Max% Moveless LOTAD FAQ

MAX% MOVELESS LOTAD FAQ
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1] What is a LOTAD?

LOTAD stands for Low Optimised Tool-Assisted Demonstration. Simply put, it's a less optimised TAS which doesn't obey all the conventional rules of a TAS (Primarily the '1 input file' rule and the 'no RAM modifications' rule).
The purpose of this LOTAD is to show the fastest moveless strategies for each collectable in a TAS setting, but without spending years on optimisations.

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2] What does "Max% Moveless" entail?

Moveless means that you cannot acquire any of these:
- Cranky Moves (3 levels of Simian Slam, 15 kong-specific moves)
- Candy Instruments/Upgrades (5 kong-specific instruments, 2 candy upgrades, 3rd melon)
- Funky Guns/Upgrades (5 kong-specific guns, Ammo Belt 1 & 2, Homing Ammo, Sniper Scope)
- BFI Moves (Fairy Camera, Shockwave)
You cannot use MMM/FWG to obtain these either (you wouldn't even be able to get ISG because clean cart rules and no way to capture fairies)

You CAN complete the training barrels though as these aren't classed as moves.

Max% means that we're obtaining the maximum percentage possible with those above conditions, but in this case, we're not using any duplication tricks. This is primarily because it would make the LOTAD boring to watch if Seal Race was done 35 times. (Not to be confused with getting 132%/-124% moveless. Getting 132%/-124% moveless is currently impossible, even with duplication tricks)

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3] What is going on when the screen goes black & white?

By performing certain actions when entering a tag barrel (most notably letting go of Z to exit the crouch animation shortly before entering the tag), you gain control of the kong whilst also having control of the tag barrel. This is called Tag Barrel Storage (Often abbreviated to 'TBS'), and it  allows for a whole host of glitches. (Quicker tags, telegrabbing, spawn snagging many GBs and more!)
When TBS is active, the screen is pitch black. To make sure that you can see what is going on, we turn on a camera hack (Shoutouts to Isotarge) that makes us see what is happening in-game.
The black & white effect is just an editing filter and isn't caused by the camera hack.

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4] What's up with the weird tags?

A fair amount of GBs in this LOTAD require locked camera TBS to prevent the loading of the GB in order to spawn snag it [grabbing a GB/Medal before the game checks whether it needs to despawn due to a puzzle being incomplete]. Having a locked camera on a tag barrel does not lend itself to good viewing, so we use a hack to prevent the despawn of the GB with an unlocked camera.
However, this still takes us out of the range of the tag barrel when we grab the GB. So an easy way to fix this is to video edit our way back to a locked camera view so that we get the best of both worlds.

TL;DR: Because of a trick that would require the LOTAD to become unwatchable, we use a hack to make it watchable, but at the cost of having to use video editing to enable long-range tagging

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5] Who authored this?

I (theballaam96) am the sole author of this LOTAD.

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6] What's the rerecord count for this?

86,801 rerecords

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7] Why can't you grab [x] collectable?

I've written up a lovely pastebin on why the stuff we skip can't be collected in moveless as of this point in time. I expect this to be obsoleted by the discovery of something else becoming moveless eventually, but eh, it's good to show the moveless strategies regardless of whether it'll become eventually obsolete.
Aforementioned pastebin - https://pastebin.com/ScVg2BsX

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8] This was great! Where can I see more stuff like this?

If you are interested in more tool-assisted runs, I would advise watching these 3 runs:
Any% TAS by RingRush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVSwfgQsfSY
101% LOTAD by RingRush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nIfy8LO054
NLE LOTAD by theballaam96 & Kiwikiller67: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRBSb62E_vA