SA2: Instant spindash from jump brianpso 2022-01-13 | Sadly you have to be pushing against something in order for this to be a thing, but hey, if having storage during a tasbounce becomes a thing, then this is a great setup.HUGE thanks to @Pixiuchu for sharing a clip of Sonic being unable to break a wooden box by bouncing on it. That turned out to be because Sonic had storage while jumping, and after figuring out how to do that, the tech shown in this video became a reality.
SA2B: Walking on non-walkable surfaces brianpso 2024-07-22 | Maybe all we need to do is to transition onto the surface from a grounded action.
Sonic Adventure 2 Battle: Sky Rail Double Awesome trick strat for score attacks brianpso 2024-06-30 | Idk how nobody ever thought about this lol
How to activate debug mode on SA2 (May 7th prototype) brianpso 2024-06-16 | If anyone wants to mess around with this, it's easy to setup.Thanks to the cutting room floor for the address.
SA2B: Spawning Displacement using collision brianpso 2024-05-26 | This can save frames almost everywhere, and if the effect is tied to the speed acquired, then it might be decently powerful.
SA2B(TAS): Mad Space Mission 1 in 2.45 brianpso 2024-05-26 | I'm sad that it's not possible to grab any of the other 2 pieces using double deaths, but I'm happy that I managed to at least make use of the tech.Huge thanks to @onvar5077 for the tools I used to help deal with the RNG and for being the main person behind the deciphering of the warp glitch, and @lazeHD for doing the heavy lifting by getting the warp through trial and error so we could investigate it!RTA WR: 3.59 by @Zethoro youtu.be/47PyUkuEzZ8Old TAS WR: 2.90 by @ModifiedMonkee youtube.com/watch?v=TE3A_XrKo70TAS WRs List: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/2/d/e/2PACX-1vR8WYea-bV4laCPktI_StC7JqK6KJErbShjzSOkQ7ESe0L2o_37XHEEXPAxgBnr161YNpgxiCQVWPql/pubhtml
SA2B: Grabbing items instantly brianpso 2024-05-26 | To grab an item instantly you need to slow down and on the first frame where you stop moving (see the action 0 pop up) you press B to grab it.This is not the only way to do it iirc, but at least this one is consistent and easy to reproduce.
SA2B(TAS): Turnaround cancel + boost tech brianpso 2024-05-20 | I finally found the holy grail of mech movement I was looking for!I wanted to find a way to end the turnaround and still get the boost for so long! The piece of the puzzle I was missing was the "Current Animation" variable, by paying attention to it I managed to find out that the boost we get after a turnaround happens on the second frame after the animation ends, so there was a window of a single frame that I could use to get airborne to end the animation early and then land again to get the boost. Thankfully that worked and now I have another piece of a much harder puzzle to solve!This can definitely be used in some places to save time in a TAS.
Final X and Z Rot do not reset on restart brianpso 2024-05-18 | Literally been looking at these for years and only noticed this today, I hope we can exploit this one day
SA2B: Floating glitch using Speed Preservation brianpso 2024-05-15 | I just discovered actions 46 and 47 freeze our speed values, so we can abuse that fact and float in the air while we also move forwards thanks to our preserved horizontal speed!PS: It also freezes our gravity AND it doesn't let it reset either, so if we move like this we can keep our gravity all the way through, never losing it!
SA2B: Moonwalk with aura and new Speed Preservation glitch brianpso 2024-05-15 | If you manage to find a wall that lets you gather negative VSpeed while charging a spindash you can enter a jump action the moment you moonwalk.We also finally have a glitch that allows us to fully store our speed and recover it later! This game still has to much to give!
SA2B(TAS): Lost Colony M1 completed as Sonic brianpso 2024-05-12 | It took me a long time but I managed to get over that damn wall! Now Dark Story can officially be completed with Sonic! Time to update your video @NathanielBandy.Huge thanks to @Traitor1 for finding the light attack trick to get past the door right after the elevator! That was the main thing that made this possible! And also thanks to @MozyOnIn for finding the magic hands glitch I used for entertainment here, I had a lot of fun with it!
Sonic Adventure 2: Cannons Core M1 in 1:32.02 by blaze (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-11 | Run was originally recorded in 04/02/2006 by blaze, maybe they're the same person as @blazest but I'm not sure.This is my biggest find by far! This japanese player came out of nowhere and dropped this run along with a video (unfortunately lost) that had lots of strats and glitches, some unknown at the time, including that Knuckles strat that single handedly saved 9 seconds on M5 and 15 fucking seconds on M1 and M3 at the time!This WR wasn't ever submitted to the boards nor uploaded to youtube or nicovideo, it was just shared in a forum post! So finding this was a huge surprise to me. I don't know if this player is the same as blazest who's also a japanese player, but there's a chance since the names are so similar, both are japanese, and we didn't have many, if any japanese players beyond blazest back then iirc.This is now the oldest CC M1 WR with video we have!
SA2B(LOTAD): Eggman 1 in 8.77 TAS WR brianpso 2024-05-09 | This has been sitting on my hard drive for more than 5 fucking years and I never decided to fully optimize it, so might as well upload it and let someone else finish the job, I just hate that last homing missile too much.Here you go @Zethoro, I hope this helps a bit, but I doubt it since CC's run is already super close to the max. I believe 8.75 is possible, not sure about lower than that, but as I said above, the last homing missile was such a pain back in 2019 that I just gave up and never went back to try and get a better time than this.
Sonic Adventure 2: Security Hall M3 in 14.17 by SuperSonic101 (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-08 | Run was originally recorded in 07/23/2005 by @mike1SH I can't believe I keep finding these across the internet somehow. Thank you wayback machine!
Sonic Adventure 2: Egg Quarters M5 in 57.20 by Joselle_Astrid (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-08 | Run was originally recorded in 10/19/2004 by @Joselle_Astrid I can't believe I keep finding these across the internet somehow. Thank you wayback machine!
Sonic Adventure 2: Egg Quarters M3 in 14.39 by SuperSonic101 brianpso 2024-05-08 | Run was originally recorded at some point prior to August 2006 by @mike1SH I can't believe I keep finding these across the internet somehow. Thank you wayback machine!
Sonic Adventure 2: Death Chamber M1 in 9.64 by SadisticMystic (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-08 | Run was originally recorded in 07/14/2006 by @sadisticmystic I can't believe I keep finding these across the internet somehow. Thank you wayback machine!
Sonic Adventure 2: Wild Canyon M2 in 21.70 by Joselle_Astrid (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-08 | Run was originally recorded in 11/12/2004 by @Joselle_Astrid I can't believe I keep finding these across the internet somehow. Thank you wayback machine!
Sonic Adventure 2: Dry Lagoon M3 in 22.72 by SuperSonic101 (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-08 | Run was originally recorded in 08/23/2005 by @mike1SH I can't believe I keep finding these across the internet somehow. Thank you wayback machine!
Sonic Adventure 2: Eternal Engine M2 in 1:23.07 by Psyknux (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-08 | Run was originally recorded in 01/13/2007 by @Psyknux LMAO I literally found this one by guessing its name and trying the URL
Sonic Adventure 2: Security Hall M2 in 44.44 by Joselle_Astrid (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-08 | Run was originally recorded in 06/16/2006 by @Joselle_Astrid I can't believe I keep finding these across the internet somehow. Thank you wayback machine!
Sonic Adventure 2: Meteor Herd M2 in 46.70 by Joselle_Astrid (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-08 | Run was originally recorded in 10/03/2004 by @Joselle_Astrid I can't believe I keep finding these across the internet somehow. Thank you wayback machine!
Sonic Adventure 2: Eternal Engine M3 in 1:00.37 by Psyknux (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-08 | Run was originally recorded in 10/03/2006 by @Psyknux I can't believe I keep finding these across the internet somehow. Thank you wayback machine!
Sonic Adventure 2: Eternal Engine M2 in 1:26.50 by Psyknux (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-08 | Run was originally recorded in 08/04/2006 by @Psyknux I can't believe I keep finding these across the internet somehow. Thank you wayback machine!
Sonic Adventure 2: Eternal Engine M1 in 2:29.72 by Psyknux (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-08 | Run was originally recorded in 10/04/2006 by @Psyknux I can't believe I keep finding these across the internet somehow. Thank you wayback machine!
Sonic Adventure 2: Hot Shot in 22.47 by Stefan (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-06 | Run was originally recorded in 02/12/2007 by @slisenberger I have no clue how I have this video, but thankfully I do.
Sonic Adventure 2: City Escape M1/4 in 1:45.34 by Paragod (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-06 | Run was originally recorded in 10/15/2006 by @PersonOnEarth I found this gem in my hard drive today!
Sonic Adventure 2: Weapons Bed M1 in 1:27.97 by Paragod brianpso 2024-05-04 | Run was originally recorded in 12/07/2006 by @PersonOnEarth Thanks to @Joselle_Astrid for downloading this run back in the day and keeping it safe for all these years!
Sonic Adventure 2: Weapons Bed M1 in 1:28.65 by NintenDan brianpso 2024-05-04 | Run was originally recorded in 12/27/2004Thanks to @Joselle_Astrid for downloading this run back in the day and keeping it safe for all these years!
Sonic Adventure 2: Metal Harbor M2 in 30.87 by Paragod (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-04 | Run was originally recorded in 12/24/2006 by @PersonOnEarth Thanks to @Joselle_Astrid for downloading this run back in the day and keeping it safe for all these years!
Sonic Adventure 2: Mad Space M3 in 28.97 by SadisticMystic (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-04 | Run was originally recorded in 07/19/2006 by @sadisticmystic Thanks to @Joselle_Astrid for downloading this run back in the day and keeping it safe for all these years!
Sonic Adventure 2: Iron Gate M3 in 59.62 by SuperSonic101 (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-04 | Run was originally recorded in 08/20/2005 by @mike1SH Thanks to @Joselle_Astrid for downloading this run back in the day and keeping it safe for all these years!
Sonic Adventure 2: Hidden Base M2 in 1:15.64 by SuperSonic101 (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-04 | Run was originally recorded in 08/20/2005 by @mike1SH Thanks to @Joselle_Astrid for downloading this run back in the day and keeping it safe for all these years!
Sonic Adventure 2: Egg Golem Hero in 25.97 by Psyknux (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-04 | Run was originally recorded in 08/25/2006 by @Psyknux Thanks to @Joselle_Astrid downloading this run back in the day and keeping it safe for all these years!
Sonic Adventure 2: Dry Lagoon M3 in 12.25 by Psyknux (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-04 | Run was originally recorded in 10/19/2008 by @Psyknux Thanks to @Joselle_Astrid for downloading this run back in the day and keeping it safe for all these years!
Sonic Adventure 2: Crazy Gadget M5 in 2:02.89 by Paragod (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-04 | Run was originally recorded in 12/09/2006 by @PersonOnEarth Thanks to @Joselle_Astrid for downloading this run back in the day and keeping it safe for all these years!
Sonic Adventure 2: Crazy Gadget M5 in 2:15.77 by Cybrax (OLD WR) brianpso 2024-05-04 | Run was originally recorded in 06/25/2004Thanks to @Joselle_Astrid for downloading this run back in the day and keeping it safe for all these years!
New Sonic Adventure 2 glitch: Super somersault brianpso 2024-04-30 | A few people encountered a glitch where their somersault didn't go straight forward like it's supposed to do, and after some investigating I found out that it was due to collision causing some of the move's speed be converted to side speed, which doesn't get cleared after the move starts.After figuring out we could trigger moonwalks on these objects, I used that to trigger moonwalks while having storage, which allowed me to release the B button and trigger a somersault with a lot of side speed thanks to my spindash.Pretty useless but funny to watch.
New Sonic Adventure 2 tech: Moonwalk spindash chain brianpso 2024-04-30 | It is finally real! After noticing that some walls applied a push on the character even when we're under the effect of storage, but without killing our movement speed, I realised that I could use this to do an instant turnaround and make an actual spindash chain using moonwalks a reality.The reason why this was a dream of ours is because moonwalking conserves more speed than moving forwards, so by chaining moonwalks in a spindash chain we can be faster than just chaining spindashes facing forward. I wonder where else we can use this.Note that this gameplay is just an example, this is by no means a viable strat for this part of Metal Harbor, and only the second spindash actually uses the technique, all others are normal examples of moonwalking.
SA2B(TAS): Wild Canyon Mission 5 in 0x A presses brianpso 2024-04-26 | It's finally real!!!To explain what's going on, by throwing omochao and having him hit the capsule during that action, the game puts knuckles into a running action without anything in his hands, but since omochao never left our hands, he is still attached to us (thanks to @onvar5077 for finding this method of achieving this glitched state called "hands free holding", and @sadisticmystic for making the glitch itself popular many years ago). According to SM, he found the glitch in a japanese website around 2007, so we probably won't ever know who truly discovered the glitch. This glitch is what allows me to glide and dig while keeping omochao with me.For the weird part where I fly off the wall, a year and a half ago I discovered that if you throw an item while grabbing a wall, you'll be launched away from the wall, and at the end of the action, you'll gain a single frame of "standing" (even though you're not on ground), and I took advantage of that frame to use a spiral upper, that gave me just enough speed to reach the emerald piece that has been haunting us for almost a decade!After that it was just a matter of clipping through the statue and landing in the final room, which was really hard, the precision was down to fractions of a unit to have enough range to be clipped back inbounds, but even if it wasn't possible I could've just used the intended route to reach that piece, this way was just faster and cooler to watch.Old A press record: 0.5x by Venick youtu.be/OXmoi3Z9AcQ
SA2B(TAS): Spiral Upper in the air/water after grounded throw brianpso 2024-04-25 | Just for documentation, found this a year and a half ago and showed it in an ABC video, but I think it deserves its own video.
SA2B(TAS): Weapons Bed Mission 1 in 7x A presses brianpso 2024-04-25 | I really liked this one, it forced me to think and be precise unlike Cosmic Wall. So many things just barely worked, this stage would've had a lot more A presses if a few platforms were the tiniest bit farther from each other.One thing I need to explain is how I'm hovering without pressing A again. This works because if you're holding A and get damaged in a mech, after 0.5secs the game will force you to enter the hovering action if you're in the air, that's how that works.
SA2B(LOTAD): Cosmic Wall M1 in 21x A presses brianpso 2024-04-24 | Only 2 of the saves were tricky, the rest were trivial.About time I did this, it's sad that we can't damage boost in more places, but at least I managed to show the previously useless trick that we can do when doing this skip.
What Sonic did between Amys rescue and Metal Harbor brianpso 2024-04-10 | He wanted revenge more than Shadow.This was supposed to be a complete run of the stage, but SA2B doesn't behave the same way with magic hands as the PC Version does, so I couldn't use the strat I wanted at the end to complete the stage, truly sad.Still had some fun TASing this at least.
SA2B(TAS): Mad Space M5 in 0.5x A presses brianpso 2024-04-07 | I can't believe this is finally maxed. Unless a new glitch gets found, there's no way this is being done 0x.The thing I did at the beginning was found by @Zethoro and he named it "pso clip" ("pso" because the item I grabbed is an item box from the game Phantasy Star Online). It is not necessary to get to the rocket as shown in the previous best here: youtube.com/watch?v=o1kqh_Fb2ng, but I thought it was worth using here to leave it documented, and as an homage to him since it was thanks to that trick that I found a way to reach the rocket in 0x, which ultimately made me think of the new idea to bring this down to 0.5x.Also thanks to laze for thinking about using the MSp Warp to improve this mission. Although it wasn't necessary, this is what made me start looking at this mission again in the first place, so this wouldn't have happened, or would've taken god knows how long to happen without laze.
SA2(May 7th 2001 Prototype): Weapons Bed differences demo brianpso 2024-03-17 | This was recorded using the May 7th 2001 Prototype GD-ROM using DEmul.Looks like adding the speedshoes effect on the carriers was a late decision by the devs. I thank them for that, made the stage much better imo.The collision in the angled parts of the carrier seems to be just like their Metal Harbor counter parts as well, so they probably noticed it played really badly and decided to change them to the way they work in the final game, without making the mech angle itself as well.
SA2(DC): Flying Dog double screwkick strat brianpso 2024-03-17 | I knew I wasn't fucking crazy lmao, I did remember correctly what I did 15 years ago to get the WR.Of course everything after the beginning is shit, this is just to show the strat.
SA2B(TAS): Cosmic Wall M1 in 3:03.19 brianpso 2024-02-05 | CWSSS is real. Original upload date is 5th of June 2022.I'm super happy for finally finding a proper skip in this game, I just wish I got the sub 3. Maybe in the Dark Story TAS, I'll pray for it.Now it's out there so everyone can go for the WR with this strat.
