Advanced WaveLand speed tech guide

I made a video about general techniques the community has discovered, that may help you with ILs or speedruns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImXYPjVdyOs

Most of the stuff was named by the community, or I asked around to see what was appropriate.

There aren't too many level-specific tactics or flow-charts (different subject, perhaps view the IL leaderboard here for ideas), but it should account for 95% of the tech or weird stuff various people have found, a lot of which is used pretty regularly.

Some amendments for stuff not in the video:

I say that stomping is 6 speed in the video, when it's really 7 speed. This makes the difference between stomping and max-speed falling very small in most places.

I say that superjumps are possible due to the characters' model shrinking, but it's really just that dashes were hardcoded to be bufferable out of shines. This also explains ice 7 speed.

About the slope clip: I named it that based on misinformation I gleaned during a conversation with the developer; there's something about slopes in the game on a technical level, but it doesn't have to do with this technique, and I missed that at the time. We'll see if the name sticks. You can also use this technique to buffer jumps into fall-through platforms from the bottom! This is arguably much easier because you can't accidentally walljump. It's similar to platform warping in Melee: https://smashboards.com/threads/new-tech-platform-warp.385768/

An additional tidbit: shine staling! Shines stale, which means if you use them multiple times midair without landing, they'll stall your vertical momentum less until they don't at all. Side note: Your shine counter doesn't reset until you're grounded, which means ledge-dashing doesn't reset it, because dashing isn't a grounded state. If you shine four times midair, the fourth time, and every consecutive time, you'll drop immediately after the shine. In a full speedrun this doesn't affect much, if you're good with cliff scaling, but it can impact custom levels, for instance.

Hope you learned something!

Setting up a gamecube controller with the official Wii U USB adapter (and making any controller XInput)

#**SETTING UP THE ADAPTER/DRIVER**

If you have the official gamecube adapter, the PC driver for it can be found here:

http://m4sv.com/page/wii-u-gcn-usb-driver

Additional information and discussion on it can be found here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/2nmv1v/wii_u_gamecube_controller_adapter_driver_for/

Port 1 is the far left-port, if the Wii U logo is facing up. Only the black cord needs to be plugged in (black is data, gray is rumble).

After downloading and installing, when you run the driver, it should look like this:

https://i.imgur.com/FZbJyAH.png

Click start, and assuming you have a controller connected, your controller is now active, as long as it says "Driver successfully started, entering input loop." It may take a moment to initialize:

https://i.imgur.com/QgN5urS.png

This driver needs to be running (and started) whenever you want to use your gamecube controller - there are startup/minimization/compatibility options in the configuration menu. You can view/alter dead zones (how much you need to move/press something before the input is registered) in the configuration menu as well.

Your gamecube controller will now work in-game. Go to the options menu, select Controls, then select Joystick (din) to enable DirectInput for the controller, and bind your main five keys. Unlock your angles in the Gameplay option menu and you will have full range of dash angles, just like in Melee, rather than just eight directions (if you're into that, not necessary. Locked angles works just fine on gamecube controller). With everything set up, you're good to go.

However, the D-pad won't be active (unless you bind an action to one of its directions, for some reason), nor will the C-stick, and you'll have to press all the way down to register shoulder button inputs. To fix that, see the next section:

#**X INPUT**

If you want any controller to be read as XInput rather than DirectInput, you'll need a special program (Xbox controllers, even ones made by Logitech for example, should show as XInput already):

https://www.x360ce.com/

Download the 32-bit version (WaveLand is 32-bit) and place a copy of x360ce.exe into the directory where WaveLand.exe is, usually in \Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\WaveLand. This program will hook into WaveLand whenever the game boots up.

Start the x360ce.exe in WaveLand's directory. The first time it opens it should check for devices - it can detect a bunch of things, look for vJoy like this:

https://i.imgur.com/g8NJ5BS.png

It will check for all four ports, you can click OK on the first one and cancel out of the next three if you don't want them, and ignore the "misconfigured device" messages, but it'll continue to bug you about not configuring them. Using the "Search automatically" and "Search the Internet" features should pick the settings for you.

Depending on how many devices you have connected, you should have four controller tabs or so. You can see here I only enabled the first port and cancelled the last three:

https://i.imgur.com/t5tJJyg.png

Select whichever tab you have enabled and map the inputs you want to the Xbox controller layout. After this, WaveLand will assume this controller is an Xbox controller, and will use XInput instead. You can select things from drop-downs, or select the "Record" options and input what you want directly. You can use the auto button at the bottom but it miss-maps some stuff. If you cancelled out of configuring all the ports earlier, the program will probably hassle you at this point.

Here's how my setup looks:

https://i.imgur.com/lVnHrFH.png

Test your buttons and sticks, make sure they show up in the right place on the layout.

Save and exit. (If you just exit out it should prompt you to save.) This will create some files in the WaveLand directory, make sure not to move or delete those. If you install the game somewhere else, moving these config files and the x360ce executable should carry over the settings.

You don't ever have to open x360ce again, unless you want to set up new controllers or change the mappings, or you're making a new instance for some other game. x360ce works when its window isn't open.

Now the D-pad will work for general movement/menus along with the control stick, and the shoulder buttons will register input with analog press (not just full press until it clicks). Mess with dead zones in the gamecube adapter driver to change sensitivity. If you use a shoulder button to dash, now you don't have to press as far and wreck your tendons! Wow!

Gamecube shoulder button full-press clicks actually register as separate buttons, so if you'd like to map those on the Xbox configuration menu, they're buttons 7 (L) and 6 (R) - if you don't map them to shoulder/bumpers they might not function correctly, as far as I've seen.

You may run into issues if you've set up a previous controller with the DirectInput menu, because the game may still pick up those inputs, even if it's a different controller (due to button names). To avoid this, in the DirectInput input menu, set everything on the DirectInput menu to one button, preferably a higher-numbered one (eg Button 10) as those ones are less frequently assigned to face and shoulder buttons - this will leave every action unassigned except for the last one. If you don't do this, wonky stuff tends to happen in-game. After this, only the XInput menu should have assignments (assuming you've followed this guide correctly), and the DirectInput menu should look like this:

https://i.imgur.com/2xjSDqc.png

You can cancel out of button assignments with F1, which will leave all buttons as "Unbound", but this is temporary and won't really save (at least on 1.1.4), so use the above method.

x360ce works for controllers in general - for example I have a MayFlash adapter and use a Wii Classic Pro controller through it, which normally registers under DirectInput fine, but now does so as XInput, which means extra reliability in some regards. This is how my setup looks for that controller:

https://i.imgur.com/V5H3QC5.png

If you have any additional questions, feel free to hit up the community discord. Someone will probably be able to help you: 

https://discord.gg/qjPpxcy 

Enjoy!

WaveLand speedrunning guide (demo)

Hey guys, I decided to throw together a short guide that goes through the basics of introducing speedruns to those who are new to them, the basic mechanics of the game, some useful resources, and routing information for speedrunning this game. I'll update this as we discover new things about the game, and try generally improving the guide by adding videos and stuff. But for now, I hope this helps with getting into the game. Here's the link to it:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16fIpFNfMj0La7B9AU4dS6kFI3Cn3jXo2lbhd3GF9gdI/pub

Hope people find this helpful!

Name	Author
Advanced WaveLand speed tech guide	KazMcDemon 6 years ago
Setting up a gamecube controller with the official Wii U USB adapter (and making any controller XInput)	KazMcDemon 6 years ago
WaveLand speedrunning guide (demo)	GnomeSSB 6 years ago