Finding a setup without the left - right press is going to be hard though, but things like this always throw me back to 2016 when people were shocked that a human performed a Flagpole glitch in 1-1, and now its just part of the standart strat for smb any% runs.

Here is what i kinda thought of, skip to 5.58

Asgore89, i was actually talking about clipping into the stairs, like the same trick that managed to save time in 1-2, to be used in 4-2. I just lack the in depth knowledge of the game to know if this is even possible in the first place.

btw. Speedsavirrunner, sure that thats going to happen, but if you did the same thing runners like Kosmic or Niftski do in 1-2 with goint far enough to the right to make the number appear, you could i think possibly save a bit of time since the same srategy is faster in 1-2.

So i was thinking about the following: What if it was possible to clip into the blocks that lead up to the 3 warp pipes in the secret exit room in 4-2? I dont have the most knowledge of this game to know if this is possible but maybe someone could respond with their thoughts.

Regards :D