This is a fantastic run! Really good deck. Very well played; great use of "X" to get back to the deck. The cursor speed is a bummer. I'm honestly not sure if the faster cursor speed would have been enough to get this under 1:39, but you definitely have the skill to get there; it would just be a matter of doing enough attempts to get the RNG for another really good deck like this

New Warp Manipulation Strat

Hi All! I'll give you the short and long version of a warps manipulation strat I found because I think it is really interesting to know about the inners of CC. I'll let Bissmark edit it down to just what is needed for the main warps guide.

Short Version You can consistently warp 3 stages ahead If you press Select at the beginning of your run and hold it for the entire run. I tested this in TAS and Bissmark was able to implement it in a new WR run

Long Version A criticism of the warps run is that a lot of it is heavily luck based. Ideally, you want to be able to warp back and forth between Tokyo and Paris from level 4 to level 16; but getting this perfectly is like having 13 coin flips go your way...the odds are 1 in 8,192.

Link_7777 was able to figure out that the game basically had a toggle switch that decides if you would warp 2 or 3 cities ahead. Every time you press a button in CC the toggle flips to the other position. A genius may be able to keep track of their inputs and thus know what the toggle is set at...but that is probably not an option for any of us. But I came across a work around.

I was messing with fceux's TAS Editor and I noticed that if a button was being held down you could press other button without moving the toggle switch between 2 or 3 cities. I went back to the start of the game and had the TAS hold down Select the entire run (select isn't needed during runs, so it can be held down the entire time without issue.) When select was held for the entire run, the TAS warped ahead 3 stages every single time, regardless of the other inputs I made during the run. Which means the toggle starts at 2 stages, pressing Select moves it to 3 stages, and holding it down prevents the toggle from moving.

How you can use this:

1. If you can find a workable grip, Press and hold Select after you start your run. It is easiest to start holding select during the "Player 1" screen or while the clock is counting down before you start NYC. CC does not actually acknowledge button presses during those portions of the game, but if you are holding a button down it will read it as soon as it accepts inputs.
2. If you have made it late in the run and want to ensure that the wars keep going your way; you can start holding Select at this point. HOWEVER, you will want to press select and then press it again and hold (The first press will switch the warps from 2 or 3, then the second will switch it back to what it was when you came into the level, and holding will prevent it from flipping again. (NOTE: this has not actually been tested)

Dying does not seem to have any impact on this strat. As long as you keep holding select.

I would like to find an easier method of controlling warps; but this at least gives us something to work with.