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In February 2004, I published the Solomon's Key movie v4 which is, as of this writing, still the best published Solomon's Key movie. (Thanks OldChangeLog!)

In November 2004, I started making v5, which is now finished.

I'm aiming for
① the best ending (solve all the special hidden rooms)
② without using warps (wings).
③ to improve all the level times. ^[3]
Fairy rooms will not be played.

A warps-version will be coming later (and will use all of the warps, not only the last one.)

I'm using Famtasia, but I might convert the movie to FCEU and continue with that. Currently I'm concentrating more on the Rockman movie.

The movie seems to be going much better than the previous version.
Almost all levels are improved a bit, and many are improved by a lot.
For emphasis, I provided a comment for each level in the form of a Japanese-style smiley.

Level	Old time	New time	Comment	Notes
1	9340	9360	(^ ^)
2	9210	9220	(^ ^)
3	7960	8070	\(^o^)/
4	9310	9330	(^ ^)	(if take icon, next level is fairies)
5	9000	9230	\(^o^)/
6	8410	8410	(~_~)
7	9000	9050	\(^o^)/	wings at 14,1
8	9210	9210	(~_~)	>(if take icon, next level is fairies)
9	8900	s8860	\(^o^)/	>seal 1 at 10,8
10	8220	8290	(^ ^)	> (after dozens of retries at this level, always missing the previously got 8300 by exactly 2 frames, I decided to give up and move on.) [3]
11	8360	8730	＼(◎o◎)／	>
12	8820	8840	(^ ^)	>(if take icon, next level is fairies)
13	8600;½b4690	s8760;½b4710	\(^o^)/	seal 2 at 8,9
14	8580	8650	(^ ^)
15	8560	8730	＼(◎o◎)／	wings at 11,12
16	9200	9300	\(^o^)/	>(if take icon, next level is fairies)
17	8610;½4700	8980;s½4340	(^ ^)	>seal 3 at 14,2 (+luck abuse to get an extended fireball)
18	8860	8950	(^ ^)	>
19	9140	s8950	(^ ^)	>seal 4 at 5,5
20	8150	i8130	(^ ^)	>icon at 11,2
Special 1	-	9200	(^ ^)	(4 seals and icon needed). page of time
21	8990	s9000	\(^o^)/	seal 5 at 11,6 (+saved a fireball)
22	rg45000	rg45450	\(^o^)/	(surprise! fireballs don't kill fire)
23	9180	9260	(^ ^)	wings at 4,12
24	8880;½4660	8990;½4700	\(^o^)/	>(if take icon, next level is fairies)
25	9300	9350	(^ ^)	>
26	9480;½4690	9560;½4720	(^ ^)	>
27	8460	8640	(^ ^)	> (+used a fireball)
28	7270	7580	\(^o^)/	>(if take icon, next level is fairies)
29	9250	s8960	(^ ^)	seal 6 at 8,11
30	7590;½3260	8120;½3490	\(^o^)/	(I hate this map. But at least I got it 5 seconds faster.)
31	8620	8760	(^ ^);?	wings at 15,12
32	d9980	9180	(^ ^)	>(if take icon, next level is fairies) (I did not use death this time. This method of completion you don't see in walkthroughs!)
33	7840	8050 8180	＼(◎o◎)／	> (I found an improvement!)
34	8490	8510 8520	(^ ^)	> (stupid fairies, they evaded me)
35	8770	8790 8840	\(-_-)/	> stupid randomness
36	7090	7400 7430	\(-_-)/	>(if take icon, next level is fairies) (This is a really difficult level to play optimally. I used the fireball. Without using a fireball, I could only get 7290.)
37	9130	9290 9280	\(^o^)/
38	7100	7670	\(^o^)/
39	w8660	8870	\(^o^)/	wings at 1,7 (No fireball needed!)
40	-	9240	(^ ^)	>(if take icon, next level is fairies)
41	-	8750	(^ ^)	>
42	-	8720	\(^o^)/	> got even a fairy… even though I solved the room in a totally wrong way
43	-	8570	(^ ^)	>
44	-	i6060	(^ ^)	>icon at 1,5
Special 2	-	8770	(^ ^)	(6 seals and icon needed). page of space
45	7800	7960	\(^o^)/	lots of really close calls
46	8900	s8600	\(-_-)/	seal 7 at 14,1
47	8950	s7640	(・_・?)	seal 8 at 15,1
48	6860	7020	\(^o^)/	icon at 5,4
Unscheduled detour		8920	(・_・?)	Oops! I wasn't supposed to take the icon in room 48. But I decided to include this room anyway, for completeness :)
Special 3	-	7860	(^ ^)	(8 seals needed). princess
Solomon	8900	8900	(^ ^)

½ = Used the item that resets clock to 5000
g = Used the item that multiplies clock value&speed by 5
b = Took extra time to pick up a blue bottle
r = Took extra time to pick up a red bottle
w = Took extra time to pick up a wing
i = Took extra time to pick up an icon
s = Took extra time to pick up a seal
d = Used death
> = skipped if a wing was taken

Interpretation of comments:

Comment	Meaning
(~_~)	Nothing new here
(^ ^)	Minor optimizations
\(^o^)/	I'm proud of this result
＼(◎o◎)／	Totally incredible based on my earlier experience
(・_・?)	Uncertain
\(-_-)/	(Lazily) yay.

28098 re-records so far…

So far, improvements consist of:

• Better jump accuracy ― there's a certain method of jumping that is really hard to do (it requires frame precision) but which can greatly increase the speed when climbing.
• New solutions ― things can often be done in different order, taking advantage of monster timing and resources.
• More collision abuses ― Dana can sometimes pass monsters even in narrow tunnels.

Resources

Timing weirdness