Game objectives

• Emulator used: BizHawk 2.2.1, mgba 0.6.0
• Beat final bosses and reach credits in shortest possible time

Tricks used:

• Djunn is used over Tal'set since Tal'set's melee weapon is just a boring old axe. (Branch idea, perhaps?)
• The Chain stuns enemies, allowing Djunn to run through them.
• When grappling onto the ceiling and holding down the intended direction (left or right), Djunn starts to swing left and right. While swinging, pressing A or B on (usually) the second frame it is allowed lets him cover a significant amount of horizontal distance. Jumping immediately after that often maximises this distance. (At normal walking speed, jumping does not make him travel faster)
• This technique has limited effectiveness with low ceilings. With high ceilings, it can still be used; Djunn just has to spend extra jumps to reach the ceiling.
• This technique is not very good for vertical scaling, but in urgent situations, it can be used to swing up to a platform above. This requires building momentum and releasing it on the third swing.
• Using the technique while standing right next to a door allows you to clip through it.
• Damage boosts are not very significant in this game, so they are used sparingly.
• As long as you don't use up a weapon's ammo, it appears to refill on the next level.

List of selected weapon damage

• 2 - pistol
• 5 - chain
• 10 - shotgun
• 3*5 - rave, flamethrower
• 15 - rocket, laser
• 20 - (something that ends with -age; the first half was obscured by scenery)

Boss HP

• 50 - container (spawns purple dinos)
• 20 - slime guns
• 255 - big tank
• 120 - gun dino
• 240 - floating skull
• 150 - king dino
• 240 - gun dino 2

Useful memory addresses

• 13A0: X
• 1418: Y
• 5460/5494/54FC/54C8/5460: Boss HP

Areas for improvement

• Clean up swinging; a few of them can definitely be further optimised
• Moving platforms are the biggest time-waster in this run
• Use vertical scaling where possible
• Weapon management; I only picked up weapons that weren't out of the way
• Some of the more open-ended levels (usually the later ones) could be optimised with better routing
• Find a way to bypass the minefield in stage 1, or clip through the egg-doors on stage 5
• Utilise more damage boosts
• Figure out how the guns in the slime boss work (they appear to still be alive when they have 0 HP)