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Hype - The Time Quest Playback Tool

Hype The Time Quest is an action adventure game from Ubisoft released in 1999. In RTA speedrunning you want to try to play the game as fast as possible with the goal of beating it.

The goal of this tool is to aid in the discovery of speedrunning strategies and a full tool assisted speedrun (TAS). This tool is able to manually read the inputs from the user and record them. This happens on a frame by frame basis, so in short you can program input sequences in a .csv table.

For short sequences this tool works already. The main problem of this tool is that it is not able to reliably repeat the input sequences. I suspect that this is due to the physics engine running way faster then the frame generation, which will lead to a tiny bit of offset everytime you start a sequence. This offset accumulates and makes this tool unusable for longer sequences.
My current ideas to overcome this problem include running the game in a virtual machine or binding the physics runtime to the frametime through memory manipulation.

Site Created: 2024/06/28 16:52 JST Site Modified: 2024/08/05 03:49 JST