General info:

This is a 1566 frame improvement to the previous submission thanks to a new method of skipping more geyser eruptions in Be Prepared. The rest of the run is identical to the previous submission besides having to resync Pride Rock due to slightly different lag frames. For notes on the rest of the run outside of Be Prepared, please see the submission notes of the previous run.

This new strategy takes advantage of how the game handles the geyser eruptions when Simba leaves the final chamber in Be Prepared. When Simba leaves the chamber, the game puts the geysers into a pending state where their respective counters alternate between 0 and 1 every frame. When Simba re-enters, the first geyser in memory with the counter value 0 will erupt next.

Once the leftmost geyser erupts completely, the game resets the counter on that geyser so that it counts down to 0 while the first geyser in memory (in this case, the second one from the right) is beginning to erupt. By leaving the chamber on a frame where the leftmost geyser's counter is even, once the counter reaches 0, you end up in a situation where whenever the other pending geysers are at 0, the leftmost geyser is at 1, and vice versa.

After the first geyser has finished erupting, you re-enter the chamber on a frame where the first geyser's counter is counting down again, the other two geysers are at 1, and the leftmost geyser is at 0. This causes the leftmost geyser to immediately erupt again. This process is repeated on every cycle until the leftmost geyser has erupted 5 times, which is the clear condition for the stage.

Using this strategy saves 9 total eruptions instead of just 1 saved in the previous run.

nymx: Claiming for judging.