Poll: Is FastROM sufficient for U.N. Squadron?
For who missed, I recently released a test version of U.N. Squadron with FastROM support. It increases the game internal speed from 2.68 MHz to 3.58 MHz. I have received some positive feedback from the work so far and I would like to know your thoughts about the patch.
Is FastROM sufficient for U.N. Squadron, so I can go look into optimizing the next game or does it need SA-1?
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Comments (6)
there is only a very rare slowdown. I consider the game to be good like that. Move on like secret of mana or zelda 3 or r-type 3 for SA-1
I voted for sa-1 but only because it's out there as a goal. Put it on the back burner if you want to do something else. But leave the door open.
U.N. Squadron isn't a game that I've played before so I'm not really qualified to assess it's performance. The nature of the changes also means you couldn't run a TAS recording to evaluate it. I have seen that there is a recent active speedrunner of the game by the name of RedSmxke, you could maybe reach out to them about running the FastROM version for testing. It of course wouldn't be valid for setting speedrun records but it would be valuable input. https://www.speedrun.com/user/RedSmxke
Well, the FastROM works great. I couldn't see any slowdown at all. But it's possible there could be slowdown on expert mode with more stuff on screen. What I would say is move on to something else, your job is done here. 😎👏
What would be the improvements with SA-1 over the FastROM?
zero slowdown on all game situations, but it will take more time to finish and there's more chances of bugs