I think the game gets confused if you die in the intro where you shouldn't supposed to die so it brings you back to your starting position. It skips a few scenes but the biggest save is that you can skip Gravitron because saving Violet doesn't lead you to the grey rooms.
played for one of the toughest challenges imaginable! A challenge, only Bruce Willis is man enough to take...
Maybe this one can even be accepted to the moon tier
But the requirement for game completion is not "manipulate memory to trick the game".
While this is still somewhat a hot topic, and before this returns to the depts of the regular forum topic, I would like know what people would then consider to be necessary for the 100% definition.
It would be a good idea to cancel this submission and start a run which collects the large shield too. So nobody complains about somewhat. But I won't do it after doing this run twice in a row.
No, the bait needs to be there too (it's lost in level 7). That means at least one more trip to a shop. Just re-entering the last one would be sufficient if he had enough rupees.
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I would like to see a TAS of this. It's a straightforward 9-level platformer with interesting acceleration effects, and there's a hidden McGuffin in each level if you want a 100% run. At the title screen, press F9 to unlock hard mode which has more enemies and extra spikes everywhere (normally unlocked by playing through normal mode).
100% definitions are inherently arbitrary, and each game's community needs to define what they care about on their own time, before work on runs is started.
It's not all sidequests.
Hasn't it been long established that the fastest version should be used? Why would we change that now?
PC development follows a very different course for this kind of thing than console
Imagine a hypothetical game in which a version is released that has not removed debugging shortcuts -- when you start up the game, there's a teleporter that will take you straight to the final level. You don't have to enter a cheat code or perform an obscure action or anything like that, the game just straight-up gives you a free pass to the endgame. A couple of hours after release, the devs realize what they did and release a patch that changes 1 bit in the executable so that the teleporter isn't generated. Should all the speedruns use the version of the game that provides the teleporter? (EDIT: what if it takes a week for the devs to release the patch? A month?)
I'm not opposed to that - what would you describe the goal as, though? "Fastest high score level"?