Can I be done with this yet? 178 frames faster than the previous submission candidate.
Spino (2)
Saved 24 frames from better routing around those fingers.
Tricera (5)
Realized one of those pupils could be purple, saves a measly 5 frames.
Implemented my routing improvements from morefix, saved another 9 frames. Still waiting for 10 frames on that final A press, though... This seems to be inevitable. There's just no way to fill all the grays in one pass without waiting.
Saved another 8 frames by doing the pink horn region thing first. All button presses are now frame perfect except for the very first (1 frame slow), the left pupil (2 frames slow) and the very last (10 frames slow). Cycling from gray back to pink also happens to cost 13 frames, so it MIGHT be possible to break even with a color cycling strat. Why is this game so good???
Just to clarify, you can't cycle your color during a fill animation. You gain access to A (fill), B (select color), select (select palette) and start (finish drawing) on the same frame. You CAN cycle the color while the pencil is moving, but that doesn't apply here.
22 total
Ptero (7)
Saved 15 frames using my hot take.
Mini Stego (13)
Non frame perfect delays:
9, 3, 13, 5, 3
Looks like there are 33 frames of potential timesave from pencil routing.
First pass:
6, 3, 13, 5, 0
Saved 6 frames by altering the toenail order.
The 13 and 5 are gonna be tough to crack because it's the little sliver in the bottom right. Making that inner crotch region yellow is also really tough.
New route:
3, 3, +13 for the loopback, +1 for the extra yellow transition
In this crazy new path, I switch colors early so I can have frame perfect transitions out of those tiny secluded regions.
Apparently adds up to 5 frames all told.
11 total
Proto (16)
Saved 106 frames using my hot take.