User Files from KnucklesMaster368

• First, a new way to clip into levels: No longer do we need a custom character, all we need is a Jedi (or Sith) and the janky ceilings above the chapter panels. While facing the panel, jump and slam into the sign above a door, and you will be on top of the sign, which clips you into the ceiling. From there, we can jump around behind the doors and enter any level we want. This finally allows us to completely bypass the first level, Negotiations, but as a consequence all episodes will NOT unlock after beating a level. The next episode will still unlock after completing the final chapter in an episode, however. You can Yoda clip behind episode doors, but it isn't likely to save time over doing the episodes in order.

• Second, double cutscene skips: While skipping cutscenes was discovered in time for the last TAS, in classic Knux fashion, double skips and skipping only the second cutscene in a pair was discovered mere weeks after it. To do a double skip, it's a frame-perfect pause, then unpause (with A) and buffer start, then unpause again. To only skip the 2nd cutscene in a pair, buffer Start just after the first cutscene cuts to black, then unpause (felt useful to mention).

• Third, Vader Skip: Yep, we can skip the Vader fights in Cloud City Trap. It's another door deload trick like in the final room of this level, but it is done wildly differently. You have to land a shot from Chewbacca on the last frame before you're about to land, while in the earlier portions of the room, and far enough from the wall. If a glitchy load happens, you got it: swap to another character to deload the door.

• and a Bonus non-discovery: I brought over "ending input early" ideas from the still in progress Free Play TAS. To end input earlier than in the current TAS, autosave had to be triggered, which does cost some time, but it saves over 12x the amount of time it loses. The final level (Into the Death Star) is a vehicle level, which all have the mechanic of your vehicle always moving the direction its facing (albeit slowly) without user input. In addition, the final 30 seconds of the level is an autoscroller. This allows us to end input over 2 minutes earlier than in the last TAS.

• Darth Maul: Force field skip in the second to last room. Saves 5-15 seconds.
• Cloud City Trap: Boba Fett Skip. An accidental discovery that spawned its own related glitches, but it has not yet been reproduced on emulator or by others apart from the individual who discovered it. Another 5-15 second save.
• Yoda RNG: not much to say about this
• Cantina movement: some of the movement is definitely suboptimal.

• Grapple clipping: Double jumping characters can jump on the lower lip of a grapple hook placed low enough. This is used in Level 1 at the start and Level 4 near the end.
• Bomb clipping: This is the most important tech in the game. When a bomb is placed close enough to a door, the collision from the front side will be a greater force than the wall/door pushing back, allowing you to clip through doors. This is utilized in every level extensively.
• Height storage: By switching to a different character in the roster while you are about to either jump or get off a ladder, the upwards vertical velocity will be stored, and released remotely once swapping back to that character, allowing you to gain additional height or distance mid-air. Utilized in every level.

• generally:
  • cleaner pause buffering for chained jump storage where necessary (1-3s)
  • tighten execution on menuing between levels (<0.5s)
  • optimize jump storages and other movement (1+ s)

• clean up room 2 in lv2 (1-3s)
• chained jump storage instead of final ladder in lv3 (0-4s)
• chained jump storage instead of ladder storage in lv4 (4-6s)
• chained jump storage in rm2 lv6 (0-3s)
• find way to unlock the roster in rm 2 lv8 after clearing gap (if possible 1-3s)

Note about the Userfile: it requires BizHawk 2.4.2

Note about the Userfile: it requires BizHawk 2.1.1