Cancelled by Mukki's request. Expect an improvement soon.
What's up dudes? This is my SpongeBob SquarePants - Legend of the Lost Spatula TAS. It improves jlun2's published movie by 2712 frames (45.20 seconds) because of a few minor optimizations and a new glitch that lets SpongeBob go very high.
The New Glitch
If the item you are currently using has spawned an object (example, bubble wand and the bubble) for some reason you can turbo A and B to gain impressive vertical momentum. For the spring shoes though, you only need to have them attached, which means you can go as high as you want with them.
Used VBA-v24-vbam
Takes damage to save time
Genre: Platform
Genre: Adventure
Stage by Stage Comments
To Treasure Chest
Better jumping in Sandy's Park saved 6 frames.
The new glitch was abused twice times in Goo Lagoon, saving 117 frames.
To Jellyfish Fields
Nothing saved.
Jellyfish Fields
Nothing saved.
To the Carnival
Nothing saved.
The Carnival
Saved 497 frames because of the new glitch.
To Kelpazoic Jungle
Nothing saved.
Kelpazoic Jungle
Saved 203 frames throughout the level due to using the glitch. It's slower to use the glitch in the last screen if you're wondering.
To Undersea Desert
Nothing saved.
Undersea Desert
Huge savings here! Because of the glitch I can skip most of those stupid caves that you have to enter. I saved about 400 frames.
Rock Bottom
Nothing saved. I hate this level because it is full of enemies that make it hard to quick work of.
Dutch Under
Skipped most of the level with the glitch. Yay!
That's all I have to say, really. Thanks to CoolKirby for his movie and jlun2 for his movie and encouragement.
Mukki: Apologies. It has been brought to my attention that has been improved since I first watched this. Nitrogenesis; if you begin improving a run remember and cancel the previous submission. Setting back to new.
Why don't you jump to the maximum height at all possible times?
Say some spots please.
If it is a tight space, jumping as high as I can would make me hit the ceiling, which is slower.
I mostly do small jumps to dodge enemies, like scallops.
If you're asking why I don't do the glitch all the time, it's because you move much slower horizantally then a regular jump while doing it.
YoungJ1997lol wrote:
Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
I love it! I don't know how you could find an amazing glitch like this, but this is the kind of semi-game-breaking glitch I tried hard to find. It looks awesome too; I really liked The Carnival and Dutch Under.
I love seeing this game get finished faster and faster. I hope someday someone will improve it even more, maybe sub 6 minutes (could happen).
Yes vote!
TASVideoAgent wrote:
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I very much enjoyed the technical quality of this TAS, and the new glitches were amazing. But I don't think it's entertaining enough. Still, because of the technical quality, I still am voting yes.
I hope someday someone will improve it even more, maybe sub 6 minutes (could happen).
Well, I'm not sure about saving 36 seconds, so how about 7 frames? :P
Sorry NitroGenesis!
Oh, and it's incomplete; It's up to the point where I get the net launcher.
The glitch you found was done twice; somehow, I landed earlier. Otherwise, it uses the same route as you did.
Edit: By the end of JellyFish Fields, I'm 318 frames ahead.
A good improvement, but there are some serious problems with the idling times in terms of entertainment.
Hate to admit it, but I felt this way too. Maybe while waiting for an oven knob to appear, SpongeBob could jump around or shoot an item or something (see my original run for examples). Maybe doing that in the new improvement can turn the Meh vote into a Yes vote.
NitroGenesis wrote:
The new glitch was used to skip something.
I can't wait to find out what this "something" is.
