if I knew who actually made the photo to begin with, i'd give due credit...but, at least I found out it is quite a simple trick to pull off...it is like a magic trick...mysterious and cool, till you figure out how it is done, and how utterly easy it is!
Pause just before the room shifts over to black. If you do, the boss graphics will be really screwed-up, but. . .you actually can wander around in the level. The boss has a "clipping radius," however. If it gets too far off-screen, it'll warp on over to the other side of the screen, thus making it very very deadly.
Uses for This Trick: To lock the boss in place, block some of the boss' shots, and things like that. If, for some reason, you feel compelled to work your way back outside, however, you can also run around the levels with the boss theme blaring.
Side-Effects: You can't see where you're going outside of the boss room due to the fact that, apparently, bosses use the room's palette as well as its tiles(in-memory). However, if you pause and unpause, for a couple frames, you can see the path. Also note, you still have to walk back to the boss room to collect your part.
Works in MetaFight?: Yes.
Works in Blaster Master?: I would think so.* The current TAS goes straight from H-missile to triple missile in a single pause. I think it would be faster to go from H-missile to lightning in one pause, and from there to triple missile in the next pause. * One of the rooms in level 3 he travels along the ground alot, when travelling on the platforms above would prevent some enemies from spawning. This *might* reduce lag. * When first initiating the walk-across-water glitch in level 4, it would be faster if the enemy shot him instead of walking into him. * The current run lags during the level 6 boss fight when it is paused. It's possible to pull off this boss fight without it lagging, and I've actually done that non-assisted before. * Many other minor optimizations could be made, like not hugging the corners of the platforms when hovering to level 4, and instead going to the right and getting some horizontal speed.
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