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Sword of the Samurai

by eien86

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Author's notes

Introduction

Yet another of those forgotten DOS gems. This time you are a lowly samurai with his own small fiefdom within one of the many provinces of Japan. Through honor, warfare, friendship, plotting, deceit, treason, and assasination, you stand out among your peers and climb the ladder of power to become the local chief, a Hatamoto. Once again among the ranks of competing lords, you find your way to crush their ambitions of power and become a provincial lord -- a Daimyo. As Daimyo you fight others on the field of battle or through subjugation to become the lord of the entire Japan: the Shogun!

I used to play this game time and time again, just to discover every single hidden event and adventure in the most unlikely ways. You can play this game in so many ways, it's guaranteed fun for many hours. I hope the clunky graphics and sound doesn't prevent anybody from giving it a go.

I wanted to TAS this game for the longest time but wasn't sure how to approach it. In the end, I figured the fastest way to ascend the ranks was through quickly gain warriors (improving my rank among my peers). This served pretty well to get to first rank as samurai and quickly assasinate my lord to become Hatamoto. As Hatamoto I repeated this process but had to insult my biggest competitor so that he challenges me to a duel. After the duel, his heir turns out worse than him so I gain first place. Then I just assasinate the Daimyo to become it myself

As Daimyo I just invade others willy nilly, trying to subjugate as many of them (avoiding battles) and fighting duels to gain honor. Once I got enough momentum (warrior count), I just piledrived all the others to declare myself shogun at the first chance I had. The last input is the beginning of the last battle. My warriors win the battle on their own.

Explanation movie

I made this movie to explain the mechanics of the game first, and then I go on explaining the TAS a bit more. I hope it serves to clarify the decisions made therein.

Software + Hardware

  • Game: Sword of the Samurai - Version 445.03
  • Floppy Disk: disk1.img
  • Source: https://www.goodolddays.net/en/diskimages/?id=3465
  • SHA1: b1e66b3e91cb505edd44514f7d1bdfa34690a113
  • MD5: 7fb25662c0e82a3b43330d1c0edb8e58

Emulator

  • JPC-rr 11.8-rc2

Routing Bot

None. This is a manual TAS.

Cheat Engine Table

There is this table I created a while ago for the Cheat Engine community.

https://fearlessrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?t=11467

Encoder Note

Please use this movie for publication; it contains extra inputs to show the full credits

Community notes

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