By pausing the game when touching a loading zone, you can make the next area load instantly instead of being forced to wait 3 extra seconds (8 extra seconds entering Barn Boys). To perform this, press the menu button quickly followed by the B button while moving into the desired loading zone.
Every possible pause buffer in the game that saves time in chronological order of the speedrun (Chapters Mode)
- Entering The Key Room
- Leaving Hungover & The Following Cutscene
- Entering Barn Boys & The Following Cutscene
- Leaving Haybot 2 (After The Water Rises)
- Leaving Barn Boys
- Entering Poo Cabin & The Following Cutscene
- After Spinning The Cogs (Before The Bullfish Cutscene) *Not recommended
- Leaving Cogs Tower
- Leaving The $10 Room
- Leaving Bats Tower
- Entering The Great Mighty Poo
- Leaving The Great Mighty Poo
- Weasel Cutscene (After Blades)
- Leaving Uga Buga (After The Money)
- Falling Into Poo Cabin
- Entering The Hive
- Entering Spooky
- Gregg Cutscene (After Killing The Zombies)
- Leaving Spooky (After Breaking The Barrel)
- Leaving Hungover
- Entering It's War
- Leaving It's War
Pause buffers known to cause the game to softlock, DO NOT try these
- Leaving Poo Cabin (After Bull)
- Entering Bats Tower
- Entering The Matrix
Note for Xbox Series / Xbox One players: All other loading zones not listed here already load fast enough so pause buffering in these make little to no difference at all. Pause buffering may be viable for every loading zone on the original Xbox console, however this hasn't been tested.
