Submission #9198: Induviel's GBA The Scorpion King: Sword of Osiris "true ending" in 37:13.16

The Scorpion King: Sword of Osiris is an action platformer released in 2002, developed by WayForward. In it, you follow Mathayus (The Rock), in his quest to obtain the sword of osiris and save Cassandra. This game also acts as a direct sequel to the The Scorpion King movie.

This TAS achieves the True Ending, for which you need to enter the Scorpion Shrine in each level to collect all six runes. This ending unlocks the actual final boss Isis.

When attacking, its possible to cancel the attack by ducking, if on the ground, or by doing the pogo attack, this also lets you attack multiple times in the air.
The double swords don't have the pogo attack, so their attack can't be cancelled in midair.

When jumping into corners, Mathayus is pushed forward slightly, saves about 5 frames each time.

You can normally only grab ropes when falling, but if you attack you can do it when not falling, doing this is faster becase you don't need to fall slightly to continue jumping up the rope.

At the end of every bossfight, Mathayus will move to a specific spot to do its victory animation. Also, the victory animation only happens after the health reffil is done. At the end of every shrine the victory animation and health refill also happens, but in that case they happen at the same time, so the refill doesn't lose time.

I don't really know how the RNG works in this game, from what I've seen, at least, it depends on how you deal with enemies, which you kill, how exactly, sometimes when, and sometimes wether you get a fire orb or not depends on where you are while waiting for the drop. So really, to get the fire orbs drop where needed, which is really the most important part of the TAS, what you have to do is to just deal with enemies in slightly different ways until you happen to get the right RNG.

On the 1st bossfight, there's some attacks that seem to not land, this is because you can attack that boss 1 frame before you'd think, but it messes with the stun animation, so damage is dealt and the boss gets i-frames, but its not stunned, so it can still move around and attack. And, because it can attack between attacks if doing that, its not done in every atack to prevent atacks that give the boss invulnerability.

On the 4th bossfight, there's some RNG manipulation that was done to prevent the same totem face from turning around consecutively, because if a different face turns around, the turning back animation of the last face happens while the new face is turning. A repeat loses 15 frames.
I wasn't able to find a pattern with no repeats, just one is the best I found.

On the 3rd screen on the 4th level, the mountain, there's some spots I turn around and wait, for seemingly no reason, this is done because thats a big lag spot, with all those falling rocks, and just continuing right would create way too much lag, so much its faster to just wait it out.

CoolHandMike: Claiming for judging.

CoolHandMike: Entertaining action platformer for the gba that the author blasts through with high speed and technique. Optimization is very good throughout. My favorite part of the tas was the part with lots of ropes where the author jumps up all the ladders at lightning speed.

Accepting to Standard.

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Spikestuff: what can I say except "you're welcome"
Hi, yes-- oh it's a Universal film not a Disney one... oh.