Hi btrim, it was a shame I didn't hear back from you about testing the AKIMW hack. Anyways, thinking of picking COI up after many years away. Got the hang of preserving slope speed, having some issues with Leaf strat. When I boost on to the caterpillar leaf, the next one never seems to be in sync, not sure why since it doesn't seem that I'm activating the loading zone early. Here's an example:

You're going too fast, you have to wait a while.

if you used the jump without moving the directional it would make a more distant jump and it would work.

See my video for you to get an idea.

OH so you can use the same speed preservation that you get on slopes, at any damage boost spot? That hadn't occurred to me at all! Btrim you should mention that in your tutorial, it isn't at all obvious and the physics seem quite counterintuitive.

Just a quick note for any other beginning runners, when you're using the barrel glitch to defeat the Chocolate Bar boss, be careful to only hit him FOUR times - I just had a run end when I blundered and hit him a fifth time which caused his health to circle around to some huge level and ruin things. Oops!