California, USASounds nice! I'll use an emulator since I lost my cartridge.
That's insane, and I think you're right, the TAS has something to teach us about the moves. Maybe I'll pick it up again and focus on Onion Garden before I try other games. BTW do you have other Kirby games to suggest? Yeah grinding ILs aren't really useful lol.
How did Anwonu achieve such a fast time on Onion Garden? Though I'm not trying anymore, I find it extremely interesting how he made it under 37s, and I'm not even close. So I'm asking about what you think he might of done to run so fast. Also, what are you Time Attack times? I'm just curious.
I watched the video a long time ago, but what I don't understand is the programming of DDD. Can you explain it to me?
Oh! I suddenly remembered an extremely hard but really time consuming trick for Course 3, do you remember the TAS run you sent? I think the trick 22 seconds and 24 seconds into the video is actually humanly viable. I've done it once or twice but never really understood how to do it, maybe if we learn how to do it we can lower our time by a lot!
Haha, thanks a lot man! And yes 1:26 is going to happen!
Hmm, so 36:50 can be completed. You're definitely right, after checking the map of Course 3 (Onion Garden) the JC-dive and the pause tricks are really whats left for us to improve since there might be no more major time-saving movements for us left to learn. We should share our tricks once we learn new ones. And if we do manage to get under 37s, 1:25 is possible.
So let's do our best and get gud now!
You're totally welcome man! I'm glad I helped! I'll try to beat my own best time too.
1:25:55... We'll get there.
Course 1 is the only thing I'm good at so yeah!
The start is the most important part of the run, a good start gets you under 19:30. Usually I see how well my start is by looking at dedede. As soon as you start and run to the first bump Kirby meets, you shouldn't be able to see dedede, or you just got at least a 19:30. If you run to the first bump and see nothing, you get at least a 19:27!
The start is not the only thing that matters, when you reach the first waters you can press right early to save a few frames(you probably already know this). And as soon as you reach the blocks, press down and A at THE SAME TIME. Because if you do, Kirby's animation for ducking down will not appear and Kirby will dash through immediately. This will save you one frame each time. But beware though your thumb position also matters, since you own a 3DS XL you should be putting your thumbs on both the right button and the down button(mostly on the right button) to ensure that you switch fast enough or you might accidentally jump(happens to me a lot). And you might also know these.
But here's the fun part. After you dashed though both of the star block poles(or whatever it's called), you've came to arguably the hardest section of the entire Grand Prix. This part is extremely difficult, but once you know it the chance of getting through it raises by a lot. After you dash through the first pit(I always fall in there when I'm not paying attention), You've came to a 1 frame jump. One frame early and you're not going to make it and one frame late will cause the drop later to be impossible to dash down and will give you a couple of extra frames. It sounds hard but it's actually not that difficult, I can't really tell you how to do it but my technique is to stare directly at Kirby(I stare at the pink area between his eyes and the outline to the right. And don't fall down the pit while staring at him. It's just a personal preference) and wait until I see the right amount of distance then JUMP! Again It's just a personal preference.
The last two falls are easy, just connect them perfectly, and boom, you just got yourself a 19:25.
What do you think is the humanly fastest possible speed for the Grand Prix?
And also after trying the trick on course 3(0:33 into the TAS video) I think it actually is faster to preform the trick. The trick lets you gain momentum to the left quicker than usual.
OH MY GOD Thank you so much for spending this much time to type out these tips for me! I am so happy right now! It really helped me a lot!!!! I will keep practicing and challenge myself until I get a time I always wanted... Thank you so much!!! btw you are my inspiration and idol.
