Town of ZZT in ~26:00 by Dr. Dos
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Town of ZZT in ~26:00 by Dr. Dos
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Adventure
Presenting the first ever speedrun of a ZZT game.
It turns out there's a dosbox for the speedrunners on tasvideos.org. Last summer when I finally beat Town I found a trick to skip a section and felt like one of those fancy speedrunners. I wanted to do a speedrun then but dosbox's natural avi recording makes my computer crawl, and using camtasia only records at less than 1fps.
So I found this dosbox which just records key input.
To view the video
1. Download it
2. Extract to a folder (ideally C:\townspeed)
2b. If you extract it elsewhere follow these steps:
2c. Rename dosbox.conf dosbox.txt
2d. At the end of the file where it has the line mount C C:\townspeed replace it with mount C "directory" whever you extracted it.
3. Run dosbox.exe
4. It will appear to have frozen, this is because the emulator automatically pauses itself so you don't waste frames. Press F4 to unpause the emulator and the movie will begin to play itself.
This run could easily be improved with things like planning. My only planning was a little piece of paper with the bank combination and jazz man puzzle solutions. It would also be improved if dosbox didn't suck with ZZT making the player handle like a horrible truck.
I think you'll enjoy the ending too, it was very tense.
Also I really fucked up in the mixer and the room with the purple key where you use bombs and objects throw stars.
- Takes damage to save time
- Abuses programming errors in the game
- Genre: Adventure
Presenting the first ever speedrun of a ZZT game.
It turns out there's a dosbox for the speedrunners on tasvideos.org. Last summer when I finally beat Town I found a trick to skip a section and felt like one of those fancy speedrunners. I wanted to do a speedrun then but dosbox's natural avi recording makes my computer crawl, and using camtasia only records at less than 1fps.
So I found this dosbox which just records key input.
To view the video
1. Download it
2. Extract to a folder (ideally C:\townspeed)
2b. If you extract it elsewhere follow these steps:
2c. Rename dosbox.conf dosbox.txt
2d. At the end of the file where it has the line mount C C:\townspeed replace it with mount C "directory" whever you extracted it.
3. Run dosbox.exe
4. It will appear to have frozen, this is because the emulator automatically pauses itself so you don't waste frames. Press F4 to unpause the emulator and the movie will begin to play itself.
This run could easily be improved with things like planning. My only planning was a little piece of paper with the bank combination and jazz man puzzle solutions. It would also be improved if dosbox didn't suck with ZZT making the player handle like a horrible truck.
I think you'll enjoy the ending too, it was very tense.
Also I really fucked up in the mixer and the room with the purple key where you use bombs and objects throw stars.
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You need 6 purple keys.Kjorteo wrote:How to get a good time in Town using exploits:
?keys
?keys
?keys
?keys
?keys
WIN
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How to get a good time in Town using exploits:
del town.zzt
http://zzt.org/fora/
Go to Administration Panel
Login as Fungahhh/**********
User Admin->Ban Control
Kjorteo
del town.zzt
http://zzt.org/fora/
Go to Administration Panel
Login as Fungahhh/**********
User Admin->Ban Control
Kjorteo
fungahhh
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Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds,
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down.
I went right home and I went to bed,
I stuck that lovin' .44 beneath my head.
Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun,
took a shot of cocaine and away I run.
Made a good run, but I run too slow,
they overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico.
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down.
I went right home and I went to bed,
I stuck that lovin' .44 beneath my head.
Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun,
took a shot of cocaine and away I run.
Made a good run, but I run too slow,
they overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico.
*POW* *CLANK* *PING*
It's broken. I ran it, and when the player dude gets to the water board
to the west, he gets hit, and then proceeds to wander around, making
it back into the Armory, where he wanders around, blocks off the Jazzman
path, tries to use a torch, and then randomly pauses a lot. I'm reasonably
sure that's not what is supposed to happen.
to the west, he gets hit, and then proceeds to wander around, making
it back into the Armory, where he wanders around, blocks off the Jazzman
path, tries to use a torch, and then randomly pauses a lot. I'm reasonably
sure that's not what is supposed to happen.
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I made sure to play it back on my computer.
I do not know what to say! I'd love to get it in avi format but alas I cannot.
I do not know what to say! I'd love to get it in avi format but alas I cannot.
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