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.
Cool dude, I hope that's true. Can you show a clip of it in action? I want to try it and make sure its statistically significant.
Best place to test it would be wendall woods. That level has the worst spawn rates and kills many runs to the time limit. I might give it a go tonight.
Judging by that instant sub 50 I would assume the new tech works lol, I have to say I have kinda noticed this does seem to be the case when I play so I wouldn't be surprised if that is accurate. Judging from the runs I have done of straight spamming the grab/eat button as opposed to the runs I have done not hitting anything but the run button.
It also does seem to help if you don't eat any of the other birds, but get rid of the other guys like the douche on the moe-ped that throws dynamite at you. I am not 100% sure how accurate this is but it seems like if there is too many sprites it is less likely to load a kiwi, but the other birds will make it so either it will spawn a gold one, or it will spawn what ever bird instead.
Like I said not 100% sure about that last bit but judging by the few attempts I have done, it seems to be the case.
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.
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.
