I am working on a TAS for this atm as well. Has the midboss in New Junk City been improved? I got it with only one jump over. I may have been watching an older TAS, but he got it after 4 jumps. I found you can float him in the air at the beginning of the fight with your whip, allowing for extra dmg before he hits the ground. Also, plasma shot animations can be cancelled by whipping, and then you can cancel the whip animation with another plasma, repeat. I shot 4 plasmas in 8 frames, however, I dont think the boss took damage from 2 of them due to iframes. I didnt think that boss had iframes, but I'm still new to TASing this game. I am very curious where the skip was found. I have tried to find a way to dmg boost off the crow at the beginning of NJC and clip into the cliff above to get the toilet warp early. No luck so far, but I feel like it should be possible.
Awesome to hear about the improvements! I'll be looking forward to it.
There is also new stuff skip that i discovered recently by myself. At moment this is unknown even for "omniscient" EWJ-speedrunning community.
Well, here's (part) the first stage with that new jump. It reminds me of Aladdin a lot.
I wondering is it possible to do similar jump to make skip in Intestinal Distress? Or not?
P.S. Question about high chain jump in Intestinal Distress is still open.
Is this testing going to happen in the near future (so you'll cancel/update this run) or some time later (so I should judge this run now)?
Could you post time per level comparisons?
You might want to wait until I figure out how to manipulate Puppy Love better (if it's possible, otherwise I'll just post why it's not).
Hm, it looks like the next unit to spawn in Puppy Love is just read from ROM sequentially, and is always the same every time you replay that level? Any insight before I test tomorrow?
What does the difficulty level affect other than amount of Puppy Love rounds?
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