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Movies / Lunar Pool / M6506
Nintendo Entertainment System maximum frictionImported

Lunar Pool

by eien86

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Author's notes

Introduction

https://i.imgur.com/b7pOX75.jpeg

I SWEAR I AM DONE NOW.

Ok, in my previous movies there were people both here and in youtube asking for a max friction movie. I guess they thought I wouldn't pay attention, but I just cannot escape a challenge. Also squeeze the last drop of juice from my bespoke bot.

So. Max friction. It's a different challenge because many more strikes are necessary to score all balls and each one of them becomes more fine-grained.

Since the exploration space is much larger in this case, I had to adopt some additional heuristics to make it work. The most important of them being: use only the most powerful shot (and just in case allow for one or two lighter ones).

See 9499S (TASVideos submission) for a detailed explanation of the TASing process for this game.

Software + Hardware

Rom Information

  • Name: Lunar Ball
  • ROM: Lunar Ball (J) [!].nes
  • SHA1: AA5C574A4743991A3523DFD78A39D782BEDE262A
  • MD5: 26F1B77980A216767EA63C41397476E5

Emulator

  • EmuHawk 2.10 (Core: QuickerNES)

Routing Bot

  • Bot: LunarBot
  • Routing Core: QuickerNES
  • Platform:
  • 2 x AMD Epyc 7763 (128 cores, 256 threads) + 512Gb RAM
  • Exploration Rate: ~16k shots/s

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