All Cards: Locations memo (Lilac route).

The first thing I did for routing All Cards was taking note of how many cards on each screen you have in every level, that might be useful for practice before doing runs so that might help to not forget any on the way. Forgetting a card is something pretty much happening just at the beginning of this category, a runner after several runs normally collects succesfully all of them.

For actual locations you should check any run of the category, it's pointless showing screenshots if you can actually check in runs showing where the cards are and also different ways to get them. This guide works more like a thing you can check before running to remember the objectives in every screen.

Dragon Valley
1st screen 4 cards
2nd screen 2 cards
3rd screen (DV2, after the boss) 4 cards

Relic Maze
1st screen 3 cards
yellow room 1 card
purple room 2 cards
3rd screen (autoscroller and RM2 intro) 1 card
4th screen 2 cards
Boss fight arena 1 card.

Fortune Night
1st screen 2 cards
2nd screen 3 cards
3rd screen 1 card
4th screen (mall) 2 cards
5th screen 2 cards

Sky Battalion
Fire Ship 3 cards
Metal Ship 4 cards
Earth Ship 3 cards

Jade Creek
1st screen 3 cards
2nd screen 3 cards
3rd screen 1 card
4th screen (submarine) 3 cards

Thermal Base
1st screen 1 card
2nd screen 1 card
3rd screen 2 cards
4th screen (TB2) 2 cards
5th screen 4 cards

Pangu Lagoon
1st screen 2 cards
2nd screen 3 cards
4th screen (after entering the door) 2 cards
5th screen 3 cards

Battle Glacier
no need to specify, literally 2 cards every screen.

Carol bikes/gas cans guide.

Introduction:

When Carol takes a gas can, she immediately mounts her bike, which provides her much better movement possibilities.

I have a bike!! I'm immortal!!: No, is actually pretty easy to lose the bike. There are 4 ways to lose permanently the bike:

1- Dying
2- Restarting
3- Receiving 3 hits in the same screen.
4- Pouncing off of the bike and leaving the screen.

There is also an additional use for gas cans. If you already have the bike, you can refresh your bike HP taking them. This means, if you received 2 hits during the screen and you take the gas can, your bike HP is 3 hits again before being destroyed.

About how works bike's HP, there is an important clarification: if you have the bike, you dismount (pouncing off) and you receive 2-X hits, and you take the bike again, you'll be one hit away to lose the bike until you finish the screen or take another gas can, be care about that. Hits having shields doesn't count for bike's health.

There are some gas cans in the speedrunning main route, others are completely out of the route and others are good backup. I'll explain all in every level.


Dragon Valley

There are 3 gas cans in Dragon Valley, but only one of them is in the main route.

http://imgur.com/a/llRpB

The first one is earlier than the second, but is definitely slower going for that bike, takes more time going for it than moving on foot until the second. The way for that bike is using the lower route at left. The second one is the main route bike, and supposedly the only bike you need in all Dragon Valley. The third one is completely out of the route and to be honest is really hard to lose the bike before that point in Dragon Valley, but is still being better going for it instead of missing the skip boss if for some reason you don't have bike at that point. The location is in Dragon Valley 2 second screen (the screen after beating the snake mid boss), is at the beginning, climbing the left wall and taking the jump pads, going right after that.

Relic Maze

Surprise. There is no bike in Relic Maze.

Fortune Night

http://imgur.com/a/EsLFn

There are a lot of gas cans through Fortune Night. The first one is the main route bike, the only one you need to complete the stage optimally. The second one is useful if for some reason you lost the bike during the intro, in that case is climbing the left wall after the laser part. The third bike is in second screen, completely out of the main route (is in the lower route) unless you directly don't have bike, don't bother going for it.
The fourth gas can is on the way, after beating the mid boss is immediately after the screen unlocks. The fifth bike is really close to the main route, if you don't really need it is better to ignore it, the same about the sixth and the seventh.

Sky Battalion

http://imgur.com/a/ew7y3

The only bike in all Sky Battalion, take care of it. Is in Metal Ship, before the airborne section at left. And of course, 10 seconds after taking the only bike in all the stage you have a cool DNA cannons section, getting caught by one of them is immediately losing the bike. Good luck with that.

Jade Creek

http://imgur.com/a/TbTrj

In Jade Creek you already start the stage having bike, you can ignore all the gas cans.
The first gas can is actually on the route. The second one is completely out of the route, but if for some reason you lost the bike, is in the upper route at left before entering into the water for second time in that screen. The third one is on the route, in second screen too but normally you don't need it anyways. 
From third screen you don't have more bikes in the level at least until the boss fight. I didn't post images about that, but during the chopper fight every time you beat a trooper he drops a gas can (and actually would be better if they don't lol).


Trap Hideout

http://imgur.com/a/9z9aM 

You have only one bike in the first part in Trap Hideout, is in second screen going for the upper route after the first rolling barrel. About the others, all of them are after the mid boss. 
Bike 2 is after the mid boss in the alternative route, is good backup if you lost the bike before that point (and actually the only route you can go if that happened). Bikes 3 and 4 are on the way and normally you don't need them.
Bike 5 is important as backup gas can if you received damage before. Trap Hideout 3rd screen is the same from the first climb until the end of the stage, which means every hit you receive since the very first moment you enter there counts for your bike's HP. That gas can is especially useful to refresh your bike's HP before the 99 ninjas fight. Bike 6 and 7 are in the fight arena, are backups as well. When you are fighting the ninjas, you can count every time you get hit and every 2 hits going for one of them, that way you can make sure about not losing the bike.

Thermal Base

http://imgur.com/a/R6hXf

You don't have bike in all the first part of Thermal Base. The first bike is after beating the mid boss, and is supposedly the only bike you need during the stage. The second bike counts as backup, you can ignore it if you don't need it. About the location, is in the first screen in Thermal Base 2nd part, after the keycard, easy to notice. The third one is in the Thermal Base 2 second screen, completely out of the route but good as last resource if you don't have bike. The way to take it is going for the upper route in the first part.

Battle Glacier

http://imgur.com/a/JnsCk

The first bike in BG is the new main route bike, but actually that is a recent change. Is not completely easy to take, probably is better going directly for the second bike when starting with the level. The location of the first bike is in the upper route, you need good speed to jump-slope and climb to reach it. The second bike is going for the lower route in the last part of the first screen. If you take the first bike, the route changes and the second is out of the way, but otherwise the lower route and this bike is better. About which bike route is faster, actually you can finish the screen at the same time with the second bike, but is harder, the first bike if you take it without problem is an easier and consistent route after that.

The third bike is out of the route, would be a backup if you lost the bike before that point. After the hangbars, take the left-lower route instead of the right and there it is.

The fourth bike is almost at the end of the level, take care about your bike because there are no backups until this point. In the second screen of the second part, before the spider miniboss in the left spot.

The fifth bike is in Dail's fight arena at the right. This fight is horrible without bike, if you don't have bike from the beginning go for this one, in case you already have a bike, use it as backup during the fight.

Final Dreadnought 1

http://imgur.com/a/LESz2

About the locations, the first bike is in an alternative route. Is slower going for that one, but not really much slower. Is going for upper route to right after the part where you can see 4 bouncepads vertically alligned. The main route bike is the second one. The third one is exactly after the lock before the boss, I count it as a backup, but is kind of weird backup because the boss fight actually is much better without bike. Normally I dismount the bike after the pylons before the boss fight, there is also a strat counting the bike hits and destroying the bike intentionally with them, but if you lose the bike with the bombs or you already don't have bike entering this section, is better taking the bike and dropping it before the fight, all that way from the bike until the pylons is faster having bike.

Final Dreadnought 2

No bikes here.

Final Dreadnought 3

http://imgur.com/a/3wwIA

In FD3 there are a lot of bikes, normally the only one you need is the first one which is located right in the beginning of the stage in the middle part. The second one is really close to the first taking the upper route, normally you don't need it but is on the way. The third one is after the first door, counts as backup if you don't have bike there. The fourth bike is right after the third, is better to take as backup if the thing you want is to refresh your bike's health. The fifth bike is located after the second teleporter in that section at the left (the second teleporter counting from the 4th bike) and is the last bike you have on the screen. The other bikes are located all in the hallway at the beginning of the second screen, normally you don't need them but there they are just in case.

Final Dreadnought 4

No bikes here.

Carol's Movement Tech

https://kb.speeddemosarchive.com/Freedom_Planet/Mechanics_and_Bugs/Carol#Techniques

Fade Out Skip Reasonably Comprehensive Explanation

Glitch is performed by activating a screen fade-out and then pausing, choosing "Restart" or "Quit" (yes, it works with the Quit button which means you can do it if you don't have lives for a Restart) and then pressing the pause button again in that order to unpause the game after a restart. Doing this has a number of weird effects.

As Milla, you can use the fadeout skip even on transitions where it wouldn't work normally, by holding a super shield burst while approaching the loading zone, waiting for the game's movement lock to recoil her out of it and performing the glitch before Milla enters it again. Avoid approaching the loading zone at a high speed, if you want to do the glitch, or else, the recoil won't push her out of the loading zone. This means, if you are approaching the loading zone at max speed, it's not worth going for the trick, even if it works.

Many of these need to be delayed until the screen is about half faded-out for them to work.

NOTE: Transition skips that need a delay to work might be dependent on the speed that you exited the room at to work, they're kind of inconsistent and fiddly.

NOTE 2: Doing any kind of fade out skip and then dying will result in the game thinking you restarted in the state you were at when you died. I.e you'll respawn with zero health and however much meter you had when you died. This isn't really useful anywhere and there's nowhere it can really catch you out in a run, but I just want that knowledge out there.

Dragon Valley:

Exiting first screen - Works, needs delay. Is a bit inconsistent anyway.
Entering 2-2 - Will skip fadeout animation, but has to be delayed a bit for some reason. Saves a bit of time.

Aqua Tunnel:
Exiting first screen - Works, but needs some delay.
Exiting second screen - Works with little to no delay.
Exiting third screen - Doesn't work normally.

Relic Maze: 
Purple/Yellow/Train Door/Transition to RM2.2/Big Round Door - Will skip fadeout animation and doesn't require any delay, saving about 0.7s each. Four places this is useful in, so net like 2.5s for F R E E. Neato.
Going Into Autoscroller room - Appears to work and save time at first, but on exiting the room will act as though you restarted and reset both rooms. Useless but amusing.
Exiting Bone Golem Room - Will skip animation but will lock the pause menu and prevent you from using it, which prevents you from doing the restart warp at that point, so it ultimately works out slower to do it here for Lilac/Carol. May be faster for Milla?

Fortune Night:
Wrong Warps - Works, but has to be delayed slightly in order for it to count as a wrong warp. Saves a decent chunk of time, but not as much as the regular transition skips due to the need to delay it.

Sky Battalion:

Leaving Any Ship - Works, but has to be delayed somewhat for it to count.

Jade Creek:

Exiting Screen 1-1: Works, but only really for Milla if you bounce out of the load zone in a fashion similar to the Fortune Night Wrong Warps
Exiting 1-2: Works, but only if you have good speed, which means if you botch the glide under the ceiling, don't attempt it because it'll just screw you over instead.
Entering second sub screen after Neera/Exiting sub - Works but needs heavy delay.

Trap Hideout:
Exiting first screen: Works, but needs some delay.
Exiting second screen: Doesn't work normally.

Thermal Base:

After Box Zip/Entering 2-2 (the door after you get the fire shield) - Works, requires delay.
Boss Room Entry - If the elevator has caught up to you, needs to be delayed to work. If it hasn't, requires no delay whatsoever. Actual time save varies as a result of this.

Pangu Lagoon:
Exiting Screen 1 - Works, needs delay.
Doors - Works on both doors, which saves about 1.5 seconds of real time but absolutely no game time and thus isn't actually very useful to runs. Race strats or some shit.

Battle Glacier:

Entering Boss Room - Works, needs delay.

Final Dreadnought 1:

None.

Final Dreadnought 2:

Entering second screen - Works, needs delay.

Final Dreadnought 3:

Entering hallway - Works, needs delay
Boss Room Entry - Works and saves time, but only for Milla. It does work for Lilac/Carol but for some inexplicable reason will restart in the middle of the cutscene and ultimately lose time.

Final Dreadnought 4:

Entering Screen 2 - Works and saves time but locks pause menu, but the locking effect goes away by the time you actually reach Brevon, so you can still perform the restarts that save real time but no game time.

Fade-Out Skip Guide

Pause after the end-of-screen fade starts, choose Restart, then quickly ¤unpause¤.

Credit to Yuuki for writing it down somewhere.

How to Train Your Lilac Video Tutorial Series - johannhowitzer

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ9hc8TU2tukSDe1kwrm2yrudAWJybQ47

Lilac's Movement Tech

https://kb.speeddemosarchive.com/Freedom_Planet/Lilac

Milla for beginners (PDF)

Information on movement, techniques and glitches.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/d61by9dzyk43f78/milla_tech.pdf

Naam	Auteur
All Cards: Locations memo (Lilac route).	revolucion 6 years ago
Carol bikes/gas cans guide.	revolucion 3 years ago
Carol's Movement Tech	jinzougen 9 years ago
Fade Out Skip Reasonably Comprehensive Explanation	Punchy 8 years ago
Fade-Out Skip Guide	Dazl 9 years ago
How to Train Your Lilac Video Tutorial Series - johannhowitzer	jinzougen 9 years ago
Lilac's Movement Tech	jinzougen 9 years ago
Milla for beginners (PDF)	Vibel 7 years ago
Pangu Lagoon Video Tutorial - Jinzougen	jinzougen 9 years ago
Updated Lilac Speedrunning Guide	Tipsy3000 7 years ago