Storage?
7 years ago
Washington, USA

I was playing through casually on my GameCube, which doesn't have a memory card and I can't save on so I try to skip dialog boxes and stuff, I first found I could create storage by interacting with an object the same time as a call is supposed to happen. I wanted to make sure it wasn't a one-time thing so I've just finished testing it, and it works for every call in the game.

By interacting with any searchable object while collecting keys you can skip the animation for the key, and the GB horror animation. Not only that, but if your timing is perfect you can store the calls from e.gadd after every boss (Except the second guy) which means you don't have to go through the lab scene to hand in your portraits.

Doing this to egadd, Luigi can't use the vacuum until you talk to a toad, or get a new dialog box to appear.

I had taken pictures of my TV, but they look horrible.

I always watch speed runsof my faves, and the last I saw didn't skip the labs, so I'm posting this to hopefully help get the WR time down.

Edited by the author 7 years ago
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United States

Oh wow interesting. Were you using any type of mods or cheat codes in order to achieve this, or was it the vanilla version, no modifications whatsoever? Also I would greatly appreciate if you could post some of the photos you mentioned, regardless if it looks bad or not, just so I can have an idea. Also if you could post a video of the storage trick being performed it would be even better so we know what exactly you're doing and how you do it.

Washington, USA

I play on GameCube, English, no mods, regular controller, and I will post some new pics from this next start. The easiest one to do is before entering chapter 1 hallway on the top floor, just knock on the dresser while moving towards the door, if you time it right, when Luigiis next to the flower vase you will have the first possible iteration of storage.

Washington, USA

I never realized how hard it is to do this trick one handed.

Here's the first skip spot. http://m.imgur.com/6bWi5pj

(Note) Doing this skip in a run would lose time since you can't use the vacuum until you open a new dialog box, and the only one is toad with 5 boxes of dialog+forced save menu.

Another note is Luigi keeps his GB horror in his hand if you do it right.

Edited by the author 7 years ago
United States

Ok I tested it. From what I could tell it's basically similar to what we already can do which doesn't really help any. Like for instance if you grab an item as you suck up a boo (i.e. Mario's shoe) Luigi will grab onto it and hold it while he's talking to E. Gadd. Now I'm not saying this wouldn't be useful, but I'm just saying that it's similar. You may continue to post whatever you find, I'm just letting you know.

United States

Update: Just noticed the GBH in hand glitch. May be useful, but not sure.

Washington, USA

I'm working my way to Chauncey right now, if I can get the skip I'll take a picture, but skipping the lab visit saves a bunch of time, which is why I posted this here in the first place.

United States

Yeah. Well I just realized something lol. I guess what I said before didn't matter because Luigi normally holds the GBH in his left hand, just never noticed that before.

If you can post a video of it that'd be helpful. It doesn't even need to be good quality, you can just use your phone or computer's webcam to record it.

Washington, USA

I got the first skip, just paused the game in the first portrait ghosts room, can't use the vacuum and flashlight is permanent off. Luigi has GBHorror in hand. Will edit with upload link to picture.

(I probably can't do it with video since it's not a easy trick and I haveto restart if I miss it, playing one handed is hard.)

And pic

http://m.imgur.com/CCSfbAi

Now I'm going for the lab skip, if I get it you can has pictures.

Edited by the author 7 years ago
United States

Actually the Luigi with GBH in hand isn't actually all that special upon further inspection because as it turns out, apparently that's what Luigi normally does. lol

North Carolina, USA

You could just put the camera on a chair and face it up towards the tv to record it, If this is true it could be very useful :). We hope u can show us some proof.

Minnesota, USA

Any form of Video proof would be much appreciated, if you think it would make this game go much quicker.

Washington, USA

Tried to video, phone kept falling over, got the skip and took pictures with timestamps, uploading to imgur album now.

Imgur album is http://m.imgur.com/a/f99I5

Edited by the author 7 years ago
North Carolina, USA

We cant really do much about this, if so i would really appreciate if u could somehow Put a piece of tape maybe on the back of the phone on the chair and record it :)

Washington, USA

The biggest problem I have is not being able to save second is my gaming setup, TV on top of freezer, only one chair and not a lot of space, I game in my garage. I shared this with you, here's hoping someone can record it if they manage to get good at timing interaction with pickups.

Literally pickup the key at the same time you knock on the crib.it skips E.Gadds lab. Vacuum the key for momentum and it will run right into you while you are knocking.

If anyone can get it to work, call it dead storage, because if you forget to make your vacuum work again, you will die.

Edited by the author 7 years ago
North Carolina, USA

Like i said man we can try but we dont have the actual video of it happening to really know what your talking about, If u could just point it up, and tape the phone to record it and we dont mind if it is like a 20-30 minute video, if u could get us the proof, we could litteraly save tons of time, and be reconigzed by everyone :) We really would like to see this, because this could open up so many things..

Washington, USA

Guess I'll buy some tape and a bigger SD card and record it tomorrow, it's not that hard of a trick, just really hard to vacuum a key and knock on the crib one handed paying 50% attention. Here's hoping someone can make it work tonight.

North Carolina, USA

That would be amazing if u can do that :) I am hoping to see you tomorrow :D If you can actually do it u have really helped this game a ton!

Florida, USA

Welp. Would be interesting if this does work. No way to really tell as of now because you're really the only one who can do it. So until then, I'm moderately interested.

Also please let me get sub 1 while it still means something if this truly does work cause this could be potentially huge if it did work consistently.

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