Vertical screen scroll: How and what benefit?
5 years ago
Utah, USA

I just experienced a vertical screen scroll where I accidentally walked into the black UI area at the top of the screen which then wrapped me around to the bottom. Does anyone know how to reproduce this? Has anyone found a use for this other than to just save time walking vertically (which is probably not much considering it is the shorter screen dimension)? I'm sure if it were actually useful it would already be in a route somehow, but I just haven't found much discussion on it online.

California, USA

It’s basically the same as the side scrolls except you push left or right instead of up or down. 5 pixels from the top or bottom. There is really nowhere that it will speed a human up in any% no up and a. It is however useful in saving time in some routes for 100% and any%. Look up runs by eunos for when and where to use them. Even his runs only has one or two places that uses it. It’s more useful for swag. Some players have started using a vertical scroll from the 100 secret on the north to getting to the blue candle by level 5. It doesn’t save time for a human but it keeps you more safe from the enemies. Verticals can be dangerous for soft locking the game.

California, USA

I just remembered something. If you want to see some in action I believe you can see some on the 100% race at gdq last year.

United States

Steven is correct. In some routes of 100% No Up+A, getting into the HUD can save a good amount of time from the Forest 100 secret to entering Level 8. Eunos, Lack, BT, myself and Schicksal used this route in our current PBs on the leaderboard. JSR and Cantaloupeme used a different route that avoids this HUD clip.

As mentioned, you can also HUD scroll from the NE 100 Secret towards Blue Candle/Level 5, but I've found that even when performed quite fast, I wasn't saving any time from just doing an average in-bounds scrolling/walking.

California, USA

Just because there are no current routes where it is used in any% no up a doesn’t mean someone couldn’t figure out a way to save time with it. The world wrap wasn’t in the old world record route until cantaloupe figured out a way to save time with it.

If you enjoy hud clipping maybe you will be the person that finds out how to save time with it in any% no up a.

A fun trick is entering level 8 from the hud. Burn the bush, scroll up into the hud and you can walk right into 8 from the hud. Not very useful but definitely cool.

Edited by the author 5 years ago
United States

I used hud scrolling to save some time picking up arrows from the coast shop in several runs. It also looks swag af.

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