Thread for any Boss strats.

It looks like the only required lizard powers for bosses are Surf for the water dragon and Swim for Shaft., and maybe Bounce for getting to Bowie.

TANOOKIE TRIO (STEAM ZONE) If you have Stone you can get a very quick kill on the tanookie-trio since the flames that fall from the sky cannot hurt you, allowing you to stay on the piston longer. I think you should do the pistons from LEFT to RIGHT; there might be some sort of "travel time" for the leftmost piston to be registered as complete so this is the fastest order (personal experience/guess, not fully tested).

BOWIE (VOID ZONE) For Bowie, it looks like you can bait her into taking the crown off as her next attack by jumping and screen wrapping once or twice after the first hit (via Gari)

FROG (PALACE ZONE) Obviously, having PUSH allows you to push the blocks onto her eyes stopping the eye-rings for the rest of the fight. Doesn't appear to help speed it up though unless we discover the rings cause lag (doubtful, but needs testing).

Thread for any hot movement tech or skills.

Presently I only know of first-frame jumps courtesy of Q talking to the moose a lot.

FIRST FRAME JUMP (aka FIRSTIES)

• While in the air of a jump, hold A/jump again. You will instantly jump off the ground on the first possible frame.

There are couple cheat codes that are fun and some that can be really useful for routing and practice.

• Big Head Mode Hold DOWN and jump/press A. While in the air, press and hold UP and jump/press A again. Press and hold DOWN in the air and, then hold UP and jump again, etc. Repeat this DOWN-jump, UP-jump three times and you enable Big Head Mode. Repeat the same come to revert to normal Lizard size.

• EASY and Soundtrack Modes Press SELECT on the title screen to bring up an options menu enabling you to select easy mode, turn music off, or enter a Music Test to listen to the soundtrack without playing.

• SHART mode idk what this really is or does, but in the options menu if you press B the title screen says PRESS SHART instead of PRESS START.

• SWITCH LIZARD ON PAUSE Pause the game and enter RIGHT, UP, DOWN, DOWN (RUDD) and hold the second DOWN input, then press SELECT. This will unpause the game and you'll be the next lizard power. It's sequential in order (knowledge, bounce, swim... I forget the rest of the order)

• DEBUG MENU / DIAGNOSTICS ZONE Pause the game and enter DOWN, UP, LEFT, LEFT (DULL) and hold the second LEFT input, then press SELECT. This will transport you to DIAGNOSTICS ZONE. Here you can fiddle with various settings about the game. It shows your current IGT, deaths, jumps, coins collected, and continues (aka the number times you used the warp/password door). You can also mark which coins have been collected and certain game flags. Use the SELECT button to toggle between COINS and FLAGS. Use UP and DOWN to select the memory address (00-7F, aka 128 potential coins and flags each). Then jump and git TOGGLE to swap that memory space to 1 or 0. Each pair of digits represents 1 byte.

For example, FLAGS 0A,0B,0C,0D,0E,0F represent the bosses killed and light the torches that open the final boss portal. Set these all to 1 and you can enter the final boss. (I'm working on mapping which COINS and FLAGS represent so hold tight!)

• WARP TO ANY ROOM So technically you can warp to any room with any lizard costume using the password screen. The game naturally only shows you the password for the room of the last save point you hit and with what lizard power. If we ever reverse engineer how the password system works, you can warp to any non-save room by holding SELECT+A, then pressing up on the password door. I've tried random codes and gotten to non-save rooms with this method. This can be useful for practice once we figure out how the codes work (i.e. warp instantly to a room with the desired lizard power instead of walking all over the place)

• BOSS RUSH MODE Enter password 32186. This takes you to a room with three bosses, and a door to the other three. There is also a toggle switch to pick any lizard power. Each side also has an entrance for the final boss rooms. This code can be gotten naturally by being the vanilla game quickly (I've gotten it with ~25mXXs IGT; maybe it's under 30 minutes).

The any% run basically hinges on skipping the unlock of Cher's Believe.

In normal gameplay, you would unlock this song after a certain number of points. By doing poorly enough on every song to just barely pass, you will avoid unlocking the song. If the song becomes unlocked, it is then required to clear it in order to finish the game.

It's not necessary so get the "secret" endings (fail all in-song gag scenes but still pass in the end), but it helps keep you on track for skipping the unlock.

This is also why any% runs should be done from Clear Save Data as this will re-lock the bonus songs.

The RNG is seeded by the frame counter when you press start on the title screen.

You can get the same seed every time by holding start and resetting the game. This guarantees that start is pressed it on the first frame of the title screen.

It always yields the same pattern on day 1 as seen in this video:

It seems like the coworkers in Day 2 and beyond also increment the RNG so I haven't found a way to have any other days "solved" like day 1.

My run was rejected for the following reason: "pal forced in 60 Hz is not accepted"

What does this mean? I played on at emulator at 50 frames per second.

What evidence supports the claim that this run was forced to 60 Hz?