"advanced techniques"

Speed runs aren't anything without their time saving ways. And Robot Wars AOD is no exception. This guide will be updated as more techniques have been found

The main technique you will be using is what we have coined as "End Bout Skips" (EBS). Once an robot has been immobilized, (either by being on its back for 20 seconds, thrown out of the arena, batteries have failed (RNG based)) you can press start and choose the "End Bout" option. This will end the match early as well as qualify you for the next round of the tournament. The reason its important is because after a robot has been immobilized the game allows the House Robots to start destroying the robot in question, wasting an awful amount of time. This skip just allows you to save over 15 seconds of time.

Not particularly a technique, but the Scrapyard shop resets every time you enter the menu, so, if you still need parts, you can exit the Scrapyard back to the main Edit Robot menu, and then go back into the Scrapyard to see if the parts are now there. It only loses 2 seconds to go out and back in (with good menuing on PC).

JPEARCE All Tournaments route

Robots to buy:

-	Chaos 2 - In Heavyweight, go left once
-	Terrorhurtz - In Super Heavyweight, go left 7 times
-	Switchblade - In Lightweight, go left 5 times
-	Sparko - In Mediumweight, first option - **Take off spikes when buying, do all of its noted chainsaw tournaments, and then, when setting up for Midnight Madness, Adjust it to have just its spikes, and also do Covert Operations.**

Tournaments - Recommended Robot(Oil Rig is not done until later due to Sparko route):

**London, England - TV Studio**
-	Robot Wars Championship - Chaos 2
-	Assault - Chaos 2
-	World Championship - Chaos 2
**New York - Steelworks**
-	Liberty Lightweight Cup - Switchblade
-	Nerves of Steel - Chaos 2
-	Blast Furnace - Sparko (chainsaw)
**Germany - Hamburg Dockyard**
-	Hamburg Heavyweight Cup - Terrorhurtz
-	Skull and Crushed Bones - Switchblade
-	Iron Fist - Chaos 2
**Sao Paulo - Scrapyard**
-	Scrapyard Challenge Cup - Sparko (chainsaw) OR Switchblade
-	Destruction Derby - Sparko (chainsaw)
-	Chainsaw Massacre - Sparko (chainsaw)
**North Sea - Oil Rig**
-	Alpha Viking Open Trophy - Chaos 2
-	North Sea Sabotage - Sparko (chainsaw)
-	Midnight Madness - Sparko (spikes)
**Japan - Tokyo Rooftop**
-	Rooftop Punishment - Chaos 2
-	Rooftop Chase - Switchblade
-	Rooftop Grenadier - Chaos 2
**Siberia - Military Base**
-	Russian Rampage - Chaos 2
-	Flip Frenzy - Chaos 2
-	Heavy Bomber - Chaos 2
**Kilimanjaro, Tanzania - Mount Kilimanjaro**
-	Zorten Industries' Cup - Chaos 2
-	Covert Operations - Sparko (spikes)
-	Clean Sweep - Terrorhurtz

PC windowed mode w/ dxwnd

Find your game's installed files (most likely C:/Program Files/BBC Worldwide/Robot Wars), and remove title.mpg. The video sequence opens in a separate window and closes the game's window temporarily, messing the whole thing up.

Create a shortcut in dxwnd for the game:
In Main, tick 'Run in window' and 'Optimize CPU' - this will limit the game to 60FPS, meaning the game's AI won't break, and the game won't freeze (see FPS Overlay)
In DirectX, choose DirectX8 - Any other version will resize screen resolution
In Timing, untick 'Show FPS Overlay' - for some reason, FPS Overlay makes the game's AI work as it should, but the screen would freeze within a minute (but not fully crash, see below for a video)
In Compat. choose XP


This is on v1.2 with a noCD patch; results may differ with other versions/when running off the disc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrGo2LUQ2mQ Turn subtitles on for some pointers. Poverty annotation test before annotations are never to be used again on May 2nd

नाम	लेखक
"advanced techniques"	Half-X 7 years ago
JPEARCE All Tournaments route	PurpleSun 7 years ago
PC windowed mode w/ dxwnd	PurpleSun 7 years ago