Air walking (tentative name)
6 years ago

Hello friends,

I was wondering if there was some setup or guide for the "air walking" glitch observed in 4-1.

Cheers, Jesse.

Russia

Sadly, I have no particular strategy for this glitch (that's why in my last run I got it in like 6 tries compared to 2 in previous one). My guess would be that it has to do with some kind of perfect pixel or something, but in TAS they got it on the 2nd try, so I can't really be sure.

Funny thing is that it's possible to do this glitch on any of those flying "pot" things. And probably even non-flying, but this last one I can't confirm for sure.

Oh that's a shame. Are you really sure you can do it on any of them? I had suspected it might have something to do with the floating platforms as you become incapable of grabbing them while in the glitch.

I also wonder what's up with that TAS (the one that you commented on YouTube) as it says obsoleted but I can't find the new one.

Okay, I made a brief video on it, (not that I have any specialized knowledge) and put it in the guides section.

Russia

Edit: it seems that I was wrong, and the TAS run is at tasvideos, my bad

Edited by the author 6 years ago

If you have any recordings of those moments that would be great but it sounds like they're relics of a time long past. The TAS creator said the new video is coming soon.

I encountered the glitch off of a regular non-enemy pot:

Canada

The setup I found easy to do involves killing the enemy first as soon as you see him, then go back left enough to respawn him. Then you need to do a full jump and hold right on the correct spot and you'll be able to air walk. The pictures show where you should be.

https://i.imgur.com/KsXfTWP.png

Edited by the author 5 years ago
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Thanks Rayquaza911, if you can work out a setup for the other instance I detailed in the thread then we can probably save another second on the run. Furthermore, both X.White and I have observed the airwalk glitch off of enemies on other levels. We still don't know how it works. If we did, then we could do it at even more locations.

Canada

I've tried to work that one, but not sure how it works, been only able to do it once.

Your post struck some science into me Rayquaza911, so I hopped back into the lab and did some more testing.

I still can't quite get a setup for the one with the blue pot BUT using your setup I was able to observe that the requirement ISN'T jumping on the enemy.

I've done this about 5 times now, but if you do your setup but jump at the "wrong time" you can get hit by the pot and get into a ledge climbing state. Climbing from that state puts you in airwalk mode.

This suggests that my earlier hypothesis about floating platforms may have some credence. The other things that point to their dependency is that you can no longer interact with them when in the state and despawning the platform and moving back onto the screen that has it makes you lose the glitch.

I have a feeling that we need to have a platform spawn at the same time as another sprite to get the glitch.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that I'll combine all those attempts into a video and upload it, but not now, as it's bed time for me.

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I present to you: screenwrap glitch

No idea how I did it.

Russia

How do you come up with this stuff?

Can't say that I know how you did it, but it feels like Aladdin hit the edge of the first platform, zipped through it to negative X coordinate to get out from the other side of the screen. Not sure if this is useful, but looks really nice.

Russia

And another instance of the same glitch. Sadly on the same level. Gladly - on the first try!

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Wow, that's three locations on that level now. We just need to find it on other levels! That, and how to despawn various objects like we have observed on occasion randomly.

Here's a setup for the new variant by angel_undead. I think this is the fastest variant yet.

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Russia

Unstable variant. Try to load at the beginning of the level

I had done it multiple times on stream from the start of the level. The tutorial is just condensed. Are you making sure to fall off the platform onto the first pot? That is a requirement.

Russia

Of course. I guess, for this glitch needs set-up all of the stage. If you are interested, i got glitch more earlier. Check it out:

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