Helmet Storage Glitch

A strange glitch that is useful for IL speedruns. If in a 2-player game, the newer method allows you to start any level as any helmet!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hslEmRkfmow

Infinite Lives Glitch

The infinite lives glitch is now allowed in all categories because it is simply an underflow of the RAM address that tracks the number of lives. So if you're having trouble beating the game, or really struggling to complete that max levels run, this'll surely help you out!

How it's done:
1. Begin by continually restarting the round, until you have only one life left before a continue will be lost.
2. Go up to an enemy as Kid, and allow it to take away your first HP.
3. Run into the enemy again, but this time, you must hit the pause button on the exact frame that it kills you.
4. After Kid's death animation completes, the pause menu will appear. Select "Give Up", and the glitch will be activated.
5. Restart the round or die as many times as you'd like, and you will never game over or even lose a continue!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kIrqUJ3CJA

How it Works
When the glitch is activated, you actually trick the game into losing two lives at once, going from 1 to -1. The game then interprets -1 as 65,535 lives, the maximum unsigned 16-bit integer. However, the glitch doesn't give you 65,535 actual lives because losing one at life 32,768 jumps the count all the way down to 99 in the game's RAM. Taking this into account, this gives a total of 32,867 lives per iteration (theoretically infinite).

Something to be Aware of
Right after the glitch is activated, gaining a life will go from 65,535 to 0 lives in RAM, and the game will reset when you beat a level. Gaining two lives will bring the counter back to 1 life and you will have nullified the glitch. As a result, be sure to hit "Give Up" a few times after the glitch is activated, just so you don't accidentally do this.

Kid Chameleon Wiki

There's a wiki for this game that details pretty much everything you'd like to know, including pages for all 103 levels, all helmets, prizes, enemies, block types, you name it!

http://kidchameleon.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Level Flow Chart

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Stage 1: http://i.imgur.com/sBF6KLy.gif
Stage 2: http://i.imgur.com/zRxPpMj.gif
Stage 3: http://i.imgur.com/PfYNK0B.gif
Stage 4: http://i.imgur.com/tZBSgE3.gif

album: http://imgur.com/a/Y3Ng1#0
source: http://www.opusgames.com/games/kidcam/kidcam.html

Load Times

The following compares load times for all official versions of Kid Chameleon from fastest to slowest. A load time in this game is defined as any instance in which the screen fades to black or yellow. << Indicates a more substantial difference

PS2 << Sega Smash Pack 2 < WiiVC < PS3 < XBox360 << Steam/iOS/Android < Genesis (US/PAL/JP)

Notes:
- PS2 has by far the fastest loads. There will be a difference of several seconds in even a 100K Trip run when compared to any other platform.
- this is not the final verdict as to which version is the fastest, as lag rates for each platform have not been tested yet.

TASes

100K Trip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFFDpXWf2x0

Maximum Levels (only includes 85 of 91):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DJhFhzTk8k

Any%:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDH9AA_whbA

Wrong Warping

A new glitched category will most likely be formed for the IL leaderboard to accomodate speedruns using this strategy. The first video shows how to perform a wrong warp along with an explanation of how it works. The second simply elaborates on the oddities and uses relevant for highscoring, in case that gives any ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLPWR2nFnuQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kenvCLT4TTg

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Flag

Plethora Cheat

Telepad to Elsewhere 1

Telepad to Under Skull Mountain II

100K Trip

Telepad

Telepad to Elsewhere 4

Telepad to The Caged Beasts

Telepad to Elsewhere 6

Telepad to The Forbidden Tombs

Telepad to Stairway to Oblivion

Telepad to The Deadly Skyscrapers

Telepad to Coral Blade Grotto

Telepad to Elsewhere 9

Telepad to Elsewhere 10

Flag (from Elsewhere 13)

Telepad (from beginning)

Telepad to Elsewhere 15

Telepad to Elsewhere 17

Telepad to The Hills Have Eyes

Telepad to Scorpion Isle

Telepad to Towers of Blood

Telepad to Elsewhere 18

Telepad to Elsewhere 20

Telepad to Secrets in the Rocks

Telepad to Elsewhere 23

Telepad to Alien Twilight

Telepad to Elsewhere 21

Telepad to The Crypt

Flag (From Elsewhere 21)

Telepad to Hills of Forever

Telepad to Monster Island

Telepad to Ice God's Vengeance

Telepad to Elsewhere 26

Telepad to Elsewhere 27

Telepad to Elsewhere 30

Telepad to Elsewhere 29

Telepad to Elsewhere 31

Telepad to The Final Marathon

Telepad to Elsewhere 32

Flag (from beginning)

Exit

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Kid Chameleon Discord

Load Removing For Any%

Getting a clock in IL runs

Video

"Damageless" Catagory Idea

Infinite lives glitch

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Namn	Författare
Helmet Storage Glitch	Winslinator 5 years ago
Infinite Lives Glitch	Winslinator 5 years ago
Kid Chameleon Wiki	Winslinator 8 years ago
Level Flow Chart	jymotion 10 years ago
Load Times	Winslinator 7 years ago
TASes	Winslinator 8 years ago
Wrong Warping	Winslinator 7 years ago