This is your one-stop shop for finding the fastest times for these games or new runners to follow. Robotrek is a fantasy RPG with sci-fi and steampunk elements. It provides a smooth, accurate panning and tilting motion that follows the instructor as they walk around the presentation area of a classroom, eliminating the need for a camera operator. Entered the past at levels 27/26 and with no mirrors. I absolutely love this game and would happily return to running it again. Either way, this was intended to be a test run and then I never ended up doing more runs. Now, as promised at the beginning of this Robotics for Beginners post, Let us learn how to build a robot. All of the NES BioCom times listed are world records. Only one robot may fight at any time up against at most three enemies; the player can switch between robots at the cost of a turn (like in Pokémon). "[6], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robotrek&oldid=1003594427, Super Nintendo Entertainment System games, Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games, Articles using Infobox video game using locally defined parameters, Articles using Wikidata infoboxes with locally defined images, Articles containing Japanese-language text, Articles using Video game reviews template in multiple platform mode, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. The Mega Man community maintains their own extremely comprehensive leaderboards, which covers every game in the Mega Man series. robotrek:invent. This bonus can only be applied once, however. The player is allowed to build a maximum of three robots. However, they did praise the robots' special attacks and the ability to avoid encounters with enemies. I spent several months in late 2018 reverse-engineering the game’s mechanics and did a super aggressive reroute to cut out the crab grab. The listed PB is the result of this. Sub-3:20 is definitely possible (probably even a 3:15 or so, given enough time and good enough luck), but I’m happy with this run. This is the most representative demonstration of Robotrek speedrunning I can imagine. In the game, you play a boy called who builds 16-bit fighting robots to take on a villain from another planet in his plans for universal domination. You get a set amount of points (equal to [player_level * 10]+30) to distribute among the 5 stats as you please. With only one robot, I will be unable to let my robot die even once without having to start over from my last save point. This game is more active than it has ever been, and I highly recommend checking out the other runners! The player usually attacks first, unless the enemy has caught the player's side or from behind. Twitch lost the recording of this, so this is really only listed for historical purposes. Robotrek has similar gameplay to that of most RPG video games, with the notable exception that the main character is not the combatant; rather, the robots he invents are, making it more similar to Pokémon and Dragon Quest Monsters. Elixir is a broken spell. Somewhere on the order of 40 S.Brains ran away during the level grind. There are several sources of bonus experience: Unfortunately, bonus experience stays static for the entire game, and is therefore mostly useless by the time you fight the second boss. For each point into charge beyond the threshold, the fill time for a single unit is decreased by 8 frames. Oh, and there's an Einstein lookalike. Only 2 deaths in this run, both to unlucky early-game encounters. The best time is currently an incredible 21:42 by Koh1fds! As the name implies, you must use the Mega Buster for the entire game unless you are strictly required to use Rush Coil/Jet to progress. Blocking for enemies and for the player’s robots is fixed at a 25% chance, and is based off of the global frame counter (the number of total frames the game has been running). As its Japanese name implies, Robotrek was intended as a humorous game. This page will cover the basic flow of battle, robot stats, status effects, RUN command, general battle mechanics, and ATB/turn order. The plateaus in this function have interesting consequences for building a robot, especially based on what attacks you intend to use. For instance, if you intend to build charge and intend to use primarily shot-type weapons, it would be wise to stop investing points once your robot has 9 charge. Until you have enough spare points to get to the next threshold of 24, you can temporarily use the points in other stats and take them back later. This run was infuriating. When played at 800×600 and 56Hz with vsync on, I was able to climb over the barrier in stage 3. The fuel gauge is 24 units large, plus 1 invisible unit that fills after the meter is graphically full. For all attacks and RUN commands, please refer to the Equipment page. The fastest time for this category is currently a 5:26:27 by Zakky! Some inventions, equipment and scraps are not compatible. This run has been absolutely demolished by UnicornSid! The gauge's depletion will depend on what action the player used. I’m reminded of the Pokémon-esque Super NES game called Robotrek (1994), in which the player character builds and maintains a team of robots to defend himself on his quest to save the planet of Quintenix from a sinister faction called the Hackers. This continues until either the player or all the enemies are defeated. If you are successful in battle, you are rewarded with experience points and a chance at a capsule drop. If all robots die during battle, you are sent back to the title screen. We have a huge selection of parts and robot kits, great educational sets and all the books, tools and equipment necessary. Robotrek has similar gameplay to that of most RPG video games, with the notable exception that the main character is not the combatant; rather, the robots he invents are, making it more similar to Pokémon and Dragon Quest Monsters. Deathless run! Kamil had a 50% chance to hit and was dealing 120 damage. Most of the grinding was done against Undeeds in Monmo’s cave, and I didn’t do any seed manipulation. Gens (emulator) is able to play it, but Bizhawk and console cannot. UAVs & Drones. will never deal damage or apply status effects or special properties. Robots) do the fighting for him. We were even blessed with a Sword Sword drop! The game featured the innovative idea of building and customizing robots as party members, and boasted of having a humour-infused sci-fi storyline. The fight with Monmo was baffling, though. RRR, RR, RXR, XRR, LX, XL, LRR (L gun), RLL (L melee), RX. index. If the game thinks you are trying to avoid battle (the enemy walks into you while you’re facing away, or you try to run past the enemy offset by 1 tile) then the game usually gives initiative to the enemy. HalfMoon_Voodoo. Robotrek has a pretty unique but intuitive battle system. Without him, we would’ve struggled to get started. This run uses the Rotayo skip to skip directly to Toronto, skipping the entirety of the first two dungeons. You simply need to make it through without a single encounter. I also lost approximately 40 minutes to the Sky Rune fight. Nagisa gives you a few hints, as well as acting as your in-game save-point via radio. This category does not use the barrier skip in area 3. 19 deaths on Esuna, trying to get the Sky Rune, and 7 deaths trying to get to the final town from the crash site. It took nearly two hours to recruit Lejes, but he joined with excellent stats. Hahaha. The robots are highly customizable, in aspects such as equipment, special attacks, body color and name. How to Build a Robot is an online-only series of safety videos initially uploaded by the official Robot Wars Facebook page. Navigation. There are three rarity tiers for drops: super rare is 1/256, rare is 1/16, and common is everything else. Hitting a capsule in battle with a melee weapon or a “Blow” class weapon will open it, with 5 potential results: When I initially looked into this, I determined that the chance of an exploding capsule was 50% and everything else was 12.5%. Every enemy’s ability to block is listed in the Bestiary. Rask disregards that potential and hides the Tetron in shards throughout Quintenix. Robot Parts. However, the B boost is disabled when the robot’s charge stat is equal to or greater than 50. As a result, sometimes the fill rate with a charge stat of 50-80 is actually slower than a fill rate with a charge stat of 49 and B pressing. Shoutouts to Breakdown for teaching both of us the route that he developed years ago. ----[ Gameplay ]---- First of all, the main character dont fight. A weapon can increase strength by nine times (called levels). This combo looks really good on paper, except for the lack of late-game healing. The Let's Play Archive Robotrek by Azure_Horizon & Kobold ‹ Part #1 Part #3 › Return to LP Index. [4], GamePro assessed that Robotrek "unsuccessfully attempts to push the envelope of its genre." However, a blocked attack (ting!) This battling system also uses bonuses. pressing the B button more frequently than every 9 frames has no impact). Blocking is a binary property, so it doesn’t stack; a single piece of blocking equipment is sufficient for the full bonus. Gameplay. For more specific numbers for enemy stats or equipment, please see the corresponding pages. This run is extremely outdated, having been completed before the “JP Special mode” TAS, and has been beaten. 15 minute long slugfest against Gorsia to win it. The gameplay in Robotrek is centered around the ability to create, customize, and battle robots. Without being able to reset, dying to an apprentice is incredibly crippling because they will flee town with your teleport item. All options for capsules can be seen below. We still made it to the final save in 9:26, and then spent 1.5 hours attempting Gorsia. Each cutscene is a different length, so there is no strict conversion between the two versions (cutscene timings can be found here). While he is not running this game anymore, I need to give special thanks to BagtheTea for all of the help he gave with routing/motivation for this game. There were several close calls with single-digit HP! More items can be created by finding the "Inventor's Friends" series which can only be accessed depending on the character's level. Robotrek came out in 1994, a time when RPGs had found a comfortable niche on the Super Nintendo. (Obviously not finished yet; will be working on it). We captured Perole and brought him back to his throne in the past, as per tradition, and softlocked on Gariso on our first attempt. Both US runs use the new barrier skips in area 12, but the JP run has not been updated since that discovery. This run has no Twitch VOD because I was ashamed of it at the time. Robot Stats. It is up to the main character to stop Gateau in his space fortress. I will not be returning to runs of this game, due to ongoing harassment stemming from rumormongers. The Japanese version is slightly more difficult, so the US times should easily be able to cut the 23. RoboTRAK is an IR lanyard-based camera tracking system. ?s aptitude for Robotics Education. Pretty rough start because Kamil is garbage. Battling in the game takes place on a battlefield under a variation of the ATB system, in which the player must wait for a gauge to fill up before acting. Part 2: The Second Bot Gato is our first robot. This is your one-stop shop for finding the fastest times for these games or new runners to follow. Robotrek is able to stand out from other RPGs of the time due to its Pokémon-esque gameplay style (two years before Pokémon Red and Green were released in Japan).The main protagonist does not fight at all. Koh1fds (single player, no turbo) There are several other runners, but I am not terribly involved with this community anymore so I don’t know who is active. I had to reset twice because I ran out of B.Fires before Monmo died. The final attempt at Gorsia fully debuffed him and was 1-2 hits away from killing him, but ran out of potions. He has pushed this game far beyond what I even dreamed of. Robotrek is a unique game in that you can adjust your robots’ stats any time you have access to the Invention Machine (after you gain a level, or when you find an R&D room). You get a set amount of points (equal to [player_level * 10]+30) to distribute among the 5 stats as you please. A good understanding of the stats and how to change them makes playing this game substantially easier. All stats, their valid values, and a short description are included below: There are not very many status effects in Robotrek, but they do exist and they can be rather crippling. Since the game (and my bestiary and equipment lists) treat them in the same manner, I’ll also cover some of the special attack properties that you will see in the game. Cart 5 was not terribly kind to him, but he still made it to the final save in good time. I never did serious attempts of this, so my PB isn’t recorded. This was a pretty solid run. Hitting a capsule with a melee weapon (or a “Blow”-type weapon) will open it, for better or for worse. Unlike many RPGs, the player must invent or create the robots' equipment, use "Program Points" to set the robot's attributes (as opposed to these attributes being set by the game), and program special attacks in a macro-like fashion, although certain commands do special effects instead. As an example, attacking with Sword 1 costs 5 units of fuel (): To make matters more complicated, every time the player pushes the B button, the fill time is reduced by 8 frames and the B button reduction is put on an 8-frame cooldown (i.e. Step 1 – Plan Your Robot. Edit this page; Backlinks; Invention Machine. The Grand Memory Clobber is a glitch in Dragon View resulting from uncleared memory that is set after killing the first boss of the game. This run had 22 deaths, 20 of which were in the past; 14 of those were in Saro’s cave which is completely impossible to survive with this team. These videos, first made available around the time of Series 9's initial broadcast, discuss various safety precautions and equipment used for robots competing on the show, including removable links, locking bars and regulations on pneumatic and hydraulic mechanisms. Unlike many RPGs, the player must invent or create the robots equipment, use "Program Points" to set the robot's attributes (as opposed to these attributes being set … This is your one-stop shop for finding the fastest times for these games or new runners to follow. It is not possible to reach 100% pickup collection for these stages on SNES. The Tetron is later found out to be an invention of the main character's ancestor Rask (Rusk) and one of his friends, Gateau, finds the Tetron's potential as the key to controlling the universe by controlling time. Robots to Build & Experiment are made for hobbyists, professionals, educators, and anyone else interested in building and studying robots. While turbo does have a large impact on the run, they were significantly faster in other areas and we acknowledge them as the better players. Like most RPG video games, the character gains experience points, called here "Megs of Data". Dagger run. Big shoutouts to liquid_phase for having the record on the JP version before me, and for being such a fun speedrunner to collaborate with! The current runs were played on a Smallcab Deluxe supergun (see equipment page for more info) and using a Qanba Q2 stick. I finally encoded and recorded commentary for the local recording, but it’s a pretty terrible run. This is basically my only completed run after the major route overhaul I did, and it missed almost all of the skips and quick kills. I’d guess that an easy 90 seconds can come off of this if someone cares, but I won’t be running it again. Apparently the official trilogy consists of ActRaiser, Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia , while Terranigma, The Granstream Saga and the other Quintet games, among them, Robotrek, are only found in the same Quintet universe. You can have 3 robots (only one of which can fight in battle at a time), and each robot can be equipped with a variety of items. The girl is much slower than the guy in this game (approximately a minute), so they are tracked separately. The manual refers to him as “our hero” since his name is the savegame's name which changes with every play through. This run was played via Nestopia netplay. This uses the “ghost turtle glitch” which allows Mecha Richter to play without the game realizing he is alive. We are able to force single player spawns and boss health for the entire game while still using two players, as long as he doesn’t die. Aiding the combination process are items called Scrap, these allow the player to create basic equipment or make more powerful ones. For more info about the game itself, please visit the Knightlore StrategyWiki. Difficulty 202 can be accessed by using the password SWZX LKCF XHLW. Due to story it is lighter than the other Quintet titles, many fans do not include Robotrek in the Quintet saga, however the game is a parody of the company's themes; such as It is creation and destruction, human ambition, the use of science for good and evil, the theme of immortality that is implicit in Nagisa an assistant android with the resemblance to the deceased mother of the protagonist, problems between neighbors and among others. The current best time with Pimple is a 19:35 by Skinomarsh, and the best time with Rash is a 19:17 by RBMACHOK! Much like Pokemon, your main character lets his pets (i.e. This run was done on the Rare Replay collection, as opposed to the original release on ZX Spectrum. Like Pokémon, each robot was kept in a capsule, like a ball. The player is allowed to build a maximum of three robots. For additional reading, I would recommend reading the TAS submission notes and TAS discussion thread. You use your robots for battle (Like pokemon). The different Scraps that the protagonist can find, are: Scrap 1, Scrap 2, Scrap 3, Scrap 4, Scrap 5, Scrap 6, Scrap 7, Scrap 8, Scrap 9, Scrap 10, Scrap A and Scrap B. First, decide what you want to build; a line follower, a pick and place robot or whatever you want. This category also allows resets, which are used twice in this route to manipulate the RNG (for stat-up items and Droog). The main character soon sets off to find out that The Hackers want Dr. Akihabara for a sinister purpose, as Akihabara refuses an offer to join them. Game Information and the Basics (Story and other Important Info) 4. 100% in Batman Forever is defined as: 100% enemy kills, 100% secrets, 100% blueprints, all possible pickups. This is one of my favorite teams, and this playthrough was super good overall. We run on hard difficulty because the timer is shorter, which allows us to take advantage of some double KO strats at the end of certain stages. Not only did he work in both double ship upgrades, but he managed to find some more quick kills on the bosses and clean up the execution. I was sent multiple copies of this game by my good friend SireAlligator and did the run on a model 1 Genesis. Also all enemies do not give money by default, but certain enemies do drop it on the map after being defeated. Kamil was OHKO’d by every spell Gorsia used, and could barely survive Goron/Griffan’s Blizzard 2. “Buster Only” is a pretty interesting category. Koston (100%) All Games » SNES » Robotrek. All of the encounters, except for some scripted fights, are visible on the overworld and physically bumping into an enemy sprite here triggers an encounter. Robotrek is a unique game in that you can adjust your robots’ stats any time you have access to the Invention Machine (after you gain a level, or when you find an R&D room). This run was the first deathless run of Brandish and the record for about 3 hours before Osse101 murdered it. Saro’s cave and Gorsia only took one try each, though the fight with Gorsia lasted a whopping 23 minutes! This omitted Big Bomb, though, and I have been unable to find what causes that result. During the player's turn, none of the enemies will act, and the robot is free to move around the battlefield and attack with one of its weapons. Enemies don’t naturally award you with money, but they have a chance of dropping some (or an item) after battle. Robots are stored in a Poké Ball-like object (カプセル|Capsule).The player can create up to three robots. Just playing through a Quintet RPG filled with whacky enemies! I play on the US version because that is the version I own and grew up with; the US and JP versions are tracked together since the time only differs by about a second (in favor of JP). Robotrek has similar gameplay to that of most RPG video games, with the notable exception that the main character is not the combatant; rather, the robots he invents are, making it more similar to Pokémon and Dragon Quest Monsters. Koh1fds This is the worst combination in the game. I have no record of his time. The JP version of MM7 has a random choice between 3 cutscenes after each of the robot master fights, but the North American version does not. Pakuliittus (any%) Bonus capsules are also scattered around for the duration of the time limit that can contain items or traps. How to Build a Robot for Beginners- Robotics for Beginners. I had 152 magic and was dealing 69-85 damage per cast. Robotrek! I hear you get 15 silver points if you beat him up. I played on maximum difficulty (6/6) and required a 1-credit clear (no continues permitted). After the robot/player takes action, an appropriate amount of fuel is drained and will gradually refill (see ATB section for more info). Cart 5 was incredibly cruel to Lejes, giving consistently worst possible luck in every situation. I also want to credit the legendary Hotarubi for his 15:16 on the Japanese version, which gave me the motivation to grind that category down. 1 death at Romus at level 6, 1 death to an Undead crit at level 9, then deathless besides 11 deaths in Saro’s cave. I will eventually add more info about this game and a detailed breakdown of the route like I did for Robotrek. Tom Votava and Scott Kessler, other early NES runners, also contributed quite a few strategies. Weapons can also be strengthened by combining one weapon with the same type (swords for a Sword). This is an incredibly powerful team. This skips areas 5 and 6 entirely. For scripted fights, the player always has initiative. The current best time is TMR’s 12:42.4, just frames ahead of JC’s 12:42.7. The in-game timer adds your previous save file’s time to your current run’s time, so a double reset ensures that 0 is being added to our time. This, like some other entries here, is just for historical purposes. Upon creation, robots are all… As for the robot, any piece of equipment that grants a defense bonus will also grant the ability to block. Most enemies will drop some item or low-level equipment, but these can be "Recycled" to make money. This run finished in just under 13 hours; Gorsia was not giving him the openings he needed for debuffs.
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