A possibility is the beak buster (or for the n00bs here: "the switch pressing move") invincibility glitch; which seems to make you invincible from anything. (this, I think, is a well known glitch, where you beak bust, and while you're flipping up, you can fall from an infinite height and not get hurt, you are invincible from enemy attacks, and the "magnetised" grunty attack in the final battle. I don't think I've seen this glitch abused at all this run. One improvement I saw was maybe only 10 frames, but you broke a door, started a talon trot, and went inside. then took about three steps before free falling. It would be a lot faster, I think to just traverse the short distance with a forward roll or something. But on the plus side, I think your planning is excellent. I have not seen any better planning in any other TAS. Unrelated, here is an excerpt from the PROSH: SAGITTARIUS: Metastatic lung cancer is not funny. Your face is funny. In a cruel twist you will get metastatic lung cancer. Everyone will laugh, but rest-assured this is because of your face.
um. I haven't watched it yet but if you are talking about what i think you are talking about with the falling thing... isn't there a ladder you can touch near the last possible frame to cancel the fall damage? It seems like aiming for the ladder would be quicker than doing a "rat-a-tat rap" (lol window breaking move) mid-fall.
wow more awesomeness :) yeah the box kill really surprised me I was wondering one thing when dropping from the ship's chimney you need to break your fall to avoid falling damage, is it possible to combine the window-breaking move with that action? or is banjo already in an unstoppable fall at that point? (or does he simply not reach it :P) keep up the great work :D
Very nice WIP. One possible improvement, however: it is possible to do a beak buster through the grating above the fifth Jinjo, similar to the trick used to get up to the crane with the Shock Spring Pad. This may be faster as it allows instant access to the notes above without swimming out and using the crate.
Evidently the deathstate doesn't care whether it sent you to a respawn or if you go into a new room. (He does lose a life, if you pay attention. 'course, if he had more lives, then you wouldn't be able to know- it says "9" but keeps track much higher.
Wow! So, what's up with that beak-bomb that fully revives? Could that have been used when entering mumbo's hut (without getting the honeycomb piece)? I mean, it probably wouldn't save any time since you had to get the mumbo token anyway but I'm still curious. In any case, great job! And here's my late encode. Latest part is 09.
Sami, FP was incredible. Keep up the great work, I am a loyal WIP follower. Good luck on Sub-2h.
Finally watched FP, all thanks to Airman. As you said, quality was a little off, but it didn't detract from Sami's awesomeness. :P Few things... - At the start of the WIP when you beak bust the coffin, I was once able to fluke a beak bust which went through the lid and hit the switch all in one go. Although I don't think this is something to go back for, it's only minor. Maybe something for future runs. Yeah maybe =) - you swam through the water to the RBB picture. So I'm just asking; Marsh seemed fairly confident back when he did his run that feathery flapping over water was faster than regular swimming. Have you falsified this claim now? How many frames faster does swimming get you? Hmm I don't remember anymore...I lost that earlier savestate :D RBB will be awesome....trust me ;D
Sami, I am actually having a little trouble replicating the Freezeezy Peak Witch Switch glitch on the emulator; So you may have to stick with the old WIP file if you cannot make it work. I say it work because the other day I did it on the console and saw it listed on various websites. I just assumed it worked on the emulators.
Wasn't the walrus skippable? Or was that some other mumbo transformation I'm confusing it with? Sami, both the jump+Z+zip, or the jump+Z+grab+jump again techniques should be faster than normal climbing. I have tested this on many different occasions; even if you can't get that zippy effect, climbing is slower than both zipping or jumping. Also, you could use jump+Z to extend your hitbox and hit the ceiling loading zone faster, like you did way back in Treasure Cove. I was a little disappointed with the christmas bulbs that you didn't play around more during the wait period, you just did the same slow actions repeated. That part was a little boring. But the rest was good, and did show good route planning. Of course, I came to the somber realization that if it took that long for this stage, there's still a looooooong way to go before this is submitted. :-(