A few weeks ago I had the idea that, since the first time I tried TASing this game, the RNG didn't colaborate, and manipulating the RNG blindly was very painful , what if I try TASing the True Ending and hope it works out now, for whatever reason. And it did!
This time around I manged to get the fire orbs on the right places. There's one unfortunate spot at the end of Aqueduct 2 where an enemy decides to run into the exit, and I have to lose 16 frames to get through (1 from damaging through and 15 from the health refill), but other than that its good RNG so far.
There's still one potentially bad RNG spot, right after the jungle shrine, depends on if I can get through the shrine without damaging through the obstacles being faster, and if it is, there's only 2-3 enemies before the boss, so it might get hard getting a fire orb then if thats the case. After that tho, it should be smooth sailing.
Also, rerecord count is kind of low because midway through the file decided to corrupt itself, but starting a new file and copying over the input log worked out fine.
Edit: Got through the Jungle level, was able to get through the shrine taking only one damage, so I get to keep a fire orb to the boss. The whole level looks kind of weird because I don't kill everything, like I do in the previous levels, and thats just so i get a good pattern on the boss. Which is a bunch of totem faces, and basically having the same face turn around in a row is slower than having a different face turn, since in that case the next face will start turning around while the previous one is still turning. I get one repeat with the pattern I maniped, but I started off with 5 repeats, so just 1 is pretty good. A repeat loses about 15 frames or so.
All of these is not on this userfile, FYI, just in case someone wants to know.
All of these is not on this userfile, FYI, just in case someone wants to know.