3DS Fantasy Zone 2 - Best Ending Deathless Rough TAS (proof of concept)

The current 3DS emulator: Citra recently released a build that supports both save states and frame advance.
Some of the 3DS games support saving in-game replay files.
I did a challenge stage IL of 3DS Shinobi earlier:
• 3DS Shinobi TAS - Chal...
I was originally going to do a TAS run of 3DS Fantasy Zone 1 to play as Upa-Upa but the emulator cannot load the game properly.
So I TASed the sequel instead.
The main differences over the arcade original and PS2 release is that it supports a 15:9 widescreen ratio and coin stock (making it NG+).
It can be played on Citra but there are graphic errors. Usually inverted like colours and the charging bar on the top right doesn't show the growing effect when charging up a Fire Bomb or Tear.
The emulator is far from perfect, when you click on the emulator options, it doesn't freeze the game making it hard to create fully clean runs. No keyboard shortcuts to save + load states.
The emulator doesn't support a frame counter (harder to figure out what strat IS faster) and when you load up a save state, it disables all inputs for a frame. So charging up weapons then loading up a state will stop the charge. This applies to holding a direction, if you hold left and then load up the save state, the left input is ignored.

[@OrobaSpyro]

Oh yessss, Fantasy Zone II at 4:30 AM

[@Greenalink]

Rocket Engine is a very fast speed upgrade but very hard to control. The game supports full analogue so it has much more movement/speed options. It's even possible to move backwards by tilting the stick very slightly to the opposite direction Opa-opa is currently facing.

[@luiluiruirui]

8:51 wtr? wat happened there

[@Greenalink]

Final boss was dying but using the Drop Tears will trigger a different ending which is the best ending.

[@luiluiruirui]

@@Greenalink oh ok

[@jaru4564]

5:59 What happens if you don't get the item "Drop Tears"? Do you get, like, a bad ending or something? I'm really curious right now lol Edit: That Upa-Upa (evil Opa-Opa) fight was BRUTAL XDDDDD

[@raysylveons]

You get a neutral ending where Upa-Upa is simply defeated, but you don’t find out the truth about it

[@abnerhenrique5534]

Wait... Upa-Upa is Opa's brother. The name of the evil Opa-Opa is, in fact, Evil Opa. But, yes. You get a neutral ending. The major differences is that the end music (Flow my Tears) has no refrain, and the Cutscene is shorter.

[@rcktneoofusa]

​​@@raysylveonsfun fact: If you manage to use Drop Tears during the bad route, the bad ending is not changed (maybe because Evil Opa-Opa's tears are "crocodile tears")?

[@itzjordan8037]

How did you get the game to run smoothly? Whenever I enable Hardware renderer, all of the sprites in the game become black, and when I turn it off it looks just fine, but the game has low fps

[@Greenalink]

The footage you see there is from my actual, non emulated 3DS.

[@MarisaStoleThePreciousHandle]

@@Greenalink Ohhhhh.