OK, the exam was quite hard, I'm not yet sure if I passed it, I'll get the result on Thursday
Anyway, I started working on my SMW run again yesterday. First of all had to redo Mondo, because GameCube04 had done this trick in his video where he lifted off on the very first platform.
In the end this wasn't such a big timesaver as expected, because running back and forth also cost some time (yes I already could have lifted off at the left end of the platform, but that would have been slower in the end). So, I now finished Mondo 90 frames and 2 timeunits faster.
As expected, this caused some desynchs in the following levels, with which I spent several hours to fix... Sometimes it was enough to just enter the level with 1 or 2 frames delay, but in some levels I had to play some passages again.
These were:
- Outrageous: Mario kept getting hit by the last Piranha Plant, so I had to fly over it. Just before the goal I could perform a cool move, bumping on a Wriggler (I think that's his name), then against the Hammerthrower and then on a bullet, which resulted in a 1UP (I had only gotten 8000 points in this level before)
- Donut Secret House b: Several ghosts were in slightly different positions. At the second ghost ring I had to do a duck jump, otherwise Mario wouldn't have fit through the hole without getting hit. But it looks pretty cool now :)
I also had to do parts of the fight against Big Boo, I think it's also a bit more exciting now (I'm jumping between the two small ghosts)
Strangely, Donut Secret House a didn't desynch at all...
- Vanilla Secret 1 a: I had to redo the last part after flying through the koopas, you probably won't notice it unless you watched the old video 20+ times :P
- Vanilla Secret 3: Mario kept landing on one stupid dolphin, so I had to redo almost the entire level. But you probably also won't notice this, as it's such a boring level and I even collected the very same amount of coins :)
After all, I now enter Forest of Illusions 1 83 frames faster than before, and collected one more 1UP.
You can download the video of Mondo-Castle#4
here. Or just download the hexed full video, from start to Castle#4
here (yes, I called it version 6 now)
I also started a new video in the Forest of Illusions, you can download the first level
here.
I'm already afraid of Forest of Illusions 2, that level will require lots of testing, in regards to taking damage or not... (I would prefer if I could finish the whole game without taking any damage...)
