bk2 works best on BizHawk 1.11.8 | You must freeze 68K RAM address FC5A to a value of 1E (hex) for the movie to play from power on.
- The linked .bk2 is of an improvement to Boomerang Bosses over the Any% TAS which is 6.5 seconds faster and uses no 20-diamond power.
Maximum Levels TAS Improvements
- If the Maximum Levels TAS is to include dead-end elsewheres in the next update, The Valley of Life > Elsewhere 13 > The Black Pit path would be faster than the Forced Entry > Elsewhere 12 > The Cliffs of Illusion path. Plus, the former allows you to start Lion's Den as Skycutter.
- We would also have to test if the Elsewhere 19 > Towers of Blood > Elsewhere 20 > The Crypt > Elsewhere 21 path is faster over Elsewhere 17 > Elsewhere 18 > Scorpion Isle > The Hills Have Eyes > Elsewhere 22. The latter allows Alien Twilight, Secrets in the Rocks, and Ice God's Vengeance to be played as Skycutter while the former does not, so these options would need to be weighed carefully.
- We would even see a use for this strat to get to Elsewhere 25 (read video description):
General Improvements
- As explained in the "Teleporters" section of this game's resources, one frame of teleportation delay can be saved for each tap of the right button from a standstill. This equates to 30 frames saved per teleporter. My Maximum Score WIP has some examples of this already implemented.
- Blue Lake Woods I and II received some slight improvements over both TASes in the Final Boss Warp TAS, which would need to be integrated.
- About 50 frames could be saved in Elsehwere 1 if the restart round strat at the beginning is removed and we instead restart round on the same frame Cyclone is collected (to execute a helmet storage glitch). We would be two diamonds short but I imagine it shouldn't take more than 50 frames to recover them later on.