Soon to be proven possible: 1. The maridia green gate opened from reverse
Saturn, you saying that something's ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE is getting pretty old. Haven't you learned by now that you should never say never?
Tests done for early power bombs are most likely improvable by a couple seconds, but most likely cannot make up for the slower progress made during the area getting the early power bombs.
Without it you could easily open the gate from the other side. Otherwise you have to pass 2 blocks (the solid and the gate block) in order to open it, which is too much to be possible, no matter what you do.
On the other hand it's indeed weird why the Super explodes in midair, but that is irrelevant in the end. There is no way to shot slightly below the solid block, pass the gate, and still hit the green switch, because they are on the same height, and thus if you miss the solid block you will miss it as well, no matter where the Super would explode on the other side. Only thing that counts is the height, not the blast radius of it, even though it looks close and possible.
For information, I actually tested this alot before entering Maridia in my RBO run around a year ago, since even though it's a detour from Norfair, it would still be faster because of avoiding of the slow water moves in the first rooms. I talked with catnap and Kejardon about this, and they both said it's impossible with that block before it. And I think when Kej says something about SM, then it's true, since he knows the mechanics of the game like no other.There are differences in timing that might affect boss strategies (Phantoon or Draygon for instance; it's been already confirmed that conditions are not the same between 1.43 and 1.51), or something like that.
Yeah, on a related note, I remember that I have planned to make a reference run for you, but it didn't quite worked out as I hoped. It was when I got to Norfair, I suddenly realized it desynced back at Torizo (yes, I did it on Snes9x 1.51 for obvious reasons). Since all the tricks had to be performed in realtime (I decided not to use slowdown except in situations where the keyboard was an obvious obstacle), I had to use a lot of rerecords and thus couldn't avoid the desyncs. So, unless/until rerecording is fixed in 1.51, I won't be able to devote my time to it.
It will be interesting to see if Saturn have known about these newly invented strategies of yours, after all he constantly claims to know things we don't.
Well, it was no joke. I did in fact improve the door jump by 5 frames. Though I forget the exact line of input, it requires that the A button be released sometime during the middle of the jump. I will edit this later if you can't figure it out, and I will post the exact key presses. Because I am nice guy and I don't like keeping secrets for my own benefit, here you go. I just quickly modified moozooh's movie to add in my door improvement. http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/1070752612/torizo_skip_ntsc.smv
Also I've been playing around with the torizo escape a lot and have not been able to do the faster way heor did, so I thought maybe someone could explain it further if it's not to much trouble.
I guess it requires waiting frames for luck manipulation already in the opening cut scene doesn't it Saturn?
I knew about this whole 49'15 a long time ago, I just didn't mention it to you earlier I think. :-P
He saved 1 frame in one spot, likely because Moozooh overlooked something; it happens all the time. I say wait for consistency (which may very well happen, in which case kudos) before you start shitting your pants with this whole "this new guy is teh shiz".
And are you really serious? 49'15?? Is that because of the emulator changes or have you really improved JXQ's frame counts? Me want to see. :)
I actually compared to your unfinished RBO-run, but so many tricks have been found after you started that run I think that's the main reason.