What happens is, when you press a direction and B at the same time, it propels Spongebob forward while he blows a bubble. This alone can save time when blowing bubbles. If you want to do it while already walking, you have to stop walking for 5 frames, and on the 5th frame press direction+B.
But it can also be done when near an edge to make Spongebob hover in air. Once Spongebob has finished blowing the bubble and he starts returning to his normal stance, hold a direction and downwards. Spongebob will eventually crouch in air just before falling back down. BUT, if you jump just before his crouch animation begins, you'll be able to jump in mid-air. This probably could be used in multiple places throughout the run.
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I also made a quick comparison of quick bouncing vs normal bouncing when jumping into bounce bubbles.
Yes, you can now hover anywhere!! It technically makes all bubble powers but Strong skippable. But I imagine it will still be faster to use Bounce in some instances, especially in 100%. It'll speed up all sections in the game to some extent and especially something like Rock Bottom.
It's a little hard to describe, but I'll try to do my best. So, while standing still, start pressing up every other frame. As soon as you start doing that, wait until the 9th frame then press and hold A. Then every 9th frame after that let go of A for 1 frame then press and hold it again and repeat. This makes Spongebob continuously jump upwards! You can even jump out of it similar to the bubble hovering technique from earlier.
Just press direction and downwards like last time and make sure to jump just before his crouching animation begins. Also, you can shoot bubbles upwards while doing this hovering technique. As long as you hold A and keep pressing up, Spongebob will not fall while hovering and you can press B to shoot bubbles.
I also discovered a method to simply double jump but it seems to be a bit useless now.
All you do is look up, then jump one frame and press B the next. Spongebob will jump and blow a bubble upwards at the same time. Then as soon as the bubble blowing animation ends, press A to gain another jump.Normally i would say Yes, but thennI thought "its not the same hack" so ill stick with meh.
Does that infinte jump trick work in the GBA Battle for Bikini Bottom? They appear to have the same engine.
Haha sorry man! :P It's just really fun finding glitches in this game! Idk if you had a plan for it but, would you not mind if I started an any% TAS of this game? It would look a lot different than 100% and each would provide their own kind of entertainment. That way we could also help each other out with findings that could benefit each others category! But if you want to complete the 100% run first or you think an any% would be pointless than I understand. After all, you are the one who started a TAS for this game in the first place.
Ok, awesome! Btw, have you found the X and Y coords memory addresses by any chance? I tried finding them earlier but couldn't manage to pinpoint them. Usually, it's pretty standard but for some reason they won't show up in the memory search
I am working on a TAS of this game. The current level one TAS is 20 seconds faster than that of the previous TASer. However, to further improve on my TAS, does anybody have the optimal frames for full jumps / spongebob blowing up?
