Hello guys. Today I played this game with my cousin, and since it's a game I love and I've played a lot in my childhood I was thinking on speedruning it. The problem is that when we reach the pool of rain level and try to climb the vine in order to go to the red key screen it appears to be a rock and wont let you change the screen, so you have to reset the emulator and then you can proceed. The thing is, is there any way to get through that playing on emulator without reset? Because that would consume a few seconds D:

Unfortunately it's totally necessary do a softreset for unlock that part of the level for some stupid reason :/ Also I'm glad that you are interested on WL3 runs and do not hesitate to ask for help from the runners of this game :D

Thanks for the help :) I really love this game, and it's the best of the 4 Wario Land in my opinion :D I'll try to learn the routes and put some work on this game, it really deserves ^^

Sorry the double post, but I'd like to report that meanwhile my cousin had the same problem on N1, when trying to climb the stairs of the tree (blue chest mission). But for some reason it didn't happen to me o.O

I'm guessing you're using emulator? I've had the thing in pools of rain happen to me on emulator before but never on console. I think it's an emulation bug. Wario Land 3 is not an easy speedgame, but most runners will be glad to answer any questions you might have. Have fun :)

Yes I was using an emulator, even though I have the original cartridge. Yeah I have seen the any% WR video, pretty much insane tricks as wall jumps and out of bounds lol.

Someflow, could you explain shortly why WL 3 is so hard to run? I didn't have the time yet to watch a run, or to look for a guide to read about tricks and glitches. As it is my favorite Wario Land as well, I'd really love to learn this game, but getting a simple idea of what would be necessary. Thank you :)

I don't think it's that hard to run. But it's hard to learn, at least if you do the fastest any% route. Most of the tricks have a very steep learning curve and will require a long time of trying until you get them even your first time. Most things outside of the few big tricks are not hard (there are minor tricks that are really hard, but obviously you don't need to implement them until you get better). Also there's currently a lack of easily accesible ressources for learning. I've kind of been writing explanations for most tricks and some other miscellaneous stuff, but I'm kinda busy currently so that'll take at least another week to finish.

I'm also more than happy to help anyone getting into this game, and I will be joining in on the video documentation for all the tricks and things to learn.

I mean if you're looking into running this game then the best place to start would probably be Any% NMS, as for tools of assistance, as it stands, using current runs of the game is fitting, that's how I learnt the game, also asking runners about button inputs and such is also recommended.