Druglord

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Author's notes

Introduction

Druglord is a reimagining/improvement of 1984's Drug Wars, a trading game where you buy low and sell high, arbitrating the price of goods across cities. You may take high interest loans to leverage your position while taking market risk. However, through the magic of TAS, risk is not an issue, so loans are basically free money.

The game has random events where problems may arise, like unpleasant situations where your liquidity gets subtracted from you, or unfriendly encounters with law enforcement. Other events, where the price of goods shoot up or down may be manipulated in your favor.

The goal of the game is to reach 300 status points, which grants you an honorary title. My strategy for this game was to take loans until I have plenty of liquidity and try to avoid problems as much as I could.

This movie can be improved, especially trying to evade or reduce the number of encounters with uniformed agents. However, the depth of RNG manipulation required would be very high, so I am content with the end result here.

Software + Hardware

Emulator

EmuHawk 2.11 (Core: DOSBox-X)

ROM

Source File: DRUGLORD.zip

SHA1: ec6af0b96bd2b3ad7d92c360335776901beef903

Whose contents were loaded into a TAS_CD.iso with the windows version of the create iso tool.

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