#1578: Soulrivers's NES Moai-kun in 21:29.57

Emulator Settings

Recorded on fceu-0.98.15-rerecording.

Aims for fastest time
Abuses programming errors
Takes no damage
Genre: Puzzle

Game information

Moai-Kun is a fun, fast-paced puzzle-platformer where the goal is to rescue all your pink friends and then reach the door - to continue to the next stage. Appearatly you play as an Easter Island statue, however I do not know the reason for this >_>... The stages are filled with enemies, pits and spikes to make life miserable for you. Also scattered throughout the stages are bombs which can be used to blow up blocks, and rocks which can be pushed and stood on. Every four levels you are given a password which can be used to continue your progress, none which are used here.

Jumping is faster than normal walking, as long as you don't bump into something, so I try to keep him jumping at all times.
When I at any time stop movement and there is no reason for it (ie. bombing something), it's because I have to stop breaking blocks for a while, else the character will get a buckled head. This lasts for about 10 seconds, where he cannot break anything, so it is best to just wait a moment.
Two blocks cannot move at the same time, so at some times I have to wait for the currently pushed block to stop moving before I hit the next one.
A bug for zipping through blocks is used in numerous stages, first one seen in stage 4. When there are two blocks on eachother, and you break the bottom block in mid-air, you'll go inside the now falling above block and zip up it when it lands. This doesn't work on all blocks/all stages, and I don't really know why.
Another strange glitch that occours in stage 51 where the character goes right through a block after jumping on the trampoline. He then travels all the way through and ends up on the trampoline to bounce up.

NOTE: I am aware of that there is a mistake in Stage 29 (I think) where I lay a bomb, drop down, jump up again and then break a block in mid-air. ~10 frames could've been saved from destroying the block while waiting for the bomb to explode.

Stage times

I put this here as the run never shows what stage is being played - a glitch is used to remove this screen before every level. However, the game features an in-game timer, such as the one in Super Mario Bros. By putting all the times in here, you can still refer to a specific stage as long as you know the time for it.

Stage #	Time
Stage 1	889
Stage 2	884
Stage 3	867
Stage 4	841
Stage 5	879
Stage 6	865
Stage 7	860
Stage 8	875
Stage 9	827
Stage 10	837
Stage 11	824
Stage 12	806
Stage 13	879
Stage 14	848
Stage 15	879
Stage 16	862
Stage 17	838
Stage 18	835
Stage 19	826
Stage 20	778
Stage 21	836
Stage 22	869
Stage 23	869
Stage 24	858
Stage 25	860
Stage 26	864
Stage 27	847
Stage 28	840
Stage 29	849
Stage 30	827
Stage 31	836
Stage 32	806
Stage 33	851
Stage 34	782
Stage 35	819
Stage 36	662
Stage 37	865
Stage 38	832
Stage 39	845
Stage 40	851
Stage 41	794
Stage 42	789
Stage 43	845
Stage 44	821
Stage 45	869
Stage 46	814
Stage 47	825
Stage 48	736
Stage 49	862
Stage 50	787
Stage 51	825
Stage 52	743
Stage 53	863
Stage 54	829
Stage 55	768
Stage 56	722