Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (PS1) - Guides

Written Any% guide (Updated since 2017; RagingRedneck's video guide recommended)

Updated 4 years ago by PurpleSun

**Hey, if you want a video guide, check out Redneck's, it's a good'un https://www.speedrun.com/hp1ps1/guide/d9e81 ** But there are some very minor optimisations that aren't there: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNOUOE9YHiMQCs47K_5q5TaPq1kKeuAIs

[section=Intro] This is the Trunske route, named after the founder, a Youtuber named Trunske (funny, that). He was scared of the trolls in the dungeon as a kid, so he saved outside Quidditch after Sloth Brain, and quit. He then proceeded to do Quidditch League, but when he returned to the main game, he found Hagrid waiting for him to go to Diagon Alley. Shoutouts to non-speedrunners finding glitches as kids #Trunske #Clody Also shoutouts to a) Pr0te for finding the comment, b) Slendbed asking Trunske more about it, and c) theRedhotBr for testing it.

[section=Tech] Ledges

Jumping to grab a ledge is faster than walking up to the ledge, which is useful in various areas such as 4-Eyes.
In some cases, you can jump towards a ledge at such an angle that you skip grabbing it; a technique known simply as ledgeskipping (sometimes ledgejumping). It plays a main part in the first section.
Some walls have strange geometry, so that there are tiny ledges all over it that you can grab for interesting results. This is very useful to know for later.

Walls - Two walls (or objects) that are adjacent at an acute angle can be clipped into, allowing either for jumps that can be useful, or even vertical zips that send you to the top of the wall.

Flipendo - There are three tiers of Flipendo - Tier 1 is the basic small spell that moves small objects and defeats basic enemies, Tier 2 is almost fully-charged, when the wand is above Harry's head - this can be used to move larger objects that the game expects you to be fully-charged for, and Tier 3 is fully-charged.

Fast Incendio inputs (by Nanonym, double inputs found by Shima)

To do early input, hit the first input (inputs listed below) as soon as Harry's wand leaves the screen in the "Incendio!" animation, like so:

To do fast/double inputs, hit the first of two (grouped in square brackets below) just before the button enters the circle, and the second just after it leaves the circle. The timing can be confusing, as you can't hit both inputs too fast (there's an 8-frame window between the two, roughly 0.2s/0.3s)

Incendio Class Cross - [Square - Cross] - [Cross - Triangle] X -- [ ] - X -- X - /\ Forest Wall Triangle - [Circle - Triangle] - [Circle - Cross] /\ -- O - /\ -- O - [ ] Forest Bush Cross - [Circle - Square] - [Circle - Triangle] X -- O - [ ] -- O - /\ Forest Wall Circle - [Cross - Triangle] - [Circle - Square] O -- X - /\ -- O - [ ] Devil Snare Square - [Triangle - Cross] - [Circle - Square] [ ] -- /\ - X -- O - [ ]

[section=First section] See Very minor tricks playlist for a doorwalk skip, a grabless Ron skip, a tricky method for one room, and some padlock skips. Perfect Malfoy fight by Nanonym: [section=Outside] Incendio is fairly simple. In the time trial, you can either snipe the second block on the left (see: Very minor tricks playlist), or just run over to it and hit it. It is the only block you need to move, as you can climb up the first block on the right.

Fire Seeds Skip: http://www.speedrun.com/hp1ps1/guide/q01tb It's worth noting that most runners have their own slight adjustments, although Nitrofski's set-up is the general fastest set-up now - visit the Discord server if you need help!

Malfoy & Quidditch #1 See Very minor tricks playlist for a double-hit on Malfoy.

Quidditch League Abuse

After Quidditch #1, save as soon as you enter the Sloth Brain area. Quit the game.
Go to your file, then Play Quidditch. Defeat Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw but DON'T save.
Quit out of the Quidditch menu, and then Play Game.
Go out of Sloth Brain Zone. Hagrid will be waiting outside the Quidditch Entrance so you can go to Diagon Alley. [section=Diagon Alley] Just a few things worth noting:
You can skip the trigger for the entrance goblin by going towards the left; you can also skip him going back by holding down to get around him.
In Galleons, turn upside down and stay there until after the third set of coins.
In Wartfrogs, as soon as one frog is caught, the next one will vibrate its box, so you can quickly find out if it's on the same floor.
In Peacock, there's a way you can get the peacock to keep going back and forth up the little straight on the left side of the room, but it's not yet known how to do it consistently.
You can skip the trigger for the Owl guy as you exit the building by staying on the right. [section=Forest & Sloth Brain]
After knocking down the log, you can jump off the ledge to the right and land on the tree without grabbing it.
Easy Forest Bridge skip set-up: http://www.speedrun.com/hp1ps1/guide/nqcpx See Very minor tricks playlist for a faster but trickier method.
You can also skip the second Incendio 'wall', which you can see in the Very minor tricks but it's likely only fast for a TAS.

An acute angle trick -

After Forest, you need to do Fire Seeds Skip again Sloth Brain: Sloth Brain skip (found by ThinksTheClown) - Pick your set-up poison: Cameraful (Pr0te): http://www.speedrun.com/hp1ps1/guide/o2sy6 Cameraless (Purple): Cameraless edges Cameraful out by a second, but Cameraful is probably easier. [section=Dungeons & Upper Castle]

You have to have defeated 4-Eyes (aka Curse Room) to unlock Upper Castle, so off to the Dungeons.
Since you skipped ahead of the game, it thinks you have Verdimillious already, so RIP Early 4-Eyes 2016-2017 4-Eyes - A video guide for this section will be in a video for this whole Dungeon and Upper Castle part, but for now, here's a timestamp of a tutorial for the Dungeon I had worked on before new things were found (all the 4-Eyes strats are up-to-date)
Like with Verdimillious, you have Avifors given to you, so transfigure the statue on the table, and go right, to Filch.
When you get past the final Filch room, you'll see Ron and Hermione. Go to the right of them and through the door to Fluffy. [section=Teachers' Challenges] Fluffy:
See Very minor tricks playlist for a way to get Fluffy to not attack you straight away.
If you have fast enough flute playing, you can go to each head and put it to sleep without having to dodge an attack. If not, go to the first head, run away, then run back to it and start playing, and repeat for each head.

Devil's Snare: Slend's Early Movement trick:

See Very minor tricks playlist for an early Devil's Snare exit

Chess route (UglierGoblin):

See Very minor tricks playlist for a small Groggy Troll skip.
You can hit the Ice Potion knight when it attacks you. It's the only black knight that will let you do that. [section=Voldemort] Clody skip