.

Software + Hardware

Rom Information

Rom: Arkanoid (U) [!]

SHA1: 230FC31D2C2EB20E78711C82574F29F28117EBA3
MD5: 0CCC1A2FE5214354C3FD75A6C81550CC

Emulator

EmuHawk 2.9.0 (Core: NESHawk)

Routing Bot

Bot: JaffarPlus
Routing Core: QuickNES
Platform: 'The Jaffanator' - AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X (64 cores, 128 threads) + 256Gb RAM (Average Exploration Performance: 1.3M States/s)

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