Thank you! I'm still bummed for losing a run on >1min faster pace to a crash we only understood AFTER that run died, but cest la vie. It just means there are better WRs to come.

"I'm going to be pissed if this WRs by only a couple of seconds" - Me, a fool, a buffoon, a real dingus

Good luck! Once you get the rhythm down it's not too bad.

Fish flying! Okay, so if you swim normally and you change the direction you're facing, the game has you gain just a little bit of height. The game ONLY cancels the swimming state if you jump (which is the only way you're SUPPOSED to be able to leave water). So you start swimming, and then alternate facing left/right. Depending on your mashing rhythm you'll gain height and momentum in a direction. On the remake, the easiest way I found to pull this off is to hold right on the stick and mash left on the dpad. Some runners have had good luck with hitboxes, but I was never able to get that to work well for me.

@@tinahacks But you also transformed into the bird after making it over the ledge. That's two glitches, no?

Not quite! The Unknown areas will always transform you into the form they're meant for when you enter them--this is easiest to see with the human form Unknown. Most of the Unknowns are either very difficult or impossible to reach as anything but their intended form, so it's tough to realize they trigger a transformation upon entering them.

You paid for it! With your own channel points! All of you did!! But also yeah it's real good other than the parts that aren't good at all.

No doubt that an arcade controller would be effective! I use a leverless for fighting games, and it's great. In this case, I do retro speedruns with original hardware, though, so dpad it is.

Yeah it's super fun! Wonderboy Bobi did great work.

Do I have a NMS VOD which has fish fly in it? It's mislabeled if so. 100% requires 100%ing the game, so I promise that while sequence breaking to make reaching 100% faster is used, 100% of the items DO get collected, and all bosses end up dead :) The boss which fish flying would NORMALLY skip gets fought at 44:28.

I'm glad you enjoyed it! As to why I didn't attack, I think that Lineth is invulnerable until the fight resumes fully? I'll double-check but I'm SURE I tried that before.

@@tinahacks I think you tried to hit her the moment she says "You still stand", effectively she's invulnerable. But when she does her lightning bolt, you can. :)

Ah dang! Thanks for the tip!

@@tinahacks You're welcome !

Okay: so first off I'll note that you DO NOT NEED DRAGON MAIL to do this. However, taking damage will break the swimming state resulting in the timing being VERY tight. If you want to do it without dragon mail, wait until RIGHT AFTER you take damage, which will start your invulnerability frames. Now that you're not going to take damage: Jump, and then tap jump again to start swimming. Now you want to mash left/right alternately. The animation for changing directions while swimming (or flying - but this isn't so useful in bird form. You can just fly!) raises you a few pixels. So turn left - gain height, turn right - gain height. Rinse, repeat. If you can mash the direction changes quick enough, you can fly! This works from lava or water. If you use a controller with a stick and a dpad, holding one a single direction and mashing the other makes this easier. I know a couple of runners have had good luck with hitboxes (but you have to be precise since the hitbox will cancel to no direction held for L+R)

@tinahacks thank you, I'll try it again I actually did this before, years ago and flew over to the bird level and I forgot how. thanks. playing the ps4 version hopefully it's not patched.

Sorry to respond in English - I'm glad you enjoyed the run, and I hope you have a blast getting 100% on PS5!

This was played on OpenMSX via Catapult under Linux using firmware from my MSX2+. I didn't do anything special configuration-wise that would have made things looks different.

That skip was patched pretty early - in general it's about getting into a position, ducking, and turning the other way. This forces your collision box into geometry and forces a zip. If you're playing on PC, I don't believe the skip ever existed. If you have a physical copy of Switch or PS4 it's available if you're 100% unpatched.

The new Gau glitch RULES. DISCLAIMER: we don't fully understand how all this glitch works. Consider this my current best understanding. The purpose of getting on the chocobo, zipping off into space, buffering into the menu, then switching the party leader is all about saving glitchy coordinates on setzer. I then avoid setzer being the party leader while I run back, swap to sabin, and die. Now Setzer has glitchy coordinates saved and the game doesn't overwrite them when you automatically load from your last save after a game over (it overwrites the party leader and that's it). So we go to Figaro and trigger the party splitting up cutscene - Sabin wanders off and the party leader is swapped to Setzer, who has glitchy coordinates causing your party to start zipping diagonally. You hold X after you've escaped the castle to open the menu on the first frame you can, then leave. The cutscene with sabin re-joining only triggers on the tile below the entrance to the castle, so you've officially ditched your buddy. As I was saying: gau glitch rules.

@@tinahacks Thanks for the explanations..it make senses. And nice run, i was happy to see a sub 3h for the first time hhaah

On the switch it was really easy to accidentally find out since up presses would happen spuriously. So a jump+swing could inadvertently cause the transformation to happen.

Four months; the race is on!

So! If it's too soon, you would just wait in the party selection screen until the game automatically kicks you out. In fact, this run in particular you'll notice that I do hang out in the party selection menu for a couple seconds before I'm kicked out. This means I was close, but could have cut it just a hair tighter to be optimal in this particular run. As for too late, so long as you're in the final Kefka cutscene before the timer hits zero, you're good. Optimally we reach Kefka at the point where the cutscene will take precisely the amount of time it takes for the timer to expire. This is hard since encounters will have luck-based starting ATB of course.

@@tinahacks Thanks!

YUP! Playing it was like living that cover of JP

It's a GOOD one for sure

I had never played it before the remake, but IMMEDIATELY fell in love with it. It's just delightful, start to finish. I'm glad you enjoyed the run!

Thank you for the heads up. KZbin has been fighting with me since last night; it really does not like clipping the VOD to a reasonable time.

Good catch! That was supposed to be trimmed! Dang it!

Thank you for the compliment! I think it's easy to see every flaw once you've practiced doing something for hundreds of hours; my critique only reflects on how I wish my own play was improved.

The remake is REAL good for sure! Lots of love clearly went into it.

Thanks! Someday I'll come back to it - new glitches have made the any% run even wilder nowadays.

Thank you, thank you! Now to beat this time.

Yeah! It's a brilliantly executed love-letter to the franchise, for sure. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do :)

Hi, please ask on the community Discord if you need to understand why it takes time, not on random speedrun videos.

@@tinahacks ok obrigado

Nicely done :)

Glad to be back! My office isn't fully built out, but I have enough to get back to streaming/uploading. :)

Thank you! That's a great catch; I have no idea why it wasn't there.