Uploaded December 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This originally started with me thinking I found a method to "start" K Rool from after the 3rd hit in Tiny Phase after beating Lanky Phase. Whilst I succeeded in this... there had to be one massive unintended side-effect...

So the state in the phase (3rd hit, 4th hit etc) K Rool is in outside the shoe is determined by temporary flags {0xA,1}, {0xA,2}, {0xA,3} and {0xA,4}. By hitting the 3rd toe to completion and then voiding out of K Rool, the temporary flag which says "K Rool's 3rd toe shot to completion" {0xA,3} never gets reset. As such, when you re-enter Tiny Phase from Lanky Phase, the game thinks you just exited out of the shoe after the 3rd hit. This also works for hits 1 {0xA,1} and 2 {0xA,2}.

Unfortunately, this interrupts the kong change, and Lanky yet again ruins another potential skip...

Hit 4 {0xA,4} doesn't work as of yet because you are locked into a cutscene upon re-entry into the Tiny Phase map. If you, somehow, managed to get it to work (I have my theories, but it's unlikely to work to say the least), you could skip Tiny Phase in a K Rool run. (You would still have to do Tiny Phase prior to set up the temporary flags, so it would not be faster for full-game runs at all), but it would mean that you could go from the start of K Rool to the end in around 6 minutes 40 seconds (DK = 1m, Diddy = 1m20s, Lanky = 1m55s, Tiny = ~30s, Chunky = 1m55s)