I accidentally found a way skip more then half of a level; and with it, I've created an all new route that can save up to 1 minute, and 50 seconds. All I need is verification if it is allowed. My question: What specific conditions must be met, in order for a level to be considered "Completed"?

Here's video proof. This was my first counter with it. This can be done with every skip in the game. Is this allowed in a run..? Because I don't wanna make a run that gets denied; based on something that mods may have known about already.

Hello! Let me apologize for not seeing this sooner. This trick would definitely be doable. Death abuse to skip a major portion of the stage is very interesting. You’d have to kill 10 moai heads after to actually save time but yeah that’s really neat. Great find!

I’d also note that much like Journey to Silius this seems to be a checkpoint manipulation and not a wrong warp. I’m really curious to see how low the time can go!

Edit: Do you have an explanation on how you get this to work? Is there a set up or are you just dying at the end of the warp?

I'm just coming off from running silius and metal storm with deathwarps - now gradius get them too 😃

Toad it's me m8. Guess you never noticed me in chat. ;( I'm from the Metroid community. Anyway...my best guess is that the entire level is loaded in that fast scroll, and dying in a very specific place tricks the game into thinking you are in that part of the level. I have found the most optimal way to do this...I might release a video on this soon.

Oh? I might have missed it. I didn't even realize this response happened. I have so many submissions come in I miss a lot of these discussions. I would love to see a vid of your huge time saves! I've been waiting to see the record broken!

I mean ofc its not a problem allowing for deathwarp being used in any%. The larger question down the road is whether or not to have a warpless category for the other runners in the past so that not everyone steamrolls them over. My two cents.

This trick is useless in Any% I was more so referring to all stage.