Found a new skip on Maze, could save around 20+- sec if make a normal setup

Hello speedrunners of Spartan X2

First things first, i watch TAS of Spartan X2 and saw, that Uppercut using with jump i think, can humans may do this too, and here it is, my attemps of using this with inputs

In theory that is 1 frame( as in Battletoads with Dash jump) So, you press down, than immideately press Up,Forward + Punch Using Emulator: Mesen 0.9.9, Gamepad: Sony Dualsense (If its important) Nobody discuss it, so i made this thread I know that there is not a lot of runners, but i hope it was this helpful to you and maybe it will help to improve, have a great day!

Almost every contra game has low% category, so i thought, should we add this here?

Rules will be like: No Upgrades + No Bombs, only default weapon, do damage from tackle/dash is allowed

Good day DuckTales speedrunners

2 weeks ago after watching dnk_cafe's record in a moment i thought and know, that Best Ending Category could be done way more faster

Here is a Route:

1. Hima Bonuses

2.Amazon Bonuses

after that you could go anywhere, but i did like this:

3.Moon

4.Hima

5.Mines

6.Transylvania

7.Amazon (As a backup to pick some yellow gems)

First of All, we should go to Bonuses Levels on Hima and Amazon Levels to random for us a 1.100.000 money on Bonus stages (This will be enough to not go for another Bonuses Level)

Update: Speedrunner Zhrakula find a manip: If you wait 6 minutes on title screen, random in game disappear,bonuses and bosses will be same everytime, enemies no longer drop Gems you could test this out with Mesen -> debug -> Memory Tool In 00C0 Column you could put 00 to make it faster"of course in speedruns this manipulation through this tool is not allowed"

On Hima we should quit with 500000+ Money On Amazon we should quit with 600000+ Money *On Hima you should collect 10000 from an enemy, and you will have enough for bonus

Then we just collect Gems on levels by route and you could collect 10000 from enemy drops

Also,there is a fun "glitch" (backup) on Amazon, if you didn't have enough: it lose a 4-5 sec route + My splits with SOB that proof, that sub15 is possible: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TlgCSq5bM7HozFMIMizOcE2p7DiCmml9/view?usp=sharing

Here is a video of route, how it should look like (this is just an example, of course its without rewind, with 1.1 million after bonuses and better movement than mine): For fun i have Excel spreadsheet where i calculate everything (if you understand something here): *On Rout section you could see, how much money you should quit from levels (without mob drops) DuckTales - Google Таблицы If you have questions, please dm or leave it here, i will try to explaine more about it *also, if you gonna use this strat, i'm begging to mention that, it make me happy and knowing, that i'm not wasting my time for this researches ( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)✌ Have a nice day! (◔◡◔)