[TAS] Terminator 2: Judgment Day Arcade

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Terminator-assisted superplay (TAS) of Terminator 2: Judgment Day Arcade
What is a TAS? https://www.youtube.com/c/Prog61/about

Goal:
-Complete the game with one credit
-Getting as little damage as possible (without taking weeks to optimize)

Notes:
-It's far from a perfect TAS.
-This is my first TAS of this game. I hadn't planned ahead. I only reacted to what was happening on the screen. Now that I see the final video, it's easy to spot things I could do better. It will be for next time.

-I lost a bit of energy here and there and more in battle with the T-1000. I think it's possible not to lose any, but it would be very hard for a human (but not for a terminator?).
-I didn't get 100% accuracy in the stats, I think sometimes enemies spawn near the edge of the screen and disappear quickly without giving you time to shoot them.
-But now seeing the finished video, I wonder why I let go of some of the robots in the 1st level.
-And keep in mind that it is the T-800 that plays. Since it only has a 6502 processor in its head (as in the Apple ][, as clearly shown in the first movie at 37:29) he doesn't have enough processing power to keep up with the game 😀😀😀

-The rng depends among other things on the position of the crosshair, so it is easy to abuse it in a TAS.
-I abuse it in the 'Trip to Skynet' section. I move the position of the crosshair before a flying enemy enters the screen until they don't shoot at me or the truck.
-But it's easy to make a mistake, I had to redo some parts 2-3 times because of me moving the crosshair too soon.
-I'm used to pointing at a target a few frames before it enters the screen, but if I did that in this game, the fact that I moved the crosshairs makes the enemy appear somewhere else. And sometimes I only see that when I replay the whole TAS, so I have to redo the last part that I did. Maybe there is also a small problem with the "save state".

-I was surprised to see that I hadn't shot enough things in Cyberdyne's office, I had the impression that we didn't have to shoot all the things but I was wrong. Now that I see the video, I can see what I didn't shoot. I should have used the shotgun more often at this point.
-But since it's the T-800 that plays, he largely preferred that Cyberdyne not be destroyed since without them he wouldn't exist. 😀

- In the steel mill, punching a hole in the liquid nitrogen tank is sometimes difficult to do. Sometimes a shotgun blast does the trick, but other times you have to shoot 3 times. I do not know why.
-From the steel mill, I didn't try not to get hit, as long as I didn't die that was fine with me.

-The last battle with the T-1000 has 4 phases:
-To start you have to shoot him so that he falls on the bridge and disappears by liquefying
-2nd phase is when he is close to you, shoot his head until his head splits in two.
-3rd phase is to shoot him with the shogun to knock him back until he is about to fall into the molten steel
-get the grenade launcher that will fall from the far left or right of the screen, shoot it 2 times.

Maybe I should redo the 2nd part of the game from the desktop? You tell me.

It took about 30 hours of work to make this TAS. Thanks for watching.

For a good introduction to TASing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ietk1-Wb7oY
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0:00 - Title screen
0:25 - Battlefield
5:15 - Human Hideout
7:49 - Trip to Skynet
10:38 - Skynet
18:12 - Cyberdyne
23:01 - Escape from Cyberdyne
24:25 - Steel Mill (T-1000)
27:53 - Credits
29:22 - Score and Title







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