Any% Basics With Warps

1) We collect diamonds in order to save time. When a level is completed with 0 diamonds, the time countdown at the end of the level is skipped, saving about 1.2 seconds (on a WHDLoad setup, which is preferred). Whenever you collect enough to end with exactly 100, you gain a life and it resets to 0, saving you that countdown time! It's possible to do that in 4 levels of the speedrun (11, 12, 25, 28).

2) You need to collect the powerups as seen in the top runs, in order to get the water drop which helps skipping the flames. Furthermore, you can use the bomb and the stopwatch as follows: 
Hold FIRE and press DOWN + LEFT to activate the stopwatch (freezes enemies onscreen). 
Hold FIRE and press DOWN + RIGHT to activate the bomb (kills all enemies onscreen that can be killed). 

3) There are warps in the game, and there are deathwarps. Whenever you die after activating a warp (we call it deathwarp), you respawn in the warped level AFTER the checkpoint which saves a lot of time.

We utilize following 6 warps:
Level 3 -> 6 
Level 6 -> 9
Level 17 -> 20
Level 22 -> 25 (death warp)
Level 25 -> 28 (death warp)
Level 28 -> 31 (death warp)

4) Enemy patterns aren't random at all. You learn them once, and they will always be the same. Furthermore, it does not matter for enemy patterns when you screw up an earlier part of the level. Enemies spawn as you reach the part where they become visible, so you always get the same patterns, independent of how fast you played the earlier part of the level.

Explanatory Videos regarding Homing Shots & Enemy Spawns

The following video links are to short form videos covering my understanding of how the Strawberry power-up homes in on enemies on screen, as well as some insight into what causes variance in enemy spawns. 

Targetting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTWjhxNm1a8
Enemy Spawns: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J04adTUpDJ0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6aPaHKMwDw


xatrixx

Letalis_Rose

Great Giana Sisters, The

Amiga

davidtki

Reboot

USA / NTSC

EUR / PAL

Slow score countdown

Fast score countdown

Bonus Countdown Speed

Giana Sisters

Status of the game - Quick Announcement

Improvements to WR

Amiga Emulator Setup

Current runs - Re-Timed

I did a speedrun on the Commodore 64

Giana Sisters DOS

RoboSparkle

Mmeaninglessnamee

gilgatex

MilkToast

MightyMike9001

fizzyflask3

chaozz

Name	Autor
Any% Basics With Warps	xatrixx 5 years ago
Explanatory Videos regarding Homing Shots & Enemy Spawns	Letalis_Rose 2 years ago