Modern Keyless optimal routes

After testing/timing I have up with these routes for each level. If you think another route is faster I can time it, but this is best route I can come up with. 
(also note I am yet to look for death warp strats, which may make certain routes faster)

Mansion:
- Chandeliers
- Security Gauntlet
- Suits Of Armor
- Fall-Away Bridges

Kooky Carnival:
- Clown Gauntlet
- Shooting Gallery
- Crazy Maze
- Kooky Cook

Robot Factory:
- Sliding Crates
- Piston Platforms
- Crushing Pistons
- Crane Arms

Oil Rig:
- Spout Platforms
- Oil Slick Slide
- Pumping Pistons
- Flame Jets

Haunted House:
- Poltergeist Library
- Crypt Trip
- Blade Gauntlet
- Mad Scientist's Lab

Volcano Lair:
- Fan Gauntlet
- Laser Turrets
- Rolling Boulders
- Lava Tube

Area 51:
- (1) Teleportation Beam
- (1) Alien Guard
- (2) Alien Tentacles
- Hovering UFO Platforms

Space Station:
- Gyroscopic Rings
- Asteroid Platforms
- Jump Rope Tube
- Space Slide

Skipless (TBD)

Rules for Skipless/Intended (TBD):

- Must trigger all Story cutscenes (no Kooky Cook skip, turn on Cranes, no Oil Rig skip, etc).
- Skips within challenges are allowed (Bridge jumps, Oil Slide skip, Crypt skip, etc)
- Kill the enemy Spy in Space Station.
- No money duplication glitch.
- No unloading objects/terrain.
- Must stay inbounds.
- No dying that sends you to your base (must return to the room the death occurred).

Time Saving Techniques and Tricks

1. When walking off an object, you are still able to jump in mid-air upto 3/4 of a second after you have walked off the object. This trick is used in the bridge skips on Mansion for example. Get used to how much time you have to walk off the edge, as skips such as Kooky Cook skip and crane skip in Robot Factory require as much distance as possible.

2. When falling from a decent height where fall damage would be taken, to avoid getting the fall damage animation, which stalls forward movement, hold strafe to cancel this animation. You are able to continue walking forward, however you will still take the fall damage. Holding strafe whilst falling off edges in places where you won't take damage (e.g. the Space Station tunnel) allows you to continue running in the air and moving forward.

3. In story mode, jump into cut-scene trigger points. After skipping the cut-scene, your character will have moved forward in the cut-scene. This is a way to allow movement in cut-scenes, and can help make certain cycles, and potentially save up to a second. However, one place to avoid this is jumping into the cut-scene in Kooky Carnival after entering the mouth of the clown. A soft lock can be caused by doing this.

4. Despite being not so great in Modern mode, the slingshot is essential for killing enemies and bosses fast in story mode. Aside from Area 51 and Haunted House, where you need to kill white spy, the slingshot kills him in 4 shots, and general enemies die ridiculously fast from slingshot spam. You can spam the trigger to fire the slingshot as fast as you want, so get used to pressing either R2 or right trigger fast (much harder on Xbox).

5. Bomb storage for fast death warp: make sure to have a bomb and some trap device (bucket, boxing glove etc) in your inventory. Press and hold the trigger/R2 to start counting the timer down on the bomb. Whilst holding the fire button, press triangle/Y to switch to your trap device. Switch back to the bomb and it will continue counting down by itself. When the timer gets close to one, switch back and complete the actions desired for story mode or whatever. Once completed, switch to your bomb, which will explode (if timed well) very soon after, killing you instantly. The same can be done with dynamite, which takes off full health, or 2 proximity mines, which take off half each.

Tutorial for Story any%

Story any% strats (outdated but still viable): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltB_ujrxU80

Story any% strats (less outdated):

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/682142419https://www.twitch.tv/videos/682142419


Version Differences (Xbox and PS2)

Load times (console): Xbox has FAR superior load times as expected, PS2 loads can take about 15 seconds to load a level where as Xbox is nearly instantly.
Load times (Region): NTSC is again the superior in this case as NTSC has a higher frame count than PAL (60fps > 50fps). However, if you are playing the game on Xbox there is an option to switch to PAL60 which is basically the same as NTSC. PS2 has no such option.
Modern Mode (console): For some reason the PS2 version lacks some aspects of the Xbox version, this is actually good thing however as the PS2 version is missing a few obstacles in levels that can make it harder for the player to get through the challenge. For example in Haunted House in Lab on Xbox there is 2 lazer spraying cannons that can easily kill the player and ruin the run however on PS2 these turrets do not shoot lazers meaning there is less hassle in the Lab challenge. Another example is in Volcano Lair there is the turrets challenge, in Xbox there is 4 turrets and in PS2 there is only 2 turrets.
Story (console): In Volcano Lair after defeating The General, the player will trigger a cutscene and then spawn in. On PS2 the player spawns in at the same spot each time however on Xbox the player spawns in where they defeated The General. This can be good as it means there is less time wasted trying to get to the moving platforms however if done incorrectly this can cause the game to softlock. It's also worth mentioning that the Pizza Skip in Kooky Carnival is harder to pull of on PS2 than on Xbox as the gap for jumping seems to be smaller.
If any other discoveries are found I will add them to this list.

Nome	Autore
Modern Keyless optimal routes	Craigelbagel001 6 years ago
Skipless (TBD)	Craigelbagel001 6 years ago
Time Saving Techniques and Tricks	Craigelbagel001 6 years ago
Tutorial for Story any%	Craigelbagel001 6 years ago
Version Differences (Xbox and PS2)	Eliminato 6 years ago