General info:
- BizHawk 2.11
- Aims for fastest time
- Plays at easiest difficulty
- Abuses programming errors
- Manipulates RNG
This is a 1777 frame improvement to the previous submission by EZGames69 and SBDWolf due thanks to a new method of skipping more geyser eruptions in Be Prepared. The rest of the run is identical to the previous submission besides having to resync the final room of Simba's Return due to slightly different lag frames. For notes on the rest of the run outside of Be Prepared, please see the submission notes of their run.
This new strategy takes advantage of how the game handles the geyser eruptions when Simba leaves the final chamber in Be Prepared. When Simba leaves the chamber, the game puts the geysers into a pending state where their respective counters alternate between 0 and 1 every frame. When Simba re-enters, the first geyser in memory with the counter value 0 will erupt next.
After the existing RNG manipulation to cause the leftmost geyser to erupt second, once it does erupt completely, the game resets the counter on that geyser so that it counts down to 0 while the rightmost geyser is beginning to erupt. By leaving the chamber on a frame where the leftmost geyser's counter is even, once the counter reaches 0, you end up in a situation where whenever the other pending geysers are at 0, the leftmost geyser is at 1, and vice versa.
After the rightmost geyser has finished erupting, you re-enter the chamber on a frame where the rightmost geyser's counter is counting down again, the two middle geysers are at 1, and the leftmost geyser is at 0. This causes the leftmost geyser to immediately erupt again. This process is repeated on every cycle until the leftmost geyser has erupted 5 times, which is the clear condition for the stage.
Using this strategy, the two middle geysers never erupt, and the leftmost and rightmost geysers erupt 5 times each. This saves 10 total eruptions instead of just the 2 at the beginning saved in the previous run.
This strategy is also possible on the Genesis version, as the geysers function the same way there. So that run will soon be improved with the extra cycle skips.
nymx: Claiming for judging.
nymx: Movie syncs, and the improvements are good. I know the Stampede entertainment existed previously, but I still like it a lot. Great job on the improvements.
Accepting over [4735] SNES The Lion King by EZGames69 & SBDWolf in 11:22.99
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