wow this guy is so full of himself. mediocre run tbh

Logging this for my own sake. Freezing value 00003C affects background images. For some reason, freezing that made the birds not spawn.

These are just my observations by trying some strats out. Theyre not 100% guaranteed to work because theres so many rng variables. Will update for other stages later.

Taz Strats:

1st Stage:

Swipe 3 times at the beginning After 1st yellow bird, wait about 5 seconds before eating blue bird Dont eat anything else

2nd Stage: Not sure. Try to eat birds and swipe a couple times after hills.

3rd Stage:

1 swipe after the caution road sign on the right at the beginning. After eating first bird stay on left side until car comes then transition to right side Also try to stay on the right side after eating yellow birds

4th stage: 2 swipes at the beginning try not to eat birds if you see the dog get rid of him immediately

Hey thanks, I realized i was holding the wrong direction right after I posted lol.

Hey guys, I was learning how to run this game and I'm terrible trouble performing Fire Seed Skip. I've been able to do it on super rare occasions (fully maybe 2-3 times) Is there anyone that can help me and tell me what I'm doing wrong. I mainly fail the part in the vid below, which is what I normally get.

I run on epsxe 1.9 emulator version.

Could be the version you're running on. Just from the clip that I saw, it seems like an outdated version. Just from the way the colors look. I run on epsxe 2.0.5 and have had relatively no problems or encountered any bugs.

There is something to when you eat the blue birds that affects the RNG as well. Don't have much else to say on it. All that I can say is I saw a remarkable difference when you eat blue birds at one point than when you eat it at another point.

Okay so a quick update. There's more to the strat than just spamming Y. I think the spawns of the bird are tied to or in part tied to how many times you press the Y button. For the first bird in in the first level. I tried counting the number of presses. What I found was that there was consistency with the times you pressed Y with the time the bird spawns. Different number of presses would yield different bird spawns. For instance, three quick Y presses will give you the quickest (havent timed all variations of how many times you can press Y) first bird spawn. You can eat him at exactly 18 seconds in.

This may solve the problem earlier, where if you pressed the Y button too many times, the bird wouldn't spawn at all or would be very late. It could be that you were pressing the Y button too many times for the counter and it looped back around. That's one hypothesis.

I'll look further into this later, but I don't think we have to manually try out a combination of how many Y presses per bird spawn. If we look into the RAM while performing the technique, it may give us more clues.

Quick video I made demonstrating it.

Hey, was doing some runs and messing around. Found some interesting. Spamming the Eat/Grab button over and over causes earlier bird spawns.

It's most evident in the first level, doing this method I was able to get a :57 time for the first level.

Not sure what the mechanics or logic is behind it, but it seems to work on all levels. Need to do some more fine-tuning to figure out what's going on.

Thought this might be needed to be brought up. I usually play on the emulator snes9x version 1.53 and it seemed to be in line with the console speed.

However, I opened up the game in bizhawk, it seemed to stabilize the frames to speed up the gameplay. It was clearly faster than regular emulator. For instance I would say a fast Main Course time is 1:02 and without trying for too long I got a :58 on bizhawk.

Thought it was worth bringing up if we wanted to allow or restrict certain emulator versions.

Hey guys, just started running this meme of a game. Noticed a couple of things that could be helpful if not already known.

All yellow bird spawns are set in chains based on time. So when you first load up the level, the time starts ticking until the first bird spawns. For example in Main Course, the first bird spawns between 21-24 seconds. I don't know what causes the discrepancy, haven't tested it out that far yet.

The second bird spawn is dictated by when you eat the bird prior to it in the chain. For Main course, the second bird spawns usually 11-13 seconds after you eat the first spawn. For example say you eat the first bird at 25 seconds in. That would mean the second bird spawns at 36-38 seconds in the run. And so on down the chain. I'm in the process of making a list listing all the bird spawn timers in the chain for each level.

Bonks and getting run over, etc. will cause the timer to pause. I haven't tested it out on dynamite, arrows, pterodactyl, etc. but its probably safe to say that those too will cause it to pause.

Missing a bird in the chain is pretty bad because you are tacking on an extra X amount of seconds for however long the game dictates for a new bird to spawn at the end of the chain to allow you to eat the necessary amount of birds. I haven't tested whether the chain continues and acts as if you have eaten the bird once the bird "disappears" from the map and can no longer be eaten. So I would think its best, that if you miss a bird and pass it, to go back and try to get it.

One of the more interesting things I found is that you can not move at all and it doesn't affect the timer in the chain. So you could not move at all at the start of the level. Wait until the time lapses for the bird to spawn and then start moving and the bird will appear right on time. It works whether you move off to the side and stand there and then go back on to the track. There is a caveat in that you dont want to wait just as the timer is about to hit for the bird spawn. I've had some weird bird times by doing that, or even missing it all together. I would give it maybe a 7-10 second window to work up going full speed to time it right.