totally got me by surprise, but I’ve finally saved those 2 frames I’ve been going for in the basement pillars room! :D
the key was redoing the swimming, I thought of trying to go straighter to jump out of the water 2 frames earlier, but even with my redoing I still jumped out on the same frame, I was some X pixels ahead of the old WIP but in a far more left position, I kept tying the old WIP until somehow I saw Yoshi enter the door 2 frames earlier! :D
I still wonder whether that jump can be done 2 frames earlier, and whether my swimming technique is the best…
http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/634517045/newtrick.dsm
I might try more, going for the early jump and testing other swimming techniques to see if there’s a better one
edit: couldn’t find any better swimming technique
edit2: saving 4 frames with Mario with the new direction reset glitch, but we’re not satisfied and I have a new idea which might save more, if it doesn’t work we’ll try to save 6 and be happy with that I think
edit3: we’re losing 4 frames with the new idea, but we haven’t done it properly yet… and it looks cooler so I want to make it save
now to TAS into the unknown… might need some troublesome texture hacking…
full TAS should be ready within early May unless something goes wrong
edit: texture hacking was simple enough but damn if it’s hard to TAS this part…
