Routing Ideas
Tricks (Jun 10/19) Conveyor Skip (seems possible, but there's no current known way to do so) (Jun 10/19) RNG Manipulation (Just... in general would be useful) (Jun 10/19) Recreate Bedlamite WR
Tech Stuff (Jun 10/19) Crash Prevention (Jun 10/19) Put back in Coaster Vinyl (Jun 10/19) Auto-Timer to take out Load Times
Admin Stuff (Jun 10/19) Look into DRM-Free versions, see if they should be allowed (Jun 10/19) Look into past patches, see if they should be allowed
That's the current list atm, now that it's written down, I now have something to look at and something to spend time working on. I will continue using this thread to log my findings. --Doodle
(Jun 10, 2019) Routing out N3 was a success. I routed out N3 for LSP, Resort Bubble, and Stairs Bubble which total made up for the 5 point discrepancy, definitely will do a run of the trade off soon. That said, I still entered N3 as to unlock the final portal without having to utilize the dumb True Any strat, so at most this will save probably 2 minutes on the full run.
Not including how well RNG plays out.
(Jun 11, 2019) So I attempted to do a run with the N3 skip in it and didn't even get an ending, much less a worker ending. There's probably more to look into about this than I thought.
EDIT: Here's the run in question:
(Jun 14, 2019) I've learned a LOT while playing with the debug today, I found out how to essentially no clip and fly around in the game
THAT SAID I also learned, no matter how someone WOULD go about doing fast Catacombs, it is not possible, so it's time to give up on that idea.
Dec 20, 2019 "Look into DRM-Free versions, see if they should be allowed"
I forgot to talk about this when I found it out, but GOG has a version of Dream that I've been playing recently, the only difference between the two of them is the amount of time you have to wait before you can re-open it if it crashes, otherwise, the versions are the exact same... idk about Humbles copy yet, I doubt it'll be different, but I still want to see myself.
July 2, 2020 "Look into past patches, see if they should be allowed"
This was actually found May 28, 2020 ...But I forgot to post about it here and made a new thread instead: https://www.speedrun.com/dream_pc/thread/85k2g
Currently, previous versions of the game aren't allowed, they're more unfinished than the current game, and would require their own boards, perhaps these will be something to add when "sub-game boards" come back, but until then, hold off on running downgrades.
Also July 2, 2020 (Initially March 11, 2020)
"Auto-Timer to take out Load Times" Done, btw. Created by UnchosenOne
I mean, times w/o loads have started appearing on the boards, right? It's not perfect but it's the closest we're probably going to get.
