After I write this post, I get it first try... would love to know what I actually did to make it work :D

I was watching some runs and noticed that people are doing 2 skips that I do not understand / know what to google for.

On EP2 there are 2 keys that on a normal playthrough require a little effort to get; Blue and Yellow.

I've noticed that speedrunners will skip the long interactions required to usually unlock them with some movement that seems to "bump" them into the key. I tried to analyze the videos myself and figure out whats going on but without any luck

Anyone got a good explanation of the tech? (feel confident it has a well known name and I'm just a noob)

Just wanted to add some information to this. I did a casual run of the game on PCSX2 and ran into a few problems.. figured I'd share if folks ended up here like I did;

Problem 1: Basic recital changing is not happening on the most basic shots (revealing door, etc) Fix: Make sure you are using Software mode in the graphics settings (I played the game like this for over an hour and a half thinking I just sucked... enjoyment went way up after that fix)

Problem 2: Boss fight was crashing game when entering finder mode Fix: For some reason on emus there is a bug where if you enter finder mode facing the path to the gate and not the gate theres a chance it will crash.. apparently this is known to the pcsx2 community but as of me finishing the game today on the latest build its still happening) https://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-Fatal-Frame-freezes-at-final-boss-Kirie

Ah beautiful. Thank you!

I was trying to practice the blade skip and finally got it to work but noticed the flames protecting the lift door are still activated..

Is this because I died on my first attempt and hit retry to continue testing? or was this patched by Capcom at some point in the last year?

Can't seem to find any information on patches that would have changed this and figured someone here would probably know (playing on latest Steam version)

I guess Im curious how this is a 17:59 (https://www.speedrun.com/run/pm330g4m)

in game timers add up to 18 minutes and 18 seconds so am I missing something here?

I accidentally opened a new topic that should have probably just been a comment in here.. anyways did y'all ever settle on how we should time the Gauntlet runs (stages 1-6)? If not I generally like the idea of using the actual "in-control" timer