Submission #9239: Mikewillplays's Flash Flagman in 02:03.00

Movie information

• This movie was made with the --no-gui argument
• MD5 hash: 60cfd2ff4696adf4ee7923c9f8de1a07
• Since this game is usually URL locked, you can download an unlocked version here

About this game and movie

Tricks and Glitches

Flag borrowing

By holding both up and down (the flag picking and dropping buttons respectively) during a level transition while you have a flag, that flag will carry on to the next level, allowing you to start the next level with the flag already equipped. This cuts huge portions on many of the levels. It's very inconsistent to do though.

Momentum preservation

During level transitions, resets, and teleportation, both your vertical and horizontal momentums are preserved after the transitions are finished. This is actually used in pretty much every level, mostly in the beginning, where I reach max speed before the level fully transitions in order to start at max speed immediately.

Corner jump

When you run into a convex corner, you will sometimes run a little bit before falling, and you can jump during this small run, which is occasionally useful.

Transition reset

If you complete a level and reset the level during the transition, you can go back to the beginning of the level before the transition ends, which can be useful if there's something useful in the beginning of the level

Level-by-level commentary

Level 1

Pretty normal movement, I set up the flag borrowing glitch for level 2.

Level 2

I start with the flag already equipped because of the flag glitch, which skips some backtracking. I also set up for the flag glitch.

Level 3

With the flag already equipped, I just go to the door, using the flag pad along the way, skipping the need for backtracking.

Level 4

Normal movement.

Level 5

This is the first stage with a teleporter, and as I already said earlier, it preserves your momentum across the teleportation, which isn't important in this case. I also set up the flag glitch.

Level 6

The flag glitch in this level cuts all of the normal backtracking, making it much faster. I also try to optimize the teleportation momentum preservation to make it slightly faster.

Level 7

Normal movement. In the end, I reset and jump in the spring, this is going to be discussed later (and by later I mean in the very next level).

Level 8

Since I jumped on a spring in the end of level 7, the momentum of the spring is going to be carried to the next level, and in this case, I use that to climb the stairs faster, after that it's just normal movement. However, I know it can be very slightly faster. If I used the spring to jump to instead land on the second step and then jump to continue, it could be done 2 frames faster, however, when I tried recreating it after trying other things, the fastest I could get was 2 frames slower than jumping to the last step directly. I think this was the hardest stage to make just because of the beginning.

BOSS 1 (Level 9)

This fight is basically an autoscroller, and there's no way I know of accelerating it. I also set up the flag glitch.

Level 10

With the flag glitch, I'm able to cut the backtracking on the level (usually the flag is on the room with the blue and white teleporters).

Level 11

Unfortunately, I couldn't use the last spring to directly jump to the last door, I had to land first. I set up the flag glitch for the next level.

Level 12

The flag glitch that was set up earlier allows me to pretty much skip the entire level.

Level 13

Normal movement with a flag glitch setup.

Level 14

Usually you're supposed to use the springs to jump through the spikes, but I don't need to touch a single one of them. Also, using the flag glitch in this stage normally wouldn't be necessary, but I actually had to do it because the movement I did didn't actually allow me to grab the flag. I also set up for another flag glitch.

Level 15

The flag glitch saves me from having to do 2 extra step travels. While climbing the stairs, I do a corner jump

Level 16

I have to move in a specific way in the end of level 15 in order to not die immediately to the first set of spikes.

Level 17

Normal movement, unfortunately I had to climb every step one at a time. I reset in order to be able to set up the flag glitch.

BOSS 2 (Level 18)

Yup, the flag glitch even works on bosses! I tried seeing if going through the right path by bouncing off the boss was faster, but it was about 15 frames slower than going through the left.

Extras

Thanks

Special thanks to speedrunner Nuno137 for showing me some tricks that were very useful for this run

Suggested screenshot

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