[OUTDATED] Any% Route (by PSIRockin123)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8AWFVtx8v3ILUl6MzVRYnluUzQ/

Any% No ACE Guide - Beginner Friendly! - May 2020

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12HGFDJlIA-T9ZrgHSgXKZe1_01bvLK5g/view?usp=sharing

Commentary for any% no ACE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBIfJcZcLy0

Consistent deathwarp/lighting setup + early deathwarp route

Consistent deathwarp:
To get deathwarps to work consistently, you need to start your file on an exact frame, since this determines, which Harry get's to attack. Thanks to StarrlightSims (who did all the work basically :D ), there is now a method for lighting, which seems to be consistent.
The method uses a flowtimer. You start the timer when hard resetting your console/emulator with the following offset values:
On emulator: 14666
On Gameboy Player: 16566
And then just press A on your file on the last tick of your timer.
Note that this setup is only 100% consistent for the hagrids hut lighting and the early deathwarp, if you save twice.

Early deathwarp:
The early deathwarp is performed right after the sorting ceremony and saves about five seconds compared to the traditional route.
With the early deathwarp come some changings in routing, which lead to the following route:
-deathwarp to 4th floor, shortcut 4th -> 7th
-talk to portrait, get aconite in 7th floor classroom
-stairs to 5th floor, shortcut 5th -> dungeon
-get tie in entrance hall
-stairs to 1st floor, get wormwood in McGs office
-deathwarp to 4th floor, shortcut 4th -> 6th
-talk to Nick
-go to common room on 7th floor, after sleeping, perform deathwarp to 4th
-take stairs to 5th floor and get card combos

From there on the routes converge and you just continue with potion class. 
To show the route and the timesave gained of it, I added a video to show it of. The video shows a timesave of about eight seconds, but since this isn't tool assisted and just a quick runthrough I did, I'm not sure how precise it is, hence the afore mentioned five seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwI3PzX54SU

FrogExp glitch with input display

Here is possible to see the basic movement for the glitch. I raccomand to check the 1st and 2nd place in the leaderboard because they used this glitch.
by jlun2 [TAS]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8IkFLQETKE
by Gand988 [RTA]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IHmhdePdpE

Glitch & Bug list [WIP]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xoior-kRpUtaKOzaa7QNHWMaJfKxvVxHayBf8WmuZIc/edit?usp=sharing

Glitches, Tips, and Tricks for Any% - May 2020

Lighting

So there are specific times at which lighting works in this game, it isn't RNG, just timing based. So here are the times for the lighting to work in both frames and their converted time into seconds:

(These times are from pressing the A button to start the file after the reset)

Frames:		~Seconds (This uses 60fps, GBC uses 59.7275006)
240		=	4
243		=	4.05
258		=	4.3
261		=	4.35
264		=	4.4
267		=	4.45
276		=	4.6
279		=	4.65
288		=	4.8
291		=	4.85
294		=	4.9
297		=	4.95
300		=	5
303		=	5.05
336		=	5.6
339		=	5.65
342		=	5.7
345		=	5.75
348		=	5.8
351		=	5.85
354		=	5.9
357		=	5.95
360		=	6
363		=	6.05
372		=	6.2
375		=	6.25
384		=	6.4
387		=	6.45

Not going to make a gigantic list of this, this should do.

Lightning Glitch Setup

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/524618162

You can see both Lightning (the First one and the second after F.Forest).
Both works with this setup (I tried another setup for the first one which was consistent but it didn't work for the Second Lightning, I don't know why).

You start your Flow timer (20.1sec) when "Ga" from "Gameboy" appears (look the clip) and it works until the "M" is 3/4 appeared. You have ~10 frames to hit. If you press A on your card combo (both works) at the right time and it doesn't make the glitch work -> you started your Flowtimer one or two frame too early/late or you didn't press A at the same time as your Flowtimer "beep".

MOST UP TO DATE - HP1 100% ACE Route

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p77AKy8hO-ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p77AKy8hO-o

MOST UP TO DATE - HP1 Any% Tutorial (Credits Warp Route) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r0AjqepbzQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r0AjqepbzQ

Path for Flitwick - DAtDA - Ghost

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-2O13fpsnI4aWNBZzlxYUtOa1E

The fastest way to go from Flitwick (2nd floor) until DAtDA (3rd floor):
- Don't try to go by Library, you'll lose 2sec, but just use the stairs below (From near Flitwick after you've finished the minigame until you enter the DatDA classroom it will take you 26.6sec by Library and 24sec by stairs)

The fastest way to go from DAtDA classroom (3rd floor) until Room before Cursed Troll's Fight (5th floor in front of the Stairs, the Muggles Studies Class):
- When you leave the DAtDA classroom until the Room where's the TV for the Troll fight -> take the 2nd floor Hallway and the 5th floor Hallway (refer to the doc) and walk above the statue and left to reach the Room we're talking about. It takes 19.8sec~
- The others path took 23.5sec (when you take stairs) and 20.5sec by 2nd floor Hallway, 4th floor Hallway and to use the final stairs to reach the 5th floor (in front of the room).

The fastest way to go from the Muggles Studies Class (5th floor) until the DAtDA classroom (3rd floor):
- 2nd floor Hallway (Statue) and you use the stairs and walk until you enter in the classroom.

The fastest way to go from the DAtDA classroom (3rd floor) until the History of Magic Class (4th floor):
- 2nd floor Hallway and 4th floor Hallway and you walk until you enter in the classroom.

Pokeby's Path (Blue deck path)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F7huSMhkIGel5-PhfUjH_Gsf2y5wx3RR/view?usp=sharing

Starting Safeway & Path without Hardened Boots

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-2O13fpsnI4aWNBZzlxYUtOa1E
(Needed to know where're cards and stuff i'm talking about)

"Starting Safeway Path": Drive -> Diagon Alley Area
- Taking Blue Deck (Gulliver Pokeby) (Folio Triplicus) 
Explanation -> time you save here is little faster than the time saved by animation differences between Deck (about Card combo animation, even if they are similar by the time they take) during Lightning glitch and Death Warp.

~2:05 you'll reach Giant Rats [encounterless]
- Return outside [encounterless]

- Don't skip the guy near Apothecary and take the card combo to the right (Glenda Chittock) -> he takes you less than 5sec to talk to him, worth it I swear.

Go shoping:
- Before you go in both Books Shop and Robe shop, enter in the Sweet Shop and take the card combo here (Mopsus) -> still worth if u don't got boots, realy.

Just finish shoping and go straight forward to the Train for both TrainSkip and FrogExp (assuming you know what i'm talking about).

- Use one Card combo (Summon Umbrella) for both glitches, save the other later.

-After the Frog Fight, use the other card Combo (Sickle Seek). After this, you should got between 450 (rare) - 1100+ sickles [I got one 1k+ but it's rare, it's usualy around 650 sickles] -> (depends on your sickles drop for both Card Combo (including FrogFight sickles drop) + sickles from Giants Rats fight). I tried to use Sickle Seek in Frog Fight... results are depending about the sickles drop of the fight -> if it's glitched, u'll get about 800+ sickles, if not, u'll get between 450 and 600...

It Saves time if u don't get Hardened boots (and you can get one or two (really rare case) in the first Card combo used for both glitches -> if that's the case, don't perform the second card combo after the Frog Fight -> check it if you want before you talk to the gliched girl).

After that:

If you have 450+ sickles (check it when you press start for gloves), you can take the "safe sickles path", otherwise (less than 450) reset (it should never happen but we don't know) or perform the other start describe below this one.

- in Hogwarts, after you've talked to Peeves + you took Wormwood, take the sickles from the box in front of McGonagall's Office (you can get 100 - 199 sickles).

- Reach the second Floor and used the 4th floor Hallway.

- Take both sickles spot from 4th Floor and take a look of your sickles.

    -> it should be between 800 - 900 (if u got 450 - 470) -> depends of Knight sickles Drop + if you have 110 or less for the 3 sickles Spot taken, it can failed (if you have just one with 140 sickles, you get it). 

If u got 470  [it should be the case] or MORE before Knight fight, u're sure to have enough sickles to get enough Chocolate Cards from Weasley's shop. 

    A little backup here is to get sickles from Muggle Music Class (5th floor) but you'll waste more time and it's really rare case tbh. (still better than the other path describe below)
That's the point if u have only 450-470 sickles... but it's RARE

/!\ SO, if you got MORE than 800 sickles, you can skip this part (describe before) and continue here /!\

- Just go to 5th floor by the stairs (even for the backup strat) and go to Card Trading Club (Weasley shop)
Spend ALL your money for Chocolate Frog card and used them the next time you have to press start.

"Others Sickles Path" without Hardened Boots:

- Don't buy the Chocolate Frog and don't get the sickles like in the other start above)
- wait the Ghost's Split with the 2nd Giant Rat in Gringotts (Incendio) 
    -> after this fight, press start to look your number of sickles (i'll call this "x"):

- {IF} x > or = to 850:
-----[] At the Christmas's Split, don't get sickles from the box in front of McGonagall's Office and go straight forward 5th floor to spend your sickles for Chocolate Frog (after Filch caught you). Don't Need to take those from the 2nde & 4th floor, just have to go to Weasley's shop (save ~10-15sec compared to the old route, but still lose  ~20sec compared to Hardened's Route).

- {IF} x < to 850 (should be around 750-770 sickles):
-----[] In the way, after you get caught by Filch, just take the sickles in the box in front of McGonagall's Office. Go straight forward 5th floor to spend your sickles for Chocolate Frog.

Explanation for this:

After the shop before the frogExp + sickles from Folio Triplicus in Train for both frogExp and TrainSkip + Knight + snakes (for Snake Fang) + sickles from table before you fight the "Cursed" Troll + sickles from the Cursed Troll's fight (for the Cursed Book) + 2nd Rat in Gringotts (everything depends on this sickles drop, i got 270 like 350)(Ghost's Split)  -> ~800-1000 sickles. And here (after 2nd Rat Fight) you take a look of your Sickles and think about this "Other Sickles Path"

2-4-7 path in early of the game is slower than 2-5-7 (considering the fact that you make others moves to get Aconite in 7th Floor). These paths are made to avoid in majors cases this 2-4-7 path and favorise 2-5-7.

If i forgot something, i'll make changes. 
Overall: Prefer Hardened - Starting Safeway Path - Other Sickles Path (in this order). 

What the differences between Hardened path and Safeway Path [Blue deck] ?

- THE FIRST THING IS THE CONSISTENCY: 70% of my attempts (114 of 163 attempts until I reach Weasley's Shop) I get 650+ sickles with Blue deck (I didn't checked if I get Hardened Boots unfortunately) compared to Hardened Boots which are less than 30% chance to drop them (if not less than that).

- You'll lose 10sec by few things until you reach Weasley Shop (If you got 680+ sickles) -> used Folio Triplicus one more time + take your 2 Cards Combo are the reasons.

- You'll save one turn (6sec~) for Troll's fight [Curse Book] (thx lvl 99).

- For Devil's Snare: I started to count since 1.05.39 and I stop when the WR split -> 1min exactly, when with Incendio and when I started to count at the same time [Blue deck Start] it takes 45sec without Petrificus Totalus (with crit, thx) and 1min without CRIT and Petrificus Totalus, which means it could be less than 1min with Petrificus (and less than 45sec with the crit potential).

- You can save 10sec for Chess fight WITHOUT "EAS" and +4sec for each Crits (Chess fights with Eas are better ONLY if they don't need to re-used Petrificus Totalus (for the 2nd/3rd fights) or Flee (it depends of which enemy) on each enemies at least one time OR for only ONE foe (1 of 3) + can't crits which save few seconds. You use Incendio for the first (3 Incendio) and second fight (2 Incendio and 1 Vermilious Uno to save 6 MP it's very important) and for the third fight, you spam Flipendo (and pray to kill him in 5 turns, it's an average case tho). If everything is almost perfect, EAS is still better tho (1m42sec for the WR with only one more turn to flee for the first fight [which is faster than others fights where you have to use Petrificus one more time] compared to 1m55).

- You need to have at least 850 MP before Quirrel's Fight and get an average Quirrel (2 petrificus) to possibly beat Voldemort with 4 Petrificus (in a very bad case) with enough MP but it takes the same time tha Hardened boots path... just pray for a good fight.


I don't write sickles for fights because i forgot to write them (for 4th floor sickles, is like the 1st floor -> 100 - 199sickles depending on which frame you press A), just final sickles at the end of the route before shopping.

VGAtlas - game data

PurpleSun

gand988

Konception

Skyword572

Flo203

Sanqui

YoungToonfish

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (GBC)

Game Boy Color

Game Boy Player

Deano95HD

Nixxo

ACE 

No ACE

Hey everyone, it was found that using Bizhawk for HP2GBC seems to save time on text mashing (my assumption is less lag), the exact amount it saves is unknown but it seems to be between 10 to 15 seconds throughout the run.

[@Tegron](https://www.speedrun.com/users/Tegron) mentioned this version of Ga

Namn	Författare
[OUTDATED] Any% Route (by PSIRockin123)	PurpleSun 10 years ago
Any% No ACE Guide - Beginner Friendly! - May 2020	Konception 4 years ago
Commentary for any% no ACE	SMP 8 years ago
Consistent deathwarp/lighting setup + early deathwarp route	YoungToonfish 3 years ago
FrogExp glitch with input display	gand988 8 years ago
Glitch & Bug list [WIP]	gand988 8 years ago
Glitches, Tips, and Tricks for Any% - May 2020	Konception 4 years ago
Lighting	SMP 5 years ago
Lightning Glitch Setup	Skyword572 5 years ago
MOST UP TO DATE - HP1 100% ACE Route	Flo203 4 months ago
MOST UP TO DATE - HP1 Any% Tutorial (Credits Warp Route)	Flo203 1 year ago
Path for Flitwick - DAtDA - Ghost	Skyword572 5 years ago
Pokeby's Path (Blue deck path)	Skyword572 5 years ago
Starting Safeway & Path without Hardened Boots	Skyword572 5 years ago
VGAtlas - game data	Sanqui 4 years ago