decision on glitch I found
6 years ago
United States

So I found a glitch a bit back and I personally chose not to use nor to reveal it. I did tell Alex Carpenter (the creator) and he has yet to do anything about it. Since all situations are meant to be decided by the community on speedrun.com, I will leave it up to all of us as to whether or not we can use the glitch in runs or not. The glitch is as follows:

Result of glitch: Can start jetpack coin sequence with >0 coins. Cause of glitch: Play the game up to and past the fifth key (only have ever done by going through the door at the finish line, haven't tried quick flying after getting the key) and then go to the menu and start a new game without closing the game.

When you get to the jetpack section before the fifth key, you will have as many coins as you did when you ended your last run. (i.e. collect 75 coins before starting a new game, you will have 75 coins when you start a new game).

This also allows you to collect more than 100 coins but that is pretty irrelevant for runs. I personally don't want to include it because of the set up time. You have to play the game up to that part before starting an actual speedrun of the game but it does make the jepack section faster since you don't have to worry about picking up coins.

Please discuss your thoughts below and we will come to a decision. I expect we can figure this out in a week but I won't necessarily put a timer on this.

Radnorshire, Wales

I also would be against including it because of the setup time. Could definitely be a new misc category though. 200 coins% ha

Thanks for verifying my runs by the way :)

Feel free to check my video for any strats you want to pinch by the way. I look forward to us all driving this time down.

Radnorshire, Wales

Also, as I pointed out to Spookytube_Charts over on YouTube, I find the game possibly has a memory leak. The frame rate drops the longer you play it. Before starting a run I'd suggest closing and relaunching the game. I might dust off my Twitter account to let Alex Carpenter know, would hopefully be able to supply them with some useful info on it :)

Edited by the author 6 years ago
United States

I think this is not a glitch that should be included. It is absolutely not in the spirit of the game to carry over information from the previous session. If it was something you could trigger within a fresh run, I think an actual debate would be appropriate, but I highly doubt anybody is going to put their foot down and demand this glitch be included.

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