I completed the
fm2 movie file, which includes all the latest improvements:
6 improvents found by
Zugzwang, and one by me.
Note: 1 full step is 16 frames
Level 3-1 46 frame improvement (Zugzwang)
Level 3-2 43 frame improvement (Zugzwang)
Level 6-1 16 frame improvement (Zugzwang)
Level 6-3 7 frame improvement (Baxter)
Level 8-4 16 frame improvement (Zugzwang)
Level 8-5 138 frame improvement (Zugzwang)
Level 9-3 41 frame impovement (Zugzwang)
This version was quite lucky with the random length of dark screens (varies sometimes by a frame), which also saved 2 or 3 frames. In the end,
this version is now 309 frames (a little over 5 seconds) faster than the published run.
At this point, I didn't find any improvements that weren't mentioned in this topic before this post. I did know what caused me to not notice the 9-3 improvement before it was mentioned by Zugzwang... going all the way down while waiting at the start manipulated the movement of the second leaper coming out. This is why I misunderstood the improvement at first, since the key to the improvement was not moving all the way down (which Zugzwang couldn't know).
I'll leave this movie here, and will check out some levels again, and if I, Zugzwang, or anyone else doesn't find an improvement in the next few weeks, I'll submit this movie.
Also, the published movie was labelled "v10"... and while it probably is the 10th version, I have only made 9 submissions, so for consistency, I named this movie v10 (which would correspond to the number of submissions).
Edit: The fm2 still also completed Defenders of the Crown.