Man this took me hours to finish hehe. But here is my list of suggestions and ideas. There are probably more tricks and glitches to discover in this game but I probably estimate that if 90% of my suggestions is to your benefit, you could probably save at least, near a minute from Kopernicals current run. Here is my note:
>Gemini Man Level<
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00:21 - Couldn't you jumped over that penguin?
00:55 - Why aren't you jumping and then going up on the ladder?
01:05 - I'll bet if you really slide very fast here, you can probably skip hitting this flying bug.
01:10 - Haven't we all reached to the conclusion that if megaman jumps before going down on a hole, he goes down faster?
01:12 - Same thing here, Jump before goind down in the hole.
01:40 - Maybe if you used Rush Jump (or whatever that dog's name is ^_^) ) while going up on the ladder, you could perhaps avoided getting hit by that big machine and saving time.
01:53 - I got the impression that you hesitated for a bit here, could you have also improved your battle if you stood a bit closer to him? I was thinking of your fights against ProtoMan, similar to that, that was excellent (against ProtoMan), you stood as close as you could so try that method with Gemini Man.
>Snake Man Level<
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04:21 - Instead of just sliding down, couldn't you done a half-slide and then jumped over that enemy? You should be able to do it, since you've got a big height.
04:42 - Jump down, instead of sliding.
04:45 - Same thing here, jump down.
04:52 - here I had an idea. What if you used Rush Jump so that, for the reason nr 1: You could skip going up on the ladder all the way, 2: At 04:56, using here RUsh Jump so you could jump over that enemy, at: 05:02 - using same idea here, use Rush Jump to jump over him.
05:19 - I was thinking that maybe you could've used Rush Jet at this point and pressing
upwards so you could maybe save 1-2 seconds here? :) I should work even though those
enemies jump very high you could then maybe just also jump to avoid them.
05:37 - Here comes a big question about lag. Now if you hit them, aren't you slowing down yourself? If so, you can basically savy a few seconds here, so DONT hit those enemies.
05:40 - Same thing here, avoid hitting them.
05:42 - Same thing here, avoid hitting them, also why didn't you simply go up a bit in order to skip hitting them?
05:48 - Im sure you could've done a bit better here. Possibly jumping over them with cautious precisness might do the trick..
05:57 - What are you waiting and standing still for? It seems that you could've delivered maybe 1-2 extra shots standing there and thus saving time.
>Magnet Man Level<
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06:54 - Excellent fight but could've you stood maybe 1-2 frames closer to ProtoMan? 'Cause I can see a tiny gap between your armor and him :)
07:10 - Jump from here to the hole, I assume you could save a few frames here, my suggestion should be beneficial here.
07:34 - Is it possible using Rush Jet on that tiny gap so you could jump on Rush and then climbing on the ladder?
07:54 to 08:02 - Too big gap between you and Magnet Man, ProtoMan battle is the perfect example here (if its possible).
>Hard Man Level<
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08:49 - I don't think that hit was necessary, on the contrary, I think if you kept
sliding you could've avoided that hit and saving some frames here.
08:53 - I Think you could've used Rush Jump already here in order to "almost" skip climbing the ladder instead of using Rush Jump THERE at the next scenario, so should be able to use Rush Jump here at 08:49 and continue using him.
09:11 - You should definitely use Rush Jump here, you can most definitely save a second here.
09:35 - Same process here, use definitely Rush Jump, save another second here.
09:53 - Nice battle as always with against ProtoMan. But at 09:53, jump down in the hole, since I stated before, that it seems that MegaMan goes faster downwards if he jumps in the hole.
10:09 - Your battle against Hard Man seems very good except for one thing, that hit shouldn't be necessary and should be avoided - saving 2-3 frames.
>Top Man level<
This level seems very well executed but with a few minor questions. Could you have sticked with one strong armor instead of changing your armor? And your battle against TopMan was great I suppose. I assume that you intentionally got hit by him to prevent him from doing something... Now as he moves to the left, could you have saved a couple of frames if you shot a bit earlier your Hard Knuckle?
>Shadow Man Level<
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12:43 - OH man how I love this levels music (probably the best music-level in a megaman game ^_^), anyway, at the very beginning, you could've jumped in order to get faster downwards, so jump here and don't slide.
12:47 - Same thing here, jump instead of sliding.
12:52 - Same thing here, jump instead of sliding :)
12:59 - I think there is a tiny gap between you and Protoman that you can fix. A 1-2 frames could be minimized here.
13:06 - You could've certainly jumped over him and skiping hitting him.
13;07 - Same thing here?
13:08 - Same thing here?
13:13 - Same thing here?
13:21 - As always, jump downwards.
13:34 - I think you jumped a bit to high here. A "middle jump" would've reduced a couple of frames here.
* Shadow Man fight excellent but should've avoided that one hit from him (if its possible)
>Spark Man level<
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14:29 - Could you have used Rush Jump here and the above ladder to almost avoid climing on them? And also using Rush Jump here at 14:42, also if you decided to use Rush Jump at 14:29, there are many places to use him, for instance at 14:47 and maybe 14:50 - to be able to jump at the second spot, using Rush Jump at 14:56 would be very efficient and would probably save a near second here, 15:00 use Rush Jump also here. So you see, there are many places to save time and frames by using Rush Jump.
15:08 - Jump downwards as told earlier.
15:43 - Now is it possible to stand as near as ProtoMan, at SparkMan? If so, frames could be saved here.
At: 16:28 - This is another "middle" time saver I've thought of. If you would use already here Magnet Beam, you would most probably avoid lag, save time and frames, right? :)
16:51 - Jump downwards.
17:03 - Now here I was thinking of a tiny shortcut. Is there no armor where you can shoot the direction you want? Ah yes, Shadow Man's armor hehe. In this case, right where you land so you don't have to go around these bubbles :) Here you can save a few seconds yes!!!!
17:06 - No need to shoot this first bubble right? maybe 1 fram could be saved here.
17:52 - Nothing to notice here except maybe if you even would shoot a bit faster your regular armor you could've hit your underwater enemies faster and avoiding less lag.
18:50 - Jump downwards here.
19:48 - Until Boss battle - Now here is alot of lag, maybe unnecessary hits etc.. My question here is: Maybe you could've saved SECONDS here if you for instance either moved Rush Jet dynamically or simply jumping dynamically instead of shooting them, thus creating lag.
21.18 - Jump downwards here.
21.20 - Same thing here.
21:23 - Same thing here.
21:33 - Same thing here :).
21:42 - Don't hit that enemy that explodes. Skip, hitting him and hence you will avoid
lag, just shoot that thingy which turn the lights on and jump over that exploiding rock
enemy.
21:44 - Same thing here, you don't need to shoot him, jump over him
21:51 - Same thing here, I think you would probably make it jumping over him.
22:23 - Certainly no need to take that health refill :) Skipping that would probably save between 0,5-1 second.
22:38 - Now since you didn't use Magnet Beam afterwards you don't need to take those armor refills, Skipping those would probably save near 0,5 second, due to minor lag when getting them.
23:00 - Was these taking hits necessary? (probably, if probably not you could've saved seconds here).
24:15 - Should be possible to jump here in order to get faster downwards.
24:38 - Now since you've picked Magnet Beam as your current armor, you should use it to your advantage and shoot those big rocks, timesaver here.
26:03 - Jump here so you can get downwards faster.
26:20 - Wrong method here. Take a brief jump on the edge back to the ladder to get faster up to the surface.
26:45 - As always, jump in order to faster get down.
27:38 - Avoid getting that armor refill, avoiding it would save a few frames and 0,x seconds.
25:50 - Possible to jump in order to get down faster?
28:53 - Same thing here, but here you can obviously jump to get down faster.
29:03 - I'll bet with some experimentation or with luck manipulation get to that flying rock/surface in order to faster reach the ladder, if so, 1-1,5 second can be saved here.
29:30 - Jump to get down faster.
29:56 - Jump to get down faster.
30:11 - Wouldn't be smarter to simply doing all the right bosses and then heading towards the left bosses? It seems a waste of time to first doing topp right boss and then heading for topp left boss.
Last Edited: 27/06-2005 Time: 00:33 A.M.
P.S: So Vatchern, you still think his time is perfect and unbeatable? ^_^
