[TAS] GBA Mega Man Battle Network 2 by mtvf1 in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/2319M
TAS originally published on 2013-02-18
The Mega Man Battle Network series envisions Mega Man and his friends and enemies as computer programs rather than robots. It also changes gameplay from platformer to RPG, with battle mechanics similar to collectible card games.
In the second game, Lan and Mega Man are fighting a terrorist organization called Gospel, but this TAS divulges little of the plot. The author, mtvf1 ( tasvideos.org/Users/Profile/m... ), races through the game, avoiding unnecessary random battles and precisely manipulating battle chip winnings and order to quickly overcome all foes. He also improves his previous movie ( tasvideos.org/1967M ) by 02:06.51 minutes.
We also have a run for the first game in the series ( tasvideos.org/1560M ).

[@MapleLeafSA]

Watching him walk past all the blue diamonds is painful

[@someoneusedtobeknown2645]

Y e s

[@One-Week-Wizard]

I mean it's best to save the non HP memories til the end of the game anyway because Gospel Duping lets you get extra copies of normally one-time chips very easily. Makes grinding for the WWW areas a breeze when you have like five guardians and five Zeushammers in your deck at the same time

[@reesecates8620]

IKR? I always wondered why the TASer skips most of the HP memories and it felt like torture.

[@gyrasolune5436]

@@reesecates8620 I mean it's a TAS so the whole point is to go as fast as possible, and since it's Battle Network every attack is avoidable. For basically the entire back half of the game every fight is resolved in 4 seconds with VarSword + Prism so most of them don't even get to attack anyway.

[@eh5006]

@@gyrasolune5436 It's sorta that. the real reason if you hadn't noticed is because if you hit press A on a frame of when you supposed to get an encounter it skips it for alittle, a normal human can't tell when they need to hit the frame let alone on a constant basis. a bot knows how to infinitely skips the encounter checks so they don't need ho memory for sneak runs. a regular speedrunner will tho

[@titansquadd]

There's no way I missed this! Wtf! I loved this game as a kid! 😭

[@cococolonel]

I see Battle Network, I click. Even 4.

[@One-Week-Wizard]

They really need to bring these together into a collection for Switch. I'd pay 40 bucks for the ability to play 2 and 3 again, BCC was a guilty pleasure of mine, and i'd even sneak in a pity playthrough of 4 too.
Make it happen Capcom, my money's waiting

[@MantaRaydiated]

Well hey looks like your money won’t be waiting for long now.

[@One-Week-Wizard]

@@MantaRaydiated I KNOOOOOOOOOOOOW.
SO HYPE.
shame about BCC but I can live with it

[@Shade557]

Freezeman begs to differ.

[@clairebennett9104]

I Literally Typed In: *"Gamer Pad"* And I Found This Instead

[@Bluedragon-sr2wz]

EVEN MORE MEGAMAN EXE YAY

[@ZeroGDucks]

41:51 - What in the name of Arbitrary Code Execution is happening? 😳

[@timothybell9348]

I was about to say that we can skip the yellow ice at Den Area 1 by using the gate keys but you need to open the gates from Den Area 1, so there's no time saved there (stupid NPC being five screens out of the way).
Could any time be saved by getting the GospCode post-Magnetman? Since we have to talk to Yai to finish the day anyway it'd largely be a matter of routing in the request board visit (which in as heavy an RNG manip as this game is it's not trivial)

[@justarandomalt255]

I'm probably at the first gutsman fight right now but hey I've got time to spare
I'm at the Blu fragments part and I've got 1

[@yohanp1632]

May the navi god bless you !

[@Supertails224]

I just said “wonder if they uploaded a new tas today?” Yes. Just as I ask, they have. On a really neat Game that I never got into as a kid, but watched a lot of videos about, and may have seen a speedrun of during an AGDQ or the like.

[@evanmagolor1812]

You mean a new* TAS

[@CaosEnriqueArt123]

How do you quickly pick chips at the beginning of battles? How do you always get what you want? What are those hacks called? 7v7

[@abrown903]

I never ran this game but I'm guessing this game has an RNG system that can be fully manipulated by the runner, such as clock-based RNG. You can think of it as the runner re-loading the save whenever he gets an outcome he didn't want. If you look closely, you can see he's also avoiding encounters and manipulating enemy movements in this way.

[@xyan07]

You need to read what TAS (tool assisted speeruns) are. Is not a hacking but manipulation of luck and RNG

[@abraveastronaut]

1:35:55 All your Bass are belong to us.

[@winstoneduardovaldiviavere5409]

1:33:29 1:34:42 1:36:05 WTF

[@winstoneduardovaldiviavere5409]

1:36:19.

[@michaelrapaport4494]

This is not legit at all. How would he never get a random encounter? He's using hacks.

[@michaelrapaport4494]

@David Jameson or you can just turn on no random encounters cheat and pretend it was ran billions of times to occur naturally

[@MsMiDC]

Go and look how RNG manipulation works. You are making a fool of yourself like this.

[@michaelrapaport4494]

@@MsMiDC People like you would believe anything.

[@abraveastronaut]

You can literally download the emulator replay file and confirm it for yourself, you obscene brick.

[@michaelrapaport4494]

@@abraveastronaut I don't cheat.