heh I was using the same addresses and these
7EEC10,2u,X Position (2)
7EEC12,2u,Y Position (2)
7EEC16,2u,X Position (3)
7EEC18,2u,Y Position (3)
7E184E,1u,action cooldown
7E02F8,2u,camera Y (1)
7E02F4,2u,camera X (1)
7E02FB,2u,camera Y (2)
7E02F6,2u,camera X (2)
the 'action cooldown' indicates whether merlin can start a new action (e.g. shoot a star, 0 for 'ready to go')... I suppose it's pretty much the same as your 'freeze'
I'm not sure about the deathwarp-to-rainbow pond, afaik only those plants will make merlin warp to the rainbow pond (the oinkmers make him warp to the tulip-pond)
and yeah you're right about the moment of collecting the tulip
still haven't properly tried the bubbleskip with 9hp (i too was only like 4 frames short... actually merlin get's warped to the position for re-oxigizing but still dies)
oh and the hedgemaze route that's one of the three routes i'm going to try... alternatives (imo) are:
Bottle->Death->Key->Rose->Heart->Death
Bottle->Rose->Heart->Death->Key->Death
edit:
lol i made a stupid mistake, I collected the very first heartpiece on the re-run.... because I thought 'gotta catch em all' anyway.... but now I get refilled to 4hp by the lakelady :P back i go again :D
edit2:
ok here's the fastest way i could get into pinedale without going invincible (merlin is graphically still a bit off-center)
http://dehacked.2y.net/microstorage.php/info/119245348/Rewind.smv
I'll be looking into all the other stuff for a while now... as i'm not sure I fully understand the cause of merlin going invincible (note that not walking all the way rightward before getting 'thrown by a tree' will produce different results) so I was hoping you (klmz) could help me out some more :P
edit3:
I found that not many frames 'produce' health in the mines... and still trying to figure out what exactly triggers it :P
Also, it seems from some quick real-time testing that your route for the maze is easily the fastest
It doesn't look good, but I think it's useful especially for a 100% items run.
EDIT2: Death can be abused to save time in this game.
EDIT3: I am wondering if the game will still think you complete it with all items collected if you skip some key items which are supposed to be required to complete the game.
EDIT4: Replaced the map with a new one.
EDIT5: Replaced the map with a corrected one.
I think that the route after collecting wrench should be (under the assumption that 10 hp is needed for the airbubble skip... which i haven't tried hard enough yet :P):
- collect hedge-maze items (*)
- collect lantern
- collect heartpiece @ oinkmerfield
- throw orange jewel in pond (*)
- collect (cart)wheel + heartpiece
- in the mines: collect all mine items (2x heartpiece, 1x bottle) and manipulate enemies to drop health until merlin has 7 hp
- ride the minecart (1x heartpiece)
- collect western underwater heartpiece
- drink clear water for hp
- do airbubbleskip
- backtrack to the wizard to collect spring
- fill bottles with clear and rainbow water (**)
- re-enter underwater parts
- do palace
- on way back (either to throw either green or indigo jewel) collect northern heartpiece in underwater parts (using airbubble which was granted in the password)
*note: during either of these, the 2nd bottle will have to be filled with clear water (3hp)
**note2: alternatively, one could have the 1st bottle filled with rainbow water, and then merlin will have to detour to get blue and clear water, but I'm fairly certain that this would be slower
I've drawn the mine-route on your map, I think the purple route is fastest (even when collecting health) but the green alternatives will need to be checked
btw there's no heartpiece in the northeast chamber in the mines, only the red jewel
