While playing casually, I decided to see what the game looks like with special effects turned off and learned that the game locks the camera during the Tomahna elevator, but you can only pause when special effects are enabled.

So I wondered what would happen if I disabled special effects while the elevator is moving.

Turns out it skips the animation entirely.

I’ve watched RealPoltergoose’s Any% run and noticed that the Xbox version has the same amount of load time as the PC version. I understand it’s NTSC exclusive, I’m just surprised there aren’t more Xbox runners.

How do people remember the symbols beside the cannon without slowing down?