An autosplitter implementation for Metal Slug 3 for use with LiveSplit https://github.com/LiveSplit/LiveSplit

1. Clone this repo down to your machine locally.
2. Open livesplit and right click your splits and select Open Splits > From File... and select either the default-livesplit-splits.lss or the bosses-only-livesplit-splits.lss from the livesplit-splits folder of the repo you downloaded. The differences between the two are explained below.
3. Right click your splits and select Open Layout > From File... and select either the default-livesplit-layout.lss or the bosses-only-livesplit-layout.lss from the livesplits-layout folder of the repo you downloaded. The differences between the two are explained below.
4. Right click your splits and select Edit Layout
5. Double click the line at the bottom of the screen that opens up marked Scriptable Auto Splitter.
6. Click browse and find either the default-ms3-autosplitter.asl or bosses-only-ms3-autosplitter.asl file in the root of the repo you downloaded. Once you've selected it then just Ok out of all the windows that you've opened up in previous steps till you get back to your splits.
7. That's it, you should be ready to run.

With this setup your livesplit will be set to use the auto-start and auto-reset functionality as well as all the splits that are explained below.

With this setup your live split will still be set to use the auto-start and auto-reset functionality but the splitter will only split on the following splits:

• Huge Hermit
• 10 Commandments of Moses
• Jupiter King
• Sol Dae Rokker
• Hi Do
• Fake Root Mars
• True Root Mars

Auto split just hits the split button for you. It doesn't do anything clever like look at which splits you have setup and split when it sees the specific split or anything. All it does is move you on to the next split when the game gets to a certain point.

So if you decide to change up the things you auto split on then make sure you also update your splits so that you are splitting on the right thing. Here are all the splits that you can use in this auto-splitter. In the default setup we use all of these:

If you have auto-start turned on then when your character hits the water at the start of Mission 1 then the timer will automatically start for you.

If the timer is running and you return the main menu then the timer will automatically reset itself for you. Not this only happens if the timer is actually running. If the timer has stopped after having completed a run you have to manually reset it I believe this is a live split thing so it doesn't accidentally automatically save over your best splits.

The first version of this splitter has now been released. I've tested fairly rigouriously however I've only tested on one computer on Easy Any% and using default settings. If you are wanting to use the bosses only splitter I'm confident it will work but I can't make any guarantees without further testing, so keep an eye on it for your first couple of runs just to make sure that it works as expected.

This splitter only works on the Steam version of the game currently. Please feel free to submit a PR if you want to add memory markers for another version of the game or if you think you can make any other improvements.

If you have any issues with the splitter then please feel free to log an issue with as much detail about what went wrong as you can, i.e. which character you were which weapon you had etc. etc.