[TAS] [WIP] Concentration Room - solitaire, blind (A bored god plays Concentration)
Concentration Room is a neat little freeware open source NES homebrew game, which is more interesting as a programming case study than an actual game. It's just Concentration, although the story mode has some batshit lore. I'm just doing Solitaire for now!
So, what does "blind" mean? Well, as a hacker, I can cheat and see under all the cards, but that's no fun. Instead, I made my cheats only tell me what's under cards I've already flipped, then TASed optimal play based on what knowledge I should have moment to moment. I even made sure not to press any buttons until the card was visibly flipped. I may end up increasing this delay to normal human reaction times so you can have a few frames to think for yourself.
While the little mouse cursor thing moves somewhat slowly, it is purely visual. The actual controls are tight, with frame perfect response times. There's also an odd feature where you can press B to pick a random card, which is sometimes faster than menuing there directly, especially since you can't wrap around the edges. Reminds me of the beginning of this video: • If A Perfect Bot Entered A Tournament - A ...
Whoops, I accidentally broke my little serpentine pattern on the bottom row! I will probably redo the ending.