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Well then, I think I'm done with this game now. It's been a crazy time with this game recently. Machine Skip found, then made consistent. Toxic Cave skip proven viable. Came across a couple of clips in Lava Powerhouse as well, that are barely useful, if for nothing else than to avoid more cluck luck. But the biggest one now is the Showdown skip. Bigjon mentioned he randomly phased into the boss room through one of the windows while practicing offline, and I quickly went to work trying to replicate it. I still have no idea how he did that, but instead I found a 100% consistent method to do so through a little hole at the bottom. So basically, every level is broken now =)

This run was good, without being great. Toxic wasn't too bad, it's the hardest level by a mile just because of the skip, like 95+% of runs reset trying to get it. My method requires 6 frame perfect input start/stops (for which you pause), the first 4 having only one frame you can use, but pause 5 having 8 different ones you can use. Boss was ok, happy I routed out extra setups for ledge grabs on each side for having hits on him as well as having none.

Lava Powerhouse was up and down, my clucks were really good which is usually my worst part. Corks weren't great though, although the ferron bounce to go straight back in the launcher after emerald 2 was some ridiculously good fortune. The boss could've been miles better.

Machine stage was good, didn't get the early entry but got the emerald one, which is standard. First phase of the boss was still terrible though, I can never seem to get a good kill here in runs. Second phase was good though.

And then Showdown...was admittedly getting a bit nervous here. Zaxon asked me after I found the setup for the clip in this stage what the fastest way to get up there actually was. I said I just break the blocks and go up the left side, it's probably the fastest way. But the question interested me enough to make sure and look into whether going to the left or right tables might be faster. I looked into it, and while both sides could work, when I timed it out, both were slower. But holy crap I'm happy I looked into it, because I fucking accidentally went over there in this run. Ultra backup to get over to the top left, and then almost still spaghetti'd by just missing the ledge entirely. Real scrappy final boss too, nerves felt like they were taking hold, but put them away enough to get the one cycle.

Bonuses overall were pretty good too, so I'm happy. Sub 10 is def possible and Zaxon and others are capable of doing it. But beyond this for me I reckon I'd just be getting frustrated and getting shitty Machine bosses and clucks, so I'm gonna check out here. Crazy times for this crazy game though.

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