The only reason it is entertaining is because you see runners try and run the game for hundreds of hours and not even get close to what the TASbot does. That's why I say, in the Olympics, let a random person do the sports to show the huge skill difference between us and the athletes
Darren Wilson Actually, you can't prove that. Sure, it would be more difficult without TASbot, but you could theoretically manipulate the touch screen similarly without it.
Technically, he can say that. Because until you've seen the game manipulated that way by a human, it simply cannot be confirmed or even realistically plausible. TASBot is the only thing to have ever done it. period.
Zach Green I never said it would look this good while it was being done XD But learning the way the game reads your inputs, then practicing and practicing to manipulate it in real time isn't even that implausible; but nobody has really cared to do so as far as I know. I played the game a little as a child, and I would accidentally write the wrong answer and get it right anyway on a fairly common basis.
This is the sort of thing I worry about. By presenting TASBot as a runner at GDQ, people get the impression that TASes are created by computers. The runners are human. TASBot merely plays the inputs back on a console.
+TehSoulja you're wrong. Brain age actually does assign those numbers to those specific pixel combinations. They tested the images before hand and know what the character recognizer will assign to each image. Then they manipulated the RNG of the game so that the questions being asked had the answers they wanted in the correct order.
I haven’t laughed as much as that one guy did in my entire life. In this one event he’s laughed louder and way more than I ever have in my whole 15 years of living.
For anyone else curious, the QR code at 46:47 just points to tasvideos.org. Also I remember finding that glitched swimming form in SMB3 with Game Genie codes. Crazy.
To explain the Brain Age one: The images in the GDQ run are actually tricking the game into thinking that the image is the number. Mostly, that consists of drawing things it doesn't recognise (which it ignores) and ensuring that a small proportion of the image is recognised as a number. If it can only see one number, that's the answer. It's also possible to go temporarily out of bounds for very short periods to confuse the game as to where lines start and end.
So did the Brain Age run use the "draw picture while the game ignores it, then draw real answer invisibly" trick? Or did it actually get those drawings accepted as answers? Loved the beginning with TASBot crashing and rebooting, and being unable to get the game to recognize a zero. The smartass answers were pretty great too. The actual drawings were less interesting, just random memes and characters mostly, but I guess it's hard to come up with 120 hilarious scenes.
+Rena Kunisaki Those drawings were actually accepted as answers. If you wanna read more about it I suppose you could find the submission notes for the Brain Age TAS.
@@MattTheCommenter It tries to guess what number you drew even if its not a number so if it thinks X looks like a 6 more than any other number, it says its a six
Shoutout to Sethbling, he used to work at Microsoft, then he was a Minecraft Masterpiece builder, one of his builds got featured in a book, and i got that one book! He's an awesome dude, really!
There's another video of the Brain Age run with the chat. Whenever an emote came up, the chat would spam it until something else appeared. It's pretty entertaining.
Basically, SMB3 reads the joypad state at least twice until it receives the same state twice in a row. The TAS overwhelms the game by changing the input between every joypad read, injecting code and writing into areas that shouldn’t be touched. So the inputs would have to be really fast, really dense, and make no apparent sense.
1:25 Mario Kart 64 Star Cup TAS 9:00 TASBot VS Humans (4-way Multispecies Race) 27:20 TASBot plays Brain Age And I'm not doing the rest because 1: I'm lazy, and 2. Someone else did this already.
TAS block will be the biggest generation GDQ knows it. At least for the summer, someone will donate to play SM64 with that Droid64 instead of RobTAS. I basically love this
2:37 Just now realized it beat Wario Stadium in 0:11.34. What does 1134 read upside down? On a side note, I just now realized this video was released on my birthday. Thank you +TASVideosChannel!
Yes. Someone plays the game in an emulator that records the inputs. Then that recorded input file is loaded into TASBot, which plays them into the console as regular controller inputs on the controller ports.
2 things will always remain a constant in speedrunning : 1 - completing games as fast as possible 2 - blueglasses extremely high and incredibly obnoxious laugh. nice guy though
+weeeekt Yes, fully legit. Once we found out certain numbers could be solved with large consistency adding it certain manipulation, TheAxeMan made a script to pull out lines from Twitch and apply it to Brain Age with that manipulation.
+xy2_ Dude, that is absolutely incredible! I am in awe. The jokes were so good and it was such a nostalgic and nerdy trip that I actually got a little bit emotional. Thank you and the team so much for such a brilliant piece :)
Yes. By putting in commands way faster than any human can, you can actually write arbitrary code to memory to be executed. So you can get it to do pretty much whatever you want.
