Health Rationing: Groog Hills - Take one-two damage (2-3) Erars Lake - Two Hearts (4) Water Pool - Take one damage. (3) Dark Prison - Take one damage (2) Hades Crater - One Heart (3) Magma Lake/Magma Dam - End these with 3 health having visited only one restoration area. Crysta Hole - One Heart (4) Death Road - Bomb the first bomb over the portal without taking damage, for the second portal jump in and take damage. Take one damage (3) Grab the heart at the end of the level. One Heart (4) Float Zone - Take three damage (1), One Heart (2), Take one damage (1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqh310HgyC4 I'm sure this won't be useful in the any% TAS but for 100% it could be very useful. The only way this could be used for any% would be for someone to find a way to get past that wall at the exit of the level. Which I doubt will ever happen. But if someone can find a way to boost up onto the platform that has Wall-Through on it then it could turn out to be faster.
I'm 95% confident it isn't faster in the any%. I'm not sure the time you chose to bomb the switch in your platform was optimal, I didn't look that close. Perhaps setting a bomb and waiting for it to blow up will make the platform better. It's 3 extra warps, an out of the way jump, a climb, and another jump compared to riding the platform up and jumping in the green warp. May be useful as an option for the 100% route, I'm not sure that it will be applied in either route, but still another impressive find.
http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/820452902/Kirkq%20Bomberman%20Hero%20Bubble%20Hole.m64 Nitros +1 frame Clown Valley +72 frames (A nearly frame perfect jump around the highest plateau.) Great Rock +92 frames (Much better platforming optimization, usage of bomb drop momentum, etc.) Fog Route +254 frames (Mostly due to ZAR's trick.) Endol +144 frames (Uh, what? ;D) Groog Hills +7 frames Bubble Hole +22 frames (An important note here: Jumping into the warp was faster than falling into the warp by about 10 frames.) Now 953 frames ahead (15.88 seconds)
144 saved frames don't exactly come from nowhere. =p Endol's laughing animation significantly cuts down his invulnerability time. (72 frames per hit if your hits were all optimal.) I get hit the frame after he takes damage each time. He is invulnerable for a portion of the laughing as well, but not nearly as long. I kept health to take one damage in Groog Hills. There are actually 3 hearts in Erars Lake (on either path).
The second crystal in Dark Prison can be collected much faster, just jump up straight away for it and jump again onto the next platform, instead of acting like an idiot and trying to do both in one jump. Then with the time you've saved, you should be able to jump onto the moving platform from the main spiralling platform and thus collect the third crystal much faster, saving several seconds.
Well I've more than doubled my progress this past week, and we get to start seeing brand new material soon. http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/659021537/Kirkq%20Bomberman%20Hero%20Warp%20Room%2051705.m64 Erars Lake +174 (Possibly entirely from the Manta Ray.) Waterway +52 Rock n Road +6 Water Pool +144 (This was extremely difficult to pull off effectively.) Warp Room +31 (Extremely optimized bomb kick exploding against the ground under the switch instead of the wall, there is no better timing for it.) +1360, (22.67 seconds)
Seriously, you guys need to mention these things as I pass them...about 6 days ago would have been nice. Stuff I've messed up so far: Hyper Room Jump: Mediocre bomb jump, ran into the wall for a few frames before jumping and didn't back up to gain acceleration before walking through the wall. (15-20 frames) This one was mostly unfamiliarity with the game early on. Nitros 1: My new death trick saves 269 frames, it was by random chance that I found it for the second round. Great Rock: Probably has around 60 frames that can be saved from better routing, but that level is annoying. Groog Hills: Not taking damage, jumping around the side. (Saves 98 frames + 72 frames at Endol) I suck for not checking this. So, there will be a fair amount of improvement for a v2 in the future. (About 8 seconds over 15 minutes, at least I found 4.5 of those myself. =p) It isn't worth it to go back at this point, and besides I'd rather see a 100% next to this before anyone ever bothers with a v2. I'll start on Killer Gate later today, I have a plan for executing it very precisely. EDIT: Killer Gate Complete, Beginning of Snake Route causing problems, will attempt another day. http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/763125508/Killer%20Gate%2059890.m64
