Catrap is a puzzle game for gameboy. In it you dig paths and push blocks in order to reach and defeat all the enemies on each of the 100 levels.
This is an ~2 minute improvement over the previous run, many levels were improved.
Several levels were improved with small movement optimizations such as going down ladders before falling or pushing blocks in different orders to avoid falling animation.
Other levels had entirely new improvements (some contributed by HandsomeRudy who declined co-authorship.)
Additionally, HandsomeRudy noticed that the boy character climbs faster, so switching characters at the level start screen saves time in some levels.
Finally, a glitch that was present, though apparently unnoticed, in the first run is exploited in several levels. Normally when you defeat an enemy, you have to wait for them to despawn before changing characters. However, if more then one enemy is defeated, or an enemy is defeated and a block collapse is triggered, you have 1 frame when any of these events ends to change characters. You do not need to wait for all of them to complete.
Here is a console verification video:
Special thanks to HandsomeRudy and Jules for time saving suggestions.

feos: Judging...
feos: Replacing the movie with a 15 second improvement.
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feos: Another replacement, 4666 frames!
feos: Accepting over [2206] GB Catrap by MattyXB in 59:21.57 once again.
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You're welcome. There are potential time savers everywhere now and I don't want to participate.
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Not participating is fine, I think it's just fair to keep you as a co-author, especially if no one is able beat your times.
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Ok, thanks for your help anyway. HandsomeRudy removed as co-author and submission notes updated. I think this is a good place to wrap this one up anyway.
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HandsomeRudy wrote:
I guess it's my turn to fail now.
Hardly a failure! Perhaps an "incomplete success"?
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [4461] GB Catrap by MattyXB & Alyosha in 57:17.61
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Just as a note, I did not add the console verification flag to this movie because the current video is of the old run, not the more current one. I can set it as console verified once a new video is posted.
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EZGames69 wrote:
Just as a note, I did not add the console verification flag to this movie because the current video is of the old run, not the more current one. I can set it as console verified once a new video is posted.
New console verification video added to the submission.