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If you want the best all around emulator then you should use Bizhawk.
Bizhawk is an emulator which utilizes modified cores of other emulators, and it basically will play most games on its own, and for the handful of consoles that require a special core (ps1 or TG16 for example) you can easily find a bios/core online and just add it to the program with a couple of clicks.

http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk.html

Accuracy rating for bizhawk is fantasic, although a couple of the cores can be pretty system intensive if your computer is a potato.

No question, bizhawk is what i use for 95% of emulation.... provided i am not using a flashcart on my actual console.

As it turns out... Vaxherd DID indeed have a full disassembly of the game. It is however, only partly notated.

I can easily upload it here, or provide a copy of it to Quoise if it will help with any development of the randomizer.
Just let me know!

I need to get in touch with vaxherd as well, because afaik he has a disassembly already that is notated for things that were useful in the any% run... this could save hours of work

Well heres the thing, the more info that developers have, the more they can get done in a shorter period of time.
If i can provide him with anything he doesnt already have, then that only helps to further improve on the program.
Thats what this kinda research is all about.

I can almost guarantee you that at one time, Optomon had everything when he made TGL secret.... he just lost all his documentation =/

Okay i now have our main programmers disassembler, and this weekend will be logging a true 100% playthrough of the game. This means every screen, every text box, every shop, every encounter, every corridor, every everything.
This should give me a full log of every single function in the game.

If this is something that you can benefit from Quiose, let me know and i can send you the disassembly log when its done.
Ideally here, with the entire game logged and routed, anything that you are missing should be able to be located, and then adjusted as needed.

The one thing the disassembler does not do currently, is graphics. Eventually, he is going to rewrite the disassembler to include graphics, but thats not a thing.

Anyway, this is happening, so let me know if its something that  you can make use of.

Are you planning on keeping this in Flash?
Or are you going to open the source on this one?

I am going to look into disassembling the entire rom here in near future, and see what it would take using our main programmers disassember.

We used to run this all the time, the problem is, like tishero mentioned, that its so broken most seeds are often times incompletable.
Or you find yourself softlocked because the map generator failed and put you off the map.

If those problems can get cleaned up, and some work can go into doing to the later corridors like what was done with the earlier ones (i actually understand the challenges of altering pattern tables to function in other areas, i am on the Crystalis Randomizer development team), then this can become a lot of fun again.

I can easily see the old gang picking it back up for a random race here and there

I look at it like this Optomon

Any data that you are able to provide to us, will save us time that we are able to better use to putting to work on the program itself

You are awesome as always

Oh dude that would have been huge Optomon Its a bummer that got lost
While were at it, do you still have a copy of that TGL Secret rom that you had specially made for us with the modified corridor entries that we could randomize?
My old computer took a crap on me, and i havent been able to get the data off of it and i have lost it (

I dont know if people are still active around here with knowledge of some of the things that i am looking to have answers to.
Essentially what i am looking for is a document that shows pointers in ram for like, almost everything.
The idea is, that i want to be able to alter how things in the game work, through ram.
Similar to im guessing what MLPerry did when he created the old tgl randomizer, but do it in a controlled manner, and expand on what he did greatly.
If Optomon is still around, i would guess that he might have some/all of that info, but if anyone has anything it would be SUPER helpful.
MLPerry did some good work in the early days of randomizers as a whole, but i want to take up the mantle and expand upon what he did, control it much more, and allow for far greater customization compared to what he did, without actually editing the rom through assembly.

Does anything like this exist?

OH BABY!
I have been MIA for a while (thanks to moving and other RL things), but i cant wait to get going on this.
You are the man Optomon

Any chance we could get something to where we could SELECT what we wanted randomized? as opposed to just guessing at what were going to get?
that way, we could REALLY create the kind of world we want

Hey Optomon i know its been a long time since we had discussed this, but i still would like to be able to randomize TGL secret!
I know originally you had said you would consider looking into fixing c4 and c6 for opening up so we could do it, im just guessing you got busy and forgot

Any chance this is still a possibility?

Hey guys!
Its been a long time since there has been any discussion on the randomizer and i thought about checking back and seeing if there was anything you were planning to do further to the randomizer, or if you are considering it to be the final version?

I know there was some things we had discussed prior to v 1.4 but i believe you were planning to move on to different projects.

Were planning a randomizer race soon on twitch if anyone is interested in joining for the fun, dont know when / where but were going to do it here in the next couple weeks sometime!

Yea it looks pretty solid.

Looking forward to getting a race going with this