I figured out a cheat code to make it so that only the astronaut has to reach the platform for each level. It makes for a slightly shorter run and a fresh new way of looking at the game. Maybe if we could get a couple more runs for the category, we could add it as a miscellaneous category, but for now I'll just be posting my runs in this forum post. There's a lot of room for optimization as this was just my first "no reset" run.
For the cheat, you'll just set the memory address at 08C784 in the RDRAM to 02. Make sure to activate this cheat after the game has started up and you are at the menu, as I think it affects the game booting up if you have it enabled on boot.
If Project64 can do cheats, then there is no reason that it wouldn't work on project64 too. It's essentially just like a GameShark or CodeBreaker code.
I also messed around with the low% category back when I did astronaut%. I don't think I ever recorded a run of it but I found out it was indeed possible to beat the game while collecting zero gems. It has a couple of tricky jumps in it, including a couple of hardish jumps on the second level to avoid the tunnel, but it might be a fun category to add in the future.
Also speaking of categories, I found a new glitch that skips the first two levels in the game and was wondering if there will be another category that bans this glitch like a glitchless%?
Holy cow, that is awesome! Believe it or not, graveash and I actually got this glitch once completely by accident when we were grinding out coop runs but we had no idea how to reproduce it. This is huge! And yeah, maybe we could add a subcategory for No Major Glitches or No Warp Pad Glitch. Not sure if that would also ban the other warp pad glitch used on level 3, but we could talk about that.
Decided to create a discord for this game. It's about time we have one I think and it'll make it easier to talk about things like this rather than using forums which are slow. https://discord.gg/J6VuAqDTzY
