noun Gaming Slang

frame advance

· noun · gaming

Stepping a game forward one single frame at a time.

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Definitions

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An emulator feature that pauses the game and lets you push it forward exactly one frame per press. The bread and butter of TAS work and frame-perfect glitch hunting.

“He frame-advanced through the loading zone and finally saw exactly which frame the door hitbox spawns on.”
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To pick a game apart one frame at a time so you can land inputs no human could hit live.

“You can't time this by feel, you've gotta frame advance it to nail the pixel-perfect setup.”
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frame advance In A Sentence

He frame-advanced through the loading zone and finally saw exactly which frame the door hitbox spawns on.
You can't time this by feel, you've gotta frame advance it to nail the pixel-perfect setup.

Origin & Usage

Emulator and TAS tooling. A standard debug feature in emulators and tool-assisted speedrun software.

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