A Quick Guide For Cheesy

This is just to give you tips and help for running this game.

1. Go to Options and turn off the movies. It saves time.
2. When you get the gun, rely on jumping AND shooting. Shooting normally on the ground will stop all movement. Your movement never slows down when firing your hand cannon in the air. Use this to your advantage, but also be careful with it. Sometimes it's not a bad thing to just shoot on the ground in certain areas.
3. Hearts are more important that lives. Sure you can get alot of lives, but checkpoints are scarce and this game will hit you many times if you're unprepared. The game is nice enough to give you a good amount of hearts and the max you can have is 10. Try to keep these at a high while running to avoid getting screwed over by the game's tricks.
4. The carts, saucers and pipes are all basically the same: They're all involving muscle memory, quick reaction and timing. Luckily, you don't have to rely TOO hard on the first one, as i made a small walkthrough on when to go left or right and how many times. You can also hold the left or right buttons to keep on that spot in all 5 of these moments. Use that to your advantage. You can also pause during these incase you need a second or two to react/know what to do next.

Cart 1: R2 L R3 L R3 L R6 L4 R3 L
Ship 1: L R L R L3 R3 L4 R2 L2 R
Cart 2: R L R2 L2 R L2 R3 L R2 L3 R L R L3 R L4 R3 L2 R L2 R L2 R L R L
Pipes: L2 R L R L2 R2 L2 R L3 - L R2 L R2 - R L2 R L
Ship 2: L2 R2 L R L2 R L R L5 R L R L R2

There's branching paths in the Cart's. If you believe you found a faster route from these paths, then by all means re-route the carts. However it doesn't seem to matter which one you go for as they all go the same amount of time for the most part and these paths i chose stick well into making things a bit easier.

The -'s in pipes means there's a pipe that goes a similar direction as the one's next to it, but it actually wastes your time and loops you. Skip these pipes.

5. The final boss is a pain, however there are 2 tricks you can do against him:
a. Move anti-clockwise on his front, from left to bottom to right to top and repeat, keep a good distance on left and right and going fully up and down, quickly, while holding the fire button. This is risky, but it's the fastest way. However it's easy to get killed doing this. If he starts spinning to the right, do B for a bit and then when he stops, go straight back to A. If you're on 2-1 hearts left and don't want to redo the boss, go to B and STAY with B.
b. Go to the very top, hold left, hold fire and just wait. This is the longest, but the chances of you getting hit are very low and it's the safest of the two. You'll need to hope he does the spinning right thing, because that gives you the most opportunity to get hits in when doing this. Don't move down or you'll be unable to really hit him. Don't move right, because unfortunately not only do you make it harder on yourself to hit him, but it makes it easier for him to hit YOU. Even with this method, you might randomly miss anyway because the hit detection on the ship's gun sucks.

6. You have 1 continue. However i wouldn't recommend EVER NEEDING the continue under any circumstance. By using it, yes you get back a good portion of lives, but whatever progress you made in a level is gone, as you're sent back to the hub. That means if you lost all your lives to a boss and you continue, you have to go through ALL the areas again just to fight the boss again. Ending up on the continue screen might aswell be an automatic reset.

7. Try hard to remember the maze-like levels and the fastest routes for them. It's not that easy, as it can get very easily confusing to navigate through them, especially when you're worried about trying not to get hit by something offscreen.

8. Most enemies can by jumped on and bounced off of. The red crab like aliens are basically invincible when you jump on them while the rest only take a few hits to only one hit before they die. You can use this to reach collectables and even skip parts of the platforming if done right.

9. If you need help on how to deal with the splits for this game, name the splits after the passwords and the last split be End or Finish or whatever. Here's the order:
WESTONMARE
FOUNDATION
POLYNESIA7
LANDSCAPES
AGINCOURT6
There's also a PANTALOONS cheat, but i don't quite understand why this exists since FOUNDATION put you in the exact same spot, with the exact same progress. It's very confusing and probably only exists as a joke cheat. Because maybe they find women's baggy trousers funny...
Oh and don't bother with USING these passwords, unless you REALLY want to deal with the god awful password screen and it's extreme sensitivity.

10. Don't rush. This game will make life hell on earth for you if you just try to rush through this, running and gunning the entire time without stopping. With the placements of platforms, gaps and enemies, including ones that you can't even kill... yeah, this game forces you to think ahead and be cautious. Don't lose your patience with the game or it WILL lose it's patience on you and then you end up losing lives like it's nothing because of it.

Right, that's about it then. Don't think i'm missing anything else important. The rest of the bosses are fairly easy and by watching my speedrun, aswell as playing the game yourself, i'm sure you'll be able to find a good route to use through the game. Good luck and don't give up!