Any% guide (with Wrongloads)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I77guMfDrk&feature=youtu.be

Step one watch the video. Its a short run with input display. 
Now let's talk about it. The setup of the game itself is kinda tricky, here we go
1. If you play on Win 10, make sure to download the win 10 patch from here (it's allowed to use)
2. you wanna play the game through DxWnd to be able to record it with OBS and for convenience. 
3. you are allowed to rebind keys (only rebinds, no macros) for example WASD to arrow keys so you can play the game with left hand
4. lifesplit should download the splitter automatically, use it it's neat. 
5. before starting a run, bubble walk once to get jimmys walk speed to bubble speed. to bubble walk just select the bubble invention and then exit it while in the air and walking forwards. 

Now to the actual run: 
hold space to skip all cutscenes, you can release after collecting the second red neutron outside but be sure to hold it after leaving the house because you cant to so later on outside school, and you don't wanna talk to bennie. 
For the AnthonyLoad outside school, the sequence is the following: 
1. save the game. 
2. start a new game glitched (press new game, but hold escape before you do, then press y and release ESC at about the same time. look at the video of the run for reference)
3. load your save from step 1
4. save the game
5. load the game from 4. 

after that just clip outside to enter the final cutscene. needs a bit of practice, you can use the backup if you don't get it first try. 

now to some advanced stuff: 
1-you can use your mouse to turn jimmy around, and doing so while you also turn with the keyboard makes him turn faster. mostly useful after collecting the first neutron outside and in house. 
2-you can skip step 4 and 5 of the anthonyload if you manage to get to the telephone booth blind (after step 3 you are already in the lab with the glitch performed, step 4 and 5 are just to get vision back) 
3-you can use the bubble to get to the telephone booth a bit faster after step 5 of the AnthonyLoad
4-you can use both 2 and 3 and go to the booth blind with the bubble after step 3 of the AnthonyLoad if you are a true madman
5-loading times might be affected by hard drive speed, use SSD or RamDisk for optimal results

Major skips

As of today, there are 3 major skips in the game that each save a minute or more and are pretty much needed to get a good time:

1.Maze skip 1: 
https://youtu.be/8JtEAPGswPs?t=12m11s 
Just walk beneath the drill and activate your rocket, this will take you out of bounds. The angle to fly through the darkness and end up on the right part is the importent part here, but easy to learn.
saves about 1 minute

2.Maze skip 2: 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxiuER_XcMc 
At the start, walk backwards into that hole and activate rocket. Now you can use a combination of pressing up (keep pressing it) and grinding along the wall to get out of bounds, then fly right to the end.  
saves about 2 minutes

2. Power Plant skip: 
saves a lot of time over the regular strat, and about 15 seconds over the other skip.
https://youtu.be/8JtEAPGswPs?t=10m56s 
Maybe the hardest one, this one saves you the long walk up the facility by using the flying glitch. This is how to do it: Right after you leave the small room in the begging, you turn left and face the wall, while standing at the very top of the ramp. You then equip the grappler and aim at the wall. There is a spot you can shoot at, and you want to hit the very left of it. This may require some practice to get spot just right, but once you got it, you will swing to the wall. 
At this point you turn left till you face the wall and press forward (up) on the keyboard to swing into it. If you done it right, you should now be kinda stuck in the wall, not seeing jimmy complete, just a fraction of him. this is where you release the grappler (pressing space will do) and fall to the ground. IMPORTENT: you need to land here. if you dont, the flying glitch wont work and you have to reset. 
Once you landed, just jump of the edge and wait till the jet-pack activates. Use the bubble, then either cancel it. The jetpack will disappear, but the flame is still there. Now just turn around again, jimmy will now start to move up. Avoid the Pipe of the left and press forward to fly towards the end. About the time the ceiling of the power plants starts to disappear you want to press jump to cancel the flying glitch and land on the pipe on the very top.
Now just use the bubble to move along it till the end and jump of the edge, then press the back key to move into the warpzone and finish the level. 
saves a lot of time over the regular strat, and about 15 seconds over the other skip.

old basic any% guide

update: outdated, refer to new any% guide

So you finally want to beat the game you could never beat as a child, and thought you may as well be the fastest one to finish it now. Here is how to get started doing so:

First you want to memorize the sequence of missions until you really know it. You need to know exactly were to head next at any point in time and not have to rely on the objective to describe what you need to do. 

After that you need some tricks to move faster than walking:
1. Bubble glitch/running glitch
arguably the most broken and powerful invention in the game, moving in this bubble alone will make you faster. But most of the time you want to do the following: Activate the bubble, move forward, then while still in the air press space to end the bubble. After this jimmy will run a whole lot faster the he usually does. You do that at any time you have access to the bubble and need to walk for a bit. 
2. Fast scooter
In the begging and later in Retroland, you dont have access to the bubble, so you use the scooter. Here is how you do it: You press G to call Goddard behind you, then imminently after that press space to activate inventions and select scooter. This will make the scooter spawn right behind you, so you walk backwards a bit, then drive the scooter to your goal. This whole setup takes a while to execute and is only useful in a few spots, you dont need to learn it right away.

The last thing to learn are some individual level strats. You can see them in the current World record by sandmanfan, you want to try to mimic them. The run in generel is really good to learn all the strats you will use to beat it (hopefully)

feel free to either ask me on Discord ( https://discord.gg/Q2cpyeM ) about them, or on my youtube run. 

Good luck :)

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Any% guide (with Wrongloads)	Mentir 5 years ago
Major skips	Mentir 7 years ago
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