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Message: [QUOTE="Zemus, post: 27983, member: 40101"] [ATTACH type="full" alt="videoframe_4739.png"]8772[/ATTACH] Anyone remember the buzz around this one a few years ago? What's the fastest time? 5.54 according to the developers? 5.51 according to hearsay? 5.57? 5.61? It turns out there's pretty much a book's worth of writing out there about all these time points, which is unheard of for a game that was so...unheard of. [URL='https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/6b60z3/the_35year_wr_solving_atari_2600_dragster/']Someone disassembled the code and concluded, at great length, that the fastest possible time was 5.57.[/URL] They even included a simulation they programmed...on [URL='https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HhaBah7e48lBRA18v8Mgr-fRVZS5DUJb_pnOsBTC34c/'][B]Google Docs[/B][/URL]! See if you can get the inputs right and maybe even lower the time. You'll be in for more of a challenge than you think! The analysis and discussion goes way deeper than you'd expect; I was going to put quotes here, but I'll stick with a simple link here to do their work and research justice. The comments there even mention a game mechanic that [S]neither the OP nor the developers knew about[/S] with the right modification,[URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipt-MNAb82A'] makes 5.51 possible after all[/URL]. I'm glad I posted this thread, since I'm already learning more from it. In short, it's a fantastic rabbit hole to explore if you have any interest in speedrunning, ROM hacking, or the way old games worked. I finally grabbed a ROM myself just now, so I'm interested in anything anyone has to add. [/QUOTE]

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