Luigi's Mansion any% TAS in 6:13 (4:41 RTA Timing)
To sync the run:
- Emulator used: Dolphin 5.0-15260
- Dual Core off
- DSP HLE
- CPU Emulation Engine: JIT Recompiler x86-64
- Memory Card Slot A Enabled
- .dtm to create save file: download (should sync with any memory card data that has Hidden Mansion unlocked with no progress on File 1)
Objectives
- Complete the game as fast as possible (any%)
- Starts from SRAM
- Takes damage to save time (win)
- have fun :)
This TAS is an improvement on #7893: NEVERDOORS's GC Luigi's Mansion "Hidden Mansion" in 08:52.12. It uses the same general route to complete the game as fast as possible, with one major new skip that saves over two minutes (!) from the previous run.
Area 1 Hallway Skip
So in the submission notes for the most recent any% TAS, I mentioned the 'PAL Hidden Mansion Route' that clips out of bounds immediately after entering the Area 1 hallway, and maneuvers from the Kitchen to the Area 2 hallway, then to the Well in the Courtyard and clips into Altar, straight to King Boo. This exact route is still not possible on NTSC versions due to there being no mice to skew off of in Kitchen, but in this run we did one better! Thanks to a new application of a previously known technique (GameBoy Horror Clipping), we are able to clip straight onto Floor 1.5 immediately after entering the Area 1 hallway, which means we can clip straight to Altar just like in the previous TAS' without even needing to go all the way into the Courtyard Well. This saves over two minutes from the previous movie!
GameBoy Horror Clipping
It was known that you could clip up or down using the GBH with a skew, but going left/right did not seem to work due to how angle-snapping works when you open the GBH. It was discovered by minimini352 that you actually can instantly snap your angle if you are holding up on the C-Stick during the clip, which makes it possible to clip out of bounds using the Area 1 hallway door. By pressing A to open the door as we are falling down into the Area 2 hallway, we can interrupt the fall and get put onto Floor 1.5, even being put past the right side of the door and thus eliminating the need to skew clip past it again.
Other Notes
- This movie is identical to the previous submission all the way up until after the egadd text before the Area 1 hallway door.
- The final clip down into the pre-Altar hallway was improved by 5 frames over the previous submission.
- Thanks to mini for discovering this new tech!
Suggested Scrrenshot Frame: 10296
ViGadeomes: Claiming for judging.
ViGadeomes: This is a great new skip here !
Great movie, everything seems ok to me.
Accepting over the previous publication.
fsvgm777: Processing.