Hey everyone,
so like every great discovery, this was made offline without local recording and thus I have no proof or evidence to demonstrate or reverse engineer. Lame.
So, I was playing Ice Palace at the location where you have to lift the skull and place a block on top of it to open the lower door. I had not yet placed the block on the lower floor, dashed into the skull, and the bottom door opened. I cannot remember the things that proceeded it and I posit it to the community to have a go and see if they can find it.
This would save probably 5-10 seconds.
I looked into it just now, and the exact condition for opening the door is:
- Link is 2 tiles to the right from the pot (where you'd push the block to the left), facing any direction
- The block is 1 tile to the right from the pot (but at any Y coordinate, so pushing up or down first still works)
- The pot is lifted -> Pressing A will move the block left by 1 tile and open the door
The block's X position is already set properly before you push it from above, so you can skip that part completely and just do:
- Lift the pot
- Move 2 tiles to the right from where the pot was
- Press A (throw the pot)
This is quite similar to the big key in eastern (opening its chest before it spawns), great coding there ...
Fantastic work Acmlm, I'll test this out for myself later.
Edit: Just did it, it worked. It was so easy I don't know how I didn't reproduce it before.