Noki Doki | Daxter - CS1 backtrack (proof of concept) @NokiDoki | Uploaded May 2019 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
LakeTheCat found out that closing the autosave prompt with X will make Daxter jump, but not affect menus. The autosave prompt can be brought up at any time by removing and reinserting the memory stick. This means we can jump while retaining TMS, which makes it possible to get the spray gun in CS1 and teleport back to the entrance.
While the execution can obviously be improved, it doesn’t look like this can be a huge timesave, but it’s a fair bit easier than CS1 skip.
LakeTheCat found out that closing the autosave prompt with X will make Daxter jump, but not affect menus. The autosave prompt can be brought up at any time by removing and reinserting the memory stick. This means we can jump while retaining TMS, which makes it possible to get the spray gun in CS1 and teleport back to the entrance.
While the execution can obviously be improved, it doesn’t look like this can be a huge timesave, but it’s a fair bit easier than CS1 skip.
![Red Coins of the Pirate Ships – 0x A Presses [H]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QgYIL-kNKl8/hqdefault.jpg "Red Coins of the Pirate Ships – 0x A Presses [H]
I collect the Pinna 3 Shine without pressing the A button, using only the Hover Nozzle.
Note that there is no way out of the pool of water below the ships without pressing A.
This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.")
![The Beach Cannon’s Secret – 2x A Presses [S]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RpM08yXyP14/hqdefault.jpg "The Beach Cannon’s Secret – 2x A Presses [S]
I collect the Pinna 2 Shine by pressing the A button only 2 times and using only the Spray Nozzle.
Nothing too complicated here, just two gaps that a dive can’t clear. Special thanks to the durian for making this strat hoverless.
This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.")
![Chuckster – 0x A Presses [H]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TU7aCac5Oqw/hqdefault.jpg "Chuckster – 0x A Presses [H]
I collect the Chuckster secret Shine without pressing the A button, using only the Hover Nozzle.
This is all pretty straightforward, I hover across the water, get a coin from a poster, and get to the chuckster by bouncing on the nearby Pianta lady and the parasols.
This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.")
![The Secret of the Dirty Lake – 2x A Presses [S] (OUTDATED)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V_UGFp5I3Ro/hqdefault.jpg "The Secret of the Dirty Lake – 2x A Presses [S] (OUTDATED)
This strat is outdated. See its successor here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_UGFp5I3Ro
I collect the Bianco 6 Shine by pressing the A button 2 times, using only the Spray Nozzle.
The first A press is used to enter the last set of flipping platforms. Since the nearest platform flips the wrong way, there’s no easy way to just dive at it when it makes a downwards slope facing our starting point and just stay on it.
The second A press is used to collect the Shine, which is out of reach from the usual dive + GP (at least I was never able to make it work). Note that on flat ground like this, you can’t just grab onto a tree with a dive.
Entering the secret area hoverless only takes a Pondskater bounce, but it’s not as trivial as it may seem. Bouncing on the Pondskater directly from a lilypad can be done (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvhM4OGpR-Y&t=1m5s ), but here we have a very limited time frame due to the lilypad’s decay, and we can’t ground pound the lilypad without taking damage twice from the dirty water. Thus I take a more reliable path by first getting on one of the floating logs near the entrance, then waiting for the Pondskater to come close enough. Another possibility is to dive from behind the big windmill, but it’s both as slow as the log route and as unreliable as the lilypad route.
Navigating the secret area involves pushing the boundaries of how far the dive can go and caring way too much about the angle of flipping platforms, sometimes both. Also diving on a trampoline is OP, but more on that in the Bianco 100 coins rocketless strat.
This video is RTA, played on PAL Wii.")
