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Removed a lag frame from level 3. Boss pattern changed so redid. No HP loss in this level, because it doesn't saves frame anywhere.

52 frames faster than adelikat's published run until start of level 4.

Currently implemented optimizations from me: - optimizing "grapp target" jumping offs - abusing a position/subpixel trick to throw crates as fast as possible (removing 1 frame of direction 16 frames earlier of doing that action) - lag frame removing like a boss (carefully making actions) - pogo stick mania at level 1 after crates instead of ducking - movement optimizing mostly on ropes - different route at 2 places (stone at level 3 and level 3 boss) because of pattern change

Added feos's level 4 part (a bit synced until ~18133, ropes...)

Optimized until 12195 (start of level 3) (comparison movie: Duck-feos.fm2 old one), 42 frames faster.

Optimized until 7564th frame

Saves 2 frames instead of 6....

18 frames saved total at the start of level 1 boss fight. (Optimized only to that part now).

- Jumping off the rope at 2117 - Better catching the grapple target - Maybe better jump to the end of the screen after logs/water scene? - Better catching the grapple target - Second "moving platform" sequence changed (pogo stick madness). Somehow I can throw the next crate much earlier.

So... a fake difficulty game that I destroy by manipulating the spawn of enemies. One could easily remove all enemies from the game by positioning and different actions done by P1.

The developers were heroin addict if you ask me.

Probably final version. Maybe...

Just uploaded in case someone wants to optimize the wall clipping. Should save around 2-3 frames.

I was able to save 10 frames on room 1 by dashing through sparky instead of jumping through it which saves a lot of lag frames too. The only problem is, that it generates much more lag frames in the early part of room 2, therefore I couldn't preserve any improvements.

What I'm trying to achieve is resync the RNG (jumping an extra time before sparky) and sacrifice as many (lag) frames as required to avoid the lag frames on room 2 early part.

Note that the movie only edited to 1330th frame (you need to remove 10 frames before room 2's input part).

Try to use mugg's or Masterjun's lua script. For whatever reason, the game doesn't wants me to start running with "top" speed at the slope.

1 frame saved by better clipping.

Comparison to my previous movie: - 4 frames improved by better boosting and lag frame removing at room1 (exits 4 frames faster) - 4 frames improved by better lag frame removing (exits 4 frames faster, 8 total) - Nasty lag frames everywhere.... wall clipping optimizible, probably saves the improvements back.

This version based on Masterjun's latest attempt.

- Lag frames avoided by swallowing 3 enemies at room 1 (avoiding the lag caused by taking damage/creaure explode), sacrificing position and using Masterjun's lua script I avoided more frames, making to the exit in 1344 (1348 for Masterjun, 1347 for my earlier "1 frame improvement"). >> 4 frames

- I think somewhere I got an extra speed in the early part of room 2. Some lag frames avoided. Exits at 1871 (1876 for Masterjun) >> 5 frames

- RNG changed a little bit. overall: 2178 frames (2183 for Masterjun)

Possible improvements... - Different approach to "cliff" at end of room 1? - Different jumping to "cliff" at end of room 2? - Different slope wallclipping before warping?

3 frames improved by optimizing the clipping and ending. more details in earlier uploaded wip.

Completes the first 2 stages with two players. Very fast.

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This movie beats the first 3 worlds and somewhere gets bored.

0x0026 speed (0-3) 0x002B y speed

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This movie is 37 frames faster than the published glitched run at the 1st frame of entering Ragua Sando thanks to using input before the first lag frame which processes at the next non-lag frame. This way I start every level 1 frame faster. This also leads to different routes and strategies.

The route is optimized to bounce and get tones as much as possible at the lowest cost of "wasting" frames

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This movie tries to manipulate more "spaces" between different blocks. This is a huge time saver. The only problem is that it's nearly impossible to do it while going up as fast as you can (literally holding U).

Strategy for a perfect run would be manipulate the 3 and 4 blocks in such order to help P1 sometimes with P2 to destroy it and manipulate as many spaces as you can and holding U at least on 1 controller all the time! And avoid lag frames.

The fastest route should start with: 4, 3, 4, 3, 3 blocks. Pattern maybe depend on 0x002C but everytime there was a "drop", it will "mean" something else. All I could investigate is that there are "empty patterns" that just drops spaces, but you have a small window to manipulate the next "empty pattern".

For the very first pattern, 0x002C experiments: All empty patterns:

30, 32, 39, 3B, 3C, 3E, 3F 70, 72, 79, 7B, 7C, 7E, 7F B0, B2, B9, BB, BC, BE, BF F0, F2, F9, FB, FC, FE, FF

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This movie kills nearly half of the required enemies for stage 2 just to demonstrate the "super L+R speed" trick.

0x00BA horizontal speed 0x00AC x pos 0x0196 kill counter 0x0198 final boss hp (dec from 100) 0x0179 final boss hp (inc from 0) 0x05B4 hp

Super Left speed - negative - LR until -128, let of LR Super Right speed - positive - go negative, hold LR after 126 until destination

Indirect damaging of the final boss through the wizard

Level 0 - 2 kill count Level 1 - weapons - 15 kill count, boss, pick up all bounty Level 2 - bounty - 15 kill count, boss, insta end (wizard's star stun) Level 3 - weapons - 20 kill count, boss, pick up all bounty

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This movie finishes the very 1st stage with 3 turbo uses (refills to 3). Note that there's looping stages with actually 3 different difficulty. You would need to use a "cheat code" to start from the hard one directly from the menu.

0x0018 speedometer, learn the values to make perfect shifts 0x0544 enemy pos, not the best but something useful.

-Enemies you need to capture has unfair speed advantage over you. So the fastest way to catch em up is to be slow while reasonably fast. This means you should be fast before they appear and try to hit the enemy without sacrificing more time to spend to recovery (avoiding slowdown) -Enemy car's moving pattern depends on your cars position. -Making a wide turn with your car around a corner makes a sound effect. Actually most of the time there's no slowdown.

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This movie finishes the 1st stage. The ending was incredibly unlucky and totally bad. But this way I could implement both improvements and best routes.

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Nearly the same as last wip but changed input to avoid getting game over. Frame 01:07.250: And so, the dark queen is defeated once again.

This completes the first 3 sets. Uploaded to show how boring it is.