Gate Skip Discovered - New Any% Route
8 years ago
Buffalo, NY, USA

I'm planning on making a video of this soon, but I just discovered a way to skip the gate in Ghost Island, allowing you to enter the 6th world without completing all of the levels in the 4th and 5th worlds. It involves using disc manip to get inside of and then on top of the small railing that runs around the edge of the path leading up to the gate. Once on top, you can bounce through a certain part of the mountain to the right and then zigzag your way back to solid ground behind the gate.

Differences to the route:

  1. Only the key needs to be collected in Barrel Blast - obtaining the level skip from this level is no longer necessary.
  2. Spin Dizzy remains the same - collect the letters and free the friend, and then activate the level skip. This level skip will be used to skip Ghostly Garden.
  3. Clowning Around no longer needs to be done twice.
  4. Using the level skip to complete Clown Prix and Krome Keeper is no longer necessary.

This new skip will save a couple minutes I believe, but it is very difficult and also extremely risky. If you die attempting gate skip, you have the level skip glitch active, so you totally screw with the game and basically have to reset or, to be safe, save after Barrel Blast and re-do Spin Dizzy, which still might be faster than the old route. I'm going to do some attempts of this later tonight, and I have a feeling that with a really good run, sub-45 is now possible. We'll see what happens.

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wow nice find, cant wait to see vid

ahbeef likes this
Buffalo, NY, USA

Additional new route notes:

  1. Since we do not actually need to complete Down the Tubes anymore, we can simply exit the level after freeing the friend, foregoing the need to swim to the finish token.
  2. Getting the letters in Barrel Blast I believe is faster than getting the letters in Spin Dizzy - I will time that shortly - so we can activate the level skip from Barrel Blast, keep it into Spin Dizzy, and then exit the level once we free the friend to keep the level skip active and save more time. This also means that we'd have to do Spin Dizzy without dying, which we all know is extremely annoying and difficult.
Massachusetts, USA

joe, are you available to talk sometime tomorrow, as i want to hear all about this, and figure out the new route. Anyone else who wants to talk (beef, ruse, rohisakk, anyone else) is welcome to join in

Buffalo, NY, USA

I'm gonna do some more runs tomorrow, and we can definitely talk about it then. I think I have the route figured out but I might be overlooking something.

Massachusetts, USA

new route proposal - keep everything same through wall skip. then, keeping the level skip into wall skip, skip perilous pipes, do clowning around gathering letters, skip under pressure, do Down the tubes normally (no letters), then do barrel blast, and get letters in spin dizzy, getting level skip. Then, do this gate skip and skip ghostly garden, and continue from there. this cuts out getting letters in barrel blast, and doing clowning around a second time, saving about 2-3 minutes I estimate

Buffalo, NY, USA

I basically do that, but I get the letters in Barrel Blast and carry the level skip through Spin Dizzy. I think getting the letters is faster in Barrel Blast, plus you can just exit Spin Dizzy once you free the friend without having to complete the level, which also saves time.

Massachusetts, USA

lets just talk tomorrow

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