This article presupposes that the reader has some knowledge of what Tool-Assisted Speedrun is, how to make it in a general way and some of the basic programs. For more information, read the tutorials at TASVideos. Furthermore, we assume that the reader is able to perform the basic features of the emulator Snes9x, spacially version 1.43, in which the Lua Scripts will work.
Now, we are gonna show a set of useful links, with a brief description about them.
- http://tasvideos.org/GameResources/SNES/SuperMarioWorld.htm
This page is updated from times to times and contains many informations, specially for starters.
- http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=viewthread&t=30450
It has several descriptions of glitches with little information about them.
- http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1571
Topic at TASvideos, where the players discuss the game, TASes of it and new stuff.
- http://www.smwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page
An encyclopedia [wiki] with various articles (e.g., Key ou Pokey).
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A list with all the RAM adresses of the game and a brief description of each one. Quoting the table at the first URL of this post
Address Meaning 7E007B (1-byte signed) Horizontal Velocity[3] 7E007D (1-byte signed) Vertical Velocity 7E0094 (2-byte) Horizontal Position 7E13DA (1-byte) Horizontal Sub-pixel 7E0096 (2-byte) Vertical Position 7E13DC (1-byte) Vertical Sub-pixel 7E13E4 (1-byte) P-meter 7E149F (1-byte) Takeoff Meter 7E01F2 (1-byte) In-level Lag Indicator[4] 7E0F34 (2-byte) Score 7E0019 (1-byte) Powerup Status 7E0076 (1-byte) Player Direction 7E14AD (1-byte) Blue P-Switch Timer 7E14AE (1-byte) Gray P-Switch Timer 7E186B (1-byte) Multiple Coin Block Timer 7E190C (1-byte) Directional Coin Timer 7E1891 (1-byte) P-balloon Timer 7E1490 (1-byte) Star Timer 7E1497 (1-byte) Player Hurt Timer http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=map&type=rom
A list of many ROM adresses of the game.
- http://code.google.com/p/smw-tas/source/browse/
SMW project that has some Lua Scripts and the wips (work in progress) of some TASes. For example. SMW (96 exits) e SMW (small-only).
- http://deanyd.net/smw/index.php?title=Main_Page
Encyclopedia for speedrunners of SMW.
- http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=viewforum&f=69
A forum from smwcentral about Kaizo hacks... Better to visit those topics [1][2].
Lua Scripts:
- Utility Script: http://code.google.com/p/gocha-tas/source/browse/trunk/Scripts/SMWUtils.lua [mirror]. Shows on screen useful info, like the position, speed, etc of Mario and other sprites. (by Gocha and Mister).
- Comparison: http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=219824#219824 [mirror]
With this, you can compare your current run with other smv files. They appear like a ghost at the same time you are playing. If you can't make it work, put all the files in the same folder of the emulator exe. (by Amaurea).
- Utility + Comparison: http://bin.smwcentral.net/u/19823/smwplayer_smwutils.lua.rar
The fusion of the scripts above. If you can't make it work, use the DLL files in the same folder.
I don't know who made this, if you do tell me (by ???)
- Info about blocks: http://code.google.com/p/smw-tas/source/browse/trunk/lua/smwblockinfo.lua. Useful for block duplications, walljumps and corner clips (by Masterjun).
TASers: Just some of them...
- Amaraticando (me): this blog, youtube and twitter.
- bahamete: blog, youtube , twitch and twitter.
- Dawn: youtube and twitter.
- ISM: blog, youtube and twitter.
- Kaizoman666: blog, youtube and twitter.
- Masterjun: youtube and twitter
- Mister: blog, youtube and twitter.
- PangaeaPanga: blog, youtube and twitter.
- TheFinalBoss726: blog, youtube, twitch and twitter.
