No offense, but this whole leaderboard seems a little strange, the fact that any% utilizes genes that can only be accessed by previously "beating the game" would turn this into some sort of an NG+ run already (theoretically, I don't think this game allows for a traditional completion, unlocking every plague would seem as an "ending" of sorts). Also, it looks like the WR was done on an older version where you didn't have to purchase Trojan Plane to use it. Not to mention that Neurax Worm has to be unlocked first.
Can there at least be some info added what version is required to glitch Trojan Plane? It would make sense to move those unbeatable runs to a legacy category because it isn't exactly welcoming to force anyone new to jump through unnecessary hoops just to compete.
//edit: Aw, just noticed there's a TAS that utilizes the strat. My bad. I guess I'm happy to have stumbled upon a TAS strat from just screwing around, though. lol I was enjoying this casually, but then noticed spamming the diagonal/alternating gives the character a speed boost. Can't reproduce it consistently, but maybe something can come of this? Going back into standstill and retrying seems to give better results than spamming mid-running continuously. Not sure if lag plays a role.
Maybe this was known already or it was patched in 1.59 -- this is about the crash at the title screen -- if you tab out around the point when the title screen fades in from black and you let the bar load that way (with the game's window inactive), your game should never crash.
Hope this is helpful to some, cheers.
I decided hsblue would be too disappointed if I didn't do this, so there you have it, folks. A pinnacle of a video gaming speedachievement. Enjoy this truly captivating and prestigious speedrun.
Can you explain how this managed to be a 15,600 instead of a frame slower? I edited out both the level transition frames, and Virtualdub says it's 937 frames / 60 FPS (that's what I record in) = 15,61666666666667
