sorry for being inactive in this thread for a few days.
reason: The lava pit after getting Yoshi kinda frustrated me... I just couldn't find a way to fly over it: If I start flying before the first wall, I won't make it over the whole lava (especially the long way up), because with Yoshi you can't fly up and down unlimited like with the normal feather. And the trick I used earlier (running back and forth) doesn't work anymore after I'm over the first hill). After messing around with this a bit, I accidentally hit a spot at the small wall after the lava pit where Yoshi could stand for a very short time.
Getting all excited, I tried around a bit, and finally could perform a wall jump. A screenshot proved that I hit the wall at a place exactly 16 pixels above the ground (Bisqwit explained to me that in the SMB series the walljump spots also appear in 16 pixel cycles).
Some more tests proved that Yoshi was not needed for the walljump, and I could also do it at another spot which was 32 pixels above ground level.
Overly excited, I went to castle #2 and tried to do the walljump at the long waiting place just before the boss door. If I could do the walljump there, it was save about 4-5 seconds probably.
But then came the disillusionment: For some reason, the walljump is not possible at that spot. As this is a vertical scrolling level, it was impossible to find out where the 16*x pixels are, so I just did several tries, keeping the A-button pressed for different amounts of frames, and made a screenshot everytime I hit the wall. After a while, I had hit the wall at 17 consecutive pixels in a row, but none of those had been a success... I don't know if it's because those stone walls have different attributes than the normal walls, or because it's a vertical scrolling level, but well... too bad :(
Then Bladegash suggested I should have a look at the level in
Lunar Magic. I had no clue what that is, but then found out that it's an editor which let's you edit almost everything in Super Mario World. On that Lunar Magic site I also found a Mario hack called "Demo World : The Legend Continues", and well... that's how I spent the last 3 days :P. This hack is just awesome! More than 80 new levels (with 120 exits total), a new world map, new and old enemies from old Mario games, cool secrets, ... You should really try it out if you haven't already!!
Anyway, after having beaten TLC I will now continue with my normal SMW run (maybe I'll do a TLC run sometime later?? :P), so don't worry, I didn't give it up, just took a small break :)
I just finished Vanilla Dome 3, you can have a look at it
here.
I have to spend about 15 seconds on the skull train after I get Yoshi, I tried to make them as entertaining as possible.
Those beetles I miss on purpose, it looked pretty cool to fly off just in front of them when I recorded it in slow-mo; however I must say it doesn't look so spectacular in normal speed, so I might redo that passage (maybe eat the beetles instead).
Before the end I chose the lower route. They are equally fast, but eating those 4 plants in running-speed looks pretty cool and also means 4 coins in contrast to one single dragon coin on the upper route.
Comments please (especially if you have an idea how to pass that long lava pit faster!)
PS: I will also do some tests how much time it would take to a) ignore Yoshi and try to fly over the whole lava pit (I somehow doubt this is possible) or b) take Yoshi, but jump off him while floating into the lava.
I somehow doubt that this would make up for the time that I can save in Cheese Bridge if I bring Yoshi till there, but well I'll test it out, don't worry.
