CanadaHiii! I was messing around today and I discovered a pretty significant glitch that can save a second in full-game runs by glitching out the end-of-game timer.
I don't think this should be allowed in submitted runs under any circumstances but I'll still explain how to do it / how it works below.
When you beat a level, your final time is added to the time list at the end of the game as soon as the timer stops.
If you restart a level after the timer ends, the next level doesn't start, but the game thinks it has.
As a result of this, if you beat level 1 with a time of 10.1, restart the level before the next level loads, and then beat level 1 again with a time of (for example) 9.9, the 10.1 time will be attributed to level 1 at the end of the game, and the 9.9 will be attributed to level 2 at the end of the game.
This works on every level, but it only saves time if done on level 3.
Doing this trick on level 3; the game will add whatever time you get on level 4 to a "level 5" slot which doesn't exist and is therefore ignored and completely removed from your final time.
Here's a run where I use this trick to get a time of 36.06 (currently a half-second(ish) improvement from record)
You can see on level 3 I get a time of 5.67, restart, get a time of 5.77, then move on to the next level.
Then, on level 4; I get a time of 7.76, which is missing from the end screen and replaced with the 5.77 I got on level 3.
So, in this case, this glitch saved 2 seconds.
I will not be submitting this run, because I don't think this should be allowed.
I think this proves it:
during this session my 4 level times were; 9.90 (listed 10.39 at end), 11.4x (not recorded :c) (listed 10.62 at end [lower than real time lmao???]), 5.61 (listed 10.19 at end), 6.73 (listed 10.30 at end)
these discrepancies are seemingly random between each level (0.41, -0.7x or 0.8x, 4.58, 3.63), and one of the end times being lower than the real time implies this isn't caused by delay at all, but rather some other bug with the game's code
I imagine this can be influenced by people's hardware and/or browser, or maybe it's a floating point error (who knows)
either way hopefully this is enough for the mod to make a some change to how runs are timed
anyways I've done everything I wanted to (again) so I'm done here for now
cya
personally i think major changes (v1.0.x vs v1.1.x) should be separated by sub-categories but i think sub-versions (v1.1.1 vs v1.1.17 for example) should just be a variable
In this run:
You can see I get a time of 10.99 on level 1, but in the end screen it say 11.02
Since the Individual Level leaderboards use the time listed at the end of the level instead of at the end of the game, please do not use the end screen to time full-game runs, and instead combine the level times manually :)
oh yeah definitely split it, also tysm for keeping the original versions playable <3
