So I am a runner of this game and have recently been trying to figure out how this glitch works so that it can reliably be done in the Any% route of this run. So some background, there is a well known glitch in this game which happens on the World Map when you pick up an item from it, a tile of the world map becomes a void area. This void area you are not able to walk through but are able to sail your ship through, and fly through with the protowing (this games airship).
So the reason this glitch can be useful is at the point in the game you acquire the protowing, two dungeons open up. One of these dungeons is to get an item needed to upgrade your airship so that you can then go to the second one. The only thing stopping you from going to the second dungeon is a ring of tall mountains which block your airship from entering it. Now when this glitch is figured out, you can actually pick up a world map item close to this area and cause a section of the mountains to become a void area which allows you to do this dungeon early. By doing this dungeon early it actually skips a trigger which is active after completing the first which allows you to go straight to the end of it, saving approx. 30 minutes. Also there is another area which if you can get to early will skip the first dungeon talked about earlier which will save an extra 20 minutes.
You can see why this glitch would be huge for this run. I have been trying to find the memory addresses which involve the world map tiles but have not had much success. I have determined though that this glitch is not effected by your inventory after messing around with the memory addresses there. So if anyone has some insight on how to find this data or someone that could help me with this please tell me. This is important enough to warrant me making a bounty for someone who can find and reliably replicate it for me so that it can be routed in. Thanks
I also have Pcsx2 savestates at the points of interest I am discussing here. The first is once you first get the protowing and the next is after doing Pandemonium early and still having the unupgraded protowing. If someone would like to also help look for this glitch.
Thank you and for anyone else who would like to help there is more information at the Wild Arms discord.