Joined: 11/13/2006
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Yeah, about that...
It's basically no different than just loading a premade save file at the final boss, beating the game from there, and calling it an NG+ run.
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It's a new trick just found the other day, under specific conditions the ending blow can set your to coordinates 0,0,0 and give a lot of speed in whatever direction 0,0,0 was when you initiated it.
http://pastebin.com/i1Z3KyY7
Completed:
2010-Current | Sonic Adventure 2: Battle - Individual Level TASes
2014 | Spongebob: Battle For Bikini Bottom - Any% in 1:05:03.23
2014 | Sonic Adventure 2: Battle - Hero Story (w/ THC98) in 25:11.87
2016 | Metroid Prime - Any% in 00:37 (In-Game Time)
2018 | Spongebob: Battle For Bikini Bottom - Cheat% in 1:42.350
2020 | Spongebob: Battle For Bikini Bottom - Any% in 0:39:20.10
2022 | Spongebob: Battle For Bikini Bottom - Cheat% in 1:25.567
Currently working on:
SA2:B DARK STORY
Joined: 8/15/2005
Posts: 1943
Location: Mullsjö, Sweden
Even new applications of the new Back in Time glitch has been found. It's still in its early testings, but it should cut another hour at minimum, likely more, allowing to skip Song of the Hero and all what that indicates.
The new glitch:
Link to video
Gymnast is currently streaming some research for this, if anyone is curious: https://www.twitch.tv/gymnast86
While Motion+ is now emulated in Dolphin, it's sadly not TASable yet, as Motion+ movements is not saved in the movie file.
This went unnoticed here but a skyward sword any% TAS has been made this year:
Link to video
The route involves entering and leaving a grotto in eldin volcano early using a difficult trick known as lava hops consecutively. That grotto entrance is very specific (entrance 5 in room 2), and corresponds to the cutscene of opening the gate of time in the Sealed Temple. By using a Back in Time glitch called Cutscene Wrong Warping, and going to Faron in BiT, we get to use the entrance saved on our file in the area we are in Back in Time (the sealed temple) and activate that cutscene very early, giving us access to Hylia's Temple. To access the horde we do the same trick with a different entrance to wrong warp into the cutscene after beating Skykeep, which sets a layer where the door to the horde exists in the past and we can open it. The route is quite complicated and a lot of things just happen to work out quite nicely. Compared to the RTA route, Earth Temple and Lanayru are completely skipped.
Shoutouts to Darmabi for this great movie !