GoldenEye 007

Nintendo 64

KryleZ 27 Mar 2024 06:46

Just a hunch, but if you first beat this level on Agent or 00 Agent in under the time it takes to unlock the cheat on Secret Agent, then it may cause it to lock out? I remember first playing this level on Secret Agent before doing the other difficulties. I am using the same core and hash as everyone who made the ticket reports and experienced no issues with this one.

I also noted in the Statue level for the Fast Animation cheat,
"I got 2:44 on 00 Agent prior to unlocking this. When I loaded in Secret Agent, it automatically gave me the achievement despite not actually unlocking Fast Animation yet."

My guess is it has to do with the sequence of difficulties you play them in.

FoxBuster 29 Mar 2024 16:54

KryleZ, I believe it's got more to do with the core you're using than the order of completion.
The tickets that are open until now (including mine) are all with the same core.

HungryCaco 23 Jun 2024 23:10

This achi ment didn't pop for me either, I did it back in April, my time was in the 7 minute range, is there anyway I can get it unlocked? Or do I have to make a new save file and try again?

tele 1 Jul 2024 09:20

Message copy/pasted from all of the open tickets:

I have not been able to reproduce this - I find it strange that there weren't any reports of this achievement failing to trigger from 2017-2023, but it has happened to at least five people this year already. I made edits to the logic in 2020 (I believe I added checks to make sure the objectives were completed) and SlashTangent made an edit in December 2023, but his edit should not have resulted in this failing to trigger.

Full breakdown of the logic:
- Checkpoint hit for total shots being 0
- Reset for when the stage ID isn't 0x1a (Aztec)
- Reset for when the difficulty is not 0x01 (Secret Agent)
- Resets if cheats are active
- Reset if not in-game
- Reset if the frame count for the current stage's playtime is above 0x7ea9, which is 32,425 frames (divide by 60 = 540 seconds, which is nine minutes)
- A check that Objective 1 is complete
- A check that Objective 2 is complete
- The trigger condition is when the level goes from not complete to complete in a single frame (Slash's edit was the delta condition for the stage not being completed - this was to prevent false triggers that were reported)

Since the mission ends with a cutscene of the shuttle launching (which is Objective 2), the ONLY potential issue I can think of is if the stage completion flag is occasionally being activated prior to Objective 2 being completed. This could make it fail to trigger even if it was a single frame off. It could also explain why there were no reports until after Slash's edit.

Anyway... I just added support for challenge notifications to all of the achievements for unlocking cheats. If the challenge notification disappears during the end cutscene, then my hunch is probably correct. If not, then there's some other fuckery going on.

All the current tickets are from players using Mupen64Plus-Next on 1.14.0, 1.15.0, or 1.16.0 - for all we know, this could be the result of a bug that could be fixed by updating.

marshm8low 20 Jul 2024 00:00

I tried on ParaLLEl N64 and Mupen64 core, both don't trigger the achievement. I don't know what to do.

marshm8low 20 Jul 2024 00:23

I also tried upgrade to retroarch 1.19.1 and neither...

Kaduzera 20 Jul 2024 02:59

it doesn't work to me

Kaduzera 20 Jul 2024 04:28

now it worked, I did it without killing Jaws in 05:15

TopduckX 21 Jul 2024 09:07

Tried two times, once using the Glass Door trick to prevent killing Jaws, and the other just playing as normal. Each attempt yielded no success. The challenge icon stayed on screen during the final cutscene where rocket launches. No cheevo afterward.

tele 1 Aug 2024 11:15

If someone can provide a save state right before finishing the stage/the end cutscene, I'll get this fixed.

marshm8low 7 Aug 2024 20:03

I sent you the save state from private message, thank you

tele 10 Aug 2024 04:17

So, my hunch was correct:

The mission completion flag going from 0 to 1 was the trigger, but in the save state provided by marshm8low, that occurred exactly one frame before the flag for the second objective was toggled, causing the delta condition for mission completion to no longer be true. However, if that were 100% consistent, then no one would ever unlock it.

I changed it so both the mission completion flag and second objective flag are mem > delta conditions with a single hit. That way, the achievement should unlock regardless of which one is toggled first.