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Movies / Kung Fu / M6908
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Kung Fu

by eien86 · Phil●

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Author's notes

Introduction

Kung Fu is the classic 1-D fighting game for the NES. I've been working on this game intermittently for 3 years already. Back then, I failed to achieve any improvements because of a confluence of factors (not understanding the game fully, not enough computational power, focusing on the wrong part). But this week I had the patience to look deeper and was able to crack the code.

Turns out some of the boss fights allowed for sacrificing a few frames for the sake of losing even more HP than in the current TAS. With less HP, the bonus screen takes less time to complete, therefore saving time overal. I save 11 frames from the boss in level 1, and 22 frames from the boss in level 3.

Enjoy!

Comparison Movie

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Software + Hardware

Rom Information

  • Name: Kung Fu
  • ROM: Kung Fu (U) [!].nes
  • SHA1: C054A885FB9B00D3F6797A35BA5579F2896A254A
  • MD5: 27E5C62C6C169896BF80BAFB6595CEB8

Routing Bot

  • Bot: JaffarPlus
  • Routing Core: QuickerNES
  • Platform:
  • AMD Epyc 9965 (192 cores, 384 threads) + 1536Gb RAM
  • Exploration Rate: ~4 Mstates/s

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