While watching the BTT for SMO any% 2p, in Wooded Kingdom I noticed that the player clipped through the red maze. I’m just wondering if the timesaves used in the BTT are/can/should be used in RTA runs.
Pretty sure most of the btt clips are not rta viable due to difficulty. iirc that maze one is very difficult
Some IL runs are done using save states, just like the new SMB1 8-4 IL run used savestates. So that you could go back to the Odyssey and redo the whole kingdom. That was how the BTT run was done, right?
No, Odyssey ILs are done by loading saves in the previous kingdom and globing to go to the next one, which is a slow process. And most btt specific strats are EXTREMELY difficult. Like, too hard to do in an IL run even. And very much not viable for runs. The BTT is hundreds of small segments from many runners put together to create a theoretical fastest run, some people get BTT clips just by doing runs, some grind extremely difficult strats for many hours just to get a 10 second clip in the BTT. Most of these strats that people have to grind for are not viable for RTA runs, nor will they ever be most likely.
The BTT run is made using clips spliced together, it isn't an RTA run in any form, it is simply used to show the limits we can push the game to. Also there is nothing stopping BTT strats being used in runs, like CBert said, it's mainly down to difficulty. Double DSTA is the single example of a strat not allowed in RTA runs that is used in the BTT, dude to having to drain the battery of the switch, but since the BTT is a concept and no battery drainage is required it isn't a pain to use it for that specific purpose. Also we don't have savestates at the moment.
