Hey. I was trying to get to the warp zone in planet 1 after equipping the shields but it dispawns too soon. I assume we must get there in less than 30-40 seconds?

Yes, I believe, but I am not 100% sure, it despawns after 25-30 seconds. So just go fast :D You can also go for the warp first, take a bounce on the wall and then grab the shield if you can't get the timing down.

I am working on this right now. TheMotherBrain86 have you ever put together any guides or how-to videos for this stuff? I would like to hear how you pull off the first level in particular.

RAM addresses of interest: $460 - warp object on planet 1 (0 - despawned; non-0 - the warp is still there) $5E/$5D - Big/Small "section" timer $439/$43A (and maybe more?) - warp timers

The "section timer" starts at 0 when a level begins and increases every frame. It's reset when e.g. delivering an item to the mothership (maybe it's related to the game loading a new "section", hence my tentative name). I haven't tried to look at the exact criteria for this, but for the purpose of planet 1, this should be enough information.

From a quick glance at the "warp timers", they seem to initialize when you get "close enough" to the warp and increase every second frame. If you trigger a timer and then move away from the warp, the timer will stop.

There are at least two ways to despawn the warp object. a) The big "section timer" reaches 5 b ) One of the "warp timers" reaches 0x40. (I can't rule out that there aren't any other despawn triggers - this was just from a quick check)

The critical one on planet 1 is 'a'. You need to collect the shield and get back to the ship within 5x256 frames ~ 21s. This is pretty tight, no matter how you look at it. You need to get a good bounce after collecting the shield and then you need to practice how to deliver the shield as efficiently as possible.