[TAS] Pac-Mania Arcade 2,516,080 points (US 19 rounds)

Tool-assisted superplay (TAS) of Pac-Mania Arcade 2,516,080 points (US 19 rounds)

Settings:
-Type: C
-Rank: B
-Game End: 19 Round

-Goal of the TAS: Get as many points as possible.

-Normally the points for eating ghosts are:
200 400 800 1600 3200 7650 7650 7650 7650.
BUT, If you eat a special red pellet, you get double points until you lose a life
400 1600 7650 7650 7650 7650 7650 7650 7650

-It seems that to have a special red pellet at the 1st level (which appears after eating 50 pellets), you must eat a power pellet before the bonus appears. If you don't do this, you will get a green pellet. I came to this conclusion after testing quite a few times and I always got the red pellet if I eat an energy pellet before it appeared.
But I can't be sure that this is always the case.

-So the strategy for this TAS is:
-obtain a red pellet in the first round
-eat at least 5 ghosts per power pellet

-In the end I got tired of waiting for the ghosts to group together so I could eat at least 5 per power pellets, but I had a total of 385 ghosts for (19x4) 76 power pellets, so that's averaging a little over 5 ghosts for each power pellet, which is fine for me.
-It's definitely possible to eat more ghosts, you just have to be more patient than me 😀😀

-When you eat the green bonus pellet, you move faster until you eat a power pellet or end the turn.
At 22:14 you can clearly see the small but significant change in speed.

-It is possible to jump over a jumping green ghost because it jumps a little lower than the player.
-But this is not the case with the jumping gray ghost. I couldn't find a way to jump over it.

-I know that it is possible to get more points in the first round by eating a second power pellet before the time expires for the first.
See this video for a demonstration: https://www.twingalaxies.com/showthre...

-I mapped all the levels, you can see them here: https://vgmaps.com/Atlas/Arcade/index...

-If you set the game to "Endless" (instead of end after 19 or 7 rounds), after round 19, the game loops in the last 6 levels, (From the 2nd Key)

-I was surprised to see that there aren't any rounds where the ghosts don't turn blue. Even with the "Endless" setting, the game doesn't get any harder than round 19.

-At the end of this TAS I was tired of waiting for the ghosts to group up, which is why by round 19 I didn't get as many as on the other rounds.
For a change of pace, I did another TAS where I do the rounds as quickly as possible. I finished the game in 17:48. You can see it here:    • [TAS] Pac-Mania Arcade in 17:48 (US 1...  

-It took me about 2 weeks of work to make this video, totaling about 24 hours of work compared to 7 hours for my other video.

-More info on this game here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Mania and here: https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Pac-Mania

----Type of mazes:
T1=Block Town
T2=Pac-man's Park
T3=Sandbox Land
T4=Jungly Steps

=====Details by round=====
===1st round=== (Cherry) (T1)
-30 pellets 1st fruit
-50 pellets special item (+20)
-70 pellets 2nd fruit (+20)
-5 ghosts (No jump)
-Ghosts turn blue for 9 seconds
-Ghosts eaten 5,(3),5,5,5

===2nd round=== (Strawberry) (T2)
-40 pellets 1st fruit
-60 pellets special item (+20)
-90 pellets 2nd fruit (+30)
-6 ghosts (No jump)
-Ghosts turn blue for 7 seconds
-Ghosts eaten 5,6,5,5

===3rd round=== (1st Orange) (T2)
-20 pellets special item
-40 pellets 1st fruit (+20)
-90 pellets 2nd fruit (+50)
-7 ghosts (No jump)
-Ghosts turn blue for 5 seconds
-Ghosts eaten 6,7,6,5

===4th round=== (2nd Orange) (T3)
-35 pellets 1st fruit
-55 pellets special item (+20)
-80 pellets 2nd fruit (+25)
-7 ghosts (2 Jumping Ghosts)
-Ghosts turn blue for 5 seconds
-Ghosts eaten (4),6,6,5,5

===5th round=== (1st Apple) (T3)
-20 pellets special item
-35 pellets 1st fruit (+15)
-80 pellets 2nd fruit (+45)
-8 ghosts (3 Jumping Ghosts)
-Ghosts turn blue for 4 seconds
-Ghosts eaten 6,6,5,8

===6th round=== (2nd Apple) (T4)
-50 pellets 1st fruit
-80 pellets special item (+30)
-110 pellets 2nd fruit (+30)
-7 ghosts (2 Jumping Ghosts)
-Ghosts turn blue for 3 seconds
-Ghosts eaten 6,7,4,4

===7th round=== (1st Banana) (T4)
-50 pellets 1st fruit
-80 pellets special item (+30)
-110 pellets 2nd fruit (+30)
-8 ghosts (3 Jumping Ghosts)
-Ghosts turn blue for 2 seconds
-Ghosts eaten 4,4,5,4

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0:00 Start
0:10 Round 1
3:04 Round 2
5:19 Round 3
7:55 Round 4
10:26 Round 5
12:59 Round 6
15:17 Round 7
17:36 Round 8
19:42 Round 9
21:41 Round 10
23:11 Round 11
25:11 Round 12
27:04 Round 13
28:53 Round 14
30:56 Round 15
32:49 Round 16
34:50 Round 17
37:25 Round 18
39:23 Round 19
41:48 Credits and End