Halloween Hack Speedrun Guide
Since I have not explored everything about the game yet, more notes and back up strats will be added later.
All of the stuff written about the RNG manipulation is assumed you somewhat know the area enough to be able to pull it off.
STARTER SCREEN
-20 cursor movements for name.
-Timer starts when you press YES.
DREAM SEQUENCE
If you have trouble learning by text, Ukobotic has a video that showcases a successful manipulation.
-Auto equip weapon and armor.
-Keep walking after the text you get right before you wake up.
TWOSON
-Don't cancel friend's text, just keep walking.
-When you're exiting Pirkle's office, go straight down. Then continue right, and tap up to go through the end door.
-Go to sewers.
SEWERS
-Go down first ladder, into water. Go up next ladder, go into next room.
-Open and close the menu twice as soon as you walk in, go down ladder.
-At the very edge of the line before you go diagonal, open menu.
-Go up the ladder. Before you reach the top, open and close the menu twice.
-Walk left, on the very bottom. On the way to the door, there will be two pieces of trash directly across from each other, left to right-there are no other pieces of trash like that. In the middle of that, open the menu and 'Talk to'.
-Get to the door. Position yourself on the edge of the concrete, right across the door and 'Check'. Go through the door.
-Keep entering the door until there are no enemies. Go down the ladder and walk right.
-Be careful, because the Question Mark enemies can clip through the walls and catch you or go down the ladder and catch you.
-When getting to the big black V, on the very edge of it, Check. Walk a step, and Check again.
-To avoid Hippies, swerve around them and around the trash can so they get stuck on the trash can. Enter door.
WINTERS
-When you walk through Winters, do NOT cancel the text yet. Just keep walking.
-As a safety precaution, you can save near the tent. Otherwise, go down to where Tessie usually is, go down the walk way, and continue down. Avoid all encounters.
Zombie: Autofight
-Head to the lab. Talk to Andonuts
-When the decision comes up, remember to choose neither. Basically, press the B button.
MAGICANT
-Immediately go left to the Courage Tower-the building with the businessman in front of it. Go into the first door into Onett.
ONETT/PAULA
-Go up to the meteorite. On the way there, grind out encounters until you're at level 6. Noted that it's quicker to Autofight (Loser) them to the death, unless you're worried about losing all of your PP, which is unlikely.
-Battle start. Have Varik Sleepstun the middle NO. After that, just keep fleeing until you get away.
DREAM SEQUENCE
-Talk to gravestone.
MAGICANT
-Equip weapon and armor for Paula. Go down and go into the shop.
-Take out all of the money from the ATM.
-Buy Psycho Pspirit and give it to Paula
-Leave the shop and go back to the Courage Tower. Go into the second door-NOT the bathroom doors.
JEFF
-Keep despawning until you either A. have no encounters or B. have only one encounter. It's rare that you'll be able to get 0 encounters, so if you get just one, take it.
Dogs: Flame/Autofight
Pumpkin Kid: Autofight
Heart: Sleepstun then run
-Walk into the room. Ignore Andonuts and his wife and continue into the next room.
-This room can be a bit tricky. What you want to do is either A. get no encounters or B., a more consistent method, to get the enemy stuck on to the table/chair.
-Once you're passed it, continue into the lowest door in the room.
-Move right to the bottom doorway. If you get an encounter, try to despawn, but if after a few tries you still have an encounter, get the encounter. It's not a huge time waster.
-Go right to the far end doorway.
-Next door
-When you go in that door, you'll see Andonuts's wife.
(Next two bullets are for safety points)
-Go into the door again from where you came from.
-For safety, use the Instant Revitalizing Device (IRD) to refuel yourself. Then save. Go back through the door.
-Talk to Jeff.
-Have Varik bash and Paula use the Psycho Pspirit.
-Have Varik bash again and Paula use Freeze α.
-Repeat Varik-bash and Paula-Freeze α until Paula runs out of PP. If Darkheart is still not dead at that point, go to Autofight.
-Talk to Andonuts.
MAGICANT
-Equip Jeff's weapon and armor. Go into the shop.
-Go to the ATM and withdraw all of your money.
-Buy two Psycho Pspirits and give one to Varik and one to Paula.
-Buy three Cocoon Pizzas and give them to Varik. Go out the shop.
-Go back to the Courage Tower. Go through the last door at the very back.
BELCH'S BASE/PHASE DISTORTER
-Keep walking and go up the stairs. Talk to Andonuts.
-Go right throguh Belch's Base. Try to avoid encounters. This is a very tricky area to avoid encounters, so if there's only one enemy when you attempt to despawn, initiate the battle.If you get into an encounter, Timestop α the first enemy and try to flee.
-Go down the ladder and go left. Keep going left past the conveyor belt of people.
-Keep going left. You'll see a door. That door always holds a butterfly, and can be used to despawn.
-Go left and up through the door.
-It's highly recommended to use the IRD and save. If you happen to have high/max HP/PP, then just save. Go through the door.
-Go right. When you see it going in two different directions, go up towards the needle and Phase Distorter. Interact with Phase Distorter.
-There is a very likely chance that someone will die during this battle. Even if someone dies, continue with the guide below.
-Have Varik use Psycho Pspirit, Paula use Lightning α and Jeff use HP-sucker.
-Have Varik use Cocoon Pizza, Paula use Freeze α and Jeff use HP-sucker.
-Varik defend, Paula Freeze α, Jeff HP-sucker.
-Continue until Paula has no PP, where Varik and Paula will defend and Jeff uses the HP-sucker until the Phase Distorter crumbles.
DREAM SEQUENCE
-Talk to Andonuts.
MAGICANT
-Go to shop. Go to the ATM and withdraw all of your money.
-Buy 8 pieces of Magic taffy. Give 4 to Paula and 4 to Poo.
-Buy 1 Cocoon Pizza and give it to Varik.
This next bit is only if you or your companions are dead.
-Go to where the Courage Tower is. Don't go in it-go past it into the orange area. Go down and right to the lady in the nurse's outfit. Talk to her and agree to the price. Ta-da!
-Go back to the area of the shop. Go up left where Apple Kid is standing. Talk to him and continue.
-This area will be very tricky with enemies. If there's more than one enemy, try to despawn.
Otherwise:
Dogs: Flame/Autofight
Pumpkin Kids: Autofight
Hearts: Sleepstun and run
-Keep going up. Then, when there's a fork in the path, go up and get the present.
-Give the Sword of Kings to Poo and have Poo equip it.
-Go back down, and then go into the right path. When there's another fork, go down and get the present. Have Varik equip the Hair Gel. Go back up.
-Continue up and left. You'll eventually come across a present. Open it.
-Give the Cloak of Kings to Poo and have him equip it. Continue left and follow the path.
-Get the next present and open it. Continue the path.
-If all of them are not at max HP, eat the Cocoon Pizza. Interact with the needle.
-Try to avoid encounters-this area is dangerous.
Giegue League: Sleepstun then run.
Brain Buster: Paralyze then run
Dead Ness: Shield with Paula and Autofight
-Go left, and then as soon as you're on the edge of the black L, go up. Go right, and then down. Open the present. Have Varik equip the Planet Buster.
-Go back up, and then go to the right path and then up. Go left.
-There'll be a present. Grab it. Continue left.
-At the very edge, there will be a Guardian Hieroglyph. Interact with it.
-Go right and then down towards the Phase Distorter. Life up and save.
-What you do here depends solely on the health of everyone. You can either attempt to flee, or you can bash some of them to death to level up.
-Try to despawn the enemies. Go left. Continue the path.
-Eventually you'll get to the floating ball. Interact with it and go left. Follow the path.
-Save for safety.
-Go right.
-There are ways to skip the three Krakens here. For the first one, you want to despawn until the Kraken is at the bottom. Quickly walk up so you can avoid the encounter. For the second Kraken, you want to get the Kraken stuck on one of the needle rocks so you can walk past them. For the third one, you also want it to get stuck on one of the needle rocks. For a more clear look on how it works, check out Ukobotic's runs.
-Interact with the woman. Go up right to the ATM and withdraw everything. Talk to the shop man.
-Drop Key to the Sewers and sell the Silent Dagger.
-Buy Psycho Pspirit, Fire Pendant and H20 and give it to Varik. Equip the Fire Pendant.
-Buy a Fire Pendant and a H20 Pendant for everyone else. Equip the Fire Pendant for everyone.
-Sell the HP-sucker. Buy Horns of Life for how many dead people there currently are and use it on them. Buy one or two extra for safety.
-Heal everyone up with your remaining Sky Nectar.
-Go left and save. Then go into the cave.
-If Paula and/or Poo are low on PP, use Magic taffy on them.
-Autofight until the real fight starts.
-As soon as the text shows up to take you to the real fight, start spamming B to end Autofight. You'll still Autofight when you first start, so don't worry about that.
-Have Varik use Timestop, Paula use the Psycho Pspirit, and Jeff and Poo bash.
-Varik and Jeff bash, Paula and Poo Freeze. Repeat until Poo or Paula has no PP.
-Varik and Jeff bash. If Paula has no PP, have Paula use Magic taffy and Poo use Freeze. If Poo has no PP, have him use Magic taffy and Paula Freeze. If both have no PP, have both of them use Magic taffy.
-Have Varik and Jeff bash and Paula and Poo use Freeze until Andonuts starts talking to you.
-After he stops talking, equip the H20 Pendant for everyone. After that, have Varik, Jeff and Poo bash while Paula uses Flame.
-If Paula runs out of PP, just have her use the Magic taffy on herself.
-If one of the kid's HP is low, have Varik use the Cocoon Pizza. Jeff and Poo bash, Paula Flame.
-After Andonuts talks, have Varik use the Psycho Pspirit and everyone Defend.
-Everyone Defend again.
-Then have Varik and Jeff bash, and if Paula and Poo are low on PP, use Magic taffy for both.
-Varik and Jeff bash, Paula and Poo Freeze. Repeat until dead, unless Paula and Poo need PP, where they would use Magic taffy instead of Freeze.
-Timer ends when the battle suddenly pauses, signifying that Andonuts is dead.
