My nomenclature is slightly different than yours, Blublu. 5+1 means you are going to hit the ceiling between the 5 and the 1 and you need to let go of bounce just when hitting the ceiling. 2+1 means you are going to hit the cieling between the 2 and the 1 and you need to let go of bounce just when hitting the ceiling. Sometimes you can clear the lip of the 5+1 platform so well that it turns into a 4+1, though this is rare, and it's easy to tell when it happens. Even if does, the rest of the jumps stay the same. One more important note: on the very first 5-jump, do not start holding bounce at the peak of your idle bouncing, or you will break on the third 1-jump.
You can actually combo the jumps all the way up, mostly never letting go of jump, and never having to stop to set anything up: (huge picture removed) My nomenclature is slightly different than yours, Blublu. 5+1 means you are going to hit the ceiling between the 5 and the 1 and you need to let go of bounce just when hitting the ceiling. 2+1 means you are going to hit the cieling between the 2 and the 1 and you need to let go of bounce just when hitting the ceiling. Sometimes you can clear the lip of the 5+1 platform so well that it turns into a 4+1, though this is rare, and it's easy to tell when it happens. Even if does, the rest of the jumps stay the same. One more important note: on the very first 5-jump, do not start holding bounce at the peak of your idle bouncing, or you will break on the third 1-jump.
Crystal Path is sort of tricky so I made a map and plotted what I think is the best route:
Route
Old route
I figured out ways to do the corner bounce in both the places that I don't use it on this map, but due to the difficulty I think on average it would be slower to try it. The one place I do use it is really easy.
Also I found out a super fast way to do that level but I can only pull it off about 10% of the time. Make it to the first check point and switch to glass ball, go back up (skipping half the level basically). It is very hard because you have to nail the corner bounce glitch on an inside corner to get the needed height.
Maybe switch here and pick ascentball to fly over the laser is a little faster.
1. From start, head right and activate the warp point under the tower. 2. Head all the way east and get the pink ball without hitting another warp point. 3. Warp to the tower and switch to the pink ball. 4. Climb the tower and get the iron ball.
For Boco:
It's supposedly possible to get into and complete the tower with ball #1, making ball 2 useless. 1 -> 3 -> 5, then use 5 for everything that you need to jump high.
