Improved precision and a couple of obvious improvements bring down Tails' quest by 2 seconds, 50 frames.
This run uses the 2.1.1 version of Pu7o's Miles 'Tails' Prower in Sonic the Hedgehog hack. [Moderator Edit: Do not link to websites that host copyright protected materials (e.g. game ROMs)]
Table of contents
Game objectives
- Emulator used: Gens 11a + S3KCamhack + SolidityViewer + (partial)HitboxDisplay + LUA HUD for Genesis Sonic games
- Aims for fastest time
- Takes no damage
- Abuses programming errors
- Ignores delays caused by bonus effects
Comments
Green Hill Zone (all acts) and Spring Yard Zone 1 have all been improved to the follwing times:
| Act | New time | Old time | Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Hill Zone 1 | 0:15::31 | 0:16::34 | 63 |
| Green Hill Zone 2 | 0:14::54 | 0:15::15 | 21 |
| Green Hill Zone 3 | 0:28::15 | 0:28::25 | 10 |
| Spring Yard Zone 1 | 0:17::25 | 0:18::41 | 76 |
Total improvement in in-game time: 170 frames, or 2 seconds and 50 frames.
The times given are the in-game timer values. The value after the final colon pair indicates the in-game frame counter, and is restricted to the 0-59 range. It is updated every frame (except during lag frames), and increments the in-game second when resetting to zero.
Stage by stage comments
Green Hill Zone 1
An obvious slope jump, using flight to avoid breaking the monitor, combine to a large speed boost. Improved precision until the end carry the day.
Green Hill Zone 2 & 3
More precise play in the beginning of the acts. That is it.
Spring Yard Zone 1
The most obvious improvement -- who needs speed shoes when you can abuse the enforced screen boundaries of flight to get nearly the same speed?
Other Comments
Possible improvements: If one were to accept damage in the run, Scrap Brain 2 might be improvable by 6 frames by getting hurt at the saw. There are no other improvements of which I am aware of at this time, and all my attempts at improving the other levels failed.
GabCM: Added YouTube module.
FractalFusion: Judging.
FractalFusion: Accepting as an improvement to the published run.