periwinkle | (1'29"9) Cave Story+ "Machine Gun Challenge" speedrun @periwinkle. | Uploaded April 2020 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
Personal best from 2020/04/19 to 2020/04/26.
I'm on a quest to get all of my Cave Story+ time attack challenge PBs on video. (Here's the playlist of all of the challenges that I've already completed: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeKYCW86fVk2dI8dIZcXTp9VySj56eZAj)
That means that for each of the challenges that I don't have recorded PBs of, I'll just have to set a new PB! Or...in this case, I think this one is actually also a world record. O_O
This run was pretty decent, but with some adjustments to some of the strats I'm using, I think I can go even lower!
For those interested/curious, here's the progression of all of my PBs in this challenge since I started recording attempts: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeKYCW86fVk2Dtal6Pgqi9ekMEmEztLge
Personal best from 2020/04/19 to 2020/04/26.
I'm on a quest to get all of my Cave Story+ time attack challenge PBs on video. (Here's the playlist of all of the challenges that I've already completed: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeKYCW86fVk2dI8dIZcXTp9VySj56eZAj)
That means that for each of the challenges that I don't have recorded PBs of, I'll just have to set a new PB! Or...in this case, I think this one is actually also a world record. O_O
This run was pretty decent, but with some adjustments to some of the strats I'm using, I think I can go even lower!
For those interested/curious, here's the progression of all of my PBs in this challenge since I started recording attempts: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeKYCW86fVk2Dtal6Pgqi9ekMEmEztLge
![[CS+ Switch] Almost a 3 HP Alien Medal skip :((](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mecKkCF7IKA/hqdefault.jpg "[CS+ Switch] Almost a 3 HP Alien Medal skip :((
Is it possible to avoid collecting the Alien Medal in a low% (3 HP/minimal items) run? Normally, you get the medal from not taking damage during the Ironhead fight, so to avoid collecting the medal, you would simply have to take damage somewhere...but everything in the room does at least 3 damage, so theres no way to get hit without dying.
HOWEVER...there is a bug in the Switch version of the game where if Player 2 dies, but then immediately afterwards a boss (or an entity with the run an event on death flag) is killed, then the player death event will be interrupted by the death event of that boss/entity, allowing you to continue the game (albeit with Player 2 no longer visible or controllable). So, I had the idea of using this bug to have Player 2 take damage (hopefully triggering the fail condition for the Alien Medal) while also killing the boss, which in theory should allow me to avoid collecting the medal. Does that idea work? This video shows the result....
(Side note #1: Yes, this is not a low% save file since I have Machine Gun and missiles. I got those extra weapons to make it easier for me to record this video.)
(Side note #2: This version of the game has another bug that actually lets you skip the medal...along with really the entirety of the game after the Core fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ZqmhJW-AU . But just for the sake of this video, lets pretend that were disallowing that glitch (or that were playing on the Japanese Switch release, where that glitch has been patched out).)")
