Back to USA Lolo 2, I'd like to invite anyone to go ahead and improve the currently published run. For the past year and a half I haven't had time to touch it myself, but by now we have several known improvements. Here's a list:
1-5: from AnS, save 8 frames by cutting half of a sand tile
2-2: from Nitrodon, change the path a bit to save at least one step of emerald pushing
3-5: from AnS, grab the heart near the jewel box early, dodge skulls at the end (the spare shot is handy). Unfortunately I can't find this fcm, but AnS demonstrated an improvement of at least 3 frames
4-1: from Nitrodon,
Lolo2 4-1.fcm
5-4: from AnS, the published movie might be losing 1 frame due to sloppiness here
6-3: from BagOfMagicFood, go clockwise around the room
6-4: from AnS, swap the order of the last two hearts
6-5: from AnS, shoot Gol from the water to save 1 frame. Supposedly there's a similar improvement on 5-2 but I can't see what's missing there
9-3: from Nitrodon, see the
published movie thread