So I program too. Not in anything as low level (Mostly just python) as the memory tech you do in an autosplitter. But I have a decent idea. You basically are just finding the pointers to memory in the game that will point to the area of memory that has the thing we are looking for.

In the game I ran, GTA IV and its dlc, you look for how many missions have been completed, and split when the counter goes up.

In Aerannis, it doesn't have a counter like this. But we do have a log of missions and if they are completed or not. So if you can find that, you can make a logic to split when a mission is done. Tho due to the end split, the end split will probably have to be manual? I'm sure someone better could make that automated. The start should be easy because its on starting a new game.

Splits matter as a way to differ sections. Doesn't matter too much about length really unless it becomes annoying. it makes sense for each mission complete to start a new split or maybe once you have exited that level. I'll take a proper look at the splits and see if any don't make total sense.

I was thinking about maybe trying to setup an autosplitter for the game, but I think the only way to do that would be tracking the missions in the log. But that would be quite difficult. I noticed you struggled at times with splitting as it is so any help is good :P

As for art, I was just wondering if you had discovered someway to get the art out of the game exe or something haha. The current method works quite well so shouldn't be too much of an issue. It's got some really good art its just annoying how difficult it is to get any raw files. Short of asking the dev themselves though, I'm unsure how to get that.

Is there any chance that there is a place I can get the artwork from the game like with the leaderboards 1st, 2nd, 3rd icons and the splits in the wr? Also is it possible that the splits could be posted so that people don't need to populate 20 splits themselves? Thanks.

Games usually just run the quickest language. Maybe the best way to test would be just a quick check to see if the timing is different for reading at the beginning of the game. And also maybe if we are trying to decide how to run the leaderboards, my noob thread on forgetting there is a difficulty slider isn't the best way to do that either :P

I remember the difficulty now but in playing casually I complete forgot haha. Makes sense as to why I keep dying. Thanks for replying!

I think if you want to setup different categories based on difficulty (which on a casual play-through and watching your run, I can tell would yield different strats) maybe set it up like Halo runs. Where its just Casual and BULGARIAN EXTREME. Which would then lead to two different runs instead of three runs that have a weird middle difficulty. Halo runs do Easy and Legendary categories and miss out the two middle difficulties. I'm struggling to think of platformers with difficulty settings so we can compare against their leaderboards too but it would be nice to know how they do it too.

I moved to this autosplitter and it worked for me. My version is Patch 2 using the xliveless crack. I think the crack also needs to be on for it to work. https://gist.github.com/jfoster/37f266491e3caacc807d8be9d144e38b It has cases for both Patch 2 and Patch 3. The start and resets are funky and it doesnt split at the end. But it does everything else. Just the beginning and ending need to be done manually. Though I think it would be hard to automate those as it is. Make sure to disable start and reset in livesplit when adding the script.

I couldn't help but notice that in the WR run of the game, Emilu pulls of consistant 1.5 dmg shots. While I've not run the game yet, I've been playing casual in prep for that and I guess I'm a lil confused on how this is done. I have done it sometimes but I don't know how to pull it off consistantly. If there is a method in doing that, it would be fab to know. Thanks.