100% Route

Requirements:

- All Witches & Wizards Cards
- 500 beans for Flipendo Duo room
- All loading screens (all story parts and all but two secrets; it's an odd requirement, but the game states it)

Burrow:

- Puffskein card - Go to the 3 bushes nearest to the Puffskein, and then to the 3 up the hill from there - while it's eating its 5th bush, grab the other 4 beans.
- Gnome-throwing - Where you want to throw:
1st throw - Beehive
2nd & 3rd throw - Pond or Car
4th throw - A mid-range throw should do.
5th throw - Back-up throw; if you have over 800, just waste it like in Any%

Walking through the Burrow:

- At the start, get a lawnmower bean and an open one right by it
- Get a lawnmower on the hedge after washing machine, and in the area with a boulder and two lawnmowers, get 10 of the beans that drop (should have 17 when you leave that area)
- Get more lawnmowers. After knocking down the tree, go left for a card and 4 beans
- Stand right by the Puffskein when hitting it. Should have 25 beans at the end of this

The Floo Slide - Should have at least 85 beans at the end of this

Flying Car:

- For the first half, when in the second tunnel, nearing track lights above a speedboost, move to the right to avoid going down the slower path.
- For the second half, at the end of the first outside section, move right to avoid going down the slower path.
- Going into the third tunnel, it doesn't matter whether you go left or right in the first split path of that tunnel, as long as you move towards the right going to the next split path, as this is where a card is.
To get the card, stay on the right on the first corner (after getting a speedboost).

- To first-cycle Willow, use a Fully-Charged Flipendo 5 times in quick succession

Going to Gryffindor Common Room:

- To Colin skip, go onto the bookcase, hold L2 until the camera gets stuck, then hold up-right then up on the stair banister (move around a little to avoid going too far left) and onto the ledge banister, and drop in front of the hole. This gets 3 beans that are worth it.
- When going to the Rear Hall from the Entrance Hall, secret room is a bookcase under a painting right ahead of you. Get all the bean boxes here. Should have at least 147 beans at the end.

Library:

- After talking to Nick, go around the right-hand bookcase and get the box of beans.
- Secret room is a bookcase behind the bookcase on your left when talking to Nick. This itself has another secret bookcase - after the first couple of boxes, the secret is behind the large bookcases.
- You don't need to go to the secret bookcase near Hermione.
- Should have at least 187 beans when leaving the Library.

To Herbology:

- Secret room w/ card is a strange wall dead ahead - you'll know when you see it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jYFLcArQQg
Setup for this:
- -mash square as soon as you enter to skip the cutscene otherwise it will mess up the camera
- -hold up until you hit the stairs then release all inputs
- -3 pause buffer to the right then release all inputs then unpause and quickly pause again
- -1 pause buffer to the left then release all input then unpause and cast (don't take too long on the cast otherwise the camera will move
- If you fail any part, reenter and to center the camera hold both triggers

- Herbology race - Beat record. 202 beans.
- Incendio Duo - Think of Perfect as 2, Okay as 1, Fail as 0. You can only lose 7 points from the maximum (equal to 7 Okays, or 3 Fails and 1 Okay) across all three rounds. For clarity, 91% for two rounds and 87% for another would make it.
- Lesson Practice - Collect only 3 Mandrakes like for Any%

To Quidditch Practice:

- Instead of going back to the hole in the wall, go straight on, through the passage at the hedges through to Hagrid's Hut.
- Secret room is further on after the snails. Go to the right-hand wall. Football Challenge room is a secret wall at the end of the area. Exit after entering that challenge. At least 220 beans when leaving the secrets.
- Go to door next to the secret walls to go to the Quidditch Pitch. Secret room is a wall to the right, you cannot go here when going to play Slytherin in Quidditch, because it's frozen shut. Kill two 'eggplants' and get one box. At least 232 beans by now.
- You don't need to go to Neville's secret.
Quidditch Training - you don't need gold wings so just press "yes" when the game asks you if you want to exit

Ron Chase - Get a lot of beans from this. Should have at least 270

- Before going to Upper Castle, quickly go to the secret bookcase and do this skip to skip needing Verdimillious: (NOTE: this is outdated and you want to do this room on the way to lockhart's office after chamber)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPI_GUgqE6k
- After getting the card, drop down to the narrow ledge with the beans. This is good damage since you'll be death-warping later. Should have at least 290 beans

Dark Arts race - Beat record, and in the third room, get 4 of the 5 beans in the corner.
Petrificus Totalus - Same rules apply from Incendio Duo.
Death Warp can still be done here; there are no loading screens in the pixie rooms. Should have at least 295 beans

Deathday:

- Don't bother with beans down the staircases in Lower Hogwarts; they're slow to get.
- You can do Deathday Skip here. After the first jump, get the group of 9 beans. At least 303 beans

Boomslang Gnome-throwing
1st throw - Bird table
2nd throw - Scarecrow
3rd 4th and 5th throws - Barrel
If Barrel 3rd throw, do a long normal throw for the 4th, then waste the 5th. If on the 4th, do a long normal throw for the 5th.

To Duel:

- After talking to Ron outside Girl's Bathroom, secret room is right next to you.  At least 314 beans
- After the corridor with that guy that blocks you, go to the door ahead (Knights' Room) Go around the pillar for 6 beans. In the next room, get the 4 beans along the knight statues, and then go to the secret bookcase. At least 354 beans when exiting.
- Leaving the secret, go right, continuing through Knights' Room and then go across the balcony to where Dumbledore's office is, and enter the bookcase.  No cards here, exit after entering.
- Leaving that secret, drop down and go back to the staircase before Knights' Room. Go onto the right-hand banister and drop down to secret bookcase. Get the bean box, a couple of extra beans, and the card here. At least 373 beans when exiting.

Goyle Chase - Get a lot of beans from this, including taking the two split paths for 8 beans (4 each)  At least 420 beans after this

Verdimillious - Same rules apply as previous spell-learning. This gets you a card.

- Get the 6 beans near the knights in the Challenge.

Cupid Chase - Get all the beans you can from this. At least 465 beans after this

Aragog:

- After the area with first Verdimillious bridge, go left, Verdimillious a secret wall and enter it for a card.
- Get the 8 beans after Aragog. At least 476 beans after this

Flipendo Duo:

- Go to Lockhart's Office. Secret bookcase near his door (Verdimillious is required for this, which is why we do it now). 
- Get your remaining beans in this secret (there are 25. If you are low, go to Front Hall, door on the far left is the Great Hall. A handful of beans there). **500 beans, 15 cards**
- Exiting the secret, go back-left to go to Front Hall, then the door on the right-hand side, next to Lower Hogwarts opening saying 'Out of Bounds', is Flipendo Duo room. You do not need to collect Flipendo Duo but you do need to enter the room, skipping flipendo duo was theorized to be a little bit faster but barely saves any time so feel free to collect it

House Duels:

- Go to Common Room, trigger Ron, grab the Gryffindor card, buy 5 cards from Fred & George (21 cards)
- Open statue pathway, do House Duels left, middle, right
- Go down other passageway, Flipendo block of platforms, go to Artbook room, exit after entering.
- When back in the Common Room, go to Colin's photo album (for loading screen) and then walk between the chairs to skip Colin.

Now just do everything as you would in Any% - Go to Lockhart's office, go through Chamber, timing ends on last hit of Basilisk.

Any% video guide playlist + extra stuff

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNOUOE9YHiMTAOdqiScE6um7PMClMgXDz

UPDATE: A minor trick in ThinksTheClown's run that I missed - in Upper Castle, if you skip the Basilisk's snarl of "let me kill you" fast enough, you can gain control instantly rather than waiting for Harry to stop looking around, which is a bit faster than the jump on the banister. It may also be possible to run around the automatic walk and skip Hermione and Ron.

Optimal duels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEfSaCxvZxQ
NOTE: It may be faster in the Ron duel to let him defeat you, since he's a beast. This can be seen in ThinksTheClown's run.

Slendbed's RTA-friendly guide to Swag SnapeXFilch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VMOISyYLW0

Chamber Trolls fast risky back-up if you fail the trigger skip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94q9rqGy12E

Basilisk 2nd phase 5-cycle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXgPxwnAFms

Comprehensive Tutorial for Any% (Updated June 2020)

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/655156454

https://i.imgur.com/Tqutw4P.png

The above image shows the setup for the 2nd part of deathday skip. The top circle shows how much brick you want to see. The bottom circle shows how the edge of the left side of harry's head lines up with the line dividing the two bricks in the background.


Notes regarding deathday skip: 

-The tutorial shows that you can do some camera movement while going in corner near the start but it tends to make the rest of the trick fail so avoid any camera movement and simply hold up in the corner

-If you can't get the 2nd part of deathday skip to grab the last ledge there is a full buffered version of the trick which is way easier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWmpYRv3r8o

Q: How come I've never seen this part before?
A: Most likely because you've played a different version. For Harry Potter 1 & 2 (and 3, but there are no GBC or PS1 versions of that game), there are 5 completely different versions made by 4 different developers. These are the PC version, the PS1 version, the 6th-gen-console version (PS2/Xbox/GC), the GBA version, and the GBC version. (On an added note, even the 6th-gen-console versions have some gameplay differences between them, at least for Chamber of Secrets).
 
Q: Whoa, you just went from the Burrow to Hogwarts? What sort of cheater are you?
A: Ah yes, the Wrong Warp. By picking up the Remembrall facing towards the gate Harry came in, Ron doesn't come through and so we're able to move Harry and go back through the gate. Theory: As Ron is supposed to be triggered, the game has a procedure waiting to start the cutscene, so by then going back into that Remembrall area (which triggers the Ginny cutscene talking about the Remembrall), the memory address is different or maybe stacked, so the game goes to a cutscene where Harry walks into the Gryffindor Common Room. This might not be the case, but it's a suggestion.
 
Q: Why do you always talk about softlocks?
A: Both PS1 games are littered with softlockable points; a softlock could be just around the badly-textured corner. One of my more infamous softlocks within the community is when, during the book-reading after the duel with the snake, the Sorting Hat kept repeating "You would have done well in Slytherin". In terms of the most horrible places to softlock, of course, the final boss would be the worst, but if you have autosave on the whole time, the worst place to softlock is before Aragog, because the last loading screen, and therefore the last place you saved, was just after you sneaked around the teachers, meaning you'd have to go through all the spider killing and hiding from trolls all over again. 
Softlocks mainly happen on console; emulator is fine.
 
Q: Why are you missing those Mandrakes?
A: It takes a little while to be able to pick up a Mandrake after killing all the slugs, so we save a little time by skipping ahead to the next one, until the third one, which we collect, and then we go back for the first two. This is also faster than going the whole way around.
 
Q: lol, you died, you noob
A: Dying in the Dark Arts lesson saves a bunch of time. For some reason, you get dumped into the "Well done!" scene after you press Continue.
 
Q: Why did you keep that spider alive at Aragog?
A: If one spider stays alive, Aragog will not spawn any more of them, and none will come in through the trees.
 
Q: Why didn't you jump that ledge?
A: Sometimes Harry just decides to drop off a ledge no matter how far you hold the analog stick.

Notes on Goyle glitch and Wrong Warp

Goyle glitch: During the Goyle transformation scene, hold up-left. When the screen transition to the next scene occurs, you should find your camera pointing at a cubicle door from inside the cubicle. You've successfully escaped the trigger for the scene, and you now control Harry. But... well, read the notes below.

-Leaving the bathroom causes a loading screen. This means that if you die or (after having autosave on) quit and load, you'll just spawn back to leaving the bathroom. Unfortunately there is no way to die in the bathroom, so we don't know if dying in there would do anything, and quitting and loading in the bathroom just restarts the cutscene
 
-Lockhart's Office remains locked

-You can still retry lessons and races as normal
 
-As the Gryffindor Common Room is already unopenable because you should have skipped the password-learning due to the Wrong Warp, there is nothing we can do here. The Library is also still locked
 
-Collecting something (I tested this out with a card in a secret room) continues as normal
 
-I've skipped a trigger before (where the Basilisk snarls "Let me kill you" before you go to Defence Against the Dark Arts), and I had a little mess around with it. I exited the room into the area with the Common Room door, then entered the room, and triggered the little scene, and there was no sound and Harry just stayed there. I tried seeing if this might do something weird with cutscenes, so I went back to the bathroom and triggered the cutscene you glitch out of, but it was normal. Nothing to gain from triggering any other cutscene
 
Conclusion: Unless you can run out of health as soon as the snake in the duel dies so that as soon as you spawn, you die in the bathroom, which is probably impossible, there is nothing useful that can be produced from the glitch, as everything seems to be working as if you're just roaming around the place as normal. My theory about this is that you are always Harry in that cutscene, but after the transformation scene is finished, you, as Harry, are spawned directly in the trigger zone for the next cutscene, but as you hold up-left, you run away from the trigger
 
 
 
Messing around with Wrong Warp:
-Collecting a card did nothing
 
-WingLev shows the 'Triangle - Drop' 'X - Levitate', but the time limit bar is cut off, due to the 'cinematic' camera you get stuck with
 
-I went back to the last loading screen, and the HUD returned to normal, then I went back. Everything was as it should be if I re-entered . Enemies had respawned and wouldn't give beans as I had already defeated them, and washing machines/WingLev-able objects had been spawned in their normal place, but the pads were already pressed down. The log was also already knocked over, and the card I collected wasn't there (not sure what the crates did, though). I opened the gate to Ginny, and the screen went cinematic for a moment, and I ended up in the Common Room as if I had done the WW normally
 
-Dying caused the small death scene. I pressed 'Continue' and returned to the previous loading screen as if nothing happened, and I had to do that section all over again

Superspeed% Setup Tutorial

tas stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oUHbz0ryL8
Turn on CCs for info

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O2UWUscW9Y somewhere in that vid is the 30s dark hall OoB fall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loXTu8WTHEA Could get a new Dark Hall skip out of stuff in this, plus it shows all the steps albeit broken apart

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