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Abisteen
Sep 30, 2005

Oh my God what the fuck am I?
gymnast86 found a way to skip the RNG bullshit with the fairies at the end of the WWHD any% run. I think that's a run that, as a result of that skip, may get a LOT more interesting in the coming months as more people decide to pick it up due to no longer having to deal with potentially a half hour or more of RNG crap.

Here's the clip where he reveals it on stream: https://clips.twitch.tv/AliveDaintyHamMoreCowbell

Edit: Since the clip doesn't explain what he is doing exactly, the thing he kills with the bow doesn't drop a heart unless killed by the sword. Before the clip, he buffered an input to hit it with the sword but have it stick to Link at the same time. He was then able to use the leaf to blow it up onto that platform. Because he hit it with the sword during the buffered input, the game thinks he killed it with the sword even though it actually died when shot by the bow. Hence, it drops a heart and the zombie hover works.

Abisteen fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Jan 21, 2018

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Abisteen
Sep 30, 2005

Oh my God what the fuck am I?
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/229553932

Kosmic beat Darbian's record in SMB by 4 frames. Time for darb to start grinding again.

Abisteen
Sep 30, 2005

Oh my God what the fuck am I?
Here’s some words from a reddit user on the topic of this run and additional time saves:

He got lag frame in 8-2, when attempting the Bullet Bill Glitch. It's a byproduct of doing the glitch when your score reads in a certain way (don't know exactly how off the top of my head), and loses 1 frame.
This run is essentially impossible to beat without incorporating another framerule save. The only 2 remaining humanly possible ones are the 8-3 flagpole glitch, which is hard but can be done reasonably consistently, and the 1-2 pipe clip, which is really really really really difficult.
Getting both of these would save .7 seconds, meaning the record would be pushed down to ~4:55.7X. However, there is one other option of getting 4:55- you could just do the 8-3 flagpole glitch (bringing the time to ~4:56.1), and then attempt some crazy backward acceleration tricks in 8-4 to save the last tenth of a second. Kosmic actually did one of these in this record, in the third room of 8-4. Adding a couple more of these combined with another framerule save might be enough to push it to 4:55.

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