Any% Route (HAP Skip & No HAP Skip)

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General
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Notes:
 - Jiggle the mouse to speed up page loads, downloads, installers, CHIME reports.
 - LaF quests are completed by just visiting the relevant pages, you don't actually need to download anything.
 - If you get to the Mindcrash password screen too fast, the dialog box telling you you've been reinstated as an enforcer will pop up at the same time & steal all your inputs. Very annoying.
 - In the last chapter, report the chatlogs & *then* the clinical trial - if you do it the other way around the response emails take longer to fire, arbitrarily.
 - There's also an extra ~30s delay if you take more than a few seconds to submit both of those reports. You'll know you were fast enough if the "dear god" and "you did it" emails arrive around the same time.
 - There's a way to speed up the final Outlaw game (see "speedup glitch" forum thread) but once you've set it up you can't skip the news report cutscene & as far as I can tell, that costs more time than it saves (which is a shame because it's a cool glitch!!).

Keyboard shortcuts:
 - Enter = dismiss popup dialog
 - Esc = close window
 - Tab = search (might need to press it a couple of times before you can start typing)
 - Ctrl+Tab = app list

Version differences:
 - HAP Skip (accessing the final Outlaw download page early) only works on v1.04.
 - There may be some differences between Steam v1.04 and Itch v1.04 but nothing has been confirmed.
 - LaF quests currently (v2.05) don't auto-complete if you meet their conditions before starting the final chapter. Unknown if this is a bug or an intentional change, or exactly when it started happening. This means the story won't progress until you revisit Roddy & Chowder Man's FLISTs (00021d in November / 00088d in December).

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HAP Skip Route
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Chapter 1 & 2:
 - Time starts when you click "Log In"
 - Skip tutorial (drag "?" icon into the trash)
 - Login to FLIST (search: flst / password: thanks4thehc)
 - Access Dylan's files (search: 80085d)
 - Report 2 Glamocaster songs for copyright infringement (CHIME 1)
 - The rest of the chapter is on a time limit: about 1 minute
 - Access the Dumpster (search: dumpies, click "Enter")
 - Scroll about halfway down & click "Got Game or Way Lame"
 - Click "Teentopia" on the address bar & stamp (bookmark) for access later
 - Wait for time skip

Chapter 3:
 - Log off & on when the update window appears
 - Access Teentopia from stamped pages list
 - Click the text, then the keyboard (password: marshmellow)
 - Click "disable scary mindcrash stuff"
 - Wait roughly 100 years while everything explodes
 - When the screen goes red, press Alt+F4 and restart the game

Epilogue:
 - Access the Outlaw page (search: dylan) & install the game
 - Rub against the 6 ghost cars to ascend them
 - Get behind Dylan & hold the space bar to capture him (killing him doesn't work)
 - Time ends when Dylan is caught (starts floating up into the sky)

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Quick reference / memory jogger:
 - flst / thanks4thehc
 - 80085d
 - dumpies --> stamp Teentopia
 - wait
 - skip update
 - stamps --> Teentopia
 - marshmellow
 - wait
 - dylan

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No HAP Skip Route
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Chapter 1 & 2:
 - Time starts when you click "Log In"
 - Skip tutorial (drag "?" icon into the trash)
 - Login to FLIST (search: flst / password: thanks4thehc)
 - Access Dylan's files (search: 80085d)
 - Report 2 Glamocaster songs for copyright infringement (CHIME 1)
 - The rest of the chapter is on a time limit: about 1 minute

 - Access the Dumpster (search: dumpies, click "Enter")
 - Scroll about halfway down & click "Got Game or Way Lame"
 - Click "Teentopia" on the address bar & stamp (bookmark) for access later

 - Access Roddy's files (search: 00021d)
 - Download testpet & 3y3
 - Stamp the Hypnocure page for future access (search: hypnocure)
 - Install testpet
 - Decrypt 3y3 (feed it to the pet) & install
 - Wait for time skip

Chapter 3:
 - Log off & on when the update window appears
 - Access Teentopia from stamped pages list
 - Click the text, then the keyboard (password: marshmellow)
 - Click "disable scary mindcrash stuff"
 - The rest of the chapter is on a time limit: about 1m15s

 - Access the Freelands (search: freeland)
 - Scroll down & use 3y3 to access Re3koning's secret page - stamp it
 - Access the Leaky Piping page (search: leak)
 - Scroll to the bottom & use 3y3 to access "LP4" - stamp that as well
 - Visit Chowder Man's FLIST (search: 00088d)

 - Wait while Outlaw installs & everything explodes
 - When the screen goes red, press Alt+F4 and restart the game

Epilogue:
 - Install HAP from welcome email

 - Switch to Nov. 5 archive
 - Access Re3koning's page from stamps
 - Click the saw, install Dreamtoolz
 - In Dreamtoolz, donate a negative amount of money (at least 500)
 - Access Hypnocure page from stamps
 - Buy & install the pro version

 - Switch to Dec. 31 archive
 - Go back to Re3koning's page
 - Activate Safe Mode ( /!\ ) to access the clinical trial leak & stamp it
 - Open LP4 from stamps
 - Wait for email ("Your Objective")

 - Install the Sam Hammer
 - Report chatlog download link from LP4
 - Open clinical trial from stamps
 - Report invisible download link (find it with 3y3 if you have to)
 - Switch to current date/HAP archive
 - Wait for email ("Hello Samantha")

 - Install Outlaw & run it
 - Rub against the 6 ghost cars to ascend them
 - Get behind Dylan & hold the space bar to capture him (killing him doesn't work)
 - Time ends when Dylan is caught (starts floating up into the sky)

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Quick reference / memory jogger:
 - flst / thanks4thehc
 - 80085d
 - dumpies (stamp Teentopia)
 - 00021d
 - stamp hypnocure
 - install apps
 - wait

 - skip update
 - Teentopia / marshmellow
 - freeland (stamp hacker's page)
 - leak (stamp LP4)
 - 00088d
 - wait

 - install HAP
 - HAP: November
 - Freelands --> Dreamtoolz money cheat
 - Hypnocure
 
 - HAP: December
 - safe mode on hacker's page (stamp trial leak)
 - open LP4
 - wait for sam hammer
 - report chatlogs
 - report trial

 - HAP: Current
 - wait for Outlaw email

Downgrading Steam version

Right click on the game name in your Steam library, select Properties, and then select the Betas category in the left menu. Enter the beta access code, **without quotes**, "milleniumedition" 

Copy and paste it exactly if it fails, as 'millenium' is spelt with a single 'n' here.

Select the new beta option ("version1.0 - Initial release (1.04 in-game)") that appears in the dropdown and download it. Verify that the version is v1.04 when booting the game up.


The info below is now outdated and preserved for posterity, as well as an alternate workaround should the above fail to work.
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Because the latest version of Hypnospace Outlaw on Steam has patched out a few exploits that are necessary to submit runs to specific categories, here is a guide that allows you to downgrade your Steam version of the game in order to submit a run.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1086279994

Credits to zoton2 on the forums for linking this.

The New Any% HAP Skip Route by Kit Lemonfoot

Let's get to it, shall we?

Similar to the previous guide, this assumes that you're on the oldest PC version of the game. The latest version, as well as every console version, cannot perform the Day 2 Skip or the traditional HAP Skip.

With some tweaking, this route will also work with Any% No HAP Skip, however that will not be described in this guide.

# Some tricks

- While spinning the mouse, always try to spin in a circular motion. The mechanism behind speedup through mouse wiggling goes by the amount of distance moved in a timeframe, and the circumference of a circle will almost always outpace or equal any form of harmonic motion of its radius.
- Four letter words are accepted by the searching system, and can be used to reduce the amount of typing for tags on pages. Note that this does not apply to searching for full usernames: the full username MUST be typed in, otherwise the search will only return tags. (dylan, professorhelper, sherriheals, etc.)

**Preloading:**
This trick was unintentionally discovered by everyone, but fully understood by Kit Lemonfoot.

The oldest version of the game has major issues with its loading, causing very long black screens before the OS starts. Due to this loading, substantial amounts of time can be lost solely due to it, especially during Day 3. The latest version of the game is much better with these black screens, however since we are stuck on the oldest version for Any% HAP Skip, we must use a strategy called preloading to keep the load times short and consistent.
In short, preloading essentially boils down to loading the required pages before the run to make sure that everything is good to go during an actual run. Do note that preloading cannot be used in the HAP chapter of the game due to the restart to skip the Day 3 ending cutscene.

**CHIME Glitch:**
This glitch was found by Kit Lemonfoot.

There's an oversight with the CHIME's QuickCheck windows where it will associate itself with a page object when it is opened, but not actually determine if the object can be reported until after the Submit button is pressed. We can exploit this by going to a different page and pressing the Submit button, where it will use the new page's objects to determine if the object from the old page should be removed. Normally this isn't possible since the QuickCheck window closes itself if you attempt to change pages using the mouse or backspace button, however by using the Quick-Switch hotkey (Ctrl-Q) you can send the window behind the browser, then bring it back using the same hotkey once on a page with many violations.

This trick is mostly used in All Cases runs in order to perform a flavor of HAP Skip on the latest version of the game, however what makes this useful for this category is that we can actually use it to save Carl, which is normally only possible in Day 2 (which we skip over). Doing this alongside saving Zane will keep their cars from spawning in the final Outlaw game, and can save around 12 seconds depending on Outlaw car RNG.

**Background Input Glitch:**
This glitch was found by Kit Lemonfoot. (Kind of a pattern by now.)

When you first create a save file and load a new chapter for the first time, a property relating to being able to control the desktop is not updated during the startup animation. As such, it's possible to perform actions on the desktop before the OS fully starts up.

The only downside is that this must be done completely blind. There are some normalization methods for the PC version, however the best option is to play the game in Windowed mode and create an overlay atop your monitor to determine where everything is. Windowed mode is very useful in this case, as you can move the mouse outside of the game window to reposition your mouse.

This glitch is used both at the start of the run to throw away the tutorial, and during Day 3 to enter the Mindcrash area very early. This can also be used in HAP to start Outlaw before the cutscene ends, however that requires large amounts of normalization and will not be discussed in this guide.

# Route

## Part 0: Setup/Preloading

- Start up a new save file for preloading.
- Search for "flst" and fully load the page.
- Enter the password "thanks4thehc" and fully load the page.
- Search for "bike" and fully load the page.
- From there, go to the Lisa memorial and fully load the page.
- Search for "ecre" and fully load the BadCitizen McGee page.
- Search for "dump", select the Dumpster, and fully load the page.
- Enter the Dumpster and fully load the page.
- Enter Got Game or Way Lame and fully load the page.
- Tag Got Game or Way Lame.
- Use the top bar to enter Teentopia and fully load the page.
- Tag Teentopia.
- Search for "8008" and fully load the page.
- Report 2 Glamocaster songs to trigger Day 3.
- Return to Teentopia after the timeskip and the update and fully load the page.
- Enter the Mindcrash area and fully load the page.
- Enter the password "marshmallow" and fully load the page.
- Click the "Stop Mindcrash" button and fully load the page.
- Return to Got Game or Way Lame and fully load the page.
- Enter the third interview and fully load the page.
- Preloading is complete. Logout and delete the preloading save.
- Do not restart the game at this point. You can now prepare for your run.

## Day 1: The Panic

- Time starts when you click "LOGIN".
- Skip the tutorial by dragging the "?" icon to the trash and press the OK button. Ideally, this is done using the Background Input Glitch.
- Search "FLST", select the first option, and enter the password "thanks4thehc".
- Search "8008"
- Report 2 Glamocaster songs. This will start the timer for Day 3, so do these next steps as fast as you can.
- Tag the FLIST page.
- Search for "bike" and select Carl's page (Burnin Rubber).
- Tag Carl's page.
- CHIME Glitch the lavender background square halfway down the page with Copyright Infringement.
- Search for "ecre" go to Bad Citizen McGee's page, and tag it.
- Click the square in the bottom left corner of your screen to return to Dylan's FLIST and complete CHIME glitch.
- Return to Burnin' Rubber using the tagged version of the page and CHIME glitch the purple "in memoriam" text with Illegal Content.
- Return to Bad Citizen McGee's page by using Backspace (if you used tags before, it should not lag) and complete CHIME glitch.
- Return to Burnin' Rubber using the forward arrow key on the browser, and enter the "In Memory of Lisa" page by clicking the yellow X on the original page.
- CHIME glitch the memorium text (the text that starts with "I STILL REMEMBER OUR RIDES") as Illegal Content.
- Return to Bad Citizen McGee through the tagged pages, and complete CHIME glitch.
- Return to Burnin' Rubber and flag the page.
- Search for "dump" and navigate your way to Got Game or Way Lame's homepage.
- Do not enter any of the scenarios. Instead, just tag the homepage.
- Use the top bar to get to Teentopia, then close the browser.
- Wait to be kicked off of Enforcer duty by Dylan.

## Day 3: The Mindcrash

- Do not open the browser yet. Simply wait through the cutscene.
- When the "update installer" shows up, log out of the OS and re-enter your file.
- This is probably the most important use of Background Input Glitch. During the cutscene, open the browser, use Backspace to return to Teentopia, and click near the bottom of your window. This will send you to the Mindcrash Login page. Scroll the screen down just a little bit, and click near the bottom of the screen again. If you hear the sound of a window opening, you have opened the Mindcrash Password window. Start typing the Mindcrash password (marshmallow), and by this time the startup cutscene will have ended.
- Fully type the Mindcrash password, and enter the Mindcrash area. Press the "Disable Mindcrash button" immidiatley.
- Use the tagged version of Got Game or Way Lame to enter the third scenario.
- DO NOT REPORT ANYTHING YET! Close the browser and wait until you receive Samantha's "You stopped the Mindcrash" email. IF YOU REPORT ZANE'S STUFF AT THIS POINT, YOU WILL LOSE TIME!!!
- Once you receive Samantha's "You stopped the mindcrash" email, THEN you can go back to the browser. Report 3 instances of harassment, and flag Zane's page.
- Search for "dylan", and let the search complete. Don't go to any of the pages it pulls up, just close the browser once the search is complete.
- Wait for everything to explode. Be sure to spin the mouse while Outlaw is installing to speed up the Mindcrash.
- As soon as the screen turns black, Alt-F4 out of the game and restart the game.

## HAP: Skipped

- After loading your save file, wait through the cutscene. You should hear a window opening, but do not interact with it.
- Once the cutscene is finished, press the Backspace button. If the pretyping in Day 3 was good, you should immidiatley search for "dylan" in the HAP chapter, which you can use to download Outlaw.
- Download, install, and run Outlaw.
- If the reporting and flags worked, you should only have to ascend 4 cars in Outlaw instead of 6.
- Ascend all the cars and apprehend Dylan. Time ends when Dylan's health reaches 0.

K3W3L

KitLemonfoot

SleepeyBunney

Hypnospace Outlaw

massiveartifact

silentblackcat

v2.05 or Earlier

Later

v1.04

If playing on console, this should always be "Later", else it depends on if you've downgraded or not, or are intentionally using an older version.

Version

If playing on console, this should always be "Later", else it depends on if you've downgraded or not.

**General**

- General rules, which contain information on when to start/stop the timer, were reworded slightly.
- Some rules that were applicable to all categories were moved to the general rules instead.

**Any% (No HAP Skip)**

- Rewrote the rules.
  - Removed some rules that were moved to the gl

Nome	Autore
Any% Route (HAP Skip & No HAP Skip)	SleepeyBunney 4 years ago
Downgrading Steam version	K3W3L 3 years ago
The New Any% HAP Skip Route by Kit Lemonfoot	KitLemonfoot 2 years ago