ive returned from my tinkering with new information

firstly, if this zip were to be possible, it is unbelievably precise. while i have not yet been able to replicate the clip exactly, i have learned the following:

• the zip requires the player to be in a very specific position. attached to this post is a series of labelled screenshots from one of JessInReal's speedrun attempts, where she accidentally performs the trick described in my initial post.

exhibit A: garfield is about to grab the tongue.

exhibit B: garfield has jumped off the tongue and is about to clip into the ceiling.

exhibit C: garfield is jumping straight up instead of to the right to exit the tomb. you can tell the zip is working because only his lower body is visible, compared to tomb skip where he jumps into the ceiling entirely.

exhibit D: garfield shoots off to the left.

so you have to perform the usual tomb skip maneuverers, but change your trajectory multiple times while in mid-air in order to position yourself properly for the zip to work. which leads me to my second discovery:

• theres almost no time to perform the trick. while experimenting with TAS tools, i learned that, in order to get the zip to work, the player has what i believe to be a 3 frame window to start moving left once lodged in the ceiling. the attached screenshots were captured from a stream vod on youtube so, when accounting for some delay in playback, this seems to line up. the problem is that, once you're in position to get the trick, theres a delay when changing directions mid-air. so unless your reaction time is godlike, you have to guess when to start holding left.

all of these factors lead me to believe that there is a very, very likely chance that this glitch, should it turn out to exist, is TAS only, which would suck. im gonna keep experimenting and one way or the other i'll find out if its possible for a human to pull it off.

yeah good call. gonna try my hand at TASing something. will report back with results

appreciate the response, though there may have been a misunderstanding- im aware of the tomb glitch, as i was there when it was discovered. what im referring to may be a new skip, where garfield zips through this tomb, through the pit later on in the level, and finally into the boss tomb. not sure if the zip could take you that far but i thought it was worth workshopping to see how much time it could save

im not a speedrunner myself but i do watch a lot of speedruns of this game and, if i remember correctly, every tomb in this level is on the same plane. so, hypothetically, if this zip were to take you far enough, it might be possible to skip the last leg of the level and jump straight to the boss, which could shave about 30 seconds, as long as it works as predicted

heyo. i've been lurking here for a while and ive decided to make a post in hopes of getting some help with a potential skip.

the skip in question is in the first level, count slobula's castle. in the attached video (captured by JessInReal) garfield grabs the far right tongue lever thing in the second tomb and, instead of falling off, clips into the ceiling and quickly moves to the left while still inside the ceiling before falling out. immediately i thought of the zip glitch in sonic 3, where the player can get logged in a wall and zip to the end of an act in seconds. could this same glitch be possible in caught in the act?

i tried recreating the glitch myself, but had no luck as im not experienced with speedrunning this game, nor with tas tools. help me out pls 🙏