A NMG Route (Guide to getting sub 21)

This is going to be my guide to getting a sub 21 in Robot 64. I will be using my wr run for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XihsaDUJMM&feature=emb_title.

Before we get into the advanced tricks, you must know the route.
The run starts off by exiting the tutorial in the secret exit, then getting on top of the observatory to collect the IC. Then you slide down to the ground and collect the You can Jump IC. You go into the observatory and enter Turtle Tops. You head over to the town and go into the soap subarea. You go through it to collect the IC. You wanna talk to the bunny with the headband,  and you want to beat them to the top of the mountain, and climb the flagpole, so do that. Next, you want to grab the jetpack, and fly over to the lighthouse, and grab the firefly jar. With the jar, you want to collect 10 fireflies (check the run for locations). Doing so, you should have the bunny racing IC animation happen, unless you're fast enough. If you're too slow to reach the lighthouse after collecting 10 fireflies before the bunny gets to the top, then collect the racing IC first, then get the lighthouse IC. After collecting both IC's, you wanna head to the bottom of the mountain, by the lighthouse, and enter the purple tower subarea. After completing it, you should have 7 Ice Creams. Click the Pause and go back to hub, then head over to knoddy's resort. You want to head straight towards the flowers and complete that subarea. Then, you go over to the 3 guards and make them go into the ocean to collect an IC. After doing so, you go into the hotel. Inside the hotel, you want to grab 2 things in the lobby of the hotel, and put them in the room to the left. There should be 4 items inside the room now, and you must throw them towards the black hole in the room, to get an IC. Next, you go into the next part of the hotel, then the room to the right, and complete the Chomping Pillar Parkour to get an IC. Finally, go back to the original room, and go into the room opposite of the black hole room, and complete the maze to collect an IC. You should have 12 IC's. Go back to hub and go into the Hecklands. You want to go over to the floating islands and do that parkour to get the IC, then go over to Jobb and spin attack him until he gives you an IC. Afterwards, head over to the portal inside the tree, and complete that subarea to get the IC, then climb up the mountain and go into the subarea in the tree at the top, and complete the maze to get the IC. You should have 16 IC's by now. Go back to hub and go into Candy Aquarium. You want to go to the building with the Brento Box inside (see video), and grab the disc thing and throw it at the brento box to get an IC. Then, head over to the cave and spin attack all the crabs to get an IC. Next, head over to the little tiny cave (see video) and complete the Subarea. Finally, go to the top of the water, and climb onto the building at the top (see video), and grab the floating IC. You should have 20 IC's by now. Go back to hub and go into the chimney inside the observatory, and complete the slide, then go into the room across the chimney, and go into the hole in the mirror and get the IC. (see video.) You should have 22 IC's.
Now, head into TinyHuge Bedroom, and plug in the computer and press the Enter key on the keyboard to get the IC. Then, get onto the shelves above the Computer and grab the Die, then bring it back to the army dudes on the floor. Now, grab one of the crayons, and finish the homework by filling all the answers in. Then, jump on the bed, and fly over the the shelf near the roof and grab the IC. Finally, head over to the drawers, and complete the wires IC. You should have 27 IC's. Finally, head over to New Neocity, and head over to the racing bunny, and race him to the building (see video). You also wanna grab the Jetpack while heading to the flagpole (see video). Now, you want to go through the rings in the air, and you want to go to the left at the right time (see video), and collect the IC. Then, the racing bunny animation should happen, and then head the giant fan, and collect the IC in the middle. Then, go through the rings in the sky, and collect that IC, then collect the Racing bunny IC. Finally, head over to the building (see video) and collect that purple tower IC. You should have 32 IC's. Finally, go to planet Kebabulon and complete the game.

Advanced Tricks:

(0:33) What I do here is I turn off follow camera. This is optional as @hexsr (2nd Place) and @yarn (4th place) don't do this in their runs. If you want a free camera, I'd recommend this.

(0:36 - 0:42) What I do here is I long jump to the box (W+Shift+Space), then i GP Jump (Shift + Space) to get height, then I dive into the wall, then spin off of the wall to get on top of it. Then I head over to the secret exit. Doing this optimally can save a few seconds.

(0:45 - 0:49) This is a very advanced trick, so I only recommend top runners doing this. What i do is I dive into a slide, then Long Jump into the tree, then jump and dive, then double jump forward towards the observatory, then dive, spin, run up the side of the wall, then jump off the wall, and spin again, to get the IC on top of the observatory.

(0:57) This is called IC Slide, and what you do is you face the IC from a fair distance away. Then Dive toward the IC, then press Shift+E at the right time. If you time it right, you will grab the IC, and start sliding towards the You Can Jump! IC. Doing this right can save 3 seconds.

(1:50 - 3:08) One of the hardest tricks in the game is Faster IC Trick (Found by @yarn). What you do is you talk to the race bunny. Depending on the time, you add 1:01 to it. So if you get a 1:19, you have to get the fireflies cutscene at 2:20. If you time it right, when you get the firefly IC animation after collecting it, the Race IC animation happens. Doing this correctly gives you free movement while the race IC animation is happening, allowing you to collect it from the lighthouse. This only works if your graphics are at one. You can skip flying to the flagpole to collect the race IC. Doing this trick can save about 6-8 Seconds.

(3:48 - 4:15) The newest trick in NMG, Phantom Skateboard. What you do is you Shift dive over to the skateboard and grab it. You head over to the flowers and you jump to the 3rd flower. Then you click the Plus sign in the top right to open the transaction menu, then press space, and finally press the plus again. You should get a transaction option. You click cancel then quickly run into the portal (Make sure you're facing in the correct direction, check video to see which angle you face.) While you're loading into the sub-world, spam the E button. Doing this optimally saves 5-8 seconds compared to the normal route. This is a very advanced trick only the best should use.

(7:38 - 7:45) This is Hecklands Jump. It is one of the simplest tricks that saves around 1-2 Seconds. What you do is you double jump at the right time, then dive, then spin. You hit the right part of the wall to bounce towards the top.

(7:48 - 7:58) In order to get optimal dark maze, imagine the pathway is a V. The first opening is at the top right of the V, and you follow the path from there. You can also memorize the video if that's easier.

(10:12 - 10:24) This trick is called Fast Slide. What you do is you slide normally, until the 2nd last candy, then you turn left and still hold W until you're about to hit the slide again, then you hold W and left. If done right, you will gain a lot of height and distance, allowing you to fly towards the IC, saving time.

(11:13 - 11:20) You grab the Die, then you Long jump and dive onto the keyboard. Then you slide of the keyboard toward the army people. This gives you a lot of speed and saves time compared to just diving over there.

(12:00 - 12:10) Wires is a very hard IC for beginners. What you have to do is Long Jump four times at the right time, then click when the wire is in the air to jump off. Then you run into the next wire. There are two options.
Groundpound Option: You get above the IC, then groundpound. This is more reliable but slower.
Fast Option: You click when you bounce a little bit upwards while holding D. Doing it at the right time will make you hit the IC.

(13:27 - 13:54) This trick is called Fast Fan. What you do is you get the Race IC animation. After it ends, you have a lot of speed. The trick I use to get Fast Fan is that I aim lower than I would think would be needed.  If done right, you get tons of speed. Finish the path to get the Flying IC. Doing this trick perfectly saves like 7-9 Seconds.

(15:37 - 16:01) When you get 5 Minisuns in a row like so, you wanna head to the right while holding space, then when it's destroyed, HOLD W+SPACE. The Miniboss should appear, but you shouldn't take damage.

(16:03 - 16:17) Make sure your audio is turned on. You keep on holding W+Space until you hear 5 minisuns being destroyed.

(17:37 - 18:00) You wanna Hold W the whole time while doing this. You wanna let Go and press A at different intervals. Doing so correctly will make the minisun on the right die very quickly. You wanna repeat this for the right sun as well.

(18:35 - ) You wanna hold W+Space again, and keep on doing so until you lose your 2nd heart, then you hold S. You wanna make sure you're in the middle so you don't hit the minisuns surrounding the miniboss. If a star comes directly at you, you wanna go to the very bottom to make sure you don't lose a heart. If you have 1 heart during the boss fight at any point, you must stop shooting until you gain another heart. After defeating the boss, you hold W to get past the minisuns.


I hope this Guide Helps.
I wanna see more people run NMG

any% route guide (glitched)

heres the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A4D2mHtWOw

and hope you find it useful!

Backwards Knoddy

uhhhh, so pretty much I have a new strat for doing Knoddy. When you go into the hotel, you get the two pots at the beginning, throw them, and you skip the pillar pot. Instead, you grab the pot by the door across from where you entered, go through that door, drop the pot, and go do the chomp ic. Then, you grab the pot again, go back through the door, and THEN you do the black hole ic. You then do maze ic and Knoddy's is over. My best time with this new strat is about 2:16, but I can't record doing it that fast because OBS wants to mess up my PC's graphics.

Faster Hecklord Fight

While messing around in The Hecklands, I discovered a glitch which counted a hit against the boss as I initially flew towards the bottom of the ramp after talking. I am currently unsure how to duplicate the glitch, however I did notice I was bouncing on him and spamming the interaction/spin button. It looked like I was on the way down towards him during the bounce when he sent me flying towards the ramp. 

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30X1Ojw03e4

Faster IC Skip in Turtle Tops

Turtle Tops have been pretty optimized already, but I might have found a way to save even more time.
https://imgur.com/E9gp3hJ
That picture can relate to this video, https://streamable.com/p8x9t
So, when you are done talking to the bunny, you look at the time you get such as ~1:18, ~1:20, or ~1:22, you add 1 minute and 2 seconds to that time.
When the one minute and two seconds have ended, you would have collected all fireflies to get the Ice Cream for the lighthouse and you would enter at the time.
ex: Finish talking to the bunny in 1:18 and enter the lighthouse in 2:20
As you are in the animation, spam space and you should get the IC for the bunny race IC. This can save a lot of time.
If you want it more guaranteed, enter the lighthouse inbetween the time; ex: 1:17 bunny enter 2:18 instead of 2:19. Doing this should allow more time for the animation, but you have to collect it when the sound of the second ic animation does not go to its location, you should collect it right before it goes away.
(added to guide)
also, if you are trying to add this into runs and can't get it, just don't add it until you get faster at collecting fireflies because it can cause lots of runs to die
NOTE: you may have to turn your graphics to the lowest setting, 1, as it can softlock if you don't

Full Glitched Any% Tutorial

Made this in my spare time, hope it helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdR2B1MOEw8&t=196s

How to Perform Level Maker Dupe

(I'm uploading this just because there seems to be very little people who know how to the Level Maker dupe. Credits to @Whytte for showcasing the glitch a bit more clear @MrRM1000 for discovering the glitch.)

	First off, load in a save and pull up the transaction cancel menu. Leave this on until told to cancel. Now, proceed into the level maker. Upon going into the level maker, import or build a level of your choice. Then, pull up the menu. Select "Back to Hub" but don't select it again to finalize. Before pressing it you must remember that you have to go to the "Test at Spawn" option very quickly after you confirm the "Back to Hub". An easy way to do this is to use the hotkeys. Press space, click, s, space very quickly and if all goes well you should be teleported back to the hub. You can tell if you got it because you should see a slight glimpse of Beebo being teleported before he's in the hub. (You will also probably get softlocked. If so, leave the game.) After this, proceed into the Hecklands door. Now, press cancel on the transaction menu as soon as you start to enter the computer. Quickly run backwards into the lava during the cutscene without pressing E so you don't cancel. If done correctly, you should see Beebo in the sky above the Game Over Screen. Press E to cancel the cutscene and press the pause button. Now selects "Options" and select "Test at Spawn". Now you should see your level inside the hub.  (Note that some levels that are not elevated enough will be inside the ground.)

NMG Guide (UPDATED ROUTE FOR BEGENNERS)

Part 1 Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OB7gqa-o0U

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w52rlblWmek

Good Luck On The Runs!

Pool Dive

Okay, so I found a brand new method for getting up the cliff. This save from ~.5 - ~1 seconds if you pull it off right. I dub this the 'Pool Dive', because getting out of the pool counts as a dive out of the water. Here's the tutorial: https://youtu.be/fXBqDJPshnw

btw shoutout to @WiiGame for bringing up the idea of pool diving over to the tree.

Robot 64 Speedrun Tutorial (Video)

If you are reading this prior to Jul 13, 2020, here are the premiere schedules for the tutorial videos:
Part 1 - 2:00 PM [EDT]
Part 2 - 2:30 PM [EDT]
Part 3 - 3:00 PM [EDT]
Pop in and I might answer your questions. I'm an OK speedrunner at this game, so I should be able to help you.
This is mainly directed towards beginners.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaGLQnqG6_VL5L19kQs0G8OZtrULVvPOm

True Any% Route (Outdated)

[big]**Pre-Speedrun**[/big]

Hub duplication
Place duplicated snowball in the desired location
https://ibb.co/eptmW9
Enter Turtle Tops and return to Tile Screen (to avoid softlock)

[big]**During Speedrun**[/big]

Snowball clip in Tutorial 
**Enter Planet Kebabulon monitor**
Method 1 - 
Enter Snozone
Method 2 -
Enter Turtle Tops (going into the door from the middle will avoid softlocks)
https://youtu.be/8DalF3To8CM
Method 3 -
Enter Test Level through Hub 
Preform a fast slide
https://youtu.be/5l_XY09ahS0?t=166
Use the Sun Destroyer 9000
Sun fight
Example of desired setup (as of 10/7/18)
https://youtu.be/R8evm3MjEww
**Note:** holding minimize for every ~60 frames and releasing for ~30 frames when the game is active, is the best way to avoid bullets. An easier method of doing the fight is by using a video to have a visual idea of where you are.

Updated any% No Bonus Levels Video Guide

Updated WTW Tutorial (Now Outdated)

From the last guide, that WTW method was used for quite some time. That is until this updated version of WTW was discovered. This trick is the fastest WTW method that has been discovered, and it's actually quite simple.

First step: Enter the Level Creator booth near the Hub
Second step: Click on the options tab of the creator, giving you the Editor version of the pause menu
Third step: You want to press your designated dive button (E for PC, i dunno about gamepad) which gives you the regular pause menu, just invisible.
Fourth step: After you press the E key, just navigate to the "Return to Hub" feature on the REGULAR pause menu, not the Editor Pause Menu.

If you've done this correctly, you just spawn at the Hub, but grounded. To get out of this state, simply press the Dive button.

https://youtu.be/8ChUM-fK08Y

If you need any more assistance, join the Roblox Speedrunning Discord and ask your questions in #robot64!

World Record Explanation Video

WTW Tutorial (Not Outdated)

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to "walk through walls" or WTW for short.
This glitch is used to complete the Any% category for Robot 64 (not Legacy% or No WTW)

To start off, head into the Level Creator building. Once you enter, you'll want to navigate over to the Create tab at the top of your screen. From there, select any blocks that can damage your avatar (lava is recommended, especially in Any%). Once you've placed your damage blocks, "test" your level.

This is where the glitch occurs.

You want to lose 3 batteries first. Once you lose the batteries, you want to lose your last battery at a certain time depending on what is damaging you. Basically, you want to press the Pause button right before you lose your last battery. What should happen is you get sent back to the Creator state, AND the gameover screen.


NOTE: If you obtained any ice cream, you will spawn back at the Hub; if you collected no ice creams, you will spawn back at the Tutorial level.


That's the glitch in a nutshell. If you want to see this glitch utilized in a speedrun, check out the Any% Category. I'll also link a video of me performing an Any% run using WTW. If you have any other questions or concerns, join the Roblox Speedrunning Discord and ask a runner in #robot64.

https://youtu.be/TLAa55Cd4o8

Nombre	Autor
A NMG Route (Guide to getting sub 21)	Speedrun 5 years ago
any% route guide (glitched)	Akira80KV 5 years ago
Backwards Knoddy	LeshanaJr 4 years ago
Faster Hecklord Fight	LapisBlood 6 years ago
Faster IC Skip in Turtle Tops	yarn 5 years ago
Full Glitched Any% Tutorial	Macker 6 years ago
How to Perform Level Maker Dupe	themagicsquirtle 4 years ago
NMG Guide (UPDATED ROUTE FOR BEGENNERS)	Eliminado 4 years ago
Pool Dive	LeshanaJr 4 years ago
Robot 64 Speedrun Tutorial (Video)	BrockPercent 4 years ago
True Any% Route (Outdated)	Eliminado 6 years ago
Updated any% No Bonus Levels Video Guide	SingZingXing 6 years ago
Updated WTW Tutorial (Now Outdated)	thePotato 6 years ago
World Record Explanation Video	Speedrun 4 years ago
WTW Tutorial (Not Outdated)	thePotato 6 years ago